Blar i Working papers (SNF) på forfatter "Kind, Hans Jarle"
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Access pricing, quality degradation and foreclosure in the internet
Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-03)Access to both a local and a global network is needed in order to get complete connection to the Internet. The purpose of this article is to examine the interplay between those two networks and how it affects the domestic ... -
Advertising and newspaper differentiation : on the role of readers’ advertising taste
Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-12)Newspapers have an incentive to moderate their profile in order to gain a larger readership and thus higher advertising revenue. We show that this incentive is weakened both if readers are ad-haters and if they are ad-lovers. -
Another tale of two-sided markets
Kind, Hans Jarle; Stähler, Frank (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-06)This note generalizes the frequently used Hotelling model for two-sided markets. We demonstrate an invariance theorem: advertisement levels neither depend on the media price nor on the location of the media firm. An increase ... -
The broadband access market : competition, uniform pricing and geographical coverage
Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle (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 ... -
Business models for media firms : does competition matter for how they raise revenue?
Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-08)The purpose of this article is to analyze how competitive forces may influence how media firms like TV channels raise revenue. A media firm can either be financed by advertising revenue, by direct payment from the viewers ... -
Competition and regulation strategies in the internet
Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-09)The purpose of this article is to provide a simple introduction to the Internet’s value system and historical development from an economic point of view. One of the central themes that we discuss is whether increased user ... -
Competition between content distributors in two-sided markets
Bergh, Harald Nygård; Kind, Hans Jarle; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper;11/12, Working paper, 2012-05)We analyze strategic interactions between two competing distributors of an independent TV channel. Consistent with most of the relevant markets, we assume that the distributors set end-user prices while the TV channel sets ... -
Competition for viewers and advertisers in a tv oligopoly
Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-12)We consider a model of a TV oligopoly where TV channels transmit advertising and viewers dislike such commercials. We show that advertisers make a lower profit the larger the number of TV channels. If TV channels are ... -
Competition with personalized pricing and strategic product differentiation
Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Nguyen-Ones, Mai (Arbeidsnotat;2018/7, Working paper, 2018-12)Consumers leave increasingly more digital footprints which improve Örmsíability to practice personalized pricing (Örst-degree price discrimination). We ask whether there exist strategic e§ects that reduce Örmsíincentives ... -
Consequences of imitation by poor countries on international wage inequalities and global growth
Kind, Hans Jarle (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 ... -
Cooperative and non-cooperative R&D policy in an economic union
Haaland, Jan Ingvald Meidell; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-11)Should R&D policies within an economic union be centralized or decentralized to each individual country? Do non-cooperative policies - typically implying policy competition between countries - always give rise to too high ... -
Corporate tax systems, multinational enterprises and economic integration
Kind, Hans Jarle; Midelfart, Karen Helene; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Working paper, Working paper, 2001-02)This paper addresses the outcome of international tax competition in the presence of multinationals that use transfer pricing for strategic purposes as well as to reduce their tax burden. We examine how economic integration ... -
Critical factors in transnational oil companies localisation decisions : clusters and portfolio optimisation
Kind, Hans Jarle; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-10)Enhanced understanding of the factors determining transnational companies’ localisation decisions is important for regulators and other stakeholders concerned about maintaining current activity levels in a petroleum producing ... -
Do advertisers or viewers decide TV channels’ programming choice?
Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Schjelderup, Guttorm (2010:43, Working paper, 2010-11)Ad-financed TV channels are two-sided platforms where media houses provide communication from advertisers to viewers. Most media houses air several channels, some of which are particularly valuable to advertisers. At first ... -
Do incumbents have incentives to degrade interconnection quality in the internet?
Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sand, Jan Yngve (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-04) -
Do internet incumbents choose low interconnection quality?
Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sand, Jan Yngve (Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-06)In this paper we analyze the interconnection incentives for two networks that differ with respect to size of their installed based. In the first part we prove that the smaller firm may be harmed in competition for new ... -
Efficiency enhancing taxation in two-sided markets
Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)This paper examines the efficient provision of goods in two-sided markets and characterizes optimal specific and ad-valorem taxes. We show that (i) a monopoly may have too tight output compared to the social optimum; (ii) ... -
Fastpris på bøker
Foros, Øystein; Hjelmeng, Erling; Kind, Hans Jarle (Arbeidsnotat;47/13, Working paper, 2013-12)Det er omstridt hvorvidt bokbransjen skal tillates å benytte fastpriser (bindende videresalgspriser). Et premiss hos mange som er skeptisk til faste bokpriser er at det fjerner konkurranse og leder til høyere sluttbrukerpriser. ... -
Financing of media firms: does competition matter?
Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-01)This paper analyses how competition between media firms influences the way they are financed. In a setting where monopoly may lead the media firms to be completely financed by consumer payments, competition may lead the ... -
Gains and losses from trade when countries differ in public knowledge stocks
Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-09)Following the insight from endgenus growth theory, we assume that countries with advanced production structures have high levels of public knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether a developing country ...