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Investing in legal advice – What determines the costs of enforcing intellectual property rights?
(Discussion paper;20/15, Working paper, 2015-08-28)This paper studies the determinants of investment in legal advice by plaintiffs in patent litigation. A hand-collected sample of US patent litigation cases is used to identify the empirical factors that determine the ... -
Investing without credible inter-period regulations : a bargaining approach with application to investments in natural resources
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-12)A government’s lack of credibility when promising future taxation and regulation of foreign direct investment is often regarded as an obstacle to foreign investment. As shown in this paper, the total lack of inter-period ... -
The investment horizon problem : a resolution
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-09)In the canonical model of investments, the optimal fractions in the risky assets do not depend on the time horizon. This is against empirical evidence, and against the typical recommendations of portfolio managers. We ... -
Investor State Dispute Settlement and Multinational Firm Behavior
(Discussion paper;4/17, Working paper, 2017-03-30)Investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) were supposed to become an integral part of multilateral trade and investment agreements although the partner countries of these deals do not suffer from substantial institutional ... -
Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Multinational Firm Behavior
(Discussion paper;9/20, Working paper, 2020-08-28)This paper shows that Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) makes multinational firms more aggressive by increasing cost-reducing investments with the aim to enlarge the potential compensation an ISDS provision may ... -
Irreversible Investments Revisited
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-07)A non-linear dynamic model in two state variables, two controls and three cost terms is presented for the purpose of finding the optimal combination of exploitation and capital investment in optimal renewable resource ... -
Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime
(Discussion paper;05/15, Working paper, 2015-01-19)We examine the effect of medical marijuana laws (MML) on crime treating the introduc- tion of MML as a quasi-experiment and using three different data sources. First, using data from the Uniform Crime Reports, we find ... -
Is the cannibalization effect of intermittent renewables important for the German wholesale electricity market?
(Discussion paper;5/22, Working paper, 2022-02-02)Employing a quantile regression model, we investigate the impact of renewable sources on their unit revenues (absolute cannibalization) and value factors (relative cannibalization), as well as the cross-effect between ... -
ISO 37001s påvirkning på korrupsjonstiløyelighet : en studie på antikorrupsjonsstandardens effekt
(Master thesis, 2017)I denne oppgaven analyseres ISO 37001:2016s påvirkning på bedrifters tilbøyelighet til å avgi bestikkelser. Bedriftsinterne tiltak for å forhindre og avdekke korrupsjon i næringslivet er viktig for å redusere utbredelsen ... -
Job Loss and Regional Mobility
(Discussion paper;03/15, Working paper, 2015-01-19)It is well documented that displaced workers suffer severe earnings losses, but not why this is so. One reason may be that workers are unable or unwilling to move to regions with better employment opportunities. We study ... -
Joint Forecasting of Salmon Lice and Treatment Interventions in Aquaculture Operations
(Discussion paper;7/24, Working paper, 2024-05-27)The need for joint forecasting of parasitic lice and associated preventative treatments stems from large monetary losses associated with such treatments, and the distribution of potential future treatments can be used in ... -
Jump dynamics : the equity premium and the risk-free rate puzzles
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-06)The paper develops a consumption based equilibrium model, focusing on the risk premium and the risk-free interest rate. We derive testable expressions for these quantities, and confront these with sample estimates for the ... -
Kanaløyene: et paradis for norske private equity-fond? : En kvalitativ analyse av hvorfor norske private equity-fond lokaliseres på Kanaløyene
(Master thesis, 2014)Formålet med denne avhandlingen er å identifisere driverne bak valget av fondsjurisdiksjon i den norske private equity-bransjen. Mer konkret redegjør avhandlingen for valget mellom Norge og Kanaløyene. Avhandlingens ... -
Konkurranse i det norske annonsemarkedet : når ulike skattevilkår skaper konkurranseskjevhet : en case-studie av Facebook og Schibsted
(Master thesis, 2016)Den digitale økonomiens fremtreden har bidratt til stor mobilitet og fleksibilitet i den globale økonomien (Berg-Rolnes, 2016). Dette gir økte muligheter for flernasjonale selskaper til å konkurrere på andre skattevilkår ... -
Korrupsjon i offentlige anskaffelser : en studie av revisors begrensninger belyst av økonomisk litteratur
(Master thesis, 2016-09-02)I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg revisors begrensninger i å avdekke korrupsjon i offentlige anskaffelser. Jeg beskriver anskaffelsesprosessen og revisors prosedyrer i offentlig revisjon. Utgangspunktet for forståelsen av ... -
Kyle equilibrium under random price pressure
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We study the equilibrium in the model proposed by Kyle (Econometrica 53(6):1315–1335, 1985) and extended to the continuous-time setting by Back (Rev Financ Stud 5(3):387–409, 1992). The novelty of this paper is that we ... -
Labor Market Effects of COVID-19 in Sweden and its Neighbors: Evidence from Novel Administrative Data
(Discussion paper;8/20, Working paper, 2020-07-24)This paper studies the labor market effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the Nordic countries which showed one of the highest variations in NPIs despite having ... -
Land-for-land rapportering i Norge : casestudier av land-for-land rapportene til Norsk Hydro, DNO og Statoil
(Master thesis, 2015)Forskrift om land-for-land rapportering ble nylig innført i Norge med virkning fra 1.januar 2014. Land-for-land rapportering innebærer at flernasjonale selskaper skal rapportere utvalgte nøkkeltall i de landene de har ... -
Leadership in Climate Policy: Is there a case for Early Unilateral Unconditional Emission Reductions?
(Discussion paper;06/13, Working paper, 2013-06)One may misread economic theory on climate policy to provide a warning against unilateral mitigation. While important lessons are drawn from ‘global problems require global solutions’, these say little about what to do ... -
Learning to face stochastic demand
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-09)We consider repeated interaction among several producers of a homogenous, divisible good, traded at a common market. Demand is uncertain, and its law is unknown. We explore an adaptive scheme leading such producers over ...