• Assessment of the sustainability of organic salmon farming 

      Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-06)
      Environmental and sustainable aspects of food production are receiving increasingly more attention, which is also evident through the increasing demand for organic food products. This paper is concerned with the sustainability ...
    • Buying power in UK retail chains : a residual supply approach 

      Asche, Frank; Nøstbakken, Linda; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-11)
      The development of supermarket chains has led to substantial concentration in food supply chains, and has raised concerns not only that these companies can exploit oligopoly power, but also oligopsony power. In this paper, ...
    • Changes in herring consumption in Russia 

      Lien, Kristin; Tveterås, Ragnar; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-12)
      In the seafood category Russian consumers are adopting new species and new product forms at a rapid rate. We employ a panel data set on monthly per capita demand for different herring products in six Russian regions to ...
    • Ethics and credibility of organic salmon regulation 

      Tveterås, Sigbjørn; Aarset, Bernt (Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-09)
      The objective of this report is to establish how important standardisations of regulations is for the credibility of organic fish products, from the viewpoint of consumers, producers, animal welfare groups, and environmentalists. ...
    • The fishmeal market : an integrated part of the vegetable oilmeal market? 

      Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-10)
      In this report the concept and implications of market integration is discussed in some detail with an application to the fishmeal and soymeal market. Both are important inputs in the animal and aquaculture feed market. ...
    • Forecasting commodity prices with switching regimes : a MS-VAR approach for fish meal price 

      Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-07)
      The objective of this paper is to present a parsimonious forecasting model of the fish meal price. The focus is on the soybean meal market’s impact on the fish meal price together with the stocks-to-use as an indicator of ...
    • Market integration and exchange rates in primary commodity markets 

      Asche, Frank; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Report, Research report, 2003-12)
      In most recent studies on international market integration exchange rates have not received much attention. This is in contrasts to the exchange rate pass-through literature where the degree of substitution normally is ...
    • Modeling demand for fishmeal using a heterogeneous estimator for panel data 

      Tveterås, Ragnar; Tveterås, Sigbjørn; Sissener, Elin Helene (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2003-12)
      Increased livestock and aquaculture production can put pressure on the fishmeal market, and thus industrial fisheries stocks, since both of these sectors use fishmeal in their feeds. Data indicate that fishmeal supply has ...
    • Norwegian salmon aquaculture and sustainability : the relationship between environmental quality and industry growth 

      Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2002-02)
      This paper discusses the relationship between industry growth and environmental quality in the context of salmon aquaculture. It is argued that industry growth can reduce pollution by inducing more technological innovations ...
    • On the relationship between aquaculture and reduction fisheries 

      Asche, Frank; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-09)
      Traditional aquaculture has to a large extent used herbivore species with limited requirements for additional feeding. However, in intensive aquaculture production one farm carnivore species like salmon and also feeds ...
    • Seafood price indices 

      Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-10)
      The new FAO seafood price indices have been constructed based on import statistics for USA and the European Union. The main objective of the FAO seafood import price indices is to indicate quarterly to annual price trends ...
    • Value chains for primary goods: from wild to farmed fish 

      Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Doctoral thesis, 2003)