Working Papers in Economics

From University of Bergen, Department of Economics
Institutt for økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen, Postboks 7802, 5020 Bergen, Norway.
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12/04: How middle-men can undermine anti-corruption reforms

Kjetil Bjorvatn, Gaute Torsvik and Bertil Tungodden

10/04: Industry concentration and strategic trade policy in successive oligopoly

Gjermund Nese and Odd Rune Straume

09/04: Customer poaching with differentiated products and switching costs

Tommy Gabrielsen

08/04: Equilibrium selection in supermodular games with mean payoff technologies

Burkhard Hehenkamp and Oddvar Kaarboe

07/04: Transitions to Employment from Labour Market Enterprises in Norway

Arild Aakvik and Svenn-Åge Dahl

06/04: The Relationship Between Economic Conditions, Access to Health Care, and Health Outcomes

Arild Aakvik and Tor Helge Holmås

05/04: Optimal taxation and normalisations

Bjørn Sandvik

04/04: Circumventing Information and Incentive Problems in Pollution Control

Helge Berglann

03/04: Why is on-net traffic cheaper than off-net traffic? Access markup as a collusive device and a barrier to entry

Tommy Gabrielsen and Steinar Vagstad

02/04: Attached Labor in Nepal: A Field-Study of Landlord-Labor Relations that are Misrepresented in the Nepal-LSMS data

Magnus Hatlebakk

15/03: Efficiency losses in milk marketing boards – the importance of exports

Rolf Jens Brunstad and Ivar Gaasland

14/03: Quota and Risk Sharing among Fishermen

Hermann Bardarson

13/03: Economic integration and environmental policy coordination

Odd Rune Straume

12/03: National versus international mergers in unionised oligopoly

Kjell Lommerud, Odd Rune Straume and Lars Sørgard

11/03: Employment Changes, the Structure of Adjustment Costs, and Plant Size

Øivind Nilsen, Kjell G Salvanes and Fabio Schiantarelli

10/03: Gatekeeping in health care

Kurt Brekke and Robert Nuscheler

09/03: Compliance and Imperfect Intertemporal Carbon Trading

Odd Godal and Ger Klaassen

08/03: Measuring Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education in Norway Using Educational Reforms

Arild Aakvik, Kjell G Salvanes and Kjell Vaage

07/03: Cooperative Harvesting and Core Allocations in Fisheries

Hermann Bardarson

06/03: Do voluntary international environmental agreements work?

Espen Bratberg, Sigve Tjøtta and Torgeir Øines

05/03: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in Pharmaceutical Markets

Kurt Brekke and Michael Kuhn

04/03: Managerial delegation and merger incentives

Odd Rune Straume

03/03: Imitators and Optimizers in a Changing Environment

Burkhard Hehenkamp and Oddvar Kaarboe

02/03: Price Volatility and Banking in Green Certificate Markets

Eirik S. Amundsen, Fridrik Baldursson and Jørgen Birk Mortensen

01/03: A panel data study of physicians’ labor supply: The case of Norway

Badi Baltagi, Espen Bratberg and Tor Helge Holmås

26/02: Assessing Changes in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility

Espen Bratberg, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

25/02: Provision of Renewable Energy using Green Certificates: Market Power and Price Limits

Eirik S. Amundsen and Gjermund Nese

24/02: Quality and location choices under price regulation

Kurt Brekke, Robert Nuscheler and Odd Rune Straume

23/02: Merger, partial collusion and relocation

Pedro Posada and Odd Rune Straume

22/02: Overtime pay premiums in a unionized oligopoly

Frode Meland

21/02: Will Increased Wages Reduce Shortage of Nurses? A Panel Data Analysis of Nurses’ Labour Supply

Jan Erik Askildsen, Badi Baltagi and Tor Helge Holmås

20/02: Income Effects of Divorce in Families with Dependent Children

Espen Bratberg and Sigve Tjøtta

18/02: Education and completed fertility in Norway

Ghazala Naz, Øivind Nilsen and Steinar Vagstad

17/02: Balanced Environmental Games

Sjur Flåm

16/02: Acquisitions in the Electricity Sector: Active vs. Passive Owners

Gjermund Nese

15/02: Input price risk and optimal timing of energy investment: choice between fossil- and biofuels

Pauli Murto and Gjermund Nese

14/02: Entry in Telecommunication: Customer Loyalty, Price Sensitivity and Access Prices

Kjell Lommerud and Lars Sørgard

12/02: The Impact of a Cash Benefit Reform on Parents’ Labour Force Participation

Ghazala Naz

11/02: DRUG INJECTION, DRUG DEALING, AND THE INFLUENCE OF ECONOMIC FACTORS: A TWO-DRUG MICRO-ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen and Erik Biorn

10/02: Full Coverage for Minor, Recurrent Losses?

Sjur Flåm

09/02: Stochastic Approximation, Momentum, and Nash Play

Helge Berglann and Sjur Flåm

08/02: Public Transfers and Marital Dissolution

Sigve Tjøtta and Kjell Vaage

07/02: A Low-key Social Insurance Reform - Treatment Effects for Back Pain Patients in Norway

Arild Aakvik, Tor Helge Holmås and Egil Kjerstad

06/02: Structural adjustment and endogenous worker recall probabilities

Frode Meland and Gaute Torsvik

05/02: Unemployment, labour force composition and sickness absence. A panel data study

Jan Erik Askildsen, Espen Bratberg and Øivind Nilsen

04/02: Markets with Consumer Switching Costs and Non-Linear Pricing

Tommy Gabrielsen and Steinar Vagstad

03/02: Bilateral monopolies and location choice

Kurt Brekke and Odd Rune Straume

02/02: Gender Differences in Early Retirement Behaviour

Svenn-Åge Dahl, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

01/02: Skill Formation among Vocational Rehabilitation Clients – Public Policy vs Private Incentives

Arild Aakvik and Egil Kjerstad