The paper combines a translog variable cost function, a bargaining model of wage determination and a real option model determining real capital. Using this framework, the effect of factor subsidies on labour demand is estimated, based on aggregate panel data for Norwegian manufacturing industry...

The purpose of this note is to emphasize that the qualitative effect of a labour subsidy on the union's desired wage rate, is highly sensitive to the design of the policy instrument.

A real options approach to investment is used to derive a new full static equilibrium condition for capital within the framework of a restricted variable cost function. Empirical evidence suggests that the use of the traditional equilibrium condition may be grossly misleading.

Knowledge spillovers have recently been analysed by Barde (2009) and Ostbye (2010) in a spatial general equilibrium framework. Both studies lack explicit micro foundations for the spillovers ‚Äí spillovers just take place and depend on firm density. The models must therefore be seen as...