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Explaining vertical integration : transaction cost economics and competence considerations
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)This study develops a conceptual model that explains vertical integration as a synthesis of transaction costs economics and the competence perspective. Our empirical results show that asset specificity and closeness to ... -
International management strategies for a migratory fish stock : a bio-economic simulation model of the Norwegian spring-spawning herring
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-12)In this paper, a three-country dynamic bio-economic simulation model is presented for the spring-spawning herring fishery. The international spring-spawning herring fishery, based on potentially one of the most valuable ... -
Foreign direct investments and regional effects : the case of Norway
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)Foreign direct investments (FDI) have had an important role in Norway since the start of the manufacturing age in the beginning of the 1900s. Traditionally these were mostly export-oriented manufacturing companies. However, ... -
Strategic investments with spillovers, vertical integration and foreclosure in the broadband access market
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)We analyze competition between two firms (ISPs) in the retail market for broadband internet connectivity. One of the firms is vertically integrated and controls the input market for local broadband access. The vertically ... -
Merger and collusion in contests
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)Competition in some product markets takes the form of a contest. If some firms cooperate in such markets, they must decide how to allocate effort on each of their products and whether to reduce the number of their products ... -
Foreign firm location and local multiplier effects : the case of Norwegian industrial towns
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) theory show that these investments form regional effects. Our paper emphasis the heterogeneity of these effects. Different motives for FDI creates different multiplier effects, such as ... -
Data for a steel industry model
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)SNF has recently developed a new model of the steel market and some of the major factor markets connected to the steel industry. The aim of the model has been to study how regulations of the emissions of carbon dioxide ... -
Multinational firms : easy come, easy go?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)Although many countries welcome inward investments by multinational firms (MNEs), it is often perceived that MNEs readily close down production in bad times. We study the choice of an MNE in deciding whether to establish ... -
Consequences of imitation by poor countries on international wage inequalities and global growth
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)This paper presents an endogenous growth model where the level of international transaction costs may be decisive for whether the poor East specializes in agriculture production, imitates goods from the rich West, or makes ... -
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 ... -
Collude, compete, or both? : deregulation in the Norwegian airline industry
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)The purpose of this paper is to test the nature of competition concerning price and capacity setting in the Norwegian airline industry after the deregulation in 1994. Did the two airlines, SAS and Braathens, compete on ... -
Information technology and regional development : global village or rural backwater?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)The study discusses information and communication technology (ICT) and regional development. It first presents a case study of a small multinational company (Vik-Sandvik) producing naval architecture and ship design in an ... -
Global markets - local competence? : internationalisation of the Norwegian petroleum industry
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)The first part of this paper summarise the regime of regulation of the Norwegian petroleum activities historically, describe the fairly successful results of this seed bed policy, and lastly the need to internationalise ... -
Cod farming at the intersection of fisheries and aquaculture
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-12)Over the past three decades, the powerful combination of capital, research, and promising prospects has propelled salmon aquaculture to a mature, billion dollar, worldwide industry. Aquaculture entrepreneurs now search for ... -
Free emission quotas, capital mobility and international environmental problems
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)This paper brings together two important questions in environmental policy. The first question is how to solve international environmental problems in a world where environmental policies are implemented by governments at ... -
Is customer profitability related to solvency of customers?
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-12)Firms have to consider various ways to analyse their business. However, by many firms it is often asserted that the customers are most important. The sales to customers are generating the cash flows that make the firms ... -
The broadband access market : competition, uniform pricing and geographical coverage
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)This paper analyzes some technological and political aspects of the market for broadband access. Broadband access is the last mile of the telecommunication network, and it is an essential component in order to offer broadband ... -
Does quality pay? : relationships between antecedents of customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and costomer profitability at the individual level
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-12)Superior quality is supposed to be positively related to superior business performances. This conception forms the cornerstone of Total Quality Management (TQM). At the individual customer level superior quality is supposed ... -
Deregulation of the Norwegian market for dairy products
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-01)The Norwegian dairy policy is based on price discrimination. Monopoly profit is passed on to the farmers by raising the average price of milk. This procedure increases milk production, and involves cross-subsidization. ... -
Brukerrådets rolle i Statnett : en prinsipiell betenkning
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2001-02)Notatet er utarbeidet på oppdrag for Statnett SF og gir en prinsipiell vurdering av brukerrådets rolle i styringen av selskapet. Temaet er aktualisert ved regjeringens innspill til endringer i brukerrådets sammensetning ...