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A repeat sailings index of ocean freight rates for the 1850s
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-12)The middle of the nineteenth century has long been a challenge to researchers of ocean freight rates. The data originating from the circulars of the London shipbroker firm of Angier Brothers have been the basis of much ... -
Newspapers and advertising : the effects of ad-valorem taxation under duopoly
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-12)Newspapers are two-sided platforms that sell their product both to readers and advertisers. Media firms in general, and newspapers in particular, are considered important providers of information, culture and language ... -
The tyranny of non-aggregation versus the tyranny of aggregation in social choices : a real dilemma
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-12)Can a trifle gain to sufficiently many well-off justify imposing a much larger sacrifice on the worst-off? We show that if one answers negatively to such a question, one is forced to accept the maximin principle and give ... -
Utility analysis, luxuries and risk : a critical comment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)This note questions the analysis of Diacon (2006) in the June issue of Economics Letters. It points at a misinterpretation and claims that the conclusion—that the presence of luxuries may make people love income gambles ... -
Do slotting allowances harm retail competition?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-09)Slotting allowances are fees paid by manufacturers to get access to retailers’ shelf space. Both in the USA and Europe, the use of slotting allowances has attracted attention in the general press as well as among policy ... -
Two hegemonies – two technological regimes : American and Norwegian whaling in the 19th and 20th Century
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-09)The 19th century whaling industry was dominated by the United States while the 20th century industry had its origins in Norway and was dominated for years by that nation. The focus of the paper, is to explore the ... -
Global public economics : public goods and externalities
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)This paper extends the normative analysis of public goods and externalities to an international setting. The first part considers the optimal allocation of a global public good. Whether global production efficiency is ... -
Regulation and pricing of pharmaceuticals : reference pricing or price cap regulation?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-09)We study the relationship between regulatory regimes and pharmaceutical firms’ pricing strategies using a unique policy experiment from Norway, which in 2003 introduced a reference price (RP) system called “index pricing” ... -
Gender wage gap studies : consistency and decomposition
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-12)This paper reviews the empirical literature on the gender wage gap, with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in human capital wage regression models. This is of great importance in the ... -
Endogenous average cost based access pricing
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)We consider an industry where a downstream competitor requires access to an upstream facility controlled by a vertically integrated and regulated incumbent. The literature on access pricing assumes the access price to ... -
The effects of different strategic variables in non-cooperative fisheries games
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)In this paper we use stock size, harvest quantity and fishing effort, respectively, as strategic variables. We model a two agent (nations) non-cooperative fishery game, where the agents harvest a common fish stock. The ... -
Losers, winners and prisoner's dilemma in international subsidy wars
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)Two central results in the strategic trade literature are that governments shall support winners and that there is a policy prisoner dilemma in international subsidy wars (i.e.: countries have incentives to support local ... -
Norway's interwar tanker expansion : a reappraisal
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)The topic of the article is the Norwegian expansion within oil tanker shipping in the interwar period, which is analysed on the basis of new empirical evidence. By means of a purpose-built database, the basis for ... -
Has job stability decreased in Norway?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-08)A widespread belief in the popular press is that job stability has declined across Western economies over the last 15 years. However, little support for this is found in the empirical literature. We use an extensive ... -
The contribution of foreign entrants to employment and productivity growth
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-08)We compare employment and productivity dynamics in foreign and domestic entrants, exitors, survivors and acquisitions in Norwegian manufacturing from 1979- 2000. All types of foreign plants are on average more productive ... -
Is mobility of labour a channel for spillovers from multinationals to local domestic firms?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-08)This paper documents the extent of labour mobility from multinationals (MNEs) to non-MNEs in Norwegian manufacturing during the 1990s. On average, each year around one percent of workers in MNEs move to non-MNEs. By the ... -
Why was the Great Depression not so great in the Nordic countries? : economic policy and unemployment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-08)The present paper seeks to examine why the Nordic countries performed better than most other Western countries during the 1930s, when they at the same time experienced high unemployment levels. The conclusions drawn here ... -
Public goods and Pigouvian taxes
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-07)This paper consists of the text of two articles prepared for the second edition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. The first article provides a mathematical and diagrammatic exposition of the theory of public ... -
International competition for multinational investment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-08)We examine the economic justification for providing investment subsidies to foreign-owned multinationals. These provide employment opportunities and generate demand for domestic intermediate inputs, produced by domestic ... -
Collude, compete, or both? : deregulation in the Norwegian airline industry
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-10)The purpose of this paper is to test the nature of competition concerning price and capacity setting in the Norwegian airline industry after the deregulation in 1994. Did the two airlines, SAS and Braathens, compete on ...