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Does Data Disclosure Improve Local Government Performance? Evidence from Italian Municipalities

Lockwood, Ben; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela; … - 2022

We exploit the introduction of an open data online platform - part of a transparency program initiated by the Italian Government in late 2014 - as a natural experiment to analyse the effect of data disclosure on mayors’ expenditure and public good provision. First, we analyse the effect of the...

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Corrupt local government as resource farmers : the helping hand and the grabbing hand

Dalgic, Engin; Long, Ngo Van - 2004

We study the role of tax share and transparency of governance on growth and stagnation. A local government maximizes its private benefits using two activities. The first one consists of providing local public goods that help local firms to increase profits, thus enlarging tax revenue. The second...

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Wage bargaining and political strength in the public sector

Falch, Torberg; Str?m, Bjarne - 2005

This paper analysis the link between political strength and public sector wages using a unique matched individual-employer data set for Norwegian local governments during the period 1990-1998. The results indicate that political strength, measured in several ways, has a positive effect on wages,...

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Collusive Tax Evasion by Employers and Employees : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Norway

Bjørneby, Marie - 2019

Third-party reporting and employers’ tax withholding are powerful compliance mechanisms, as long as the employer and employee do not collude to evade. Using data from randomly assigned on-site audits among 2,462 Norwegian firms, we provide evidence of collusive tax evasion. We find that firms...

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Investments on the Norwegian Continental Shelf - an Empirical Analysis

Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2019

Investments in oil and gas fields are regressed against variables on panel field-data from the start of oil and gas production on the Norwegian continental shelf in 1968 until 2016. Two alternative models track the observed investments aggregated across fields from 1970 until 2016 relatively...

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Do Audits Improve Future Tax Compliance in the Absence of Penalties? Evidence from Random Audits in Norway

Hebous, Shafik - 2020

The Norwegian Tax Administration operated multi-year random audits of personal income tax returns. We exploit this exceptional randomized setup to estimate the effects of tax audits on future compliance explicitly distinguishing between dynamic responses of compliant and noncompliant audited...

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The Norwegian Pension Reform in 2011 : The Long Term Impact on Take-Up of Pension and Labor Supply

Hernæs, Erik - 2019

We investigate the impact on pension take-up and labour supply of a broad Norwegian pension reform. Focussing on the long term impact, we use a structural discrete choice model estimated on data for first groups to become eligible for the new pension, accounting for the opportunity cost of...

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Emission Targets and Coalition Options for a Small, Ambitious Country : An Analysis of Welfare Costs and Distributional Impacts for Norway

Yonezawa, Hidemichi; Faehn, Taran - 2021

domestic income groups. Our example is the EU 2030 policies and Norway’s linking to it. In spite of theoretical ambiguity, the … findings suggest that the tighter the links with the EU, the lower the abatement costs for Norway. The distributional profile … cap-and-trade system without linking to the EU is the least cost-effective option for Norway but also the most progressive …

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Regulation and Pricing of Pharmaceuticals : Reference Pricing or Price Cap Regulation?

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Grasdal, Astrid; Holmas, Tor Helge - 2021

experiment from Norway, which in 2003 introduced a reference price (RP) system called "index pricing" for a sub-sample of off …

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Does Reference Pricing Drive Out Generic Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets? Evidence from a Policy Reform

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Canta, Chiara; Straume, Odd Rune - 2022

counter- vailing effects, we exploit a policy reform in Norway with a gradual implementation of reference pricing across …

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