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    • Business model digitalization, competition, and tax savings 

      Casi, Elisa; Lisowsky, Petro; Stage, Barbara M. B.; Todtenhaupt, Maximilian (Discussion paper;6/24, Working paper, 2024-03-13)
      We examine the effect of business model digitalization on competition and how corporate tax savings through digitalization may augment this relationship. Global policymakers express concern that digitalization-related tax ...
    • A Distributional Robust Analysis of Buyback and Cap-and-Trade Policies 

      Fakhrabadi, Mahnaz; Sandal, Leif K. (Discussion paper;5/24, Working paper, 2024-02-20)
      This study delves into a dynamic Stackelberg game comprised of a manufacturer and a retailer, operating in an environment with fluctuating demand and price-dependent consumer behavior. The multi-period optimization challenges ...
    • Models for Spatial Consequences of Changes in Commuting Patterns 

      Gholami, Azam Azad (Doctoral thesis, 2024-02)
    • Tax Complexity as Price Discrimination 

      Agersnap, Ole; Bjørkheim, Julie Brun (Discussion paper;4/24, Working paper, 2024-02-05)
      Most tax systems around the world are highly complex. While several economists have studied the potential costs associated with tax complexity, few have explored if complexity can also have beneficial effects. In a novel ...
    • Climate Policy and Trade in Polluting Technologies 

      Ferguson, Shon M.; Heijmans, Roweno J.R.K. (Discussion paper;3/24, Working paper, 2024-01-30)
      This paper studies international trade in equipment used in the combustion of fossil fuels. Informed by a theoretical analysis, we identify a type of technology leakage hitherto unexplored in the literature: a country’s ...
    • Time Horizons and Emissions Trading 

      Heijmans, Roweno J.R.K.; Engström, Max (Discussion paper;2/24, Working paper, 2024-01-23)
      We study dynamic cap-and-trade schemes in which a policy of adjustable allowance supply determines the cap on emissions. Focusing on two common supply policies, price and quantity mechanisms, we investigate how the duration ...
    • Forecasting price spikes in day-ahead electricity markets: techniques, challenges, and the road ahead 

      Sheybanivaziri, Samaneh; Le Dréau, Jérôme; Kazmi, Hussain (Discussion paper;1/24, Working paper, 2024-01-17)
      Due to the increase in renewable energy production and global socioeconomic turmoil, the volatility in electricity prices has considerably increased in recent years, leading to extreme positive and negative price spikes ...
    • Essays on Energy Markets and the Environment 

      Tselika, Kyriaki (Doctoral thesis, 2023-12)
    • Guarantees of Origin and Competition in the Spot Electricity Market 

      Blázquez, Mario; Hovdahl, Isabel; Arve, Malin; Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette (Discussion paper;24/23, Working paper, 2023-12-15)
      We study the effect of introducing a market for green energy attributes on the market for the energy itself. In Europe, renewable energy producers receive Guarantees of Origin (GOs) that they can sell to consumers who wish ...
    • Matched Dispatching in Randomized Settings 

      Lillestøl, Jostein; Manne, Per (Discussion paper;23/23, Working paper, 2023-12-11)
      This paper examines some problems of matched dispatching in some different random settings. The context of presentation is that of a reality show with a lineup of the participants, and according to some probabilistic ...
    • Essays on Industrial Organisation: Digital Platform Competition, Technology Licensing, and Vertical Markets 

      Haugen, Atle (Doctoral thesis, 2023-10)
      This thesis consists of four chapters on the industrial organisation of digital platforms and vertical markets. The first chapter addresses how competition between digital platforms is affected by targeting technologies, ...
    • Lost in Information: National Implementation of Global Tax Agreements 

      Alstadsæter, Annette; Casi, Elisa; Miethe, Jakob; Stage, Barbara M. B. (Discussion paper;22/23, Working paper, 2023-11-13)
      We study how national implementation of global tax agreements shape their effectiveness by focusing on the multilateral agreement on automatic information exchange on financial assets, the Common Reporting Standard (CRS). ...
    • Home bias in shareholder voting 

      Li, Xuan (Discussion paper;21/23, Working paper, 2023-11-10)
      Institutional investors’ proxy voting decisions are influenced by their geographic proximity to portfolio firms. Using a sample of over 50 million votes cast by U.S. and non-U.S. investors globally, I find that investors ...
    • Unraveling Coordination Problems 

      Heijmans, Roweno J.R.K. (Discussion paper;20/23, Working paper, 2023-11-09)
      The interplay between strategic beliefs and policy complicates policy design in coordination games. To untangle this relationship, we study policy design in the context of equilibrium selection. We characterize the unique ...
    • Evaluating Norway’s electric vehicle incentives 

      Cincotta, Costanza; Thomassen, Øyvind (Discussion paper;19/23, Working paper, 2023-11-08)
      We use product-level data from 2000 to 2021 to evaluate Norway’s incentives for consumers to choose electric vehicles. These include taxes on fossil fuels, EV exemption from car purchase taxes, and other incentives, like ...
    • Time and frequency dynamics of connectedness between green bonds, clean energy markets and carbon prices 

      Ringstad, Ingrid Emilie Flessum; Tselika, Kyriaki (Discussion paper;18/23, Working paper, 2023-11-07)
      In this paper, we investigate the time and frequency dynamics of connectedness among green assets such as green bonds, clean energy markets, and carbon prices. Using daily price data, we explore return spillovers across ...
    • Hidden semi-Markov models for rainfall-related insurance claims 

      Shi, Yue; Punzo, Antonio; Otneim, Håkon; Maruotti, Antonello (Discussion paper;17/23, Working paper, 2023-11-06)
      We analyze the temporal structure of a novel insurance dataset about home insurance claims related to rainfall-induced damage in Norway, and employ a hidden semi-Markov model to capture the non-Gaussian nature and temporal ...
    • Optimization-based Evacuation on Cruise Vessels Using Two-way Communication 

      Velez, Andres; Wallace, Stein W. (Discussion paper;16/23, Working paper, 2023-10-31)
      We study the evacuation of large cruise vessels under hazardous conditions. Based on a new sensor mesh technology, allowing wire-less two-way communication also when electricity is lost, we propose an optimization-based ...
    • Intuitive probability of non-intuitive events 

      Aase, Knut K. (Discussion paper;15/23, Working paper, 2023-09-29)
      Quantitative probability in the subjective theory is assumed to be finitely additive and defined on all the subsets of an underlying state space. Functions from this space into an Euclidian n-space create a new probability ...