• International complementarities in the internet : should domestic local access prices be regulated? 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-10)
      The Internet can be seen as the convergence of different industries like telecommunication, software, and media into an international oligopoly, where the end-user is offered a bundle consisting of complementary products ...
    • International complementarities in the Internet : should local access prices be regulated? 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-05)
      The Internet can be seen as the convergence of different industries, such as telecommunication, software and media, into an international oligopoly offering complementary products. In most of these industries we have ...
    • The internet market structure : implications for national and international regulation 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-09)
      Internet connectivity may be seen as a composite good that is produced by the complementary inputs local and global access. In addition to the infrastructure components, software and content components affect the customers’ ...
    • Licensing technology and foreclosure 

      Clark, Derek J.; Foros, Øystein; Sand, Jan Yngve (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-10)
      We consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The owner of the superior technology (the dominant firm) can license or transfer the source of its ...
    • Licensing technology and foreclosure 

      Clark, Derek J.; Foros, Øystein; Sand, Jan Yngve (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-12)
      We consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The owner of the superior technology (the dominant firm) can license or transfer the source of its dominance ...
    • Lønnsomheten ved hybride off-grid mikronett i Arktis : en casestudie av Isfjord Radio, en avsidesliggende lokasjon på Svalbard 

      Pettersen, Jørgen Sætherø; Utne, Magnus Melgård (Master thesis, 2020)
      Majoriteten av de bosatte lokasjonene i Arktis er i dag isolerte samfunn der de fleste er avhengig av fossile brensler som primærkilde i sin energiforsyning. Dieselbaserte off-grid mikronett utgjør store økonomiske utgifter ...
    • Managerial incentives and access price regulation 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-10)
      Policy makers have identified the non-discrimination principle as a key instrument to regulate vertically integrated firms in control of upstream bottlenecks. Economists argue that the non-discrimination principle may ...
    • Media market concentration, advertising levels, and ad prices 

      Anderson, Simon P.; Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Peitz, Martin (Discussion Papers;24/2011, Working paper, 2011-12)
      Standard media economics models imply that increased platform com- petition decreases ad levels and that mergers reduce per-viewer ad prices. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. We attribute the theoretical predictions ...
    • Media market concentration, advertising levels, and ad prices 

      Anderson, Simon P.; Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Peitz, Martin (Working paper;2012:02, Working paper, 2012-01)
      Standard media economics models imply that increased platform competition decreases ad levels and that mergers reduce per-viewer ad prices. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. We attribute the theoretical predictions ...
    • Mergers and partial ownership 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-01)
      In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find that partial ownership arrangements can be more profitable for the acquiring and acquired firm because ...
    • Mergers and partial ownership 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-12)
      In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger between two firms (one firm fully acquires another) and the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement between the same two firms in which the acquiring firm ...
    • Mergers and partial ownership 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-01)
      In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find that partial ownership arrangements can be more profitable for the acquiring and acquired firm because ...
    • Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA : en strategisk og regnskapsbasert kredittvurdering 

      Johansen, Ronny Edvin Uglebakken (Master thesis, 2018)
      Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA har i de siste årene vært i stor vekst, hvor spesielt gjeld er blitt brukt som en finansieringskilde. All den gjelden har lagt press på lønnsomheten til Norwegian, og førte til at Moody’s ...
    • Norwegian Radio Broadcasting : from public monopoly to competitive homogeneity? 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Østbye, Helge (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-04)
      The present article discusses whether competition in radio broadcasting creates diversity. We start out by giving a brief overview of the development of competition within the European broadcasting markets. However, our ...
    • On the choice of royalty rule to cover fixed costs in input joint ventures 

      Fjell, Kenneth; Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper;16/13, Working paper, 2013-07)
      In a model where two competing downstream firms establish an input joint venture (JV), we analyze how different royalty rules for covering fixed costs affect channel profits. Under running royalties (regardless of whether ...
    • Paraplykjedenes overtakelse av distribusjonen i dagligvaremarkedet : hva har utviklingen å si for markedets aktører? 

      Bernes, Hanna Skjervheim; Flo, Isabel Marie (Master thesis, 2016)
      I denne utredningen forsøker vi å kartlegge mulige konsekvenser av paraplykjedenes overtakelse av grossist- og distribusjonsleddet i det norske dagligvaremarkedet. Grunnet uenigheter innad i bransjen om hvorvidt ...
    • Price-dependent profit sharing as an escape from the Bertrand paradox 

      Foros, Øystein; Hagen, Kåre Petter; Kind, Hans Jarle (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)
      In this paper we show how an upstream firm can prevent destructive competition among downstream firms producing relatively close substitutes by implementing a price-dependent profit-sharing rule. The rule also ensures ...
    • Price-dependent profit-sharing as a channel coordination device 

      Foros, Øystein; Hagen, Kåre Petter; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-03)
      We show how an upstream firm by using a price-dependent profit-sharing rule can prevent destructive competition between downstream firms that produce relatively close substitutes. With this rule the upstream firm induces ...
    • Price-dependent profit-sharing as a channel coordination device 

      Foros, Øystein; Hagen, Kåre Petter; Kind, Hans Jarle (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-07)
      We show how an upstream firm by using a price-dependent profit-sharing rule can prevent destructive competition between downstream firms that produce relatively close substitutes. With this rule the upstream firm induces ...
    • Prisingsalgoritmer og konkurranse En litteraturstudie 

      Stensrud, Madelen Behn; Glesnes, Vilde (Master thesis, 2022)
      Bedrifters beslutninger knyttet til pris blir i stadig større grad tatt av prisingsalgoritmer i stedet for mennesker. De siste årene har både konkurransemyndigheter og akademikere uttrykt bekymring for at prisingsalgoritmer ...