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    • Private label entry as a competitive force? : an analysis of price responses in the Norwegian food sector 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl; Steen, Frode; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-12)
      According to existing theory, the introduction of a private label has an ambiguous effect on the prices of competing national brands. We undertake an empirical analysis of the effects of private label entry on national ...

    • Private labels, price rivalry, and public policy 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-08)
      The article examines how the existence of a retailer owned brand, private label, affects the price setting of a national brand. We find that potential for a private label introduction may lead to price concessions from the ...

    • Product development in IT and telecommunications information acquisition strategies 

      Lund, Arne-Christian; Mæland, Jøril (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-10)
      Investment projects within information technology and telecommunication industries face high uncertainty with respect to future cash flows, especially due to technological innovations and changing markets. Competition among ...

    • Productivity development in Icelandic : Norwegian and Swedish fisheries 

      Eggert, Håkan; Tveterås, Ragnar (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-12)
      Several factors contribute to the productivity of nations’ fisheries: Abundance of fish stocks, government regulation of fisheries, and innovations in fishing technologies. We analyze the total factor productivity (TFP) ...

    • Productivity in organic and conventional salmon aquaculture 

      Reithe, Siv; Tveterås, Ragnar (Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-09)
      This report provides a comparative analysis of productivity in conventional and organic salmon aquaculture. Regulations in organic salmon farming impose several restrictions on production that are not present in conventional ...

    • Project valuation when there are two cashflow streams 

      Emhjellen, Magne; Alaouze, Chris M. (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-06)
      Some authors (Lewellen, 1977, Shall, 1972, Butters et al., 1987, Laughton and Jacoby, 1993, Jacoby and Laughton, 1992, Salahor, 1998) advocate the separate discounting of different cashflows when calculating net present ...

    • Provision of renewable energy using green certificates : market power and limit pricing 

      Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Nese, Gjermund (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-06)
      We formulate an analytic equilibrium model for simultaneously functioning electricity market and a market for Green Certificates. The major focus of the paper is the effect of market power in a Green Certificate system. ...

    • Proximity in Bank-Borrower Relationships. Are Small and Newly Established Firms Hit Harder by Bank Branch Closures? 

      Johannessen, Ragnhild Grønn; Skarstein, Frida Lobenz (Working paper, 2018-08)
      In this paper, we use an empirical approach to provide evidence on the topic of relationship lending, by analysing if small and newly established firms are hit harder by a regional bank withdrawal. We use comprehensive ...

    • Publication bias in the returns to R&D literature 

      Møen, Jarle; Thorsen, Helge Sandvig (Working paper;06/12, Working paper, 2012-09)
      We conduct a meta-analysis of the private returns to R&D literature and find that 26 % of the results in a hypothetical complete literature are missing. The combined estimate for the marginal returns to R&D falls from 18.2 ...

    • Quality and location choices under price regulation 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)
      In a model of spatial competition, we analyse the equilibrium outcomes in markets where the product price is exogenous. Using an extended version of the Hotelling model, we assume that firms choose their locations and the ...

    • Quality competition with profit constraints 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune (Working paper;30/12, Working paper, 2012-09)
      Firms in markets such as health care and education are often profit constrained due to regulation or their non-profit status, and they are often viewed as being altruistic towards consumers. We use a spatial competition ...

    • Quota enforcement in resource industries : self reporting and differentiated inspections 

      Hansen, Lars Gårn; Jensen, Frank; Nøstbakken, Linda (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-06)
      Individual quotas are a dominant instrument in the management of common pool renewable resources like fisheries. However, there is concern about the basic effectiveness of quota regulation due to widespread non-compliance. ...

    • R&D and strategic industrial location in international oligopolies 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)
      In a spatial economy where Oligopolist firms compete in R&D, it is found that geography affects the innovative behaviour of firms. Notably, international differences in market size conduce to endogenous asymmetries between ...

    • R&D investment responses to R&D subsidies : a theoretical analysis and a microeconometric study 

      Klette, Tor Jakob; Møen, Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-08)
      Whereas many countries subsidize R&D in private companies through tax credits, subsidies to the Norwegian high-tech industries have traditionally been given as matching grants, i.e. the subsidies are targeted, and the firms ...

    • R&D policies, trade and process innovation 

      Haaland, Jan Ingvald Meidell; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      We set up a simple trade model with two countries hosting one firm each. The firms invest in cost-reducing R&D, and each government may grant R&D subsidies to the domestic firm. We show that it is optimal for a government ...

    • R&D, strategic investment and multinational choice 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-06)
      We analyse the influence of strategic R&D investment on the firms’ mode of foreign expansion: export versus multinational. Strategic investment allows a firm, not only to improve its own level of productive efficiency (as ...

    • Raising rivals’ costs or improving efficiency? : an exploratory study of managers’ views on backward integration in the grocery market 

      Bernes, Hanna Skjervheim; Flo, Isabel Marie; Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper;2017:5, Working paper, 2017-06)
      Large retail grocery chains’ backward integration into distribution, procurement and production is controversial, and has received a lot of attention by both policymakers and market players. If a large retail chain for ...

    • Rapportering fra pilot-studier 

      Sunnevåg, Kjell J. (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2005)
      Bakgrunnen for dette notatet er et prosjekt finansiert av Kommunal– og regionaldepartementet. Siktemålet med prosjektet er å studere effektivitet og effektivitetsutvikling innenfor sentrale kommunale og fylkeskommunale ...

    • Recession, HR and growth 

      Lien, Lasse B.; Hillestad, Tore (Working paper, Working paper, 2011-07)
      We document how the recession in the wake of the financial crisis created a general surge in pro-change attitudes and behavior. Next, we examine variation across firms with respect to this change boost. In particular, we ...

    • Recessions across industries : a survey 

      Lien, Lasse B. (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-04)
      This paper surveys existing knowledge about how and why industries differ with respect to the impact of recessions and credit crunches. While this question is of obvious relevance in today’s business environment the relevant ...