Discussion papers (SAM): Nye registreringer
Viser treff 321-340 av 658
-
Negotiation under possible third party settlement
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2011-03) -
Attitudes towards income risk in the presence of quantity constraints
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2011-04) -
Workforce or workfare?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2011-04) -
A crisis that never came : the decline of the European Antarctic whaling industry in the 1950s and -60s
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2011-05) -
Life-cycle bias and the returns to schooling in current and lifetime earnings
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2011-02) -
Forced board changes : evidence from Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2011-03) -
Human and financial capital for microenterprise development : evidence from a field and lab experiment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2011-01) -
Robust growth determinants
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2011-02) -
Quality competition with profit constraints : do non-profit firms provide higher quality than for-profit firms?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2011-02) -
Merger simulations with observed diversion ratios
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-10)A common approach to merger simulations used in antitrust cases is to calibrate demand from market shares and a few additional parameters. When the products involved in the merger case are differentiated along several ... -
Efficiency, equality and reciprocity in social preferences : a comparison of students and representative population
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-11)The debate between Engelmann and Strobel (2004, 2006) and Fehr, Naef, and Schmidt (2006) highlights the important question of the extent to which lab experiments on student populations can serve to identify the motivational ... -
Sequentiality versus simultaneity : interrelated factor demand
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-12)A structural model is developed and estimated by a maximum likelihood routine to investigate interrelated factor demand subject to nonconvex adjustment costs. The dataset concerns Norwegian plants operating in manufacturing ... -
A flying start or no effect? : long term consequences of maternal time investments in children during their first year of life
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-10)We study the impact of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year of her life. In particular, we examine a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave entitlements in Norway. ... -
Cartels uncovered
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-03)How many cartels are there? The answer is important in assessing the efficiency of competition policy. We present a Hidden Markov Model that answers the question, taking into account that often we do not know whether a ... -
Exploiting parallelization in spatial statistics: an applied survey using R
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-10)Computing tasks may be parallelized top-down by splitting into per-node chunks when the tasks permit this kind of division, and particularly when there is little or no need for communication between the nodes. Another ... -
Comparing estimation methods for spatial econometrics techniques using R
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-10)Recent advances in spatial econometrics model fitting techniques have made it more desirable to be able to compare results and timings. Results should correspond between implementations using different applications, ... -
Atmospheric externalities and environmental taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-09)The paper reviews the theory of environmental taxation under first best and second best conditions. It argues that negative environmental externalities lead to reductions of the provision of public goods, while investment ... -
Why children of college graduates outperform their schoolmates : a study of cousins and adoptees
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-09)There is massive cross-sectional evidence that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates on tests, grade repetition and in educational attainment. However, evidence for causal interpretation of this ... -
Asymmetric information : evidence from the home insurance market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-08)In this paper I test whether asymmetric information is present in the home insurance market. To detect the existence of asymmetric information I apply the so-called positive correlation test to a dataset containing ... -
Margins and market shares : pharmacy incentives for generic substitution
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-07)We study the impact of product margins on pharmacies incentive to promote generics instead of brand-names. First, we construct a theoretical model where pharmacies can persuade patients with a brand-name prescription to ...