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Business Region Bergen : bakgrunnsnotat for indikatorer
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2009)SNF har på oppdrag av Business Region Bergen (BRB) utarbeidet et sett med indikatorer for relevante økonomiske og strukturelle forhold innen BRB. For en del indikatorer er det ikke tilgang på kommunedata, og indikatorene ... -
Buy-back programs for fishing vessels in Norway
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-03)In Norway, buy-back programs have been in force since 1979. Grants have been given to scrap fishing vessels or to sell them out of the country. These programs have been most successful for the purse seine fleet. Since the ... -
Buying influence : aid fungibility in a strategic perspective
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-01)I study equilibria of non-cooperative budgetary games between an aid donor and a recipient when there is conflict over the preferred allocation of the combined budgets of the two parties. I show that final outcomes are the ... -
Buying power in UK retail chains : a residual supply approach
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-11)The development of supermarket chains has led to substantial concentration in food supply chains, and has raised concerns not only that these companies can exploit oligopoly power, but also oligopsony power. In this paper, ... -
Bør FoU-støtte rettes mot små eller store foretak?
(;2011:37, Working paper, 2011-12)”Innovation, Path Dependency, and Policy”, som utkom på Oxford University Press i 2009 uttrykker Jan Fagerberg, David Mowery og Bart Verspagens bekymring for at norsk forskningspolitikk ikke i tilstrekkelig grad understøtter ... -
Bør kommuner kjøpe helseforsikring
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2006-12)Private helseforsikringer har så langt hatt et relativt beskjedent omfang i Norge, også sammenliknet med våre skandinaviske naboland. Den viktigste årsaken til at relativt få tegner private forsikringer mot sykdom, er ... -
Can a warmer climate save northern agriculture?
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-05)Agriculture at high latitudes is expected to be the main beneficiary of a man-made climate change. A numerical model, using Norway as a case, is employed to analyze the impacts of a warmer climate on northern agriculture. ... -
Can exclusive territories limit strategic location downstream?
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)Research on spatial price discrimination demonstrates that strategic (off center) location choices by downstream firms can increase downstream profit and reduce both the profit of an upstream monopoly and social welfare. ... -
Can land reform be an effective approach to alleviate poverty and inequality in Nepal?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-09)Land is the main source of income and consumption for the Nepalese people. This study analyses the economic relationship between access to land and poverty in Nepal by establishing the link between land and consumption as ... -
Can perceptual measures of customers profitability replace more objective ones?
(Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2001-05)Business performance is closely related to decisions. When making decisions, managers need reliable information concerning the decision situation, e.g. the profitability of orders, the profitability of customers, credit ... -
Capacity adjustment and drivers of investment in a fishery with tradable output quotas
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-03)In this study, I analyse what drives investment and capital development, and hence the development of fishing capacity in a well-managed fishery. An empirical analysis of drivers of firm-level investment in the Norwegian ... -
Capacity and compliance in quota regulated industries
(Working paper, Working paper, 2010-10)Production quotas can restore efficiency in industries characterized by production externalities, such as resource industries and industries with environmental regulations. However, with imperfect quota enforcement, firms ... -
Cartels uncovered
(Working paper, Working paper, 2011-03)How many cartels are there? The answer is important in assessing the need for competition policy. We present a Hidden Markov Model that answers the question, taking into account that often we do not know whether a cartel ... -
Catch, stock elasticity and an implicit index of fishing effort
(Working paper;25/13, Working paper, 2013-09)Economists are interested in the relationship between fishing effort and stock size, and how these impacts catch levels. The interest lies in the stock elasticity where it is thought that for pelagic fish species it is ... -
The causality of strategic control : three-level construction of causality
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2003-02)Causality is currently a topic which permeates literature on all three conventional control levels, i.e. Strategy, management, and operations. The purpose of this paper is to explore causality models on these three levels, ... -
Centralised versus decentralised enforcement of fish quotas
(Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2002-01)The purpose of this paper is to consider under what circumstances it is better to have centralised enforcement of catch quotas and when it is better to leave enforcement to the countries themselves. It is shown for a ... -
The challenge of a rising skill premium for redistributive taxation
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-02)The present paper analysis the challenge to redistribution programs posed by an increase in skill premium. The increase in skill premium, which we observe in most OECD countries, affects taxation through its effect on ... -
Challenging conventional wisdom on atypical work : why firms use external work arrangements in core value-creation areas
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-05)I denne artikkelen utfordres “konvensjonell visdom” når det gjelder atypisk arbeid. Med atypisk arbeid menes andre tilknytningsformer enn fast ansettelse i bedriften; som midlertidige ansettelser, innleie av arbeidskraft, ... -
Changes in herring consumption in Russia
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-12)In the seafood category Russian consumers are adopting new species and new product forms at a rapid rate. We employ a panel data set on monthly per capita demand for different herring products in six Russian regions to ... -
Cheating about the cod
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-12)The Northeast Arctic cod is managed by a total quota shared evenly between Norway and Russia. It appears that Russia has been overfishing its quota by substantial amounts for a number of years, due to insufficient monitoring ...