Det har vorte hevda frå fleire hald at verksemder med stor im-materiell verdi-skaping offent-leggjer mindre verdirelevante rekne-skapstal enn andre verk-semder. I dette notatet vert denne hypo-tesen testa empirisk gjennom ...

South Africa is not an emerging market in the sense that modern industries are established in the country for the first time. Rather, South Africa is in transition from a mature, mineral-led and inward-looking economy to ...

Norsk dagligvarehandel har i løpet av det siste tiåret gjennomgått vesentlige og til dels fundamentale endringer. Dette notatet retter oppmerksomhet mot sentrale strukturelle endringer som har funnet sted de siste 15 årene. ...

This paper presents some aspects of the introduction of more accountable management control in the Scandinavian hospital sector. A contingency model is used to understand the complexity of public sector government. Contextual ...

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 ...

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 ...

We analyse the question of optimal taxation in a dual economy, when the government is concerned about the distribution of labour income. Income inequality is caused by the presence of sunk capital investments, which creates ...

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 ...

In this paper we note that when there is only one variable factor in the intermediaries' production technology, prices will move proportional to each other over time. This is also the only general condition under which the ...

Optimal exploitation of a renewable capital stock is derived as a feedback rule for a general dynamic optimisation problem with a single resource. By a feedback rule is meant that optimal exploitation is given as an explicit ...