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The effect of recessions on firms’ boundaries
(Working paper;04/13, Working paper, 2013-01)The economic theory of the firm offers conflicting predictions of how the two major effects of recessions, changes in demand and access to credit, affect firm boundaries. Using data on Norwegian firms in the recent recession, ... -
The effects of a day off from retail price competition : evidence on consumer behavior and firm performance in gasoline retailing
(Working paper;2017:11, Working paper, 2017-08)First, we analyze how regular days off from competition and a time-dependent price pattern affect firm performance. Second, we examine the effects on firms’ profitability from consumers’ changing search- and timing behavior. ... -
The ensemble kalman filter for multidimensional bioeconomic models
(Working papers;04/14, Working paper, 2014-03)To serve the needs for integrating economic considerations into management decisions in ecosystem frameworks, we need to build models that capture observed system dynamics and incorporate existing knowledge of ecosystems ... -
The market for consumption devices : on complementary products and seller-side revenue-extraction
(Working paper;40/12, Working paper, 2012-11)Some products and services are perfect complements to technological devices, such as video games to video game consoles. We analyze how competition between two firms selling such devices is affected by the fact that they ... -
The opportunism problem revisited : the case of retailer sales effort
(Working paper;30/13, Working paper, 2013-09)We study a setting where the opportunism or commitment problem identified by Hart and Tirole (1990) may arise. An upstream monopolist may sell its product to two differentiated downstream retailers. Contract unobservability ... -
The Portuguese fish processing industry from the 1960s to the present
(Working paper;2015:13, Working paper, 2015-12)The purpose of this report is to analyse developments in the Portuguese fish processing industry from the 1960s to the present. In this period, Portugal has undergone tremendous political and macroeconomic changes. While ... -
The turn-around of Uninor
(Working paper;06/13, Working paper, 2013-01)On October 29, 2008, Telenor of Norway announced its plans to enter the Indian mobile telecom market. Despite a strong start, revenue did not grow in line with business projections. In a highly congested market, price war ... -
Ti teser om "den fleksible bedrift"
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2002-12)I dette notatet settes søkelyset på et perspektiv i studiet av bedriftens effektive grenser og tilknytningsformer for arbeid. Atkinsons modell om den fleksible bedrift har hatt stor innflytelse på forskningen om disse ... -
Tid er penger : om betydningen av transporttid og informasjonsteknologi for lokaliseringen av utenlandske direkteinvesteringer
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2003-12)Globaliseringen av verdensøkonomien, uttrykt for eksempel ved reduserte transportkostnader, bedret kommunikasjonsteknologi, og en politikk som i stadig større grad åpner opp for internasjonal handel og internasjonale ... -
Tilknytningsformer for arbeid : virksomhetsstudien
(Arbeidsnotat;2017:7, Working paper, 2017-06)Dette notatet er en underveisrapportering fra et prosjekt om tilknytningsformer i arbeidslivet. Prosjektet er et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom Fafo (hovedansvarlig) og SNF, og er finansiert av Arbeids- og sosialdepartementet. ... -
Tilpasninger til CO2 avgift i skipsfartsnæringen
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2000-07)Dette notatet belyser konsekvensene for nærskipsfarten mellom Norge og kontinentet av å innføre en CO2 avgift på internasjonal bunkers. Vi beregner hvordan en slik avgift vil påvirke driftskostnadene for ulike typer skip ... -
Timber trade restrictions and tropical deforestation : a forest mining approach
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-04)Timber trade restrictions have been proposed as a means to reducing tropical deforestation. This paper analyses the consequences of such trade interventions, emphasising the effects on logging behaviour and the allocation ... -
Time-inconsistency in DEA : a study of Norwegian factory trawlers
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005-04)DEA is widely used to assess efficiency and returns to scale of production units. Such analysis will be useful only to the extent the data used are representative of efficiency over time, but often the data used are likely ... -
Tosidige markeder, nettverkseffekter og offentlig politikk
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2005-10)De siste årene har det vokst fram en interessant litteratur om såkalte tosidige markeder. Et eksempel på en bedrift som opererer i et tosidig marked er en dagsavis. Avisen vil typisk finansiere sin virksomhet både gjennom ... -
Towards monitoring the world’s fishery resources using viability indices
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-05)This paper develops an easy to use and cost efficient index for the assessment of stock viability in fisheries management and bioeconomic analysis. The index is predicated on biological and economic theory, and can be ... -
Trade in information services and economic development : on the implications of ICT for less developed countries
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-07)The diffusion of information and communication technology has reduced cost of information substantially in recent years. Even in the poorest countries in the world, the share of the population with access to telecommunications ... -
Trade liberalization and distribution
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-10)We analyze how the organization of imports of agricultural products due to trade liberalization affects domestic production, profits and welfare. A local wholesaler owned by local farmers (cooperative) competes with an ... -
The tragedy of soft choices : capacity accumulation and lopsided allocation in the Norwegian coastal cod fishery
(Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2001-12)Following years of reduced stocks and catch quotas, 1989 became the "great divide" in Norwegian cod fisheries management as the open-access regime was abandoned. The government implemented a new regime for the coastal cod ... -
Transitions to employment from labour market enterprises in Norway
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-12)We analyse a labour market programme for partly disabled workers that involves the transition from Labour Market Enterprises to a job in the ordinary labour market. We find that the percentage of these people finding jobs ... -
Transnational energy companies’ investment allocation decisions
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-10)When making international capital budgeting decisions, energy companies are often faced with capital and organisational constraints. The constraints may be real or management imposed. In addition, when entering into a new ...