• An analysis of maintenance schedules for public facilities 

      Hopland, Arnt Ove; Kvamsdal, Sturla F; Sandal, Leif Kristoffer (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 ...
    • Dead Battery? Wind Power, the Spot Market, and Hydropower Interaction in the Nordic Electricity Market 

      Mauritzen, Johannes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      It is well established within both the economics and power system engineering literature that hydropower can act as a complement to large amounts of intermittent energy. In particular hydropower can act as a “battery” where ...
    • Evaluation of the Norwegian R&D tax credit scheme 

      Møen, Jarle; Cappelen, Ådne; Fjærli, Erik; Foyn, Frank; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      We find that the Norwegian R&D tax credit scheme introduced in 2002 mainly works as intended. The scheme is costeffective and it is used by a large number of firms. It stimulates these firms to invest more in R&D, and, ...
    • Incitements for transportation collaboration by cost allocation 

      Dahlberg, Joen; Engevall, Stefan; Göthe-Lundgren, Maud; Jørnsten, Kurt; Rönnqvist, Mikael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      In this paper, we focus on how cost allocation can be used as a means to create incentives for collaboration among companies, with the aim of reducing the total transportation cost. The collaboration is assumed to be ...
    • Scrapping a wind turbine: Policy changes, scrapping incentives and why wind turbines in good locations get scrapped first 

      Mauritzen, Johannes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      The most common reason for scrapping a wind turbine in Denmark is to make room for a newer turbine. The decision to scrap a wind turbine is then highly dependent on an opportunity cost that comes from the interaction of ...
    • Searching for the DGP when forecasting : is it always meaningful for small samples? 

      Andersson, Jonas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)
      In this paper the problem of choosing a univariate forecasting model for small samples is investigated. It is shown that, a model with few parameters, frequently, is better than a model which coincides with the data ...
    • Tax-free digital news? 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Wyndham, Timothy G.A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      News platforms are struggling. Their printed readership is predominantly old, and their digital product struggles to win the attention of the young. For several decades tax reductions have been used in Europe to increase ...
    • Testing for Granger causality in the presence of measurement errors 

      Andersson, Jonas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)
      In this paper a potential problem with tests for Granger−causality is investigated. If one of the two variables under study, but not the other, is measured with error the consequence is that tests of forecastablity of ...
    • The cost of multiple sclerosis in Norway 

      Svendsen, Bjørn; Myhr, Kjell-Morten; Nyland, Harald Inge; Aarseth, Jan Harald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Health economic aspects have been increasingly important during introduction of new treatments for multiple sclerosis. As a partial response for Norway, a costof- illness study was carried out to estimate the yearly ...
    • The economic impact of multiple sclerosis to the patients and their families in Norway 

      Svendsen, Bjørn; Grytten, Nina; Bø, Lars; Aarseth, Hallvard Gilje; Smedal, Tori; Myhr, Kjell-Morten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) imposes high economic costs on society, but the patients and their families have to bear some of these costs. Objective We aimed to estimate the magnitude of these economic costs in ...