• Corporate tax systems, multinational enterprises and economic integration 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Midelfart, Karen Helene; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Working paper, Working paper, 2001-02)
      This paper addresses the outcome of international tax competition in the presence of multinationals that use transfer pricing for strategic purposes as well as to reduce their tax burden. We examine how economic integration ...
    • Cost allocation and pricing in a supply chain : an application for Aumann-Shapley prices 

      Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      We consider the problem of choosing among different distribution channels for combinations of different products, and how to price, or share the costs under the various alternatives, in an efficient and fair way. The problem ...
    • Cost overruns and cost estimation in the North Sea 

      Emhjellen, Magne; Emhjellen, Kjetil; Osmundsen, Petter (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-10)
      Recently, a Norwegian government report on the cost overruns of projects in the North Sea was presented (NOU 1999:11). It concluded that there was a 25% increase in development costs from project sanction (POD, Plan for ...
    • Cost structure and capacity in the Norwegian pelagic fisheries 

      Nøstbakken, Linda (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      The parameters of the short-run cost function are estimated for three vessel types taking part in the Norwegian pelagic fisheries: purse seine vessels, trawlers, and coastal vessels. The generalised translog functional ...
    • Country and destination image : similar or different image objects 

      Kleppe, Ingeborg Astrid; Mossberg, Lena Larsson (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-12)
      Country Image and Destination Image research exist as two parallel research tracks with almost no cross-references although the concepts refers to almost the same area of applied marketing, namely export products to ...
    • Critical factors in transnational oil companies localisation decisions : clusters and portfolio optimisation 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-10)
      Enhanced understanding of the factors determining transnational companies’ localisation decisions is important for regulators and other stakeholders concerned about maintaining current activity levels in a petroleum producing ...
    • Current materiality guidance for auditors 

      McKee, Thomas E.; Eilifsen, Aasmund (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-09)
      Auditors have to make materiality judgments on every audit. This is a difficult process, as both quantitative and qualitative factors have to be evaluated. Additionally, there is no formal guidance for how to implement the ...
    • Customer ignorance, price cap regulation and rent-seeking in mobile roaming 

      Ambjørnsen, Terje; Foros, Øystein; Wasenden, Ole-Christian B. (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-03)
      Mobile phone usage when travelling abroad is expensive. In contrast to domestic voice call prices, entry of new firms does not put a downward wholesale and retail price pressure on mobile usage abroad. The network connection ...
    • Customer poaching with differentiated products and switching costs 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-06)
      We consider a dynamic two-period model where two firms offer products that are differentiated a la Hotelling. Consumers purchase products in a first period, and in a second period consumers are locked-in to their first-period ...
    • Dagligvareportal. Til forbrukernes beste? 

      Krosby, Therese Ugelvik; Stusvik, Vibeke (Arbeidsnotat;28/13, Working paper, 2013-08)
      Selv om norske forbrukere har det dårligste utvalget av dagligvarer i Norden, møter de det høyeste prisnivået. Dagligvaremarkedet i Norge består i hovedsak av fire store grupperinger, og har en konsentrasjon av markedsmakt ...
    • The Danish green certificate system : some simple analytical results 

      Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Mortensen, Jørgen Birk (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-05)
      We formulate a simple static equilibrium model for the electricity market taking account of both Green Certificates and CO2-emission permits. The objective is to investigate the relationship between these markets under the ...
    • Darwin, recessions and firms : an evolutionary perspective on firms in recessions 

      Knudsen, Eirik Sjåholm (Working paper;05/13, Working paper, 2013-01)
      Evolutionary theory is well suited for studying how firms are affected by recessions, but little focus has been given, both theoretically and empirically, to this phenomenon. In this paper I draw on evolutionary theory and ...
    • Data for a steel industry model 

      Mæstad, Ottar (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)
      SNF has recently developed a new model of the steel market and some of the major factor markets connected to the steel industry. The aim of the model has been to study how regulations of the emissions of carbon dioxide ...
    • Decentralization and reliance on the controllability principle in the public sector : an exploratory study 

      Modell, Sven; Lee, Alina (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-03)
      Despite the growing devolution of budgetary responsibility in public sector organizations, little attention has been paid to the key notion of the controllability principle in this context. This paper explores the relationship ...
    • Delegated bargaining and competition 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl; Roth, Stefan (Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-08)
      In this paper, we analyze a two-producers two-agent model in which producers delegate sales and price negotiations to exclusive, separate, and independent agents. Producers first choose a pricing arrangement (two-part ...
    • Demand characteristics for imported cod products in Portugal frozen, salted & dried and salted 

      Asche, Frank; Gordon, Daniel V. (Working paper;2015:9, Working paper, 2015-09)
      The demand function represents the fundamental building block in economics and provides important information for investment and policy purposes. The aim of this paper is to characterize and measure the demand structure ...
    • Demand equations with some nonstationary variables : the demand for farmed and wild salmon in Japan 

      Asche, Frank; Wessells, Cathy Roheim (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2002-06)
      There seems to be substantial evidence in favor of treating price series as nonstationary. There are also strong arguments for treating expenditure shares as stationary. With this structure in the data, it is generally not ...
    • Demand structure for fish 

      Asche, Frank; Bjørndal, Trond; Gordon, Daniel V. (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-08)
      During the last decades, there has been virtually an explosion in the number of studies of the demand structure for seafood markets. The most common approach is demand analysis, where demand equations are estimated either ...
    • Deregulation of the Norwegian market for dairy products 

      Brunstad, Rolf Jens; Gaasland, Ivar; Vårdal, Erling (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-01)
      The Norwegian dairy policy is based on price discrimination. Monopoly profit is passed on to the farmers by raising the average price of milk. This procedure increases milk production, and involves cross-subsidization. ...
    • Derived demand and price relationships : an analysis of the Norwegian cod sector 

      Asche, Frank; Flaaten, Ola; Isaksen, John R.; Vassdal, Terje (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2001-08)
      In this paper we note that when there is only one variable factor in the intermediaries' production technology, prices will move proportional to each other over time. This is also the only general condition under which the ...