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Unionized oligopoly, trade liberalization and location choice
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-08)In a two-country reciprocal dumping model, with on country unionized, we analyze how wage setting and firm location are influenced by trade liberalization. We show that trade liberalization can induce a unionized firm to ... -
The unit of analysis in entrepreneurship research : opportunities or investments?
(Discussion paper, Doctoral thesis, 2008-10)The entrepeneurship literature in management focuses increasingly on opportunities — their creation or discovery, evaluation, and exploitation — as the unit of analysis. We argue first, that the opportunity perspective ... -
Unitech Wireless : verdiødeleggende for Telenors aksjonærer?
(Master thesis, 2009)Hovedformålet med denne masterutredningen er å vurdere om Telenors nylige kjøp av Unitech Wireless er verdiødeleggende for selskapets ex ante aksjonærer. Det indiske mobilselskapet har i dag ingen kundemasse, men ... -
United in the fight against a-krim : a case study of an interorganizational collaboration between Norwegian public entities
(Master thesis, 2018)In this master’s thesis we study the interorganizational collaboration (IoC) between Norwegian public entities in the fight against labor crime, or arbeidslivskriminalitet in Norwegian, further referred to as a-krim. The ... -
Universal Childcare for the Youngest and the Maternal Labour Supply
(DP SAM;03/2019, Working paper, 2019-02)In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit ... -
Unleashing the potential in ambassador programs : identifying concrete measures to improve the efficiency of ambassador programs
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis aims to analyze how SafetyWing can improve the efficiency of its ambassadors and what the implications are for ambassador programs in general. Ambassador programs are an expanding part of digital marketing ... -
Unleveling the Playing Field? Experimental Evidence on Parents’ Willingness to Give Their Child an Advantage
(DP SAM;21/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)Parents play a pivotal role in shaping the opportunities and outcomes of their children. This paper provides unique evidence on parents’ willingness to give their child an advantage. I report from a large-scale lab-in-the-field ... -
Unlisted assets in the government pension fund global : can private equity and infrastructure improve the fund’s profitability and stability?
(Master thesis, 2018)Is the stock market overpriced? Is it time to sell? Most of the asset pricing research has been directed towards stochastic discount factors, without definitive answer. We study the case of the Norwegian Government Pension ... -
Unlisted infrastructure as an asset class : from the perspective of private investors and governments in the developed world.
(Master thesis, 2018)Adam Smith put it quite brilliant several centuries ago in the midst of the industrial revolution across Western Europe and North America. Moving goods and people and distributing electricity and energy between countries ... -
Unlocking the power of the crowd : a case study analysis of the potential of green crowdfunding platforms to accelerate sustainability transitions
(Master thesis, 2019)In light of the ever-increasing urgency to successfully tackle environmental challenges that arise around the globe, growing attention is given to bottom-up approaches such as sustainable grass-root movements, to incubate ... -
Unraveling Coordination Problems
(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 ... -
Unraveling the Enigma of Black Swan Events: A Multidisciplinary Examination of Financial and Climatic Extremes : The factors contributing to Black Swan Events and their varying effects
(Master thesis, 2023)Black Swan events (BSE) are events that are highly improbable, unforeseen, and, many times, completely unpredictable and unknowable. The term itself was popularized by Nassim Taleb in his book, The Black Swan: The Impact ... -
Unsupervised machine learning for conference scheduling : a natural language processing approach based on latent dirichlet allocation
(Master thesis, 2020)Academic conference scheduling is the act of organizing large-scale conferences based upon the submission of academic papers in which the author will provide a talk. Traditionally each speaker is placed into a session ... -
Unsupervised machine learning on tax returns : investigating unsupervised and semisupervised machine learning methods to uncover anomalous faulty tax returns
(Master thesis, 2020)In this thesis we investigate whether unsupervised and semisupervised machine learning methods can be applied to detect undiscovered erroneous tax returns, and how the properties of the underlying data affect method ... -
Up the Ante on Bioeconomic Submodels of Marine Foodwebs : a data assimilation-based approach
(Working paper;13/14, Working paper, 2014-09)While economists have discussed ecosystem-based management and similar concepts, little attention has been devoted to the art of modeling. Models of ecosystems or foodwebs that make economic analysis viable should capture ... -
Upstream merger in a successive oligopoly : who pays the price?
(Discussion Papers;17/2013, Working paper, 2013-12)This study develops and uses a successive oligopoly model, with an unobservable non-linear tariff between upstream and downstream firms, to analyze the possible anti-competitive effects of an upstream merger. We find ... -
Upstream merger in a successive oligopoly : who pays the price?
(Working paper;48/13, Working paper, 2013-12)This study develops and uses a successive oligopoly model, with an unobservable non-linear tariff between upstream and downstream firms, to analyze the possible anti-competitive effects of an upstream merger. We find that ... -
Upstream partnerships among competitors when size matters
(Working paper;2017:6, Working paper, 2017-06)In several industries, downstream competitors form upstream partnerships. An important rationale is that higher aggregate upstream volume might generate efficiencies that reduce both fixed and marginal costs. Our focus is ... -
The upstream petroleum industry and local industrial development : a comparative study
(Report, Research report, 2003-05)The report analyzes local industrial development related to the upstream petroleum sector in six selected oil-exporting countries. It focuses on local content in the supply and services industry, and how policies to enhance ... -
The urban system of Eastern Norway
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)This working paper reports from a study carried out as part of the Interreg IIC project «Urban Systems and Urban Networking in the Baltic Sea Region», and has also been published as part of a seminar report by the VASAB ...