Browsing NHH Brage by Author "Sørgard, Lars"

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    • Private labels, price rivalry, and public policy 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-06)
      The article examines how the existence of a retailer owned brand, private label, affects the price setting of a national brand. We find that the potential for a private label introduction may lead to price concessions ...

    • Public versus private health care in a national health service 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-08)
      This paper studies the interplay between public and private health care in a National Health Service. We consider a two-stage game, where at stage one a Health Authority sets the public sector wage and a subsidy to (or ...

    • Renewable energy’s effect on bottlenecks in the electricity market : Analyzing the impact of the green transition and increased interconnectors abroad on price differences towards NO2 

      Hage, Marie Prøsch; Thøgersen, Ingrid Ljoså (Master thesis, 2023)
      The electricity sector in Europe needs a substantial transition towards an increased share of renewable energy sources to reach the European Commission’s target for Europe to be climate neutral by 2050. In this study, ...

    • Simulating the effects of an acquisition in the ferry market 

      Mathiesen, Lars; Sørgard, Lars (Report, Research report, 2000-09)
      Numerical models have been applied in several merger studies during the last decade. The purpose of this paper is to discuss some modelling issues that have not been addressed in detail in the existing literature on merger ...

    • Single-product versus uniform SSNIPs 

      Daljord, Øystein Børnes; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-01)
      It is common to apply a SSNIP test with a uniform price increase on all products in the candidate market. We show that in situations with asymmetries – for example one product having a limited sale – a uniform SSNIP test ...

    • Single-product versus uniform SSNIPs 

      Sørgard, Lars; Daljord, Øystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      It is common to apply a SSNIP test with a uniform price increase on all products in the candidate market. We show that in situations with asymmetries – for example variations in revenues – a uniform SSNIP test may suggest ...

    • Strategic informative advertising in a TV-advertising duopoly 

      Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-08)
      We consider a model of strategic informative advertising where the advertising is done on TV and where the TV channels' advertising prices are endogenously determined. We discuss how these prices, and the advertising firms' ...

    • Strategic regulation policy in the internet 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-07)
      Some countries are net importers while others are net exporters of global backbone access, content and other Internet services. At the same time, input components like local access are non-traded. This paper analyzes a ...

    • The television industry : the interplay between products, advertising, and programme quality 

      Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars (Report, Research report, 2000-01)
      The purpose of this report is to examine the rivalry within the product and the TV market, respectively, and how those two markets interact through the market for advertising on TV. After a brief introduction where we ...

    • Temporary bottlenecks, hydropower and acquisitions 

      Skaar, Jostein; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      The purpose of this article is to study the effects of an acquisition in a hydro power system with temporary bottlenecks. We apply a model with four markets: two regions and two time periods. It is shown that an acquisition ...

    • Temporary bottlenecks, hydropower and acquisitions in networks 

      Skaar, Jostein; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-01)
      The purpose of this article is to study the effects of an acquisition in an energy system dominated by hydropower and with temporary bottlenecks. We apply a model with four markets: two regions and two time periods. It is ...

    • Temporære flaskehalser og oppkjøp i norsk kraftforsyning 

      Skaar, Jostein; Sørgard, Lars (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2002-06)
      I dette notatet drøfter vi hvordan et oppkjøp vil påvirke prissettingen i et vannkraftsystem der produsentene må fordele sin produksjon over to perioder og det forekommer temporære flaskehalser. Vi viser at i en slik ...

    • Temporære flaskehalser og oppkjøp i norsk kraftforsyning : et svar til von der Fehrs kommentarer 

      Skaar, Jostein; Sørgard, Lars (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2002-06)
      I Skaar og Sørgard (2002) konkluderte vi med at den samfunnsøkonomiske lønnsomheten av et oppkjøp i et vannbasert kraftsystem er tvetydig i en situasjon med temporære flaskehalser og gitt total produksjon. von der Fehr ...

    • TV advertising, programming investments, and product-market oligopoly 

      Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-06)
      We present a model of the TV-advertising market that encompasses both the product markets and the market for TV programs. We argue that the TV industry has several idiosyncratic characteristics that need to be modeled, ...

    • The TV industry : advertising and programming 

      Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-07)
      The key to an understanding of the TV industry is the market for TV advertising. We present a model of this market that also encompasses the product markets and the viewer market. Because viewers dislike commercials, there ...

    • TV-markedet : private versus offentlige aktører 

      Garcia-Pires, Armando; Skjeret, Frode; Sørgard, Lars (Rapport;2014:12, Research report, 2014-10)
      I denne rapporten drøftes samspillet mellom offentlige og private kringkastere i TV-markedet. Når en sammenligner den norske allmennkringkasteren NRK med tilsvarende allmennkringkastere i andre land det er naturlig å ...

    • Two-part pricing, consumer heterogeneity and Cournot competition 

      Jensen, Sissel; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001)
      We analyze two-part tariffs in an oligopoly, where each firm commits to a quantity and a fixed fee prior to the determination of unit prices. In the case of homogeneous consumers, Harrison and Kline (2001) showed that the ...

    • Two-part pricing, consumer heterogeneity and cournot competition 

      Jensen, Sissel; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-04)
      We analyze two-part tariffs in an oligopoly, where each firm commits to a quantity and a fixed fee prior to the determination of unit prices. In the case of homogeneous consumers, Harrison and Kline (2001) showed that the ...

    • Two-part tariffs, consumer heterogeneity and Cournot competition 

      Jensen, Sissel; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)
      We analyze two-part tariffs in oligopoly, where each firm commits to a certain quantity. The model is an extension of the one introduced in Har (2001). We show that their main results are reversed when the model is extended ...

    • Unionized oligopoly, trade liberalization and location choice 

      Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-07)
      In a two-country reciprocal dumping model, with one country unionized, we analyze how wage setting and firm location are influenced by trade liberalization. We show that trade liberalization can induce FDI, which is at ...