ERIK BIØRN

Selected publications in English

A. ARTICLES IN INTERNATIONAL REFEREED JOURNALS

• The Rise in Absenteeism: Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time. Journal of Population Economics, (2013, forthcoming). (With Simen Gaure, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed.)

• Interrelated Labour Decisions of Farm Couples: A Censored Response Analysis of Off-Farm Work. Agricultural Economics, 41 (2010), 595-610. (With Hild-Marte Bjørnsen.)

• Competition in General Practice: Prescriptions to the Elderly in a List Patient System. Journal of Health Economics, 29 (2010), 751-764. (With Inger Cathrine Kann and Hilde Lurås)

• Does Quality Influence Choice of General Practitioner? An Analysis of Matched Doctor-Patient Panel Data. Economic Modelling, 27 (2010), 842-853. (With Geir Godager.)

• How Different Are Hospitals' Responses to a Financial Reform? The Impact on Efficiency of Activity-Based Financing. Health Care Management Science 13 (2010), 1-16. (With Terje P. Hagen, Tor Iversen and Jon Magnussen.)

• Estimation of Discrete Choice and Censoring Models (In Russian. Abstract in English). Quantile, 6 (2009), 49-57.

• How Do Consumers Switch Between Close Substitutes when Price Variation is Small? The Case of Cigarette Types. Spanish Economic Review 8 (2006), 239-253. (With Knut R. Wangen.)

• Do Prices Count? A Micro-Econometric Study of Illicit Drug Consumption Based on Self-Reported Data. Empirical Economics 29 (2004), 673-695. (With Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen.)

• Regression Systems for Unbalanced Panel Data: A Stepwise Maximum Likelihood Procedure. Journal of Econometrics 122 (2004), 281-291.

• Aggregation Biases in Production Functions: A Panel Data Analysis of Translog Models. Research in Economics , 58 (2004), 31-57. (With Terje Skjerpen.)

• Heroin Consumption, Prices and Addiction: Evidence from Self-Reported Data. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 105 (2003), 661-679. (With Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen.)

• The Effect of Activity-Based Financing on Hospital Efficiency: A Panel Data Study of DEA Efficiency Scores 1992-2000. Health Care Management Science 6 (2003), 271-283. (With Terje P. Hagen, Tor Iversen and Jon Magnussen.)

• Distribution of Preferences and Measurement Errors in a Disaggregated Expenditure System. Econometrics Journal 6 (2003), 373-399. (With Jørgen Aasness and Terje Skjerpen.)

• Random Coefficients in Unbalanced Panels: An Application on Data From Chemical Plants. Annales d'économie et de statistique 69 (2003), 55-83. (With Kjersti-Gro Lindquist and Terje Skjerpen.)

• Heterogeneity in Returns to Scale: A Random Coefficient Analysis with Unbalanced Panel Data. Journal of Productivity Analysis 18 (2002), 39-57. (With Kjersti-Gro Lindquist and Terje Skjerpen.)

• Panel Data with Measurement Errors: Instrumental Variables and GMM Procedures Combining Levels and Differences. Econometric Reviews 19 (2000), 391-424.

• The Labour Input Response to Permanent Changes in Output: An Errors-in-Variables Analysis Based on Panel Data. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 101 (1999), 379-404. Reprinted in: Microeconometrics of Production: Norwegian Contributions., ed. by F.R. Førsund, T.J. Klette, K. Løyland and K.G. Salvanes. Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk, 2002, pp. 360-381. (With Tor Jakob Klette.)

• Survival and Efficiency Curves for Capital and the Time-Age-Profile of Vintage Prices. Empirical Economics 23 (1998), 611-633.

• Environmental Regulations and Plant Exit: A Logit Analysis Based on Establishment Panel Data. Environmental and Resource Economics 11 (1998), 35-59. (With Rolf Golombek and Arvid Raknerud.)

• Panel Data with Errors-in-Variables: Essential and Redundant Orthogonality Conditions in GMM Estimation. Economics Letters 59 (1998), 275-282. (With Tor Jakob Klette.)

• Moment Estimators and the Estimation of Marginal Budget Shares from Household Panel Data. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 5 (1994), 133-154.

• Engel Functions, Panel Data, and Latent Variables. Econometrica 61 (1993), 1395-1422. (With Jørgen Aasness and Terje Skjerpen.)

• The Bias of Some Estimators for Panel Data Models with Measurement Errors. Empirical Economics 17 (1992), 51-66. Reprinted in: Panel Data Analysis, ed. by B. Raj and B.H. Baltagi. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1992, pp. 51-66.

• Expectations, Substitution, and Scrapping in a Putty-Clay Model. Journal of Economics 56 (1992), 157-184. (With Petter Frenger.)

• Production - Demand Adjustment in Norwegian Manufacturing. A Quarterly Error Correction Model. Economic Modelling 6 (1989), 189-202. (With Hilde Olsen.)

• Gross and Net Capital, and the Form of the Survival Function: Some Norwegian Evidence. Review of Income and Wealth 35 (1989), 133-149. (With Erling Holmøy and Øystein Olsen.)

• KVARTS - A Quarterly Model of the Norwegian Economy. Economic Modelling 1987, Jan., pp. 77-109. (With Morten Jensen and Morten Reymert.)

• Inflation, Depreciation, and the Neutrality of the Corporate Income Tax. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 86 (1984), 214-228.

• Individual Effects in a System of Demand Functions. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 85 (1983), 461-482. (With Eilev S. Jansen.)

• Estimating Economic Relations from Incomplete Cross-Section/Time-Series Data. Journal of Econometrics 16 (1981), 221-236. Reprinted in: The Econometrics of Panel Data, volume II, ed. by G.S. Maddala. Cambridge: Edward Elgar, 1993, pp. 29-44.

• The Consumption Function and the Life Cycle Hypothesis: An Analysis of Norwegian Household Data. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 82 (1980), 464-480.

• The Distributive Effects of Indirect Taxation: An Econometric Model and Empirical Results Based on Norwegian Data. Swedish Journal of Economics 77 (1975), 1-12.

• Estimating the Flexibility of the Marginal Utility of Money. European Economic Review 5 (1974), 177-185.

B. CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

• Trygve Haavelmo/Translated by Erik Biørn: On Statistical Testing of Hypotheses in Economic Theory. Chapter 25 in The Rise of Econometrics, Volume II, ed. by D. Qin. Routledge, 2013, pp. 67-84.

• Measurement Errors and Simultaneity. Chapter 10 in The Econometrics of Panel Data. Fundamentals and Recent Developments in Theory and Practice, ed. by L. Mátyás and P. Sevestre. Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp. 323-367. (With Jayalakshmi Krishnakumar.)

• Can Random Coefficient Cobb-Douglas Production Functions Be Aggregated to Similar Macro Functions? Chapter 9 in Panel Data Econometrics: Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Applications, ed. by Badi H. Baltagi, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2006, pp. 229-258. (With Terje Skjerpen and Knut R. Wangen.)

• How are Survival-Efficiency Profiles Related to Retirement Rates and Capital Vintage Prices? Chapter 8 in Focus on Economic Growth and Productivity, ed. by L.A. Finley. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2005, pp. 143-186.

• Handling the Measurement Error Problem by Means of Panel Data: Moment Methods Applied on Firm Data. Chapter 24 in Econometrics and the Philosophy of Economics, ed. by B.P. Stigum. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003, pp. 613-641.

• Panel Data with Measurement Errors. Chapter 10 in The Econometrics of Panel Data. A Handbook of the Theory with Applications. Second Revised Edition, ed. by L. Mátyás and P. Sevestre. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, pp. 236-279.

• Panel Data with Measurement Errors. Chapter 8 in The Econometrics of Panel Data. Handbook of Theory and Applications, ed. by L. Mátyás and P. Sevestre. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992, pp. 152-195.

C. BOOKS

• Taxation, Technology and the User Cost of Capital. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1989.

• Econometrics of Incomplete Cross-Section/Time-Series Data: Consumer Demand in Norwegian Households 1975-1977. Oslo: Central Bureau of Statistics, 1982. (With Eilev S. Jansen.)

D. BOOK REVIEWS

• Review of: Artus, P. and Muet, P.-A.: Investment and Factor Demand, North-Holland, 1990. Journal of Economics 56 (1992), 125-128.

E. OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH

• Gross Capital, Net Capital, Capital Service Price, and Depreciation. A Framework for Empirical Analysis. Reports No. 83/27. Oslo: Central Bureau of Statistics, 1983.

• Estimating Seemingly Unrelated Regression Models from Incomplete Cross-Section/Time-Series Data. Reports No. 81/33. Oslo: Central Bureau of Statistics, 1981.

• Consumer Demand in Norwegian Households 1973--1977. A Data Base for Micro-Econometrics. Reports No. 80/4. Oslo: Central Bureau of Statistics, 1980. (With Eilev S. Jansen)

• Comparing Consumer Expenditure Functions Estimated from Household Budget Data from the Years 1967 and 1973. Articles No. 108. Oslo: Central Bureau of Statistics, 1978.