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    • Congestion management in the Nordic power market : nodal pricing versus zonal pricing 

      Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette; Gribkovskaia, Victoria (Report;2012:15, Research report, 2013-05)
      In the Nordic day-ahead electricity market zonal pricing or market splitting is used for relieving congestion between a predetermined set of price areas. This congestion management method represents an aggregation of ...
    • Consequences of climate change for some segments of the Norwegian fishing fleet 

      Ekerhovd, Nils-Arne (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-12)
      This paper identifies the possible effects of climate change on fish stocks important for the Norwegian fishing fleet along with information on the Norwegian harvest pattern in the past can tell us something about the ...
    • Consequences of imitation by poor countries on international wage inequalities and global growth 

      Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)
      This paper presents an endogenous growth model where the level of international transaction costs may be decisive for whether the poor East specializes in agriculture production, imitates goods from the rich West, or makes ...
    • Consumer ethnocentrism in evaluations of superior foreign brands and inferior domestic brands : a study of Polish consumers 

      Supphellen, Magne; Rittenburg, Terri L. (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-01)
      In recent years, there has been a great deal of research exploring the concept of consumer ethnocentrism, although little has been done in Eastern Bloc countries. In these countries, foreign brands are often clearly superior ...
    • Consumer heterogeneity and pricing in a duopoly with switching costs 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl; Vagstad, Steinar (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-05)
      It is well-known that switching costs may facilitate monopoly pricing in a market with price competition between two suppliers of a homogenous good, provided the switching costs is above some critical level. We show that ...
    • Consumer trends and prefences in the demand for food 

      Lappo, Alena; Bjørndal, Trond; Fernandez-Polanco, Jose; Lem, Audun (Working paper;51/13, Working paper, 2013-12)
    • Consumer trends and prefences in the demand for food 

      Bjørndal, Trond; Fernandez-Polanco, Jose; Lappo, Alena; Lem, Audun (Working paper;17/14, Working paper, 2014-10)
      The objective of this report is to analyse the major tastes and preferences of consumers in food consumption, as well as expected changes in these over time. We identify five important consumer trends and purchase drivers: ...
    • Content provision and multi-homing 

      Pires, Armando J. Garcia (Working paper;2015:8, Working paper, 2015-08)
      We analyze the effects of multi-homing consumers on content provision by media firms. We develop a model where media firms compete on content provision and advertising revenues, and consumers enjoy network effects from ...
    • Continuous harvesting costs in sole-owner fisheries with increasing marginal returns 

      Sandal, Leif Kristoffer; Steinshamn, Stein Ivar; Maroto, Jose M.; Moran, Manuel (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-06)
      We develop a bioeconomic model to analyze a sole-owner fishery with fixed costs as well as a continuous cost function for the generalized Cobb-Douglas production function with increasing marginal returns to effort level. ...
    • Contracting versus bypassing 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-11)
      One existing distributor controls the existing access to end users. There are one incumbent producer and one potential entrant, both with a potential for bypassing the distributor. We find that the distributor always signs ...
    • Contradictory formalisations in a management control system 

      Gooderham, Martin O.; Skulberg, Oskar Jensen (Report;2016:10, Research report, 2016-12)
      The formalisations that exist in an organisation are thought to have a substantial influence on how employees interpret the organisation’s Management Control System (MCS) (Malmi & Brown, 2008). Previously, researchers ...
    • Controllerens rolle og bruk av styringsverktøy : en studie av hvordan controllerens rolle i organisasjonen og bruk av forskjellige styringsverktøy bidrar til å skape verdi 

      Tjørve, Christian; Bekkelund, Einar (Rapport;2012:5, Research report, 2012-08)
      Denne utredningen er en casestudie av et norsk selskaps virksomhet både i og utenfor Norge. Målet med utredningen har vært å bli bedre kjent med controlleres rolle i organisasjonen og deres holdninger til forskjellige ...
    • Cooperation in knowledge-intensive firms 

      Kvaløy, Ola; Olsen, Trond E. (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-05)
      The extent to which a knowledge-intensive firm should induce cooperation between its employees is analyzed in a model of relational contracting between a firm (principal) and its employees (two agents). The agents can ...
    • Cooperative and non-cooperative management of the northeast atlantic cod fishery 

      Bjørndal, Trond; Lindroos, Marko (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-06)
      The fishery for Northeast Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the Barents Sea is one of the most valuable fisheries in the North Atlantic. After the introduction of Extended Fisheries Jurisdiction, cod is a shared stock between ...
    • Cooperative and non-cooperative R&D policy in an economic union 

      Haaland, Jan Ingvald Meidell; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-11)
      Should R&D policies within an economic union be centralized or decentralized to each individual country? Do non-cooperative policies - typically implying policy competition between countries - always give rise to too high ...
    • Cooperative equilibria in fisheries : how many players? 

      Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-04)
      This paper investigates conditions under which fisheries agreements between states are self-enforcing. Cooperative solutions can be self-enforcing if parties to the agreement punish those who depart from the cooperative ...
    • The coordinating role of budgetary participation : rationalistic and institutional perspectives 

      Modell, Sven; Lee, Alina (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-03)
      This paper investigates the role of budgetary participation in resolving interdepartmental coordination problems, which has received little empirical attention in the budgetary literature. Both qualitative and quantitative ...
    • Coordination of refinery production and sales planning 

      Bredström, David; Rönnqvist, Mikael (Report, Research report, 2008-11)
      Coordination of activities in the supply chain is important in order improve the overall performance. The best approach is to use integrated planning of such activities. However, in many cases it is not possible to use ...
    • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) : a participatory approach to implementing CSR in a cluster 

      Høivik, Heidi von Weltzien; Shankar, Deepthi (Report, Research report, 2010-12)
      This report is focused on why and how a participatory approach to implement Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a cluster would be beneficial for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the Norwegian Center of ...
    • Corporate tax systems, multinational enterprises and economic integration 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Midelfart, Karen Helene; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Working paper, Working paper, 2001-02)
      This paper addresses the outcome of international tax competition in the presence of multinationals that use transfer pricing for strategic purposes as well as to reduce their tax burden. We examine how economic integration ...