Blar i Statistics Norway's Open Research Repository (SNORRe) på forfatter "Klette, Tor Jakob"
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Accumulation of r&d capital and dynamic firm performance: a not-so-fixed effect model
Klette, Tor Jakob; Johansen, Frode (Discussion Papers;No. 184, Working paper, 1996)Considering the observed patterns of R&D investment, we argue that a model which allows for a positive feedback from already acquired knowledge to the productiveness of current research, fits the empirical evidence better ... -
Correlated Measurement Errors, Bounds on Parameters, and a Model of Producer Behavior
Willassen, Yngve; Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion papers;112, Working paper, 1994-04)We examine estimation of a model of producer behavior in the presence of correlated measurement errors in the regressors. Scale economies and price-cost margins are estimated from a set of panel data for manufacturing ... -
Do higher wages reflect higher productivity? : education, gender and experience premiums in a matched plant-worker data set
Hægeland, Torbjørn; Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion Papers;No. 208, Working paper, 1997)Do wage differences between workers with high and low levels of education, between males and females and between workers with different levels of experience reflect differences in productivity? We address this set of ... -
Empirical patterns of firm growth and r&d investment: a quality ladder model interpretation
Klette, Tor Jakob; Griliches, Zvi (Discussion Papers;No. 188, Working paper, 1997)We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and innovation as the engine of growth. The objective of our analysis is to present a framework that can be used for microeconometric analysis of firm ... -
Errors in Variables and Panel Data: The Labour Demand Response to Permanent changes in Output
Biørn, Erik; Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion papers;125, Working paper, 1994-08)This paper examines panel data modelling with latent variables in analyzing log-linear relations between inputs and output of firms. Our particular focus is on (i) the "increasing returns to scale puzzle" for labour input ... -
From Growth Theory to Technology Policy - Coordination Problems in Theory and Practice
Klette, Tor Jakob; Møen, Jarle (Discussion Paper;No. 219, Working paper, 1998-04)Economists, in particular Bresnahan and Trajtenberg (1995), have recently drawn attention to the importance of generic or general purpose technologies (GPTs) and their significance for economic growth. An interesting part ... -
Heterogeneity, productivity and selection: an empirical study of Norwegian manufacturing firms
Klette, Tor Jakob; Raknerud, Arvid (Discussion Papers;No. 401, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: How do firms differ, and why do they differ even within narrowly defined industries? Using evidence from a new panel data set for four high-tech, manufacturing industries covering a 10-year period, we show how ... -
How and why do Firms differ?
Klette, Tor Jakob; Raknerud, Arvid (Discussion Papers;No. 320, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: How do firms differ, and why do they differ even within narrowly defined industries? Using evidence from six high-tech, manufacturing industries covering a 24-year period, we show that differences in sales, ... -
Innovation and job creation in a small open economy: evidence from Norwegian manufacturing plants 1982-92
Klette, Tor Jakob; Førre, Svein Erik (Discussion papers;159, Working paper, 1995-12)It is often claimed that the opportunities to create new manufacturing jobs in open, high-cost economies such as Norway, are concentrated in products which are technologically advanced and knowledge intensive. This paper ... -
Is price equal to marginal costs? - An integrated study of price-cost margins and scale economies among Norwegian manufacturing establishments 1975-90
Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion Paper;No. 93, Working paper, 1993-07)This paper presents an integrated study of price-cost margins and scale economies. The model is estimated on the basis of a comprehensive data set for individual establishments covering almost the whole Norwegian manufacturing ... -
Job creation, job destruction and plant turnover in Norwegian manufacturing
Klette, Tor Jakob; Mathiassen, Astrid (Discussion papers;136, Working paper, 1995-02)The labour market in Norway, as in other Scandinavian countries, is often claimed to be overregulated and incapable of adjustment to changes in job opportunities. The results presented in this paper suggest to the contrary ... -
Monetary aspects of business cycles in Norway: an exploratory study based on historical data
Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion papers;130, Working paper, 1994-10)Hall's (1988) approach to study price-cost margins is adapted to simultaneously estimate price-cost margins and scale economies from a panel of plant level data. The paper shows how this methodology provides a very flexible ... -
The Norwegian aluminium industry, electricity prices and welfare
Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion Paper;No. 38, Working paper, 1988-10)This paper presents a partial equilibrium analysis of the changes in the the Norwegian aluminium industry which would follow if the industry was faced with higher electricity prices. The industry is modelled as an imperfectly ... -
On the importance of R&D and ownership for productivity growth: Evidence from Norwegian Micro-Data 1976-85
Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion Paper;No. 60, Working paper, 1991-02)The first part of this paper develops a semi-parametric growth accounting framework, which permits a simultaneous study of productivity changes, scale economies and market power, extending the approach developed by Hall ... -
Panel data with errors-in-variables : a note on essential and redundant orthogonality conditions in GMM-estimation
Biørn, Erik; Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion Papers;No. 190, Working paper, 1997)General Method of Moments (GMM) estimation of a linear one-equation model using panel data with errors-in-variables is considered. To eliminate fixed individual heterogeneity, the equation is differenced across one or more ... -
R&D, Scope Economies and Company Structure. A "Not-so-Fixed Effect" Model of Plant Performance
Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion papers;120, Working paper, 1994-06)Some well-known correlations between R&D and performance are given a somewhat new interpretation in this paper. I present an alternative model of knowledge accumulation, with some interesting and desirable properties. ... -
R&D, spillovers and performance among heterogenous firms: an empirical study using microdata
Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion papers;133, Working paper, 1994-12)Empirical research has established that there is a significant, positive relationship between productivity growth and R&D-expenditure at the firm level. Yet, while interesting, the conventional production function approach ... -
Struktur og egenskaper ved en MSG-modell med Armingtonrelasjoner
Holmøy, Erling; Klette, Tor Jakob (Rapporter;1989/23, Research report, 1989-12-19) -
Taxing or subsidising an exporting industry?
Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion Paper;No. 25, Working paper, 1987-10-16)This paper analyses whether a welfare maximizing government should tax or subsidize the home firms in an industry characterized by. oligopolistic competition and differentiated products. The home firms are assumed to ... -
The Inconsistency of Common Scales Estimators when Output Prices are Unobserved and Endogenous
Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion papers;127, Working paper, 1994-10)This paper explores the inconsistency of common scale estimators when output is proxied by deflated sales, based on a common output deflator across firms. The problems arise when firms operate in an imperfectly competitive ...