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Understanding the production and consumption of design expertise by small medium-sized firms : some evidence from Norway
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005-06)This paper explores the ways in which industrial design services are organised, produced, and consumed by Norwegian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This includes exploring the geographies of this performance in ... -
Understanding the stochastics of nodal prices : price processes in a constrained network
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)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 ... -
Unemployment clusters across European regions and countries
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-03)European regions experienced a polarisation of their unemployment rates between 1986 and 1996. Regions with high or low initial unemployment saw little change, while regions with intermediate unemployment moved towards ... -
Unge voksnes flyttevalg : en gjennomgang av koblede flyttedata for seks norske kommuner
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2001-08)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 ... -
Unionized oligopoly, trade liberalization and location choice
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-08)In a two-country reciprocal dumping model, with on country unionized, we analyze how wage setting and firm location are influenced by trade liberalization. We show that trade liberalization can induce a unionized firm to ... -
Up the Ante on Bioeconomic Submodels of Marine Foodwebs : a data assimilation-based approach
(Working paper;13/14, Working paper, 2014-09)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 ... -
Upstream merger in a successive oligopoly : who pays the price?
(Working paper;48/13, Working paper, 2013-12)This study develops and uses a successive oligopoly model, with an unobservable non-linear tariff between upstream and downstream firms, to analyze the possible anti-competitive effects of an upstream merger. We find that ... -
Upstream partnerships among competitors when size matters
(Working paper;2017:6, Working paper, 2017-06)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 ... -
The urban system of Eastern Norway
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)This working paper reports from a study carried out as part of the Interreg IIC project «Urban Systems and Urban Networking in the Baltic Sea Region», and has also been published as part of a seminar report by the VASAB ... -
Using ISO 26000 to implement a learning and knowledge creating process in two SMEs
(Working paper;2011:26, Working paper, 2011-10)The target group of this research singles out two companies in Norway belonging to the NCE-Subsea cluster in the Bergen region, who are also objects of a larger research project investigating SMEs’ internationalization ... -
Utbygging av digitalt bakkenett i Norge : NRK og TV 2s motiver
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2005-02)Målet med utredningen er å analysere NRK og TV 2s motiver ved utbyggingen av det digitale bakkenettet. Vi identifiserer både mediepolitiske- og økonomiske motiver. I forhold til medievitenskap finner vi at hensynet til ... -
Utlendinger og spillerutvikling i norsk fotball
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2006-03)Det har vært en sterk økning i importen av utenlandske spillere til norsk toppfotball de siste årene, noe som nødvendigvis må fortrenge norske spillere. Med bakgrunn i data hentet fra VGs Eliteguide, Aftenpostens oversikt ... -
Utnytting av kraftkundar i sluttbrukarmarknaden : analyser av konkurransetilhøvet mellom norske kraftavtalar
(Arbeidsnotat;2011:30, Working paper, 2011-11)Masteroppgåva omhandlar konkurransetilhøvet mellom norske kraftavtalar i sluttbrukarmarknaden. Som forventa finn ein tydelege bevis på utnytting av innelåste kundar gjennom dyre standard variabelprisavtalar. Ein finn også ... -
Utvikling av eierstrukturen i rederier notert på Oslo Børs. En beskrivelse av eierstrukturen i perioden 1994 til 2007 med vekt på utenlandske investorer
(;2011:34, Working paper, 2011-11)Dette arbeidsnotatet tar for seg eierstrukturen i rederier notert på Oslo Børs i perioden fra starten av 1994 til utgangen av 2007. I notatet legges det særlig vekt på utenlandsk eierandel. Etter restriksjonene på ... -
Valuation of international oil companies : the RoACE era
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-06)To improve their basis for investment recommendations and decisions, stock market analysts and investors make extensive use of operational and financial indicators. For the international oil and gas industry, a predominant ... -
Value chain and price integration in the Spanish market for salted cod
(Working paper;2015:10, Working paper, 2015-09)Salted cod is a much appreciated product in the traditional Spanish cuisine. Following the collapse of the Newfoundland fishery, local processors became dependent on imports of raw material in order to keep on producing. ... -
The value relevance of financial reporting on the Oslo Stock Exchange
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-07)This paper focuses on the value relevance of accounting numbers in Norway over the period 1968–2002. This period covers a number of large, and distinct, changes in Norwegian accounting practice, which so far has culminated ... -
The value-relevance of accounting figures in the international oil and gas industry : cash flows or accruals?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005-08)Analysts often rely on a given set of accounting figures for evaluating the financial performance and relative valuation of oil and gas exploration companies. However, the relative importance of these various measures in ... -
The values of relative risk aversion and prudence : a context-free interpretation
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-02)In this paper we apply to multiplicative lotteries the idea of preference for “harm disaggregation” that was used for additive lotteries in order to interpret the signs of successive derivatives of a utility function. In ... -
Valutaeksponering og norsk industridød : en empirisk studie av sysselsetting i Telemark og Møre og Romsdal
(Arbeidsnotat;47/12, Working paper, 2012-12)Med bakgrunn i dagens høye kronekurs vil denne studien undersøke virkningen den reelle kronekursen har på sysselsetting og industridød i Telemark og Møre og Romsdal. Analysen tar utgangspunkt i perioden 1996 til 2004 med ...