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    • Aspects of the political economy of foreign aid 

      Hagen, Rune Jansen (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)
      The interaction of external financing with economic reforms in developing countries has been at the forefront of the policy debate for the last 15-20 years. In this paper, a simple model in which an aid donor faces either ...

    • Assessing the economic effects of trade barriers 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-03)
      The objective of the paper is to build a simple model which will be easy to use in the assessment of the economic welfare effects due to trade barriers. Traditional partial trade models assume infinitely elastic world ...

    • Assessing the economic gains of free market access for the least developed countries in the QUAD 

      Hagen, Rune Jansen; Mæstad, Ottar; Wiig, Arne (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-11)
      The purpose of this study is to evaluate the economic impact on the least developed countries (LDCs) of reduced trade barriers in their export markets. 48 countries are currently designated as “least developed” by the ...

    • Assessment of the Norwegian transmission : pricing rules by using a modified AC-OPF 

      Stamtsis, Georgios C.; Bjørndal, Mette; Erlich, István; Jörnsten, Kurt (Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-06)
      This paper focuses on the combined effects of loss factors and zonal pricing in a system that takes as a starting point the procedures of transmission pricing in the Norwegian power system. It interprets the notion of loss ...

    • Assessment of the sustainability of organic salmon farming 

      Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-06)
      Environmental and sustainable aspects of food production are receiving increasingly more attention, which is also evident through the increasing demand for organic food products. This paper is concerned with the sustainability ...

    • Asset specificity and vertical integration 

      Kvaløy, Ola (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-11)
      Asset specificity is usually considered to be an argument for vertical integration.The main idea is that specificity induces opportunistic behaviour, and that vertical integration reduces this problem of opportunism. In ...

    • Assimilation of time series data into a dynamic bioeconomic fisheries model : an application to the North East Arctic cod stock 

      Ussif, Al-Amin M.; Sandal, Leif Kristoffer; Steinshamn, Stein Ivar (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2003-01)
      This paper combines the elegant technique of Data Assimilation and a Monte Carlo procedure to analyze time series data for the North East Arctic Cod stock (NEACs). A simple nonlinear dynamic resource model is calibrated ...

    • Audiovisual services in the GATS : the case of Norway 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-05)
      This paper discusses possible impacts of the Doha round negotiations in the WTO on the audiovisual services sector in Norway. Like most other countries, Norway has not made commitments, but has listed a number of MFN ...

    • Avanseregulering i den norske bokmarknaden. Teoretiske og praktiske effektar 

      Selseng, Siri Hovland; Træen, Martine Nesøy (Arbeidsnotat;40/13, Working paper, 2013-10)
      17. juni 2013 vart boklova vedteken på Stortinget. Lova spesifiserer ei avanseregulering i form av ein maksimal rabatt leverandør kan gje forhandlar og eit ikkje-diskrimineringsprinsipp basert på vertikalt eigarskap. Denne ...

    • Avisprodukter til nettbrett : redningen for den norske avisbransjen? 

      Nes, Elisabeth Heimdal (Arbeidsnotat;19/12, Working paper, 2012-08)
      De norske papiravisene sliter med fallende opplag, lave lesertall og synkende annonseinntekter. Avisbransjen er derfor på stadig leting etter nye, mer lønnsomme forretningsområder. Da nettbrettet ble lansert i 2010 var ...

    • The balanced scorecard and leadership : the system’s (ir)relevance in an uncertain world 

      Stemsrudhagen, Jan Ivar (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-06)
      Leadership is about handling change, and the balanced scorecard (BSC) is frequently seen as an important tool for this type of work. This paper studies the way in which the executives of the EDB 4tel corporation worked ...

    • Benefits of stock enhancement: The case of the Iranian kutum fishery 

      Steinshamn, Stein Ivar; Borujeni, Pezhman Alaei (Working paper;14/14, Working paper, 2014-12)
      Harvesting of the fish resources as an economic activity, which is strictly tied to biological matters, needs to be modeled proficiently through bioeconomic analysis. In this study, a bioeconomic age-structured model is ...

    • Beyond trade costs : firms’ endogenous access to international markets 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Working paper;38/13, Working paper, 2013-10)
      In this paper, we explore another factor besides trade costs that can affect firms’ exports: strategic interaction between firms in R&D investment. Three results can be highlighted. First, the volume of trade is higher in ...

    • Bilindustrien i Kina : utvikling og utsikter i lys av WTO-avtalen 

      Torpe, Halfdan Otto (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2003-12)
      Denne siviløkonomutredningen er et bransjestudium av bilindustrien i Kina. Viktige emner er WTO-avtalens betydning for bilindustrien og myndighetenes sterke kontroll med industrien i Kina. Kina er et interessant marked med ...

    • Bindende tilsagn i konkurransesaker – forordning 1 art. 9 og relevansen for konkurranseloven 

      Hjelmeng, Erling (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2011-05)
      Denne fremstillingen tar for seg den formaliserte forliksadgangen (tilsagn), i EU- og EØS-konkurranseretten, jf. forordning 1 art. 9. Formålet med fremstillingen er særlig å vurdere om det er grunn til å innføre en liknende ...

    • Bindende videresalgspriser i bokmarkedet : bør forlaget eller bokhandleren sette prisen? 

      Evertsen, Cathrine (Arbeidsnotat;41/13, Working paper, 2013-10)
      Denne utredningen handler om hvem som bør sette prisen i bokmarkedet, forlaget eller bokhandelen. Først ser jeg på bindende videresalgspriser generelt, i en modell av Rey og Tirole (1986). Deretter setter jeg dette i ...

    • A bioeconomic analysis of the Norwegian spring spawning herring (Nssh) stock 

      Bjørndal, Trond; Ussif, Al-Amin M.; Sumaila, Ussif Rashid (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-03)
      A biological model, belonging to the Beverton and Holt age-structured family, for the Norwegian spring spawning herring (NSSH) is simulated, the outcome of which compares well with actual data on the fishery. This model ...

    • The blue whiting coalition game 

      Ekerhovd, Nils-Arne (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-09)
      The current paper is an application of the analysis of coalition, in particular the partition function approach, to the North East Atlantic blue whiting fishery. In an Exclusive Membership/Coalition Unanimity game, a ...

    • Brand and customer experience in service organizations : literature review and brand experience construct validation 

      Skard, Siv; Nysveen, Herbjørn; Pedersen, Per E. (Working paper, Working paper, 2011-04)
      Commoditization of goods and services has generated a need for providing customer value beyond functional attributes and benefits. The concepts of brand and customer experience have therefore gained increased interest among ...

    • The broadband access market : competition, uniform pricing and geographical coverage 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)
      This paper analyzes some technological and political aspects of the market for broadband access. Broadband access is the last mile of the telecommunication network, and it is an essential component in order to offer broadband ...