This paper applies generational accounting to assess the impact of current fiscal policies on the growth-adjusted net tax burdens of different age cohorts in Norway. Using the most recent estimate of the government's petroleum wealth, our results indicate generational balance.

Different versions of pay-as-you-go public pension programs may have entirely different effects on the intergenerational distribution of income risk. If the pension benefit is a fixed proportion of previous income, a pay-as-you-go program increases the income risk of all generations. On the...

The paper studies how uncertainty about future trade arrangements affecting firms' competitiveness and market access, may influence firms' investment behaviour and choice of location. Our analysis is based on a model of imperfect competition, and we show that risk aversion is not a necessary...

This paper discusses the problems involved in considering competition policy as a separate area of economic policy. Two problems are given special attention. The first is the doubtful efficiency gain from enforcing competitive conditions in one industry when other industries are not operating at...

We analyze two-part tariffs in oligopoly, where each firm commits to a certain quantity. The model is an extension of the one introduced in Harrison and Kline (2001).We show that their main results are reversed when the model is extended from one to two types of consumers.

This paper presents estimates of total factor productivity growth for 55 manufacturing industries over the period 1927 to 1959. The long-run rate of growth in TFB is about 1 per cent per year for total manufacturing, but there are considerable variations in TFP growth rates acros industries and...

This paper analyses industrial policy in a high wage open economy hosting an agglomeration consisting of vertically linked upstream and downstram firms. We show that optimal policy towards upstream in-dustries typically di¤er from the optimal policy towards downstream industries.