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A Panel Data Study of Physicians’ Labor Supply: The Case of Norway

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bratberg, Espen; Holmås, Tor Helge - CESifo - 2003

Physicians are key personnel in a sector which is important due to its size as well as the quality of service it … provides. We estimate the labor supply of physicians employed at hospitals in Norway, using personnel register data merged with … other public records. A dynamic labor supply equation is estimated using a sample of 1303 physicians observed over the …

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The Impact of Entry Regulation on Total Welfare: A Policy Experiment

Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph; Zulehner, Christine - CESifo - 2013

This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...

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Two-Sided Markets with Pecuniary and Participation Externalities

Schmidtke, Richard - CESifo - 2006

The existing literature on "two-sided markets" addresses participation externalities, but so far it has neglected pecuniary externalities between competing platforms. In this paper we build a model that incorporates both externalities. In our setup differentiated platforms compete in advertising...

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Private Provision of a Complementary Public Good

Schmidtke, Richard - CESifo - 2006

For several years, an increasing number of firms have been investing in Open Source Software (OSS). While improvements in such a non-excludable public good cannot be appropriated, companies can benefit indirectly in a complementary proprietary segment. We study this incentive for investment in...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - CESifo - 2011

In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government support schemes. We analyze the effects of such policies to subsidize small businesses in a setting where both the risk-return characteristics of the selected innovation project...

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