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The extension of clusters: difference-in-differences evidence from the Bavarian state-wide cluster policy

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Kipar, Stefan - 2008

If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the Cluster Initiative" introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...

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Reflections on cluster policies

Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2012

Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...

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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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