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    • Strategic regulation policy in the internet 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-07)
      Some countries are net importers while others are net exporters of global backbone access, content and other Internet services. At the same time, input components like local access are non-traded. This paper analyzes a ...
    • Strategisk innstilling og kompetanseutvikling i norske regnskapsbyråer 

      Gooderham, Paul N.; Nordhaug, Odd (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2000-01)
      Arbeidsnotatet er skrevet som del av forskningsprosjektet ”Kompetansestyring for verdiskaping”, som er finansiert av TYIN-programmet i Norges Forskningsråd og Norske Autoriserte Regnskapsføreres Forening. Det belyser ...
    • Strategisk regulering av gasstransport 

      Nese, Gjermund; Straume, Odd Rune (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2005-02)
      EU retter gjennom sine gassmarkedsdirektiver stadig sterkere fokus på å øke konkurransen i det europeiske gassmarkedet. Et vesentlig aspekt for Norge som en stor gasseksportør er om økt konkurranse kan medføre at en ...
    • Strive for better yield - Yara AS 

      Espedal, Bjarne; Jordahl, Atle (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-06)
      This case study focuses on Yara International ASA. Yara is a Norwegian multinational chemical company which converts energy and nitrogen from the air into vital products for farmers and industrial customers. The company ...
    • Structural changes i Norway`s fish exports and the EEA agreement 

      Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-11)
      This paper has two purposes. First, it describes the composition of Norway’s fish exports and how it has changed over the last ten years or so. A question of particular interest is whether there has been an increased ...
    • Structural conditions for business model design in new information and communication services : a case study of multi-play and MVolP in Denmark and Norway 

      Godø, Helge; Henten, Anders (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-06)
      The report analyses the structural conditions for the design of business models regarding new information and communication services. The services examined are mobile VoIP (MVoIP) and multi-play – services that already are ...
    • The structure of balanced scorecards : empirical evidence from Norway 

      Stemsrudhagen, Jan Ivar (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-06)
      This study explores the structures of performance measurement systems used in Norwegian manufacturing industry as a nominalistic phenomenon. The study builds on the premise that leaders enact their performance measurement ...
    • Styring etter finansielle indikatorer : er oljeselskapene kortsiktige? 

      Osmundsen, Petter; Sørenes, Terje; Lindbäck, Morten E.; Wigestrand, Arnstein O. (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2002-06)
      Med oljeselskaper som case, beskrives noen av verdsettingsmetodene som brukes av analytikere og investeringsbanker. De finansielle indikatorene markedet benytter danner en insentivstruktur for ledelsen i selskapene. I ...
    • Størrelse og lønnsomhet i den internasjonale olje- og gassindustrien 

      Osmundsen, Petter; Mohn, Klaus; Emhjellen, Magne; Helgeland, Flemming (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2002-06)
      I flere bransjer har vi sett en serie av fusjoner og oppkjøp. I den internasjonale olje- og gassindustrien har denne aktiviteten gitt oss nye selskaper som ExxonMobil og TotalFinaElf, BP og Amoco er smeltet sammen og la ...
    • Støtten til distriktsjordbruket sett i et samfunnsøkonomisk perspektiv 

      Vårdal, Erling (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2003-04)
      Støtten til norsk jordbruk er høy. Spesielt høy er støtten til distriktsjordbruket. I dette arbeidsnotatet presenteres først størrelsen på distriktsstøtten. Med utgangspunkt i en utredning av Brox, Teslie og Vestøl fra ...
    • Supply function equilibria in a hydropower market 

      Skaar, Jostein (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-08)
      The purpose of this working paper is to study the implications of market power in a hydropower based electricity market within the framework of the Supply Function Equilibria (SFE) model. We start by developing the standard ...
    • Supply functions for North Sea herring 

      Nøstbakken, Linda; Bjørndal, Trond (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2002-10)
      A discrete time bioeconomic model is developed and used to derive supply curves for the open access and the optimally managed fisheries. Supply curves are estimated based on data for the North Sea herring fishery. Different ...
    • Survival, short-term and long-term performance of strategic alliances 

      Lunnan, Randi; Haugland, Sven Arne (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)
      Can we predict which alliances that will terminate, and which alliances that will be successful over time? This is the core research question raised in this paper. By reviewing transaction cost economics, the resource-based ...
    • Synergies and non-discriminatory access pricing 

      Hagen, Kåre Petter; Hansen, Bjørn; Vagstad, Steinar (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      According to the new European telecom regulation, incumbent operators are required to provide access to such bottlenecks on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. We explore different interpretations of this general ...
    • Taking ABC to court : a research note on cost oriented access prices in Telecom 

      Bjørnenak, Trond; Fjell, Kenneth (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)
      This paper investigates how and why Activity Based Costing (ABC) has been introduced to the cost based price regulation regime in the telecommunication sector. The study draws on empirical insight from a recent court case ...
    • Tax income differences between multinational and domestic corporations in Norway : a panel data approach 

      Tropina, Julia (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-03)
      In this paper regression analysis is used to investigate negative profitability differential between foreign and domestic companies in Norway. More years and industries are included in the sample compared to previous studies ...
    • Tax responses in platform industries 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-07)
      Two-sided platform firms serve distinct customer groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and include major businesses such as the media industry, banking, and the software industry. A well known result of ...
    • Tax shifting in long-term gas sales contracts 

      Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar (Working paper, Working paper, 2002-01)
      Producers or consumers faced with an increase in taxes are usually able to shift parts of it to other levels in the value chain. We examine who are actually bearing the burden of increased taxes on natural gas in the EU-area ...
    • Taxation in two-sided markets 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-11)
      Two-sided platform firms serve distinct groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and include major businesses such as the media industry, banking, and the software industry. A well-known textbook result in ...
    • Taxation of uncertain business profits, private risk markets and optimal allocation of risk 

      Hagen, Kåre Petter; Sannarnes, Jan Gaute (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-12)
      In this paper we explore what happens if the government bears some of the risk through a profit tax when the risk sharing in the venture capital market is incomplete due to non-observability of effort and moral hazard. If ...