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A review of mobile services research: Research gaps and suggestions for future research on mobile apps
(Working paper;01/15, Working paper, 2015-01)The working paper starts with an overview of the growth in research on mobile services. Based on the increase in the research on mobile services the last few years, the fact that the last general review article on mobile ... -
Access price regulation facilitates strategic transfer pricing
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-10)Access price regulation is used in telecommunications to prevent that a vertically integrated firm, that controls an essential input, raises the rivals` costs. When the authorities remove the access price as a strategic ... -
Access pricing, quality degradation and foreclosure in the internet
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-03)Access to both a local and a global network is needed in order to get complete connection to the Internet. The purpose of this article is to examine the interplay between those two networks and how it affects the domestic ... -
Access regulation and cross-border mergers : is international coordination beneficial?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005-06)The international integration of regulated markets poses new challenges for regulatory policy. One question is the implications that the overall international regulatory regime will have for cross-border and/or domestic ... -
An acquisition in the Nordic ferry market: rivalry or coordination on capacity?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)The purpose of this article is to test the effect of Color Line’s acquisition of Larvik Line in September 1996. We formulate theoretical predictions for the changes in sales, capacity and capacity utilisation following an ... -
Acquisitions in the electricity sector : active vs. passive owners
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-06)The starting point of this paper is a mixed oligopoly market consisting of n privately owned profit maximizing firm. Motivated by the trend of mergers and acquisitions in the liberalized electricity markets, and by the ... -
Ad-avoidance technology : who should welcome It?
(Working paper;17/12, Working paper, 2012-06)The business model of many commercial TV-networks is to interrupt TV programs with advertising breaks. In this paper we investigate consequences of the fact that ad-averse viewers today can adopt technology which enables ... -
The adoption of a mobile parking service : instrumentality and expressiveness
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)This paper applies an extended model based upon the theory of planned behavior to explain the adoption of mobile parking services among a group of users having some experience with the service. Because mobile parking ... -
Advertising and newspaper differentiation : on the role of readers’ advertising taste
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-12)Newspapers have an incentive to moderate their profile in order to gain a larger readership and thus higher advertising revenue. We show that this incentive is weakened both if readers are ad-haters and if they are ad-lovers. -
Age discrimination in hiring decisions : a comparison of Germany and Norway
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-12)The workforce in all industrialized countries is aging. To forecast future challenges, it is important to understand the impact of a worker’s age on the labor market. In this paper, we analyze whether older workers in ... -
Agglomeration, tax competition and local public goods supply
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-09)The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for analysing local public goods supply and tax competition between jurisdictions in a context where there are gains from geographic agglomeration and where labour is ... -
Agriculture versus fish – Norway in WTO
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-09)The Norwegian agriculture is highly protected and subsidised. The opposite is the case for fisheries and fish farming which suffer from foreign market restrictions. Using a computational general equilibrium model, the gain ... -
Allocation of resources in the presence of indivisibilities : Scarf’s problem revisited
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-06)In his article “The Allocation of Resources in the Presence of Indivisibilities,” Scarf points out that the major problem presented to economic theory by the presence of indivisibilities is the impossibility of detecting ... -
Allocation of specific assets, relationship duration, and contractual safeguarding in buyer-seller relationships
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)This study explores the interaction effect of bilateral dependency and relationship duration on contractual safeguarding. In particular, the study compares how the allocation of specific assets, unilateral or mutual, affects ... -
Allocation of tradable emission permits in a global economy
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-09)This paper discusses the question of how a national government should design a system of tradable emission permits when goods or production factors are internationally mobile. Emphasis is on the principles for the allocation ... -
An alternative way to model merit good arguments
(Working paper, Working paper, 2003-11)Besley (1988) uses a scaling approach to model merit good arguments in commodity tax policy. In this paper, I question this approach on the grounds that it produces wrong recommendations-taxation (subsidisation) of merit ... -
An analysis of the interplay among the dimensions of the business model and their effects on performance
(;2011:35, Working paper, 2011-12)he main research issue raised in this paper is the relationship between business model conduct and performance. We have in this paper developed and discussed a business model framework based on a literature review of ... -
An economic analysis of the portuguese fisheries sector 1960-2011
(Working paper;22/13, Working paper, 2013-08)This paper undertakes an economic analysis of the Portuguese fisheries sector and fish markets for the period 1960-2011. In this period the Portuguese economy has undergone a transformation as well as been subject to ... -
Analyse av konkurransen i det norske bladmarkedet
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2005-11)Formålet med oppgaven har vært å belyse to forhold i det norske bladmarkedet. For det første tar oppgaven for seg den kraftige økningen i antall titler på markedet og for det andre analyseres bladforlagenes valg av ... -
An analysis of a combinatorial auction
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-05)Our objective is to find prices on individual items in a combinatorial auction that support the optimal allocation of bundles of items, i.e. the solution to the winner determination problem of the combinatorial auction. ...