Blar i Working papers (SNF) på forfatter "Nilsen, Øivind Anti"
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Gender differences in early retirement behaviour
Dahl, Svenn-Åge; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-05)In this paper we analyse early retirement for men and women focusing on family characteristics such as marital status, spouse income and wealth, and spouses' labour market status. The female participation rate is high in ... -
Intergenerational mobility : trends across the earnings distribution
Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-03)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 of ... -
Markup cyclicality, employment adjustment, and financial constraints
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Nilsen, Øivind Anti (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-08)We investigate the existence of markups and their cyclical behaviour. Markup is not directly observed. Instead, it is given as a price-cost relation that is estimated from a dynamic model of the firm. The model incorporates ... -
Merger simulations with observed diversion ratios
Mathiesen, Lars; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Sørgard, Lars (2010:46, Working paper, 2010-09)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 ... -
Upstream merger in a successive oligopoly : who pays the price?
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Sørgard, Lars; Ulsaker, Simen A. (Working paper;48/13, Working paper, 2013-12)This study develops and uses a successive oligopoly model, with an unobservable non-linear tariff between upstream and downstream firms, to analyze the possible anti-competitive effects of an upstream merger. We find that ...