• Prevent or Promote? Exploiting Loss Biasness to Nudge Norwegian Consumers towards Eco-Friendly Packaged Wine 

      Dahle, Celine Halnes; Nyfløt, Sofie Louise (Master thesis, 2021)
      Players in the wine industry across the world, including the Norwegian monopoly player Vinmonopolet, are increasing their efforts to reduce their environmental footprint and achieve sustainable production and operation. A ...
    • Price adjustment in Norway : an analysis of micro PPI data 

      Bratlie, Joakim (Master thesis, 2013)
      We have only limited knowledge about how Norwegian producers change their prices. The aim of this thesis has therefore been to gain greater insight in the price adjustment on producer level in Norway. Throughout the paper ...
    • Price and quality in spatial competition 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-07)
      We study the relationship between competition and quality within a spatial competition framework where firms compete in prices and quality. We generalise existing literature on spatial price-quality competition along ...
    • Price change frictions in production plants : learning from a simulation study 

      Bøe, Eivind; Vange, Magne (Master thesis, 2016)
      Price stickiness is often taken for granted in modern macroeconomic models, without adequate knowledge of the underlying microeconomic foundations. We want to assess whether the assumptions of price stickiness are ...
    • Price Change Synchronization within and between Firms 

      Nilsen, Øivind A.; Skuterud, Håvard; Webster, Ingeborg Munthe-Kaas (SAM DP;15/2021, Working paper, 2021-08)
      This paper provides evidence on price rigidity at the product- and firm-level in Norway. A strong within-firm synchronization is found supporting the theory of economies of scope in menu costs. The industry synchronization ...
    • Price Changes - Stickiness and Internal Coordination in Multiproduct Firms. 

      Letterie, Wilko; Nilsen, Øivind A. (DP SAM;21, Working paper, 2016-12)
      We assess empirically the micro-foundations of producers’ sticky pricing behaviour. We account for various functional forms of menu costs. The focus is on the analysis of multiproduct plants, and the menu costs therefore ...
    • Price comovement in energy and commodity markets 

      Johansen, Bjarne Inge (Master thesis, 2011)
      This master thesis examines geographical market integration in energy markets, price comovement between oil, natural gas and coal, as well as price comovement between energy and non-energy commodities (agricultural ...
    • Price coordination in two-sided markets : competition in the TV Industry 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-06)
      The TV industry is a two-sided market where both advertisers and viewers buy access to the programs offered by competing TV channels. Under the current market structure advertising prices are typically set by TV channels ...
    • The price discovery properties of clean tanker freight futures : unbiasedness, causality and forecasting 

      Sjøli, Audun Houmb (Master thesis, 2010)
      The scope of this thesis is to examine the price discovery properties of clean tanker freight futures. This is conducted by testing the unbiasedness hypothesis, the lead-lag relationship between freight futures and ...
    • Price discrimination and competition in a retail gasoline market : a case study from Sandviken and Askøy 

      Karamushko, Irina (Master thesis, 2006)
      Gasoline retail prices are generally easily observable on an everyday basis, and high price volatility raises public concern. There seems to be widespread opinion that higher gasoline prices are the result of firm collusion ...
    • Price discrimination and three part tariffs in a duopoly 

      Jensen, Sissel (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-03)
      The paper studies how second degree price discrimination can be implemented in a duopoly with differentiated products. Two firms serve consumers having heterogeneous willingness to pay for the good, willingness to pay ...
    • Price discrimination with uncertain consumers 

      Vagstad, Steinar (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)
      Many goods and services are priced non-linearly, and a common way to implement nonlinear price schedules is to let consumers choose from a menu of two-part tariffs. If consumers know their demand at the time they choose ...
    • Price effects of CO2-quotas on the Nordic electricity market 

      Gjesdal, Jon Peder (Master thesis, 2008)
      The aim of the thesis is to examine the electricity market and the introduction of CO2-quotas. In order to perform this study, the text is divided into five main sections. The introductory section presents several assumptions ...
    • Price matters: an empirical analysis of the effects of house prices on fertility in Norway 

      Riiser, Jon Espen; Rynning-Tønnesen, Markus (Master thesis, 2019)
      Since the late 1970s, the fertility rate in Norway has been relatively stable, slightly below replacement level. After a peak in 2009, fertility has declined, and in 2018 it dropped to the lowest level ever recorded. At ...
    • The Price of Conflict: A study of Oil Companies in Nigeria 

      Düring, Balder; Aarbu, Bendik (Master thesis, 2022)
      In this thesis, we use an event study methodology to investigate whether oil producers holding concessions in Nigeria have benefitted from conflict and regulatory shocks assumed to inflict changes in the business ...
    • The Price of Cost-effectiveness Thresholds 

      Brekke, Kurt R.; Dalen, Dag Morten; Straume, Odd Rune (SAM DP;04/2023, Working paper, 2023)
      Health systems around world are increasingly adopting cost-effectiveness (CE) analysis to inform decisions about access and reimbursement. We study how CE thresholds imposed by a health plan for granting reimbursement ...
    • The price of decentralisation 

      Norman, Eva Benedicte Danielsen (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-07)
      This paper develops a model for analysing problems related to centralisation and decentralisation. The model is of the new economic geography type, in which there are agglomeration gains in cities but not in rural areas. ...
    • Price patterns resulting from different producer behavior in spatial equilibrium 

      Mathiesen, Lars (Discussion paper;5/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)
      We are concerned with economic analyses of markets from the perspective of supporting a decision maker selling in the market. The competitive pressure and the price formation are central issues. The goal of this paper ...
    • Price Premiums in the Shipbuilding Market : A study of determinants for bulker, tanker and container segments in the 1990-2014 period 

      Norland, Kristian; Sætrevik, Even (Master thesis, 2016-09-01)
      In this thesis we investigate whether a number of variables specific to a vessel, the contracting parties, or market conditions affect the price charged for the ship. Literature in maritime economics seems to suggest ...
    • Price relationships in the petroleum market : an analysis of crude oil and refined product prices 

      Asche, Frank; Gjølberg, Ole; Völker, Teresa (Report, Research report, 2001-08)
      In this paper the relationships between crude oil and refined product prices are investigated in a multivariate framework. This allows us to test several (partly competing) assumptions of earlier studies. In particular, ...