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Anatomy of cartel contracts
(Discussion paper;25/2012, Working paper, 2012-12)We study cartel contracts using data on 18 contract clauses of 109 legal Finnish manufacturing cartels. One third of the clauses relate to raising profits; the others deal with instability through incentive compatibility, ... -
Losing heart? : the effect of job displacement on health
(Discussion paper;26/2012, Working paper, 2012-12)Job reallocation is considered to be a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or close. However, despite its potential benefits for the ... -
Care or cash? : the effect of child care subsidies on student performance
(Discussion paper;13/2012, Working paper, 2012-05)Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children’s longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare ... -
Explaining the gender wage gap : estimates from a dynamic model of job changes and hours changes
(Discussion paper;15/2012, Working paper, 2012-08)I address the causes of the gender wage gap with a new dynamic model of wage, hours, and job changes that permits me to decompose the gap into a portion due to gender differences in preferences for part-time work and in ... -
Good skills in bad times : cyclical skill mismatch and the long-term effects of graduating in a recession
(Discussion paper;16/2012, Working paper, 2012-08)We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an important mechanism behind persistent career loss from graduating ... -
Global income inequality and cost-of-living adjustment : the Geary–Allen world accounts
(Discussion paper;20/2012, Working paper, 2012-10)Standard ways of measuring real income are known to be inconsistent with consumer preferences. We provide preference-consistent estimates of real income, based on the income-specific price indices that are consistent ... -
Give and take in dictator games
(Discussion paper;14/2012, Working paper, 2012-07)It has been shown that participants in the dictator game are less willing to give money to the other participant when their choice set also includes the option to take money. We examine whether this effect is due to the ... -
Pension funds, sovereign-wealth funds and intergenerational justice
(Discussion paper;19/2012, Working paper, 2012-09)Pension funds and sovereign-wealth funds own a large and increasing fraction of the shares in publicly traded companies in the OECD area. These funds typically have a very long time horizon on their investments, as well ... -
The cost of living in China : implications for inequality and poverty
(Discussion paper;21/2012, Working paper, 2012-11)China’s economic development in recent decades has been tremendous, but subject to debate. This paper calculates regional prices that make incomes comparable across both time and space using the Engel-curve approach. ... -
When do we lie?
(Discussion paper;17/2012, Working paper, 2012-08)The paper reports from an experiment studying how the aversion to lying is affected by non-economic dimensions of the choice situation. Specifically, we study whether people are more or less likely to lie when the content ... -
Disadvantageous semicollusion : price competition in the Norwegian airline industry
(Discussion paper;27/2012, Working paper, 2012-12)Motivated by observations in the Norwegian airline industry in the late 90s, we develop a semicollusive model with collusion on gross prices and competition on contracts for large customers (corporate contracts). The ... -
Corruption and competition for resources
(Discussion paper;18/2012, Working paper, 2012-09)An increasing share of world FDI is carried out by multinationals from developing countries. These investors may have objectives and constraints that differ from their developed country counterparts. In this paper we ... -
Amateur or professional? : a new look at 19th century patentees in Norway
(Discussion paper;12/2012, Working paper, 2012-05)The paper analyses Norwegian 19th century patentees. A special focus is on the affiliation or relationship of the patentees to the manufacturing industries, business and the wider economy. A main question is whether the ... -
Is recipiency of disability pension hereditary?
(Discussion paper;10/2012, Working paper, 2012-04)This paper addresses whether children’s exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability of receiving such benefits themselves. Most OECD countries experience an increasing proportion of the ... -
Willingness to compete in a gender equal society
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Heterogeneity in fairness views - a challenge to the mutualistic approach?
(Discussion paper;7/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)This commentary argues that the observed heterogeneity in fairness views, documented in many economic experiments, poses a challenge to the partner choice theory developed by Baumard, André and Sperber. It also discusses ... -
Can competition reduce quality?
(Discussion paper;9/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)We study the effect of competition on quality in markets such as health care, long-term care and education, when providers choose both prices and quality in a setting of spatial competition. We offer a novel mechanism ... -
Hospital competition with soft budgets
(Discussion paper;6/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with ... -
Do non-enforceable contracts matter? Evidence from an international lab experiment
(Discussion paper;2/2012, Working paper, 2012-02)Many verifiable contracts are impossible or difficult to enforce. This applies to contracts among family and friends, contracts regulating market transactions, and sovereign debt contracts. Do such non-enforceable contracts ... -
Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
(Discussion paper;4/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of women who are well-established in the labour market. We estimate a flexible fixed-effects wage regression model extended by post-childbirth ...