Browsing Working papers (SNF) by Title
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Data for a steel industry model
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
A Descriptive Analysis of the Seafood Market in Sweden
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-03)The background for the paper is the analysis of determinants influencing the Norwegian export of smoked salmon to Sweden. The conditions for export of smoked salmon from Norway have deteriorated after Sweden became a member ... -
Design workshops of the world : the production and integration of industrial design expertise into the product development and manufacturing process in Norway and the United Kingdom
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)To gain competitive advantage an increasing proportion of companies incorporate design into the product development process; it has become a critical determinant of competitive success. Design expertise is either provided ... -
Det norske radiomarkedet : effektene av Kanal 24 sin etablering
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2005-10)Målet med utredningen er å analysere effektene av Kanal 24 sin etablering på radiomarkedet. Jeg identifiserer effekter både i lyttermarkedet og reklamemarkedet. Det har vært vanskelig for Kanal 24 å få fotfeste i ... -
Det norske TV-markedet - Hvorfor tilbyr distributørene kanalpakker, og vil sluttbrukerpris påvirkes av distributørenes kostnadsendringer ved overgang til enkeltkanalvalg?
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2009-12)I utredningen starter vi med en kartlegging av dagens TV-marked samt konkurranseforholdene i markedet. Deretter presenterer og anvender vi teori for bundling med det formål å forklare dagens praksis i TV-markedet, hvor ... -
Developing social capital through the SLU leadership development program
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-07)This report is one of several reports within the GOLD research project at SNF. The research project aims to identify tools and techniques applied by Norwegian-based multinational companies that seek to develop a competitive ... -
The development of a new farmed species : production technology and markets for turbot
(2010:51, Working paper, 2010-12)Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) is a high value fish that is much favoured in many market segments such as white tablecloth restaurants. Aquaculture of turbot started first in Scotland in the 1970s, but from the early 1980s ... -
The development of productivity in the Norwegian fisheries
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005-04)The development of total factor productivity in the Norwegian fisheries 1961-2002 is estimated, using data on catches at constant fish prices, capital stock, labor input, and fish stocks. Data on fish stocks have been ... -
The development of social capital for knowledge-sharing purpose in multinational corporations
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)The major challenge for MNCs that contain knowledge-rich foreign subsidiaries is to utilize those resources and capabilities for the MNC as a whole. While structure has a role to play there is a growing acceptance that the ... -
Diagnoseverktøy for skolen som lærende organisasjon
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2007-12)Dette notatet redegjør for diagnoseverktøy for skolen som lærende organisasjon. Verktøyet består av et spørrebatteri som inngår i en større spørreundersøkelse blant medarbeidere i grunnskolen og videregående skole, og er ... -
The difference that geography makes to the acquisition of service expertise : some evidence from Norway
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-11)This paper begins by identifying the logic driving the evolving geography of business service networks in Norway. The paper explores the ways in which Norwegian SMEs access external knowledge provided by management ... -
Digital musikk for en digital generasjon. En analyse av forretningsmodellene bak Spotify og Wimp
(Arbeidsnotat;2012:01, Working paper, 2012-01)Å utvikle en levedyktig tjeneste innebærer ikke bare å ha en god idé, men også å utvikle en hensiktsmessig og bærekraftig forretningsmodell som er tilpasset de faktiske forholdene i markedet. I dette arbeidsnotatet vil de ... -
Direct to consumer advertising in pharmaceutical markets
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005-02)We study effects of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) in the prescription drug market. There are two pharmaceutical firms providing horizontally differentiated (branded) drugs. Patients differ in their susceptability ...