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Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?

Bratberg, Espen - 2012

-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using data from Norway, a country where around 10% of the working …

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Taxes on the Internet : Deterrence Effects of Public Disclosure

Slemrod, Joel B. - 2013

effect has not been empirically explored. Although Norway has a long tradition of public disclosure of tax filings, it took a …

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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Becker, Sascha O. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Margins and Market Shares : Pharmacy Incentives for Generic Substitution

Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2013

We study the impact of product margins on pharmacies' incentive to promote generics instead of brand-names. First, we construct a theoretical model where pharmacies can persuade patients with a brand-name prescription to purchase a generic version instead. We show that pharmacies' substitution...

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Is Norway's Bird-in-Hand Stabilization Fund Prudent Enough? Fiscal Reactions to Hydrocarbon Windfalls and Graying Populations

Harding, Torfinn - 2014

debt management strategies adopted by Norway and compare these with rules that would prevail under the permanent income … hypothesis and bird-in-hand rule. We conclude that the fiscal reaction functions adopted by Norway have to some extent been … current fiscal rules, since Norway is on a trajectory of turning a current net asset-GDP-ratio close to one into a net debt …

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Peer Effects in Program Participation

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2013

overcome these identification issues in the context of paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity design …

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Demand Patterns for Treatment Insurance in Norway

Aarbu, Karl Ove - 2010

this phenomenon, using data from Norway. First, using available market data, I document that the market for private …

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Competition and Quality in Regulated Markets with Sluggish Demand

Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2010

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities), using a Hotelling framework, in the presence of sluggish demand. We take a differential-game approach, and derive the open-loop solution (providers choose the optimal...

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Mergers and Partial Ownership

Foros, Øystein - 2010

In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find that partial ownership arrangements can be more profitable for the acquiring and acquired firm because they can result in a greater dampening of competition. We also derive...

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Voting When the Stakes are High

Andersen, Jørgen Juel - 2010

Rational choice theories of electoral participation stress that an individual's decision to vote depends on her expected net benefit from doing so. If this instrumental motive is relevant, then turnout should be higher in elections where more is at stake. We test this prediction, by studying how...

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