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Synergizing Ventures
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
Venture capital (VC) and growth are examined both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, VC-backed startups have higher early growth rates and initial patent quality than non-VC-backed ones. VC-backing increases a startup's likelihood of reaching the right tails of the firm size and...
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The Role of Venture Capital and Governments in Clean Energy : Lessons from the First Cleantech Bubble
van den Heuvel, Matthias; Popp, David - 2022
After a boom and bust cycle in the early 2010s, venture capital (VC) investments are, once again, flowing towards green businesses. In this paper, we use Crunchbase data on 150,000 US startups founded between 2000 and 2020 to better understand why VC initially did not prove successful in funding...
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Social Finance
Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes - 2021
We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...
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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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