Blar i Centre for Applied Research at NHH (SNF) på tittel
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Second-period pricing in a duopoly with switching costs : the effect of size and composition of customer bases
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)Switching costs may facilitate monopoly pricing in a market with price competition between two suppliers of a homogenous good, provided the switching cost is above some critical level. It is also well known that asymmetric ... -
Securing innovation through corporate spin-off : an exploratory case study
(Report;2018/6, Report, 2018-10)This thesis explores how a large established firm can secure and manage technology-based innovation through the use of a corporate spin-off. This study is performed in the setting of a large media firm and its four technology ... -
Security of supply in competitive electricity markets : the Nordic power market
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004)It is well known that in the absence of a complete set of markets or under conditions of monopoly and imperfect competition, optimal provision of quality can not be taken for granted. Market set in the restructured electricity ... -
Segregation, radicalization and the protection of minorities : national versus regional policy
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-02)We analyse the optimal level of political decision making, national or regional, in a society where people hold different views on public policy. The benefit of policy making at the regional level is that it allows for ... -
Sekretessejurisdiksjoner, korrupsjon og økonomisk kriminalitet
(;2011:33, Working paper, 2012-11)Skatteparadisene har lovstrukturer som er spesialdesignet for å tilsløre informasjon om aktiviteter og eierforhold som utelukkende berører andre stater. Dette er ikke utøvelse av selvråderett, men inngripen i andre staters ... -
Self service technology : an overview of existing research
(Working paper, Working paper, 2011-03)The purpose of this working paper is twofold. First the paper presents a review of the literature on self service technology (SST). The review categorizes the literature based on dependent variables studied in existing ... -
Sertifikatordning for "grønn" varme : prinsipielle og praktiske utfordringer
(Rapport, Research report, 2002-01)Sertifikatordning med kjøpsplikt er et svært aktuelt energipolitisk virkemiddel for å stimulere utbyggingen av ny fornybar energi. Løsningen har vunnet tilslutning og er i ferd med å institusjonaliseres i en rekke land, ... -
Service innovation : new service development with deep involvement of users and value networks
(Report, Research report, 2005-11)Service innovation has gained interest in recent years and new initiatives have been taken to integrate product innovation and service innovation research. One of the reasons service innovation has gained interest is ... -
Service innovation challenges at the policy, industry, and firm level : a qualitative enquiry into the service innovation system
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2010-03)This report documents the results of an exploratory inquiry into the challenges of service innovation in Norway. It is based on 45 interviews conducted with 63 representatives of the Norwegian innovation system for service ... -
Shadow of trouble : the effect of pre-recession characteristics on the severity of recession impact
(Working paper, Working paper, 2011-06)The recent financial crisis has heightened the need to understand why some firms are more severely affected by recessions than others and how different firm and industry characteristics affect firms’ vulnerability to such ... -
Shared fish stocks and high seas issues
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005-06)This paper gives an overview of the economics of the management of shared fish stocks. First the relatively simple case of transboundary fish stocks is considered, and then the more complex case of straddling fish stocks ... -
Sharing of endogenous risk in construction
(Report, Research report, 2000-10)Large and complex construction projects are often very risky; the total completion costs may be influenced by a range of unforeseen factors. The risk can be reduced, however, by careful planning ad specification of the ... -
Sharing the herring : fish migrations, strategic advantage, and climate change
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-06)This paper analyzes the strategic options of Norway and other countries for which the stock of Norwegian spring spawning herring may be accessible. A cooperative solution would make all parties better off. In a cooperative ... -
Sharing the Northeast Arctic cod : possible effects of climate change
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-10)The Northeast Arctic cod inhabits the exclusive economic zones of Norway and Russia and migrates extensively between these zones. The stock is shared evenly between the two countries, with a small allocation to third ... -
Shipowning and foreign direct investment
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-05)The working paper discusses some aspects of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) of Norwegian shipowning companies. Initially, some aspects of the legal environment and Norwegian shipping FDI are surveyed. This is followed ... -
Should auctioneers supply early information for prospective bidders?
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-06)Consider an auction in wich potential bidders must sink an entry investment before learning their values (Levin and Smith, 1994). Suppose the auction designer can make the bidders learn their value before entry (as in ... -
Should utility-reducing media advertising be taxed?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-03)Empirical evidence suggests that people dislike ads in media products like TV programs. In such situations standard economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. ... -
A simplified feedback approach to optimal resource management
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-09)Optimal exploitation of a renewable capital stock is derived as a feedback rule for a general dynamic optimisation problem with a single resource. By a feedback rule is meant that optimal exploitation is given as an explicit ... -
Simulating the effects of an acquisition in the ferry market
(Report, Research report, 2000-09)Numerical models have been applied in several merger studies during the last decade. The purpose of this paper is to discuss some modelling issues that have not been addressed in detail in the existing literature on merger ... -
Simulating the impacts of trade restrictions : an application to the European salmon trade
(Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2003-03)During the last decade there has been a number of conflicts in relation to the trade of salmon in the EU. A current agreement between Norway and the EU includes a voluntary minimum import price agreement for exporters. A ...