• Labour market adjustments to globalization : unemployment versus relative wages 

      Eckel, Carsten (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)
    • Landing fees versus fish quotas 

      Hannesson, Rögnvaldur; Kennedy, John (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-04)
      The relative efficiency of landing fees versus quota controls to achieve given escapement levels is examined. The criterion is profit per year over a given time horizon. The model employed is a discrete version of the ...
    • Late careers and career exits in Norway 

      Aakvik, Arild; Dahl, Svenn-Åge; Vaage, Kjell (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-08)
      We used matched employer-employee data for the period 1992-1997 to analyse the transition from work to early retirement in Norway. We focus on the effect of a new early retirement scheme ("AFP") of which some 60 percent ...
    • Lead lag relationships between futures and spot prices 

      Asche, Frank; Guttormsen, Atle G. (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-01)
      In this paper we examine the relationship between spot and futures prices. This is traditionally done by testing for cointegration with the Engle and Granger methodology, before one specifes an error correction models in ...
    • Leadership development programmes and the development of social capital in MNEs 

      Gooderham, Paul N.; Rønning, Rune (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)
      The setting of this paper is the internal training programme of a major Norwegian multinational enterprise (MNE). The programme is aiming at greater MNE-wide integration in order to promote knowledge sharing. It is shown ...
    • Learning firm specific knowledge and skills : conceptual issues and empirical results 

      Døving, Erik; Nordhaug, Odd (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-04)
      The paper discusses the significance of firm specific knowledge and skills resources among employees, discusses strategies for measurement, and reports the results of an empirical study of learning and competence acquisition. ...
    • Ledelsesutvikling i norske bedrifter : HR-ledernes og linjeledernes sprikende oppfatninger 

      Haueng, Anne Cathrin; Gooderham, Paul N.; Lange, Birthe Kåfjord (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2002-12)
      Et hovedfunn er at det er et relativt stort gap mellom HR-ledernes og linjeledernes oppfatning omkring ledelsesutvikling. Stort sett er linjeledernes oppfatninger atskillig mindre positive enn HR-ledernes. Ikke minst gjelder ...
    • Licensing technology and foreclosure 

      Clark, Derek J.; Foros, Øystein; Sand, Jan Yngve (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-12)
      We consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The owner of the superior technology (the dominant firm) can license or transfer the source of its dominance ...
    • "Linking products, industries and place" : synergy effects from the interaction of tourism and other local industries in Lofoten and Hardanger 

      Holmefjord, Kari (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2000-12)
      The overall theme of this working paper is how businesses within all industries in a region can make use of characteristics and special resources at their location to increase their long-term profit. The more specific topic ...
    • Liquidity : concepts, ideas and the financial crisis 

      Nyborg, Kjell G.; Östberg, Per (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-04)
    • Local autonomy and interregional equality 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      This paper shows how two important interregional transfer schemes, the foundation grant and the power equalization grant, can be seen as two different interpretations of equal opportunity ethics. It provides characterizations ...
    • Local autonomy and interregional equality 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-02)
      This paper shows how two important interregional transfer schemes, the foundation grant and the power equalization grant scheme, can be seen as two different interpretations of equal opportunity ethics. It provides ...
    • Local Bank Competition, Loan Rates and Risk 

      Sæthre, Morten (Working paper, 2017-12)
      This paper investigates the effect of competition on the relation between borrowers’ risk and interest rates in the market for business loans. I estimate the relationship between the loan rates and risk of closure conditional ...
    • Local community relations (LCR) strategies in Norwegian professional football 

      Gammelsæter, Hallgeir; Jakobsen, Stig-Erik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)
      In this paper we study local community relations (LCR) strategies of four professional Norwegian football clubs in the light of what is taken to be an organization field that is identified as being increasingly more ...
    • Local content development : experiences from oil and gas activities in Norway 

      Heum, Per (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-02)
      In the paper industrial development connected to upstream oil and gas activities in Norway is discussed. Several factors explain the success of Norway in this respect. Some of these factors are of a kind that only rarely ...
    • “The local taste champion” Rieber & Søn ASA 

      Gooderham, Paul N.; Rønning, Rune (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-06)
      Rieber & Søn is a Norwegian multinational food company that currently has fully-owned production units in seven European countries and sales and market offices in a further six countries. The purpose of this rich case study ...
    • Location and knowledge interaction between head office and KIBS in city areas 

      Jakobsen, Stig-Erik; Aslesen, Heidi Wiig (Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      The literature argues for a mutual dependency between head office location and the location of KIBS (knowledge-intensive business services) in major cities or capital regions. The locations of KIBS are presumed to be ...
    • Location decisions of multinational enterprises : the experiences of Poland, Bulgaria and Romania 

      Faggio, Giulia (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)
      In this paper, we present a simple theoretical framework in order to analyze the decision of a multinational firm to locate either in Poland, Bulgaria, or Romania, conditional on entering the Eastern European market. We ...
    • Location of engineering and designer services in the information economy 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-07)
      This paper presents a case study of a naval architecture firm in Western Norway, which trades its services electronically. The paper goes on to analyze the market entry and location decision of such entrepreneurs by means ...
    • Lokalisering av næringsvirksomhet 

      Norman, Victor D. (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2000-09)
      Omlokalisering av virksomhet og utvikling mot en ny europeisk økonomisk geografi har større betydning for Norge enn for mange andre europeiske land. Grunnen er at vi i løpet av de neste tiårene må utvikle ny, konkurranseutsatt ...