• 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, ...
    • Price setting in the Swedish grocery market : monopoly and monopsony market forces 

      Hole, Oddgeir (Master thesis, 2008)
      This paper investigates the level of efficiency in the Swedish grocery market. The effect of market power on price both from retailers to consumers, and from suppliers to retailers is analyzed and discussed. Using three ...
    • Price stability and inflation persistence during the international gold standard : the Scandinavian case 

      Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Hunnes, Arngrim (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-06)
      In the 1870s the three Scandinavian countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden formed the Scandinavian Currency Union. Both the adoption of gold and the monetary union were supposed to lead to price stability in and between ...
    • Price transmission in cross boundary value chains 

      Asche, Frank; Menezes, Rui; Dias, Joaõ Ferreira (Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2003-01)
      The extent to which demand and supply shocks are transmitted in the value chain is an important topic. As many value chains cross international borders exchange rate pass through is an important element in this context. ...
    • 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 ...