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Buying influence : aid fungibility in a strategic perspective
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-04)I study equilibria of non-cooperative games between an aid donor and a recipient when there is conflict over the allocation of their combined budgets. The general conclusion is that a donor’s influence over outcomes is ... -
A discrete-time stochastic partial equilibrium model of the spot freight market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-03)This paper presents a stochastic extension of the classical partial equilibrium models of the spot freight market. The supply in the model is based on microeconomic analysis of the supply characteristics of a given fleet ... -
Pupil achievement, school resources and family background
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-12)Whether increasing resource use in schools has a positive effect on pupil performance has occupied governments, parents and researchers for decades. A main challenge when trying to answer this question is to separate the ... -
A European type wage equation from an American type labour market : some evidence from a panel of Norwegian manufacturing industries in the 1930s
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-09)Using a newly constructed panel of manufacturing industry data for interwar Norway, we estimate a long-run wage curve for the 1930s that has all the modern features of being homogeneous in prices, proportional to ... -
Measuring the consumption value of higher education
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-02)The consumption value of education is an important, but rather ignored factor behind the individual’s educational choice. This paper suggests a method for measuring the consumption value of education in a compensating ... -
Globalisation, inequality and redistribution
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-06)The present paper seeks to explain the pattern of income redistribution in a globalised world of increased market income inequality and lower costs of factor mobility. In some countries, larger market income inequality ... -
Why Europe should love tax competition - and the U.S. even more so
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-04)Is global competition for mobile capital harmful (less public goods) or beneficial (less government waste)? This paper combines both aspects within a generalized version of the comparative public finance model (Persson, ... -
Efficient (re-)scheduling : an auction approach
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)This paper considers one-sided scheduling problems, where a schedule of service is arranged at one location, without regard to other schedules. Typically, such scheduling problems are handled on a first-come-firstserve basis, ... -
Trade and multinationals : the effect of economic integration on taxation and tax revenue
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-12)The rising importance of multinationals in the world economy has been accompanied by a rise in trade between affiliates of multinationals located in different countries, and by profits being shifted to low tax countries. ... -
First-best optimality in capital income taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-10)In case of risk, especially aggregate risk which cannot be insured, the literature states that for achieving first-best optimality state-dependent lumpsum taxes are absolutely necessary. However, we show in a two-asset ... -
Regional growth in Western Europe : detecting spatial misspecification using the R environment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-01)The work discussed in Bivand and Brunstad (2003) was an attempt to throw light on apparent variability in regional convergence in relation to agriculture as a sector subject to powerful political measures, in Western ... -
Fair tax evasion
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-04)In this paper we analyse how fairness considerations, in particular considerations of just income distribution, affect whether or not people believe tax evasion can be justified and their willingness to engage in tax ... -
To invest or not to invest : a real options approach to FDIs and tax competition
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Do consumers buy less of a taxed good?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-01)This paper shows that consumers may buy more of a taxed good if it is sold by a two-sided platform firm. Two-sided platform industries serve distinct customer groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and ... -
Lumpy investments, factor adjustments and productivity
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-02)This paper describes firms’ output and factor demands before, during and after episodes of lumpy investment. By using a rich employer–employee panel data set for two manufacturing industries and one service industry, we ... -
Currency gifts, convergence and divergence in two neighbouring economies : draft
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-01)Currency gifts have proven to be a mixed blessing, as positive income shocks are often followed by financial problems and slow economic growth rates. Norway has twice been granted significant currency gifts: Firstly, ... -
Efficiency losses in milk marketing boards : the importance of exports
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-02)A milk marketing board (MMB) is a well known instrument for regulating the markets for dairy products. MMBs are based on price discrimination, and receipts from sales are pooled so that the farmers receive a single price ... -
Foreign firms and host-country productivity : does the mode of entry matter?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-01)Foreign direct investment is often considered an important source of knowledge spillovers. However, results from the empirical literature relating overall foreign presence to host country productivity are ambiguous. We ... -
Two-part pricing, consumer heterogeneity and Cournot competition
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001)We analyze two-part tariffs in an oligopoly, where each firm commits to a quantity and a fixed fee prior to the determination of unit prices. In the case of homogeneous consumers, Harrison and Kline (2001) showed that the ... -
Intergenerational mobility : trends across the earnings distribution
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-02)The analysis, based on register data for Norwegian cohorts born 1950, 1955, and 1960, shows that the intergenerational earnings mobility is high. Using quantile regression, mobility is found to be lower at the lower end ...