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    • Pennies from heaven - Using exogenous tax variation to identify effects of school resources on pupil achievement 

      Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-07)
      Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort ...

    • Pensjonssystem i Kina. En analyse med en numerisk overlappende generasjonsmodell 

      Hanstad, Silje Maria; Sundtjønn, Tone Aamli (Arbeidsnotat;49/12, Working paper, 2012-10)

    • Performance appraisal and career opportunities : a case study 

      Mohn, Klaus; Kvaløy, Ola; Hunnes, Arngrim (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-03)
      Based on powerful survey data from an international oil company in Norway, we explore perceptions of performance appraisal and career opportunities among leaders and employees. Perceptions indicate that performance and ...

    • Personal responsibility and income distribution 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-02)
      Standard welfare economics and optimal tax theory have primarily relied on welfarist theories of distributive justice. An important limitation of welfarist theories is that they are unable to incorporate considerations of ...

    • Petrorettet næringsliv i Norge : tiltakende internasjonalisering og global tilstedeværelse 

      Heum, Per; Vatne, Eirik; Kristiansen, Frode (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2006-10)
      SNF har fire ganger de siste 6-7 årene kartlagt markedsorienteringen til foretak etablert i Norge og som leverer varer og tjenester til oppstrøms petroleumsvirksomhet. Disse kartleggingene er utført på oppdrag for Olje- ...

    • Pharmaceutical patents : incentives for R&D or marketing? 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Straume, Odd Rune (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-11)
      We analyse how a patent-holding pharmaceutical firm may strategically use advertising of existing drugs to affect R&D investments in new (differentiated) drugs, and thereby affect the probability distribution of future ...

    • The Philippines : the sick man of Asia? : economic development in the Philippines after 1946 

      Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-05)
      The Philippines has been labelled the Sick Man of Asia. In the early 1950s the Philippines was among the richest and most advanced countries in Asia, but has been surpassed by many of its neighbours over the last decades. ...

    • Picking “lemons” or “cherries”? : domestic and foreign acquisitions in Norwegian manufacturing 

      Balsvik, Ragnhild; Haller, Stefanie A. (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-06)
      We compare the performance in employment, wages and productivity for domestic plants acquired by new domestic and foreign owners. Prospective foreign owners pick large, high-wage, high-productivity plants, while new domestic ...

    • Piggybacking your way to independent internationalization 

      Horne, Vidar; Solem, John Kåre (Working paper;42/12, Working paper, 2012-12)
      This report investigates piggybacking relationships in the NCE subsea cluster in Bergen region. A piggybacking relationship consists of a rider (SME) and a carrier (larger MNC), where the rider exploits the carriers’ ...

    • A place on the web : the use of spatial concepts in business websites 

      Holmefjord, Kari; Rusten, Grete; Charles, David (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-02)
      The communication revolution enables firms to build new links with customers and suppliers around the world. Presenting business online offers new marketing and product opportunities for trading with both businesses and ...

    • The pluralism of fairness ideals : an experimental approach 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Hole, Astri Drange; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-12)
      A core question in the contemporary debate on distributive justice is how the fair distribution of income is affected by differences in talent and effort. Important theories of distributive justice, such as strict ...

    • Policy and regulatory framework to enhance local content : yardsticks and best practice 

      Heum, Per; Kasande, Robert; Ekern, Ole Fredrik; Nyombi, Alex (2011:02, Working paper, 2011-01)
      The focus of this paper is on how to design a policy to enhance national participation in the local oil and gas industry in a way that actually turns out the benefit the host country of these resources. The underlying idea ...

    • Policy sensitivity analysis : simple versus complex fishery models 

      Moxnes, Erling (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)
      Sensitivity analysis is often used to judge the sensitivity of model behaviour to uncertain assumptions about model formulations and parameter values. Since the ultimate goal of modelling is typically policy recommendation, ...

    • Predation or spillovers? : foreign entry and domestic welfare 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-09)
      This paper analyses the effects of foreign entry on domestic welfare. Foreign entry may increase competition in the local market and thereby improve domestic consumer surplus. It may also lead to spillover effects, which ...

    • Predators in the market : implications of market interaction on optimal resource management 

      Steinshamn, Stein Ivar (Working paper;2016:8, Working paper, 2016-11)
      A two-species bioeconomic model is analyzed, but in contrast to most similar models, there is no biological interaction between the species, only economic. The interaction takes place in the market where the quantity of ...

    • Prediksjon av exit og exittyper gjennom ulike forretningssykluser 

      Ranestad, Erling; Christoffersen, Øystein Espe (Arbeidsnotat;37/13, Working paper, 2013-12)
      Hensikten med studien er å avdekke regnskaps- og organisatoriske forhold som påvirker sannsynligheten for at norske selskaper forlater markedet, og videre hvilke forhold som påvirker exittypene konkurs, M&A og frivillig ...

    • The premium of marine protected areas : a simple valuation model 

      Kvamsdal, Sturla Furunes; Sandal, Leif Kristoffer (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-03)
      Marine Protected Areas are considered as a hedging tool against some of the uncertainties that trouble many fisheries today. Such tools are always connected with a cost; a premium. An optimal harvest rule is combined with ...

    • Price coordination in two-sided markets : competition in the TV Industry 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-06)
      The TV industry is a two-sided market where both advertisers and viewers buy access to the programs offered by competing TV channels. Under the current market structure advertising prices are typically set by TV channels ...

    • Price discrimination with uncertain consumers 

      Vagstad, Steinar (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)
      Many goods and services are priced non-linearly, and a common way to implement nonlinear price schedules is to let consumers choose from a menu of two-part tariffs. If consumers know their demand at the time they choose ...

    • Price transmission in cross boundary value chains 

      Asche, Frank; Menezes, Rui; Dias, Joaõ Ferreira (Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2003-01)
      The extent to which demand and supply shocks are transmitted in the value chain is an important topic. As many value chains cross international borders exchange rate pass through is an important element in this context. ...