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Climate change and the migratory pattern for Norwegian spring-spawning herring : implications for management
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-04)Norwegian spring-spawning herring (Clupea harengus) has been an important source of food for centuries, mainly for Norway, Iceland and Russia, but also for other European countries. Herring is a migratory fish stock, and ... -
Climate change, poverty and food security : the role of the small-scale fisheries sector
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)Coastal small scale fisheries and communities in the developing countries are vulnerable to global climate change. The consequences occur directly due to the impact of rising temperatures on movement of fish resources and ... -
Climate policy and the steel industry : achieving global emission reductions by an incomplete climate agreement
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-11)The steel industry is one of the largest sources of global CO2 emissions and hence a candidate for climate policies. A carbon tax on emissions in industrialized countries, however, will cause relocation of steel production ... -
Climate, competition and the management of shared fish stocks
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-07)Long-term climate regime shifts have profound impacts on ocean temperature and circulation patterns, and on the dynamics of fish populations. Climate regime shifts can disrupt otherwise satisfactory international management ... -
Coal transport demand in Western Europe and Japan : impacts of energy market liberalisation and climate policy
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)Europe and Japan are among the main importers of coal. Climate policies following the Kyoto agreement are creating pressure to substitute away from coal and turn to less emission intensive energy sources. At the same time, ... -
Coalition formation with externalities : the case of the Northeast Atlantic mackerel fishery in a pre and post brexit context
(Working paper;2017:12, Working paper, 2017-10)In this paper we apply the so-called partition function approach to study coalition formation in the North-east Atlantic mackerel fishery in the presence of externalities. Atlantic mackerel is mainly exploited by the ... -
Cod farming at the intersection of fisheries and aquaculture
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-12)Over the past three decades, the powerful combination of capital, research, and promising prospects has propelled salmon aquaculture to a mature, billion dollar, worldwide industry. Aquaculture entrepreneurs now search for ... -
The collapse of the Norwegian herring fisheries in the late 1950s and 60s : crisis, adaptation, and recovery
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-03)This paper deals with the economic effects of the collapse of the Atlanto-Scandian and the North Sea herring stocks on the Norwegian fisheries. In the late 1950s the Norwegian winter herring fishery failed, and in the 1960s ... -
Collude, compete, or both? : deregulation in the Norwegian airline industry
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)The purpose of this paper is to test the nature of competition concerning price and capacity setting in the Norwegian airline industry after the deregulation in 1994. Did the two airlines, SAS and Braathens, compete on ... -
Comparative data of absence due to sickness in Nordic countries
(Working paper, Working paper, 2003-04)Recently the rate of absence due to sickness has been very high in Norway. In the year 2002 almost 7.7 percent of the total work force was absent due to sickness. A shortcoming of empirical studies on international comparison ... -
Competition and physician behaviour: Does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates?
(Working paper, 2018-09)Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on its impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to endogeneity issues. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in addition to own ... -
Competition and regulation strategies in the internet
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-09)The purpose of this article is to provide a simple introduction to the Internet’s value system and historical development from an economic point of view. One of the central themes that we discuss is whether increased user ... -
Competition and risk taking in the banking industry: The case of capital requirements
(Working paper, 2017-12)This article examines how stricter capital requirements affect competition and risk-taking incentives in the banking industry. When banks choose their risk profiles by solving portfolio problems, there is a clear trade-off ... -
Competition between content distributors in two-sided markets
(Working paper;11/12, Working paper, 2012-05)We analyze strategic interactions between two competing distributors of an independent TV channel. Consistent with most of the relevant markets, we assume that the distributors set end-user prices while the TV channel sets ... -
Competition between farmed and wild salmon : the Japanese salmon market
(Working paper, Working paper, 2003-12)This paper examines the Japanese market for salmon. This market is of interest since it is the largest and most diversified salmon market in the world with wild and farmed species, from Europe and South and North America, ... -
Competition for viewers and advertisers in a tv oligopoly
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-12)We consider a model of a TV oligopoly where TV channels transmit advertising and viewers dislike such commercials. We show that advertisers make a lower profit the larger the number of TV channels. If TV channels are ... -
Competition policy and sector-specific economic media regulation : and never the twain shall meet?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005-06)This paper studies the relationship between competition policy regulation and sector-specific regulation in the regulation of media markets. It takes as its starting point the stated intention of the EU Commission in its ... -
Competition with personalized pricing and strategic product differentiation
(Arbeidsnotat;2018/7, Working paper, 2018-12)Consumers leave increasingly more digital footprints which improve Örmsíability to practice personalized pricing (Örst-degree price discrimination). We ask whether there exist strategic e§ects that reduce Örmsíincentives ... -
Competitive in the lab, successful in the field?
(Working paper;02/15, Working paper, 2015-01)A number of lab experiments in recent years have analyzed people’s willingness to compete. But to what extent is competitive behavior in the lab associated with field choices and outcomes? We address this question in a ... -
The competitiveness of the Chilean salmon aquaculture industry
(Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2001-08)Commercial salmon and trout farming has emerged as a major industry in Chile during the 1990s. Salmon is not a native species to Chile, still excellent climatic conditions are provided for farming. Since 1992 Chile has ...