• Buying First or Selling First in Housing Markets 

      Moen, Espen Rasmus; Nenov, Plamen; Sniekers, Florian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Housing transactions by moving homeowners take two steps—buying a new house and selling the old one. This paper argues that the transaction sequence decisions of moving homeowners have important effects on the housing ...
    • In medio stat victus Labor Demand Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age 

      Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      After falling for four decades, statutory retirement ages are increasing in most OECD countries. The labor market adjustment to these reforms has not yet been thoroughly investigated by the literature. We draw on a major ...
    • Price Dispersion and the Role of Stores 

      Moen, Espen Rasmus; Wulfsberg, Fredrik; Aas, Øyvind Nilsen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In this paper, we study price dispersion in the Norwegian retail market for 766 products across 4,297 stores over 60 months. Price dispersion for homogeneous products is significant and persistent, with a coefficient of ...
    • Prisdiskiminering i dagligvarebransjen 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl; Moen, Espen Rasmus; Nilssen, Tore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      INNLEDNING Det har foregått en intens diskusjon den siste tiden om hvorvidt det bør innføres et forbud mot prisdiskriminering på leverandørnivå i dagligvaremarkedet. Kjede har stått mot kjede, professor mot professor. ...
    • SEQUENTIAL PRICE SETTING: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM A LAB EXPERIMENT 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Helland, Leif; Moen, Espen Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In the Varian (1980; American Economic Review 70(4) (1980), 651–59) model of price competition, a change from simultaneous to sequential price setting dramatically changes equilibrium strategies, and in the unique symmetric, ...
    • Static and dynamic inefficiencies in an optimizing model of epidemics 

      Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen Rasmus; Pissarides, Christopher A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Several externalities arise when agents shield optimally to avoid infection during an epidemic. We classify externalities into static and dynamic and compare the decentralized and optimal solutions when agents derive utility ...
    • The Economics of Hypergamy 

      Almås, Ingvild; Kotsadam, Andreas; Moen, Espen Rasmus; Røed, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. We use the term hypergamy to describe a phenomenon whereby there is a tendency for husbands to be ...