• Knowledge investments in recessions : the effects of demand and credit 

      Knudsen, Eirik Sjåholm; Lien, Lasse B. (Working paper;34/12, Working paper, 2012-10)
      We examine how recessions change firms’ knowledge investments. Unlike existing work we split the effects of recessions into demand reductions, and problems with access to credit. Our main findings are that investments in ...
    • Konkurranseanalyser i oppstrømsmarkeder 

      Ulsaker, Simen Aardal (Arbeidsnotat;29/13, Working paper, 2013-09)
      De fleste produsenter selger ikke sine produkter direkte til sluttbrukerne, men via ett eller flere videreformidlende ledd. En stor del av konkurransemyndigheters virke er å vurdere de konkurransemessige konsekvensene av ...
    • Konkurranseeffekt ved bruk av paritetsavtaler mellom plattformer. En empirisk undersøkelse av priser ved hotell og nettagenter 

      Kristoffersen, Stine Morken (Arbeidsnotat;32/13, Working paper, 2013-09)
      Formålet med denne utredningen har vært å studere avtalen om like priser i hotellmarkedet, hvilket innebærer at hotellkjeder ikke kan sette en lavere pris enn nettagenters pris for tilsvarende hotellrom. Dette omtales i ...
    • Konkursprediksjon gjennom ulike konjunkturfaser : en studie om hvordan en empirisk konkursprediksjonsmodell endrer seg gjennom ulike konjunkturfaser, i tidsperioden 2001 til 2009 

      Kvaslerud, Pernille Mørland; Henriksen, Nora Berg (Arbeidsnotat;44/12, Working paper, 2012-12)
      Hensikten med denne studien er å analysere hvordan en empirisk konkursprediksjonsmodell endres gjennom ulike konjunkturfaser, og med dette som utgangspunkt undersøke hvorvidt seleksjonskriterier endres i nedgangsperioder. ...
    • Kontraktsregulering i den norske matkjeden : en analyse av priseffekter 

      Lømo, Teis Lunde (Arbeidsnotat;16/12, Working paper, 2012-01)
      Et regjeringsoppnevnt matkjedeutvalg la 13. april 2011 frem sin utredning om styrkeforholdene i verdikjeden for mat. Utvalgets mandat spesifiserer blant annet at utvalget skal foreslå tiltak som kan iverksettes for å ivareta ...
    • Management of pelagic fisheries in the north east atlantic : Norwegian spring spawning herring, mackerel and blue whiting 

      Bjørndal, Trond; Ekerhovd, Nils-Arne (Working paper;13/13, Working paper, 2013-05)
      The purpose of this paper is to give an overview over the fisheries for Norwegian spring spawning herring, mackerel and blue whiting and analyse how they are managed. The stocks under consideration are harvested by coastal ...
    • Mapping the Influence of Cultural Factors in Service Research: The role of tolerance of contradiction, optimistic/pessimistic bias, and attribution styles 

      Jakubanecs, Alexander (Working paper;43/12, Working paper, 2012-12)
      This article applies the theories on tolerance for contradiction, optimistic/pessimistic bias, and dispositionism/situationism in the context of service research to identify previously unexplored moderators of the effects ...
    • Margins and market shares : pharmacy incentives for generic substitution 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune (Working paper;08/13, Working paper, 2013-02)
      We study the impact of product margins on pharmacies’ incentive to promote generics instead of brand-names. First, we construct a theoretical model where pharmacies can persuade patients with a brand-name prescription to ...
    • Market segmentation in two-sided markets : tv rights for premier league 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper;31/12, Working paper, 2012-12)
      This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to ...
    • Måling av produktivitet i Kystvakten 

      Andersen, Christian (Arbeidsnotat;2012:10, Working paper, 2012-03)
      I dette notatet drøftes et opplegg for å analysere produktivitet og realkostnadsutvikling i Kystvakten. Kystvakten skal håndheve norsk suverenitet når det gjelder fiske i norske farvann der resultatet av innsatsen på kort ...
    • Measuring asymmetries in financial returns : an empirical investigation using local gaussian correlation 

      Støve, Bård; Tjøstheim, Dag (Working paper;12/13, Working paper, 2013-03)
      A number of studies have provided evidence that financial returns exhibit asymmetric dependence, such as increased dependence during bear markets, but there seems to be no agreement as to how such asymmetries should be ...
    • Media market concentration, advertising levels, and ad prices 

      Anderson, Simon P.; Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Peitz, Martin (Working paper;2012:02, Working paper, 2012-01)
      Standard media economics models imply that increased platform competition decreases ad levels and that mergers reduce per-viewer ad prices. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. We attribute the theoretical predictions ...
    • Media plurality : private versus mixed duopolies 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Working paper;11/14, Working paper, 2014-09)
      In this paper, we analyze the effects on media plurality of competition between a private news firm that maximizes profits and a publicly owned news firm that maximizes social welfare. We show that when the costs of adapting ...
    • Mergers in two-sided media markets : pricing- and welfare implications 

      Hatletveit, Jesper Meyer; Lillestøl, Ole-Jakob Smørdal (;2011:24, Working paper, 2011-06)
      This paper discusses the pricing- and welfare implications of mergers in two-sided media markets. Media firms typically rely on revenues from two very different, but inextricably linked, customer groups: consumers and ...
    • Modeling the Norwegian sea ‘pelagic complex’. An application of the ensemble kalman filter 

      Ekerhovd, Nils-Arne; Kvamsdal, Sturla Furunes (Working paper;07/13, Working paper, 2013-02)
      We have estimated the parameters of a modified logistic ecosystem model of the pelagic fish stocks in the Norwegian Sea with the Ensemble Kalman Filter. Our model only contains four parameters. The model appear to capture ...
    • Modernisert men urettferdig folketrygd? 

      Robstad, Siri Sollid; Almås, Ingvild (Arbeidsnotat;04/12, Working paper, 2012-01)
      Som et resultat av en aldrende befolkning har det i Norge som i de fleste andre OECD land, tvunget seg fram en reformering av pensjonssystemet. Med bred politisk enighet ble forslaget til modernisert folketrygd vedtatt med ...
    • Motion pictures and piracy : a theoretical investigation 

      Rosenlund, Jørgen (Working paper;20/13, Working paper, 2013-08)
      In recent years, copyright-protected markets have been challenged by the sharp rise in usage of peer-to-peer networks. Many of these networks participate in illegal sharing of copyrighted materials, such as books, music ...
    • Multi-purchasing in the linear city 

      Sæberg, Håkon (Working paper;28/12, Working paper, 2012-08)
      This paper allows for the purchase of both goods in the Hotelling model with linear transport costs. Price competition disappears as a result, and we have a stable linear model with the Principle of Minimum Differentiation ...
    • News sources and media bias 

      Garcia-Pires, Armando J.; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper;21/12, Working paper, 2012-08)
      In this paper we investigate the relationship between news sources and media firms. Although empirically important, this channel for supply-driven media bias has not previously been analyzed in economics literature. We ...
    • Non-cooperative management of the northeast atlantic cod fishery : a first mover advantage 

      Bjørndal, Trond; Lindroos, Marko (Working paper;23/13, Working paper, 2013-08)
      The point of departure for this analysis is Bjørndal and Lindroos (2012), who developed an empirical bioeconomic model to analyse cooperative and non-cooperative management of Northeast Atlantic cod. In their analysis, ...