• Enforcement with heterogeneous cartels 

      Jensen, Sissel; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper;14/12, Working paper, 2012-07)
      The purpose of this article is to analyze the minimum fines needed in order to prevent price fixing when there is heterogeneity in the potential for a cartel overcharge across industries. We show that the incentive constraint ...
    • Enforcing the Kyoto Protocol : sanction design and strategic behaviour 

      Hagem, Cathrine; Kallbekken, Steffen; Mæstad, Ottar; Westskog, Hege (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-12)
      This paper looks at how strategic considerations may play a role in the decision of whether or not to impose sanctions on non-compliant Parties under the Kyoto Protocol. A member of the Enforcement Branch might have an ...
    • Entry in telecommunication : customer loyalty, price sensitivity and access prices 

      Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-11)
      Telecommunications is an industry characterised by heavy investments in infrastructure. Historically, one firm has typically been granted a national monopoly. Recently, competition has been opened up. Entrants have been ...
    • Environmental policy with endogenous plant location and tradable emission permits 

      Mæstad, Ottar (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-09)
      A game between governments that solve environmental problems through tradable emission permits is analysed. We find that emission levels are chosen according to Pigouvian rule, while internationally mobile firms may receive ...
    • Equally rich? : en analyse av industrialisering og regionale forskjeller i Kina 

      Gilje, Birgitte; Sjølie, Henriette (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2004-04)
      Kina har de siste tjue årene hatt en uovertruffen økonomisk vekst. Samtidig er det tegn til at veksten ikke har kommet alle deler av landet til gode. I denne utredningen ønsker vi å undersøke om det finnes regionale ...
    • Equilibrium and price stabilization 

      Flåm, Sjur Didrik; Gaasland, Ivar; Vårdal, Erling (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-12)
      The main objects here are markets with stochastic demand and supply. Agriculture provides prime instances. A key concern is how a buffer agency may learn to stabilize prices. We model such learning and identify conditions ...
    • Equilibrium prices supported by dual price functions in markets with non-convexities 

      Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt (Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-06)
      The issue of finding market clearing prices in markets with non-convexities has had a renewed interest due to the deregulation of the electricity sector. In the day-ahead electricity market, equilibrium prices are calculated ...
    • Er eksklusive lesere mer verdt enn overlappende lesere? : et casestudie basert på Bergensavisen og Bergens Tidende 

      Osmundsen, Karen; Stokka, Martha (Arbeidsnotat;08/14, Working paper, 2014-06)
      Avis er et eksempel på en tosidig medieplattform som må forholde seg til annonsører på en side og lesere på en annen side. Teori om tosidige medieplattformer hevder at eksklusive lesere er mer verdt for en avis enn ...
    • Estimates of carbon sequestration coefficients for forestry grown on Norwegian agricultural land 

      Godal, Odd; Grønlund, Arne (Working papers;07/14, Working paper, 2014-05)
      This working paper documents the derivation of carbon sequestration coefficients for forest grown on Norwegian agricultural land. These figures will serve as input to the established model Jordmod – an economic model of ...
    • Estimating the elasticity of transformation between on-farm work and off-farm work for Norwegian dairy farmers 

      Salomonsen, Bjarte; Vårdal, Erling (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)
      We have collected a sample of 2191 milk farm households. The sample contains information on incomes made off- and on-farm and working hours devoted into those two activities, during the years 1996-2004,. Based on a method ...
    • Estimation of biological and economic parameters of a bioeconomic fisheries model using dynamical data assimilation 

      Ussif, Al-Amin M.; Sandal, Leif Kristoffer; Steinshamn, Stein Ivar (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2002-03)
      A new approach of model parameter estimation is used with simulated measurements to recover both biological and economic input parameters of a natural resource model. The data assimilation technique is the variational ...
    • Et klyngeperspektiv på lønnsomhet og videreforedling i fiskerinæringa i Hordaland 

      Aarset, Bernt (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-10)
      Klynger eksisterer på forskjellige geografiske nivå og omfatter forskjellige kombinasjoner av virksomhet. Klynger inngår i et system der det er et kontinuerlig søk etter nye løsninger. Klyngetankegangen er basert på at en ...
    • Et tiår etter Bosman : konsekvenser for utviklingen av norsk toppfotball 

      Gammelsæter, Hallgeir; Jakobsen, Stig-Erik (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2007-03)
    • Ethics and credibility of organic salmon regulation 

      Tveterås, Sigbjørn; Aarset, Bernt (Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-09)
      The objective of this report is to establish how important standardisations of regulations is for the credibility of organic fish products, from the viewpoint of consumers, producers, animal welfare groups, and environmentalists. ...
    • Ethics vs. profits in the management of petroleum resources 

      Nese, Gjermund (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-11)
      Many of the decisions made by policy makers today may affect not only the people belonging to the present generation, but can have long-term effects that reach far into the future and thus significantly affect the life of ...
    • European policy on state aid to the coal industry 

      Kolstad, Julie Riise (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-10)
      In this article we take a closer look at the argumentation behind subsidies to the European coal industry, the actual EU regulations and strategies on the subject, and the effects on both Western and Eastern European coal ...
    • Evaluation of the Norwegian R&D tax credit scheme 

      Cappelen, Ådne; Fjærli, Erik; Foyn, Frank; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Møen, Jarle; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-08)
      We find that the Norwegian R&D tax credit scheme introduced in 2002 mainly works as intended. The scheme is cost-effective and it is used by a large number of firms. It stimulates these firms to invest more in R&D, and, ...
    • Evaluering av Kompetanseutviklingsprogrammet : underveisrapport 2002 

      Døving, Erik; Skule, Sveinung (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2002-05)
      Dette notatet er andre underveisrapport fra evalueringen av Kompetanse-utviklings-programmet (KUP). Bedømt ut fra sine målsetninger, innsatsområder, prioriteringer og vilkår for prosjektstøtte er KUP et initiativ som tar ...
    • Evaluering av Kompetanseutviklingsprogrammet : underveisrapport 2003 

      Døving, Erik; Ure, Odd Bjørn; Teige, Berit; Skule, Sveinung (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2003-12)
      Kompetanseutviklingsprogrammet (KUP) er et ledd i iverksetting av Kompetansereformen. Utgangspunktet for programmet er at markedet for etter- og videreutdanning ikke fungerer så bra som det bør og kan. Programmet har som ...
    • Evaluering av Kompetanseutviklingsprogrammet : underveisrapport 2004 

      Døving, Erik; Ure, Odd Bjørn; Skule, Sveinung (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2004-08)
      Utgangspunktet for programmet er at markedet for etter- og videreutdanning ikke fungerer så bra som det bør og kan. Programmet har som formål å (i) bidra til å gjøre private og offentlige virksomheter bedre i stand til å ...