• A carbon footprint proportional to expenditure : a case for Norway? 

      Narbel, Patrick A.; Isaksen, Elisabeth T. (Discussion paper;16/14, Working paper, 2014-04)
      Assuming that emissions originate from the consumption of goods and services, we study the relationship between consumption-based per capita carbon footprint and per capita expenditure for Norway, using 2007 data. A ...
    • Economic integration and the profitability of cross-border mergers and acquisitions 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-08)
      The 1990s was a decade of increased economic integration. The decade also witnessed a sharp increase in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). From a theoretical perspective, the increase in M&As in more integrated ...
    • Industrial clusters : equilibrium, welfare, and policy 

      Norman, Victor D.; Venables, Anthony J. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-08)
      This paper studies the size and number of industrial clusters that will arise in a multi-country world in which one sector has a propensity to cluster because of increasing returns to scale. It compares the equilibrium ...
    • On the profitability of cross-border mergers 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)
      A horizontal merger is unlikely to be profitable unless it involves the large majority of firms in an industry. This well established result was developed by Salant et al (1983) in a closed economy setting. The present ...
    • R&D policies, trade and process innovation 

      Haaland, Jan Ingvald Meidell; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      We set up a simple trade model with two countries hosting one firm each. The firms invest in cost-reducing R&D, and each government may grant R&D subsidies to the domestic firm. We show that it is optimal for a government ...
    • R&D policies, trade and process innovation 

      Haaland, Jan Ingvald Meidell; Kind, Hans Jarle (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      We set up a simple trade model with two countries hosting one firm each. The firms invest in cost-reducing R&D, and each government may grant R&D subsidies to the domestic firm. We show that it is optimal for a government ...
    • Relative wages and trade-induced changes in technology 

      Midelfart, Karen Helene; Ekholm, Karolina (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-09)
      We develop a model where trade liberalization leads to skill-biased technological change, which in turn raises the relative return to skilled labor. When firms get access to a larger market, the relative profitability of ...
    • Trade and development : is south-south co-operation a feasible strategy? 

      Møen, Jarle (Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-10)
      The first part of this article gives a brief overview of the main problems facing the developing countries in the present international trading system, and reviews the debate on import substitution vs. export promotion. ...
    • Trade and multinationals : the effect of economic integration on taxation and tax revenue 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Midelfart, Karen Helene; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-12)
      The rising importance of multinationals in the world economy has been accompanied by a rise in trade between affiliates of multinationals located in different countries, and by profits being shifted to low tax countries. ...