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Abusive transfer pricing and economic activity
(Discussion papers;21/14, Working paper, 2014-05)This paper investigates how concealment costs of transfer pricing and the prob- ability of detection affect transfer pricing and firm behavior. We find that transfer pricing in intermediate production factors does not ... -
Access regulation and cross-border mergers : is international coordination beneficial?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-04)The international integration of regulated markets poses new challenges for regulatory policy. One question is the implications that the overall international regulatory regime will have for cross-border and/or domestic ... -
Adaptive regulation with flow and stock externalities
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-01)In confronting a consumer good whose production process is associated with both flow and stock externalities, a corrective tax is introduced to restore efficiency. The objective is to maximize social welfare over time when ... -
Adjusting for Cell Suppression in Commuting Trip Data
(Discussion paper;13/22, Working paper, 2022-12-13)Maximum entropy methods are used to infer the true trip-distribution matrix in cases where parts of the data are suppressed due to privacy concerns. Large proportions of the suppressed data are found to be inferred correctly ... -
Adverse selection and seasoned security offerings
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Adverse selection, public information, and underpricing in new issues
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-02)This paper examines the role of adverse selection in the pricing of new issues when all investors may be privately informed about the firm, and in which public information is observed prior the issue date. The precision ... -
Advertising and Newspaper Differentiation: On the Role of Readers’ Advertising Taste
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)Newspapers have an incentive to moderate their profile in order to gain a larger readership and thus higher advertising revenue. We show that this incentive is weakened both if readers are ad-haters and if they are ad-lovers. -
An age-structured model for the effect of interest rate changes on consumption
(Discussion paper;8/21, Working paper, 2021-08-30)A model for the effect of an interest rate change on household consumption is developed. The approach is age-structured: households reconsider their consumption patterns at the moment of the interest rate change and the ... -
An agent-based computational approach to explaining persistent spatial unemployment disparities
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-09)This paper explores possible reasons for persistent spatial unemployment disparities using agent-based computational methods. The method relies on observing the actions of thousands of individuals within an artificial ... -
Aggregation of gravity models for journeys-to-work
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001)This paper deals with the use of gravity models to examine journeys-to-work. The purpose of the paper is to study very simple examples demonstrating that gravity models may be subject to serious misspecification in aggregate ... -
Allokering av forvaltningskapital i norske sparebanker : en analyse av hvordan kapitalreguleringer og skatt på rentemarginen påvirker bankenes allokering av forvaltningskapital mellom person- og bedriftsmarkedet
(Master thesis, 2015)I denne utredningen viser vi hvordan kapitalreguleringer påvirker norske sparebankers fordeling av forvaltningskapital mellom utlån til person- og bedriftsmarkedet. I tillegg studerer vi hvordan en foreslått skatt på ... -
American derivatives : a review
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1997-12)The paper gives an overview over the theory of pricing and hedging financial derivatives that can be exercised at any time during a fixed time interval [0, T]. The analysis makes use of the theory of optimal stopping, and ... -
American option pricing with transaction costs
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)In this paper we examine the problem of finding investors’ reservation option prices and corresponding early exercise policies of American-style options in the market with proportional transaction costs using the utility ... -
An analysis of maintenance schedules for public facilities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We present a flexible, formal framework for maintenance scheduling for public facilities. Key features of the model include an accelerating deterioration scheme, a general utility measure, and real estate market effects ... -
An Analysis of Social Seed Network and Its Contribution to On-Farm Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity in Nepal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Social seed systems are important for the maintenance of crop genetic diversity on farm. This is governed by local and informal system in the community through a farmers’ network. This paper analyses these local seed ... -
An Economic Analysis of Debarment
(Discussion paper;23/15, Working paper, 2015-09-17)With a view to reducing the consequences of corruption in public procurement, many governments have introduced debarment of suppliers found guilty of corrup- tion and some other forms of crime. This paper explores the ... -
An Educational Game in Collaborative Logistics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)We describe an educational game in collaborative logistics. The game is based on an award-winning application in cost allocation in transportation. The purpose of the game is to acquire an understanding of negotiation, ... -
An experimental study of prosocial motivation among criminals
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)The fact that criminal behavior typically has negative consequences for others provides a compelling reason to think that criminals lack prosocial motivation. This paper reports the results from two dictator game experiments ... -
Analysing flexible load contracts in the energy market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-11)In this paper we analyse flexible load contracts (FLC), a type of "swing" option. This contract type has existed in energy markets for a long time and has proved to be challenging to value. The term swing refers to the ... -
An analysis of a combinatorial auction
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001)Our objective is to find prices on individual items in a combinatorial auction that support the optimal allocation of bundles of items, i.e. the solution to the winner determination problem of the combinatorial auction. ...