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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper studies the acquisition of firm specific knowledge in a major Norwegian oil company. Based on self-report data from 980 managers and professionals the paper investigates the impact of formal structure, informal ...

We analyze two-part tariffs in an oligopoly, where each firm commits to a quantity and a fixed fee prior to the determination of unit prices. In the case of homogeneous consumers, Harrison and Kline (2001) showed that the ...

I denne rapporten drøftes og tallfestes regionaløkonomiske virkninger for Sørvestlandet av ferjefritt stamveiforbindelse mellom Stavanger og Bergen. Analysen er et supplement til «tradisjonelle» nytte-kostnadsanalyser. ...

Network congestion in competitive electricity markets may be managed by geographically differentiated nodal prices. The stochastics of an unconstrained equilibrium price reflect the underlying fundamentals of demand and ...

Distriktskommuner som er preget av industri, fiskeri og landbruk, har over lang tid hatt det størst netto flyttetapet blant unge. Med dette som bakgrunn, tar arbeidsnotatet utgangspunkt i seks slike kommuner og analyserer ...

While economists have discussed ecosystem-based management and similar concepts, little attention has been devoted to the art of modeling. Models of ecosystems or foodwebs that make economic analysis viable should capture ...

In several industries, downstream competitors form upstream partnerships. An important rationale is that higher aggregate upstream volume might generate efficiencies that reduce both fixed and marginal costs. Our focus is ...