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Financing of media firms: does competition matter?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005-01)This paper analyses how competition between media firms influences the way they are financed. In a setting where monopoly may lead the media firms to be completely financed by consumer payments, competition may lead the ... -
Finansiering av helseforetak basert på relative prestasjoner
(Rapport, Research report, 2002-11)Hovedspørsmålet i denne rapporten er om regionale helseforetak kan forbedre ressursbruken ved å utnytte informasjon om relative prestasjoner mellom egne helseforetak, dvs. om målestokkonkurranse kan brukes som utgangspunkt ... -
Finansieringssystem for dekning av fellesgoder i reiselivet
(Rapport, Research report, 2001-12)Fellesgoder har den egenskap at bruken og nytten av godet ikke kan gjøres eksklusiv for den eller de som investerer i eller betaler for at godet skal være tilgjengelig eller bli vedlikeholdt. Alt fra benker, turistinformasjon ... -
Finanspolitisk regelstyring : mindre fleksibilitet - bedre resultater?
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2004-11)Normativ teori for optimal finanspolitikk tilsier at skatteratene bør utjevnes over tid. Egenskaper ved de politiske budsjettprosessene skaper imidlertid en tendens til offentlig formuestæring eller gjeldsakkumulasjon som ... -
Fish processing in Portugal : an industry in expansion
(Working paper;2016:4, Working paper, 2016-05)This paper analyses developments in the Portuguese fish processing industry from the 1960s to the present as well prospects for future expansion. Fish processing has expanded in recent decades gaining market share in the ... -
Fish wars on the high seas : a straddling stock competition model
(Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2001-04)The post World War II era saw the development of powerful self-contained fishing fleets, so-called distant-water fleets (DWFs), which roamed the world’s oceans, seeking out rich harvesting targets wherever they might be ... -
Fish wars on the high seas : erecting economic barriers to entry
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-10)The 1993 U.N. Straddling Stock Agreement prescribes a multi-national organizational structure for management of an exploited marine fish stock, one whose range straddles both “Extended Economic Zones” (EEZs) and high seas ... -
Fishermen’s compliance : a dynamic model
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-11)In this paper, a dynamic model of fishermen's compliance is developed and used to analyse several issues. There are two parties involved in the fishery; the regulator and the fishermen. The regulator takes on a long term ... -
The fishmeal market : an integrated part of the vegetable oilmeal market?
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-10)In this report the concept and implications of market integration is discussed in some detail with an application to the fishmeal and soymeal market. Both are important inputs in the animal and aquaculture feed market. ... -
Fiskeoppdrett og verdsettelse : en analyse av resultatjustering og modeller for identifikasjon av slik aktivitet
(Rapport, Research report, 2005-10)Regnskapsinformasjon skal være relevant og pålitelig, men det vil alltid være skjønn forbundet med verdsettelsen.Usaklig skjønn omtales som resultatjustering (”Earnings management”) og regnskaps-manipulasjon. Det er store ... -
Fiskerettigheter og ressursrente
(Rapport, Research report, 2005-02)I denne rapporten blir det undersøkt om de kvoteverdier som kan observeres i fiskebåtredernes regnskap gir et korrekt bilde av ressursrenten. Både i ringnotfisket og i banklinefisket varierer de bokførte kvoteverdiene ... -
Flytting av en statsinstitusjon : erfaringsbakgrunn og kriterier for lokalisering
(Rapport, Research report, 2002-08)I denne rapporten ser vi nærmere på argumentasjonen for utflytting av Konkurransetilsynet fra Oslo, samt fordeler og ulemper ved ulike lokaliseringsalternativer for tilsynet. I rapporten gis først et teoretisk og historisk ... -
Fordelingsvirkninger av merverdiavgiften over livsløpet
(Rapport, Research report, 2002-07)Fordelingsanalyser av inntekt, skatter, overføringer og offentlige tjenester i et livsløpsperspektiv viser at store deler av omfordelingen en finner i tverrsnittsanalyser ikke er overføring av livsinntekt mellom individer, ... -
Forecasting commodity prices with switching regimes : a MS-VAR approach for fish meal price
(Working paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The objective of this paper is to present a parsimonious forecasting model of the fish meal price. The focus is on the soybean meal market’s impact on the fish meal price together with the stocks-to-use as an indicator of ... -
Foreign aid and international public goods : incentives and strategic behavior
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-08)This paper considers a stylized model where a donor and a recipient government derive utility from a public good (for example consumption among the poor or defense capacity in the recipient country), in addition to a private ... -
Foreign aid and social sector spending in developing countries
(Report, Research report, 2002)Foreign aid is of critical importance to achieving the international goal of providing basic social services to all mankind by 2015. If strategies for funding health and education are to be successful, understanding the ... -
Foreign direct investment : assessing the need for a multilateral agreement
(Report, Research report, 2002-06)Do we need a multilateral agreement for policies towards international investments similar to the trade agreements that exist? Foreign direct investments (FDI) play an important role in the international economy, and in ... -
Foreign direct investment and wages in Central and Eastern Europe
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)This paper explores the link between foreign direct investment and wages in three countries of Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. The objective of the study is twofold. It tries to detect (1) whether ... -
Foreign direct investment in non-metropolitian Norway : an analysis of strategies, objectives and autonomy
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-10)The internationalisation of the western economy in recent years implies cross-border investments and an increasing number of firms with production in more than one country. The exploitation of natural resources has ... -
Foreign direct investment, regional change and poverty : identifying Norwegian controlled FDI in developing countries
(Report, Research report, 2005-03)This report discusses the role of the involvement of multi-national companies in development and poverty reduction strategies, by identifying Norwegian controlled FDI in developing countries. The first part of the report ...