• Advertising and Newspaper Differentiation: On the Role of Readers’ Advertising Taste 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, Guttorm (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.
    • Grading standards, student ability and errors in college admission 

      Møen, Jarle; Tjelta, Martin (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-06)
      Grades are important for admission of students in most higher education programmes. Analysing admission and student performance data at a major Norwegian business school, we find that the grading practice of teachers ...
    • Newspapers and Advertising: The Effects of Ad-Valorem Taxation under Duopoly 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)
      Newspapers are two-sided platforms that sell their product both to readers and advertisers. Media firms in general, and newspapers in particular, are considered important providers of information, culture and language in ...
    • Optimized on-line process control of bleaching operations with OptCab 

      Flisberg, Patrik; Nilsson, Stefan; Rönnqvist, Mikael (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007)
      To produce pulp for paper production or as market pulp is a complicated on-line process with many integrated stages that impact the final quality. In the bleaching plant which is at the end of pulp production, the main ...