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Lokkevarer i dagligvaremarkedet : konkurransevirkninger
(Arbeidsnotat;26/12, Working paper, 2012-08)Lokkevarer og salg med tap benyttes på en rekke ulike områder, blant annet i pakkerabatter, tosidige markeder og markedsføring av merkevarer. Utvalgte varer prises så lavt at bedriftene pådras et tap, et tap som i de fleste ... -
Long term care and hospital length of stay for elderly patients
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-04)The proportion of elderly people in the population is increasing and old patients’ bed occupancy rate in hospitals increases as a fraction of total bed occupancy. Because old patients, on average, are frailer than other ... -
Long-term sustainable and optimal management of multispecies stochastic fisheries
(Working papers;01/14, Working paper, 2014-02)Multispecies fisheries management is the first step towards ecosystem-based fisheries management. Multispecies management accounts for a number of species and their physical, biological, and economic interactions. These ... -
Losers, winners and prisoner’s dilemma in international subsidy wars
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-10)Two central results in the strategic trade literature are that governments shall support winners and that there is a prisoner’s dilemma in international subsidy wars (i.e.: countries have incentives to support local firms ... -
A low-key social insurance reform : treatment effects for back pain patients in Norway
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-04)This paper estimates treatment effects for back pain patients using observational data from a low-key insurance reform in Norway. Using a latent variable model we estimate the average treatment effects (ATE), the average ... -
Lønnsomheten i norsk skipsfart
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2000-11)Denne utredningen undersøker avkastningen til den norske skipsfartsnæringen i perioden 1992 til 1999, ved hjelp av innrapporterte regnskapstall til Oslo Børs. Vi har to hovedfunn. Det første er at skipsfartsnæringen sett ... -
Making the transition from a multi-domestic to a glocal strategy : The Initial Phase of Rieber & Søn’s Purchasing Transformation Project
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-06)The immediate purpose of this paper is to assess the progress Rieber & Søn had made with the initial phase of a project aimed at significantly integrating its international purchasing operations. This purchasing project ... -
Malaysia : the lucky man of Asia?
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-12)Malaysia has been labelled the Lucky Man of Asia due to its wealth of natural resources, such as tin, rubber, palm oil, pepper, tropical timber, petroleum and a very fertile soil. There is no doubt that this richness has ... -
The management of high seas fisheries : resources and the implementation of the U.N. Fish Stocks Agreement of 1995
(Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2002-02)From 1993 to 1995, the United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, addressed a worldwide fisheries management crisis, focussed on straddling and highly migratory fish stocks. The ... -
Management of joint resources : regulations, risk and behavior
(Working paper, Working paper, 2010-10)In this paper, some effects of political uncertainty are reviewed and the results used to evaluate shared natural resources, but in particular fisheries, with the following characteristics: - Regulations exist, but ... -
Management of pelagic fisheries in the north east atlantic : Norwegian spring spawning herring, mackerel and blue whiting
(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 ... -
Management, technology and regulation : the hydro-power sector in Norway
(Working paper, Working paper, 2003-06)This article is a theoretical and empirical discussion about regional effects of foreign direct ownership, and the connection with firm strategies, technological innovation, and regulatory change. Empirical evidence is ... -
Managerial delegation and merger incentives
(Working paper, Working paper, 2003-12)We analyse how the internal organisation of firms affects the correspondence between private and social incentives for horizontal merger. Applying a model of endogenous merger formation in a three-firm asymmetric Cournot ... -
Managerial incentives and access price regulation
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-10)Policy makers have identified the non-discrimination principle as a key instrument to regulate vertically integrated firms in control of upstream bottlenecks. Economists argue that the non-discrimination principle may ... -
Managing organization development and change across Scandinavian borders
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)Many of our change theories and models originate from North America, and recently the question concerning how these theories apply across borders has been raised. In general, more bottom-up and inclusive processes are ... -
Managing resistance to transfer of knowledge in MNCs
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)MNC’s may gain a competitive advantage by continuously seeking to enhance and develop their products by drawing on its scattered knowledge base. This calls for sharing of knowledge between its different units. This paper ... -
MAP-IT : a model of intermediary integration strategies in online markets
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-07)We propose a model for understanding the structural conditions under which intermediaries in online markets choose their strategies, roles and functions. The fundamental concept behind these choices is integration – ... -
Mapping the Influence of Cultural Factors in Service Research: The role of tolerance of contradiction, optimistic/pessimistic bias, and attribution styles
(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 ... -
Marginal indirect tax reform analysis with merit good arguments and environmental concerns : Norway, 1999
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-04)We present a framework to identify and evaluate marginal tax reforms when merit good arguments and environmental concerns are given explicit consideration. It is applied to the Norwegian indirect tax system for 1999. The ... -
Marginal productivity reward : a new justification
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)Marginal productivity reward has been justified either as a way of ensuring efficiency or of respecting people’s self-ownership. Both these arguments have their limitations. In this paper we present a new and more general ...