• Quality and location choices under price regulation 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)
      In a model of spatial competition, we analyse the equilibrium outcomes in markets where the product price is exogenous. Using an extended version of the Hotelling model, we assume that firms choose their locations and the ...
    • Quality competition with profit constraints 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune (Working paper;30/12, Working paper, 2012-09)
      Firms in markets such as health care and education are often profit constrained due to regulation or their non-profit status, and they are often viewed as being altruistic towards consumers. We use a spatial competition ...
    • Quota enforcement in resource industries : self reporting and differentiated inspections 

      Hansen, Lars Gårn; Jensen, Frank; Nøstbakken, Linda (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-06)
      Individual quotas are a dominant instrument in the management of common pool renewable resources like fisheries. However, there is concern about the basic effectiveness of quota regulation due to widespread non-compliance. ...
    • R&D and strategic industrial location in international oligopolies 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)
      In a spatial economy where Oligopolist firms compete in R&D, it is found that geography affects the innovative behaviour of firms. Notably, international differences in market size conduce to endogenous asymmetries between ...
    • R&D investment responses to R&D subsidies : a theoretical analysis and a microeconometric study 

      Klette, Tor Jakob; Møen, Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-08)
      Whereas many countries subsidize R&D in private companies through tax credits, subsidies to the Norwegian high-tech industries have traditionally been given as matching grants, i.e. the subsidies are targeted, and the firms ...
    • R&D policies, trade and process innovation 

      Haaland, Jan Ingvald Meidell; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      We set up a simple trade model with two countries hosting one firm each. The firms invest in cost-reducing R&D, and each government may grant R&D subsidies to the domestic firm. We show that it is optimal for a government ...
    • R&D, strategic investment and multinational choice 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-06)
      We analyse the influence of strategic R&D investment on the firms’ mode of foreign expansion: export versus multinational. Strategic investment allows a firm, not only to improve its own level of productive efficiency (as ...
    • Raising rivals’ costs or improving efficiency? : an exploratory study of managers’ views on backward integration in the grocery market 

      Bernes, Hanna Skjervheim; Flo, Isabel Marie; Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper;2017:5, Working paper, 2017-06)
      Large retail grocery chains’ backward integration into distribution, procurement and production is controversial, and has received a lot of attention by both policymakers and market players. If a large retail chain for ...
    • Rapportering fra pilot-studier 

      Sunnevåg, Kjell J. (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2005)
      Bakgrunnen for dette notatet er et prosjekt finansiert av Kommunal– og regionaldepartementet. Siktemålet med prosjektet er å studere effektivitet og effektivitetsutvikling innenfor sentrale kommunale og fylkeskommunale ...
    • Recession, HR and growth 

      Lien, Lasse B.; Hillestad, Tore (Working paper, Working paper, 2011-07)
      We document how the recession in the wake of the financial crisis created a general surge in pro-change attitudes and behavior. Next, we examine variation across firms with respect to this change boost. In particular, we ...
    • Recessions across industries : a survey 

      Lien, Lasse B. (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-04)
      This paper surveys existing knowledge about how and why industries differ with respect to the impact of recessions and credit crunches. While this question is of obvious relevance in today’s business environment the relevant ...
    • Recessions and the short-term stability of the relative economic performance between firms 

      Bjørkli, Ragnhild; Sandberg, Marte Ruud (Working paper;46/12, Working paper, 2012-12)
    • Recognizing and visualizing copulas : an approach using local Gaussian approximation 

      Berentsen, Geir Drage; Støve, Bård; Tjøstheim, Dag; Nordbø, Tommy (Working paper;12/12, Working paper, 2012-06)
      Copulas are much used to model nonlinear and non-Gaussian dependence between stochastic variables. Their functional form is determined by a few parameters, but unlike a dependence measure like the correlation, these ...
    • Redistributive taxation, multinational enterprises and economic integration 

      Haufler, Andreas; Klemm, Alexander; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-03)
      Increased activity of multinational firms exposes national corporate tax bases to cross-country profit-shifting, but also leads to rising profitability of the corporate sector. We incorporate these two effects of economic ...
    • A reduction in the quota for Northeast Arctic cod and the income effect on the Norwegian fishing fleet 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-06)
      The paper analyses the economic effect a change in TAC (Total Allowable Catch) will have on the Norwegian fishing industry. For the coming year ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) has recommended a ...
    • Regime switching in a fishery with stochastic stock and price 

      Nøstbakken, Linda (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      We develop a bioeconomic model of a fishery subject to stock uncertainty and price uncertainty. With a linear control model, the optimal harvest policy is a bang-bang approach to the optimal stock level, where one harvests ...
    • Regional fisheries management on the high seas : the hit-and-run interloper model 

      McKelvey, Robert W.; Sandal, Leif Kristoffer; Steinshamn, Stein Ivar (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2002-08)
      The 1993 U.N. Straddling Stock Agreement prescribes a multi-national organizational structure for management of an exploited marine fish stock, one whose range straddles both "Extended Economic Zones" (EEZs) and high seas ...
    • Regional fordeling av sysselsetting i norsk petroleumsrelatert leverandørindustri 

      Vatne, Eirik (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2007-08)
      Prosjektet er finansiert av OED og kartlegger regional fordeling av arbeidsplasser i den spesialiserte leverandørindustrien for petroleumssektoren sommeren 2007. Analysen inkluderer ikke leverandører av generelle varer ...
    • Regional policy and rent seeking : targeted versus broad based policies 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Coniglio, Nicola D. (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)
      Policies aimed at promoting regional development have often had disappointing results. The present paper offers an explanation for why such policies may fail, and, more importantly, analyses how policies may be designed ...
    • Regional policy design : an analysis of relocation, efficiency and equity 

      Midelfart, Karen Helene (Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-02)
      Despite substantial regional expenditures at both national and community level, European regional policies do not appear to deliver. The evidence suggests that neither efficiency gains nor reduced regional inequalities are ...