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Maritime Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The paper investigates the offshore crisis 2015–2017 and its impact on central international offshore oil and gas related maritime cluster, the Blue Maritime Cluster, located at the North-Western coast of Norway. This ... -
Maritime trade and merchant shipping: The shipping/trade-ratio from the 1870s until today.
(SAM;12/2016, Working paper, 2016-06-22)This paper discusses the development of countries’ market shares in world shipping over the last 150 years. The analysis is based upon a new and purpose-built indicator: the shipping/trade-ratio. This indicator presents ... -
Market definition with shock analysis
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-11)The SSNIP test for market definition requires information about demand substitution and profitability. If detailed information about demand is not available, observed effects of a shock in the industry may be an alternative ... -
Market power and storage in electricity markets
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Market Power in Retail Gasoline Markets
(DP SAM;21/2019, Working paper, 2019-07)We estimate a structural model to uncover the degree of competition in retail gasoline markets using daily station-level data on quantity and price from the Swedish market. The structural model enables us to consider key ... -
Market shares in two-sided media industries
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-03)This paper generalizes the frequently used Hotelling model for two-sided markets in order to determine the equilibrium market shares. We show that independent of whether consumers are uniformly or non-uniformly distributed, ... -
Market-specific Sunk Export Costs: The Impact of Learning and Spillovers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Firms may face sunk costs when entering an export market. Previous studies have focused on global or country-specific sunk export costs. This study analyses the importance of market-specific sunk export costs (defining ... -
Market-specific Sunk Export Costs: The Impact of Learning and Spillovers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Firms may face sunk costs when entering an export market. Previous studies have focused on global or country-specific sunk export costs. This study analyses the importance of market-specific sunk export costs (defining ... -
Markets for public and private health care : redistribution arguments for a mixed system
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-04)Should health care provision be public, private, or both? We look at this question in a setting where people differ in their earnings capacity and express an inelastic demand for health care. We assume that illness reduces ... -
Markup cyclicality and input factor adjustments
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)This paper investigates the existence of markups and their cyclical behaviour at industry sector level. Markups are given as a price-cost relation that is estimated from a dynamic, structural model of the firm. The firms ... -
Markup cyclicality and input factor adjustments
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)This paper investigates the existence of markups and their cyclical behaviour at the industry sector level. Markups are given as a price-cost relation that is estimated from a dynamic, structural model of the firm. The ... -
Matched trade at the firm level and the micro origins of international business-cycle comovement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article uses firm × national market export and import data for all Swedish private sector firms for 1997–2014 to examine the firm-level contribution of trade and foreign ownership to the correlation between Swedish ... -
Material resources and well-being – Evidence from an Ethiopian housing lottery
(DP SAM;11/2021, Working paper, 2021-04-26)Do better material conditions improve well-being and mental health? Or does any positive relationship merely reflect that psychological well-being promotes economic success? We supply new responses to these questions by ... -
Måling og prioriteringer i konkurransepolitikken
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)I denne artikkelen vises det hvordan måling av effekter av konkurransepolitikken kan gi uheldige utslag på konkurransemyndighetenes prioriteringer. Hvis en måler effekten av hver enkelt beslutning (direkte effekt), kan det ... -
Measuring heterogeneity in the returns to education in Norway using educational reforms
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability, financial constraints, family background, preferences, etc. Such factors, normally unobserved by the researcher, introduce endogeneity ... -
Measuring Market Power in Gasoline Retailing: A Market- or Station Phenomenon?
(DP SAM;6/2018, Working paper, 2018-04)Applying detailed consecutive daily micro data at the gasoline station level from Sweden we estimate a structural model to uncover the degree of competition in the gasoline retail market. We find that retailers do exercise ... -
Measuring the consumption value of higher education
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-02)The consumption value of education is an important, but rather ignored factor behind the individual’s educational choice. This paper suggests a method for measuring the consumption value of education in a compensating ... -
Media competition on the Internet
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-08)This paper presents a model of competition between two advertisingfinanced media firms, and we apply the model to analyze competition between portals on the Internet. First, we show that equilibrium prices of advertising ... -
Media market concentration, advertising levels, and ad prices
(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 ... -
Merger profitability in unionized oligopoly
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-05)We examine how a merger affects wages of unionized labour and, in turn, the profitability of a merger under both Cournot and Bertrand competition. If unions are plant-specific, we find that a merger is more profitable ...