• Can a warmer climate save northern agriculture? 

      Gaasland, Ivar (Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-05)
      Agriculture at high latitudes is expected to be the main beneficiary of a man-made climate change. A numerical model, using Norway as a case, is employed to analyze the impacts of a warmer climate on northern agriculture. ...
    • Can exclusive territories limit strategic location downstream? 

      Fjell, Kenneth; Heywood, John S. (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)
      Research on spatial price discrimination demonstrates that strategic (off center) location choices by downstream firms can increase downstream profit and reduce both the profit of an upstream monopoly and social welfare. ...
    • Can land reform be an effective approach to alleviate poverty and inequality in Nepal? 

      Adhikari, Chandra Bahadur; Bjørndal, Trond (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-09)
      Land is the main source of income and consumption for the Nepalese people. This study analyses the economic relationship between access to land and poverty in Nepal by establishing the link between land and consumption as ...
    • Can perceptual measures of customers profitability replace more objective ones? 

      Helgesen, Øyvind (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2001-05)
      Business performance is closely related to decisions. When making decisions, managers need reliable information concerning the decision situation, e.g. the profitability of orders, the profitability of customers, credit ...
    • Capacity adjustment and drivers of investment in a fishery with tradable output quotas 

      Nøstbakken, Linda (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-03)
      In this study, I analyse what drives investment and capital development, and hence the development of fishing capacity in a well-managed fishery. An empirical analysis of drivers of firm-level investment in the Norwegian ...
    • Capacity and compliance in quota regulated industries 

      Lazkano, Itziar; Nøstbakken, Linda (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-10)
      Production quotas can restore efficiency in industries characterized by production externalities, such as resource industries and industries with environmental regulations. However, with imperfect quota enforcement, firms ...
    • Cartels uncovered 

      Hyytinen, Ari; Steen, Frode; Toivanen, Otto (Working paper, Working paper, 2011-03)
      How many cartels are there? The answer is important in assessing the need for competition policy. We present a Hidden Markov Model that answers the question, taking into account that often we do not know whether a cartel ...
    • Catch, stock elasticity and an implicit index of fishing effort 

      Ekerhovd, Nils-Arne; Gordon, Daniel V. (Working paper;25/13, Working paper, 2013-09)
      Economists are interested in the relationship between fishing effort and stock size, and how these impacts catch levels. The interest lies in the stock elasticity where it is thought that for pelagic fish species it is ...
    • The causality of strategic control : three-level construction of causality 

      Stemsrudhagen, Jan Ivar (Working Paper, Working paper, 2003-02)
      Causality is currently a topic which permeates literature on all three conventional control levels, i.e. Strategy, management, and operations. The purpose of this paper is to explore causality models on these three levels, ...
    • Centralised versus decentralised enforcement of fish quotas 

      Jensen, Carsten Lynge; Lindroos, Marko (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2002-01)
      The purpose of this paper is to consider under what circumstances it is better to have centralised enforcement of catch quotas and when it is better to leave enforcement to the countries themselves. It is shown for a ...
    • The challenge of a rising skill premium for redistributive taxation 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Cappelen, Alexander W. (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-02)
      The present paper analysis the challenge to redistribution programs posed by an increase in skill premium. The increase in skill premium, which we observe in most OECD countries, affects taxation through its effect on ...
    • Challenging conventional wisdom on atypical work : why firms use external work arrangements in core value-creation areas 

      Nesheim, Torstein (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-05)
      I denne artikkelen utfordres “konvensjonell visdom” når det gjelder atypisk arbeid. Med atypisk arbeid menes andre tilknytningsformer enn fast ansettelse i bedriften; som midlertidige ansettelser, innleie av arbeidskraft, ...
    • Changes in herring consumption in Russia 

      Lien, Kristin; Tveterås, Ragnar; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-12)
      In the seafood category Russian consumers are adopting new species and new product forms at a rapid rate. We employ a panel data set on monthly per capita demand for different herring products in six Russian regions to ...
    • Cheating about the cod 

      Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-12)
      The Northeast Arctic cod is managed by a total quota shared evenly between Norway and Russia. It appears that Russia has been overfishing its quota by substantial amounts for a number of years, due to insufficient monitoring ...
    • China’s telecommunications industry : the forbidden city in the information age? 

      Zhiling, Sun (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)
      China’s telecommunications market has developed enormously over the past two decades. With the industry growing 30% faster than the economy as a whole, plenty of players are eager to grab a piece of the action. In light ...
    • The choice of strategic core : impact of financial volum 

      Emhjellen, Magne; Hausken, Kjell; Osmundsen, Petter (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-10)
      Recent trends among major oil companies and independents have been consolidation through mergers and acquisitions and focus on key strategic core areas. The expressed goals have been to achieve synergy, reduce costs, and ...
    • Classification of work-related competences : a critical discussion 

      Døving, Erik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-10)
      Work-related competences are the knowledge and skills that can be useful to accomplish our jobs. What are the basic dimensions underlying obvious differences among competences? What is best way to classify competences in ...
    • Climate change and credibility of fish stock agreements : the case of the north-east arctic cod 

      Ekerhovd, Nils-Arne (2010:52, Working paper, 2010-12)
      We simulate how an increase in the productivity of the North-East Arctic cod stock would affect the Russian-Norwegian cooperation on the management of the stock. The productivity increase is linked to environmental conditions ...
    • Climate change and future expansion paths for the Norwegian salmon and trout industry 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn; Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-10)
      Global warming is expected to affect the ecosystem in the Northeast Atlantic, and sufficient changes will also affect the aquaculture industry. Farming of salmon and trout is the biggest aquaculture industry in Norway. The ...
    • Climate Change and its effect on the Norwegian cod fishing industry 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn; Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-01)
      The background for the paper is the expected climate change and its effect on the Norwegian cod fishing industry. Global warming is predicted to increase the stock of cod in the Barents Sea. Oceanographers expect that the ...