• Licensing technology and foreclosure 

      Clark, Derek J.; Foros, Øystein; Sand, Jan Yngve (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-12)
      We consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The owner of the superior technology (the dominant firm) can license or transfer the source of its dominance ...
    • Like barn leker best : en casestudie av hvordan diversitet påvirker kunnskap i team 

      Holter, Katrin Mjeldheim (Rapport;2013:13, Research report, 2013-11)
      Stadig flere bedrifter benytter tverrfaglige team som organiseringsform for å oppnå effektiv kunnskapsdeling på tvers av fagdisipliner. I min masterutredning søker jeg å stille spørsmålstegn ved den faktiske effekten av ...
    • Linkages among interest rates in the United States, Germany and Norway 

      Bremnes, Helge; Gjerde, Øystein; Sættem, Frode (Report, Research report, 2000-10)
      The Johansen multivariate cointegration methodology is utilized to analyze relationships among short-term and long-term interest rates in the United States, Germany and Norway. A variance decomposition approach is applied ...
    • "Linking products, industries and place" : synergy effects from the interaction of tourism and other local industries in Lofoten and Hardanger 

      Holmefjord, Kari (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2000-12)
      The overall theme of this working paper is how businesses within all industries in a region can make use of characteristics and special resources at their location to increase their long-term profit. The more specific topic ...
    • Liquidity : concepts, ideas and the financial crisis 

      Nyborg, Kjell G.; Östberg, Per (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-04)
    • Local autonomy and interregional equality 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      This paper shows how two important interregional transfer schemes, the foundation grant and the power equalization grant, can be seen as two different interpretations of equal opportunity ethics. It provides characterizations ...
    • Local autonomy and interregional equality 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-02)
      This paper shows how two important interregional transfer schemes, the foundation grant and the power equalization grant scheme, can be seen as two different interpretations of equal opportunity ethics. It provides ...
    • Local Bank Competition, Loan Rates and Risk 

      Sæthre, Morten (Working paper, 2017-12)
      This paper investigates the effect of competition on the relation between borrowers’ risk and interest rates in the market for business loans. I estimate the relationship between the loan rates and risk of closure conditional ...
    • Local community relations (LCR) strategies in Norwegian professional football 

      Gammelsæter, Hallgeir; Jakobsen, Stig-Erik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)
      In this paper we study local community relations (LCR) strategies of four professional Norwegian football clubs in the light of what is taken to be an organization field that is identified as being increasingly more ...
    • Local content development : experiences from oil and gas activities in Norway 

      Heum, Per (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-02)
      In the paper industrial development connected to upstream oil and gas activities in Norway is discussed. Several factors explain the success of Norway in this respect. Some of these factors are of a kind that only rarely ...
    • “The local taste champion” Rieber & Søn ASA 

      Gooderham, Paul N.; Rønning, Rune (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-06)
      Rieber & Søn is a Norwegian multinational food company that currently has fully-owned production units in seven European countries and sales and market offices in a further six countries. The purpose of this rich case study ...
    • Localization and foreign direct investment : exemplified by Norwegian shipping in Singapore 

      Akselsen, Christine C. (Report, Research report, 2000-11)
      This thesis seeks to explore the determinants of localization. Dunning’ eclectic paradigm explains foreign direct investment (FDI) by the profitability of combining the ownership and internalization advantages of companies ...
    • Location and knowledge interaction between head office and KIBS in city areas 

      Jakobsen, Stig-Erik; Aslesen, Heidi Wiig (Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      The literature argues for a mutual dependency between head office location and the location of KIBS (knowledge-intensive business services) in major cities or capital regions. The locations of KIBS are presumed to be ...
    • Location decisions of multinational enterprises : the experiences of Poland, Bulgaria and Romania 

      Faggio, Giulia (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)
      In this paper, we present a simple theoretical framework in order to analyze the decision of a multinational firm to locate either in Poland, Bulgaria, or Romania, conditional on entering the Eastern European market. We ...
    • Location of engineering and designer services in the information economy 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-07)
      This paper presents a case study of a naval architecture firm in Western Norway, which trades its services electronically. The paper goes on to analyze the market entry and location decision of such entrepreneurs by means ...
    • The location of European industry 

      Midelfart, Karen Helene; Overman, Henry G.; Redding, S. J.; Venables, Anthony J. (Report, Research report, 2000-02)
      Det er nærliggende å tro at tettere europeiske integrasjon vil føre til betydelige endringer i næringslokaliseringen i Europa. Tettere integrasjon gjør bedriftene mer internasjonalt mobile, og gir dem bedre muligheter til ...
    • The location of Norwegian manufacturing industry 

      Kolstad, Julie Riise (Report, Research report, 2005-12)
      Norway has, particularly in the last decade, experienced a trend of relatively rapid deindustrialisation; according to Statistics Norway, as many as 32,000 jobs in manufacturing have been lost between 2000 and 2004. In ...
    • Lokalisering av næringsvirksomhet 

      Norman, Victor D. (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2000-09)
      Omlokalisering av virksomhet og utvikling mot en ny europeisk økonomisk geografi har større betydning for Norge enn for mange andre europeiske land. Grunnen er at vi i løpet av de neste tiårene må utvikle ny, konkurranseutsatt ...
    • Lokkevarer i dagligvaremarkedet : konkurransevirkninger 

      Didriksen, Lene Hole (Arbeidsnotat;26/12, Working paper, 2012-08)
      Lokkevarer og salg med tap benyttes på en rekke ulike områder, blant annet i pakkerabatter, tosidige markeder og markedsføring av merkevarer. Utvalgte varer prises så lavt at bedriftene pådras et tap, et tap som i de fleste ...
    • Long term care and hospital length of stay for elderly patients 

      Holmås, Tor Helge; Kjerstad, Egil; Kristiansen, Frode; Lurås, Hilde (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-04)
      The proportion of elderly people in the population is increasing and old patients’ bed occupancy rate in hospitals increases as a fraction of total bed occupancy. Because old patients, on average, are frailer than other ...