• Rettsvern mot omgåelse av DRM-teknologi : en trussel mot opphavsretten? 

      Rieber-Mohn, Thomas (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2006-02)
      Da EUs Opphavsrettsdirektiv i 2005 ble implementert i norsk rett, forårsaket det noe så uvanlig som en allmenn samfunnsdebatt om opphavsrettslige spørsmål. Det som satt sinnene i kok var først og fremst innføringen av et ...
    • Revenue cap regulation in a deregulated electricity market : effects on a grid company 

      Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-08)
      In 1997 an incentive-based regulation was introduced for Norwegian transmission and distribution companies. Under the following revenue regulation regime, the permissible revenue of a grid company is adjusted annually, and ...
    • Revisjonsplikten for norskregistrerte utenlandske foretak : en empirisk studie av små foretak 

      Frøyshov, Hanne; Johansen, Hanne Sælemyr (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2010-09)
      Vi ønsker med denne masterutredningen å komme med et empirisk begrunnet innspill i debatten om revisjonsplikt for små selskap. På bakgrunn av en empirisk sammenligning av regnskapskvalitet mellom reviderte aksjeselskap og ...
    • Rewarding effort 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-06)
      According to liberal egalitarian ethics, individuals should be rewarded for factors under their control, but not for factors outside their control. A fundamental challenge to liberal egalitarian theories of justice is how ...
    • The rise and fall of global network alliances : success or failure? 

      Ulset, Svein (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)
      The purpose of this article is to examine and explain the changing use of different modes of organizing global telecom networks that provide global telecom services to multinational business customers. In this market, ...
    • Risk exchange as a market or production game 

      Borglin, Anders; Flåm, Sjur Didrik (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-09)
      Risk exchange is considered here as a cooperative game with transferable utility. The set-up fits markets for insurance, securities and contingent endowments. When convoluted payoff is concave at the aggregate endowment, ...
    • The role and functions of head offices : towards increased complexity? 

      Jakobsen, Stig-Erik; Onsager, Knut (Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      There is a shortage of studies of what a head office is actually doing. In this paper we offer new insight into the operations of head offices by outlining three core functions; the strategy role, the co-ordination role ...
    • The role of FDI in economic development 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Kind, Hans Jarle; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-12)
      This paper deals with two questions: First, what are the determinants of FDI? Second, what is the role of FDI in economic development? In order to provide some answers to these questions, we draw upon the existing theoretical ...
    • Samarbeid og gevinster i reiselivsnæringen i Norge : et casestudie av Colorline AS 

      Qvenild, Anne; Ringstad, Hanne Grete (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2001-03)
      Formålet med dette notatet er å belyse ulike former for samarbeid innen reiselivsbransjen, og undersøke hvilke gevinster ulike samarbeidsformer kan gi. Med utgangspunkt i teori om relasjonell rente og nettverksteori drøftes ...
    • Samaritan agents? : on the delegation of aid policy 

      Hagen, Rune Jansen (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-11)
      Should an aid donor delegate the responsibility for allocating its budget to an agent less averse to inequality than itself in order to alleviate the Samaritan's Dilemma it is facing? Despite the intuitive appeal of this ...
    • Samfunnsøkonomisk lønnsomhet av timemåling og toveiskommunikasjon 

      Andersen, Christian; Lund, Arne-Christian (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2005-11)
      Arbeidsnotatet inneholder en gjennomgang av nytte- og kostnadskomponenter som har vært trukket frem i forskjellige analyser av innføring av timemåling og toveiskommunikasjon i kraftmarkedet. Enkelte effekter diskuteres ...
    • Samfunnsøkonomiske perspektiver på pressestøtten 

      Møen, Jarle (2010:49, Working paper, 2010-12)
      Internett har endret markedet for papiraviser og redusert lønnsomheten dramatisk. Dette medfører at mediestøtte vil få stor betydning for framtidens mediestruktur. Tradisjonelt har mediestøtten blitt regnet som en ...
    • Scope for efficient multinational exploitation of North-East Atlantic mackerel 

      Kennedy, John (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2002-02)
      The three major harvesters of North-East Atlantic mackerel, Norway, the EU (Scotland and the Irish Republic) and Russia, are modelled as exercising alternative cooperative strategies. Incentives for the formation of ...
    • Seafood price indices 

      Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-10)
      The new FAO seafood price indices have been constructed based on import statistics for USA and the European Union. The main objective of the FAO seafood import price indices is to indicate quarterly to annual price trends ...
    • Searching for price parity in the European whitefish market 

      Asche, Frank; Gordon, Daniel V.; Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2003-03)
      The purpose of this paper is to test for price parity across different species of whitefish in the European Union. Price parity is defined by a system of cointegrated prices and would be evidence of a single European market ...
    • Second-period pricing in a duopoly with switching costs : the effect of size and composition of customer bases 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl; Vagstad, Steinar (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)
      Switching costs may facilitate monopoly pricing in a market with price competition between two suppliers of a homogenous good, provided the switching cost is above some critical level. It is also well known that asymmetric ...
    • Security of supply in competitive electricity markets : the Nordic power market 

      Singh, Balbir (Working paper, Working paper, 2004)
      It is well known that in the absence of a complete set of markets or under conditions of monopoly and imperfect competition, optimal provision of quality can not be taken for granted. Market set in the restructured electricity ...
    • Segregation, radicalization and the protection of minorities : national versus regional policy 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Cappelen, Alexander W. (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-02)
      We analyse the optimal level of political decision making, national or regional, in a society where people hold different views on public policy. The benefit of policy making at the regional level is that it allows for ...
    • Sekretessejurisdiksjoner, korrupsjon og økonomisk kriminalitet 

      Schjelderup, Guttorm (;2011:33, Working paper, 2012-11)
      Skatteparadisene har lovstrukturer som er spesialdesignet for å tilsløre informasjon om aktiviteter og eierforhold som utelukkende berører andre stater. Dette er ikke utøvelse av selvråderett, men inngripen i andre staters ...
    • Self service technology : an overview of existing research 

      Nysveen, Herbjørn; Pedersen, Per E. (Working paper, Working paper, 2011-03)
      The purpose of this working paper is twofold. First the paper presents a review of the literature on self service technology (SST). The review categorizes the literature based on dependent variables studied in existing ...