• Offentlig politikk og regional næringsutvikling i fiskerinæringen 

      Jakobsen, Stig-Erik; Lindkvist, Knut Bjørn (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2003-06)
      Dette notatet er skrevet på oppdrag av Kommunal- og regionaldepartementets Effektutvalg som ble nedsatt av Regjeringen høsten 2001. Utvalget jobber med kartlegging av effekter av statlig innsats på ulike områder. Notatet ...
    • Offentlige evalueringer som styringsinstrumenter : kravspesifikasjoner og kontrollproblemer 

      Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Rapport, Research report, 2002-07)
      Tittelen "Offentlige evalueringer som styringsinstrumenter" antyder at evalueringer skal tjene politikkens mål. Rapporten drøfter evalueringsinstituttets forutsetninger som styringsinstrument. Ikledd en slik gammelmodig ...
    • Offshore finance and money laundering : the politics of combating parasitic strategies 

      Tranøy, Bent Sofus (Report, Research report, 2002-04)
      In recent years the number of states and territories that try to attract financial flows through offering a combination of lax regulation and strict secrecy laws has shot up. These types of state-strategies can be described ...
    • Oil price risk, prudent fiscal policy, and generational accounting 

      Steigum, Erling (Report, Research report, 2002-06)
      Oil price risk, prudent fiscal policy, and generational accounting Erling Steigum This paper proposes a new method for adjusting generational accounts for risk. Generational accounting is a tool that has proven very useful ...
    • OL i Tromsø: Hva koster egentlig et idrettsanlegg? 

      Pedersen, Karl Rolf (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2008-09)
      I dette notatet illustreres – ved hjelp av et eksempel – hvordan ulike mål på samfunnsøkonomiske kostnader knyttet til bygging av et OL-relatert idrettsanlegg, kan beregnes. Utgangspunktet er anleggskostnadene vurdert til ...
    • Older and wiser? : birth order and IQ of young men 

      Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-08)
      While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children’s outcomes such as education and earnings, the evidence on the effects of birth order on IQ is decidedly mixed. This paper uses a large dataset ...
    • Om prinsipper for prioritering av den forebyggende innsatsen knyttet til flom og skred på nasjonalt nivå 

      Hagen, Kåre Petter; Godal, Odd (Arbeidsnotat;2011:27, Working paper, 2011-10)
      Menneskeliv og eiendom har til alle tider vært utsatt for tapsrisiko forårsaket av uønskede naturgitte hendelser. Eksempler på dette er flom og skred som følge av ekstrem nedbør og materielle ødeleggelser som følge av ...
    • Omsetningsformer og kontrakter i pelagisk sektor 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn (Rapport, Research report, 2005-02)
      Bakgrunnen for prosjektet er pelagisk industris ønske om å forbedre førstehåndsmarkedet for råstoff slik at lønnsomheten og verdiskapningen kan øke i næringen. I dag omsettes all pelagisk fisk på auksjon. Systemet er ...
    • Omsettelige grønne sertifikater under autarki og handel : noen analytiske resultater 

      Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Nese, Gjermund (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2005-02)
      En rekke land har planer om å øke andelen fornybar energi i sitt totale energiforbruk. Norge inngår i EU-systemet for handel med utslippstillatelser fra 2005, og skal i tillegg etablere et system for grønne sertifikater, ...
    • On a clear day you can see all the way to Brussels : the transformation of aquaculture regulation in Norway 

      Aarset, Bernt; Jakobsen, Stig-Erik (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-12)
      In this paper we study the evolution of the regulation of the Norwegian aquaculture industry, in particular how European integration has affected the development of the regulatory regime. We analyse whether the transformation ...
    • On how size and composition of customer bases affect equilibrium in a duopoly with switching costs 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl; Vagstad, Steinar (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-10)
      Switching costs may facilitate monopoly pricing in a market with price competition between two suppliers of a homogenous good, provided the switchi8ng cost is above some critical level. It is also well known that asymmetric ...
    • On modelling the market for natural gas 

      Mathiesen, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-12)
      Several features may separately or in combination influence conduct and performance of an industry, e.g. the numbers of sellers or buyers, the degree of economies of scale in production and distribution, the temporal and ...
    • On revenue and welfare dominance of ad valorem taxes in two-sided markets 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-04)
      A benchmark result in public economics is that it is possible to increase both tax revenue and welfare by making a monopoly subject to ad valorem taxes rather than unit taxes. We show that such revenue and welfare dominance ...
    • On the ability of the current government to influence its successor’s actions : a note 

      Thøgersen, Øystein (Report, Research report, 2002-07)
      An incumbent policy-maker can influence his successors' actions if current policies alter a state variabel that determines the opportunity set of the successor. Existing literature suggests that public debt is an important ...
    • On the choice of royalty rule to cover fixed costs in input joint ventures 

      Fjell, Kenneth; Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper;16/13, Working paper, 2013-07)
      In a model where two competing downstream firms establish an input joint venture (JV), we analyze how different royalty rules for covering fixed costs affect channel profits. Under running royalties (regardless of whether ...
    • On the costs and benefits of vertical integration 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-06)
      We consider a setting where two upstream firms may vertically integrate or contract with a single downstream distributor. Under vertical integration the integrated firm may offer to share the downstream capacity with its ...
    • On the dynamics of commercial fishing and parameter identification 

      Ussif, Al-Amin M.; Sandal, Leif Kristoffer; Steinshamn, Stein Ivar (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2002-03)
      This paper has two main objectives. The first is to develop a dynamic model of commercial fisheries different from most existing models that assume optimizing behavior. The industry is assumed to have a well-defined index ...
    • On the efficiency gains of emissions trading when climate deals are non-cooperative 

      Godal, Odd; Holtsmark, Bjart (Working paper, Working paper, 2011-07)
      This paper studies, in a numerical environment, climate treaties with emissions trading when national quotas result from strategic individual choice. We find that the larger the number of parties to the deal, the smaller ...
    • On the relationship between aquaculture and reduction fisheries 

      Asche, Frank; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-09)
      Traditional aquaculture has to a large extent used herbivore species with limited requirements for additional feeding. However, in intensive aquaculture production one farm carnivore species like salmon and also feeds ...
    • On the workings of a cartel : evidence from the Norwegian cement industry 

      Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Steen, Frode (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005)
      Using the institutional set-up of the Norwegian cement industry, in particular its sharing rule, we are able to identify the workings of a cartel in some detail. Given data on prices, production, and exports, we are able ...