Browsing Working papers (SNF) by Author "Lorentzen, Torbjørn"

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    • Assessing the economic effects of trade barriers 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-03)
      The objective of the paper is to build a simple model which will be easy to use in the assessment of the economic welfare effects due to trade barriers. Traditional partial trade models assume infinitely elastic world ...

    • Climate change and future expansion paths for the Norwegian salmon and trout industry 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn; Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-10)
      Global warming is expected to affect the ecosystem in the Northeast Atlantic, and sufficient changes will also affect the aquaculture industry. Farming of salmon and trout is the biggest aquaculture industry in Norway. The ...

    • Climate Change and its effect on the Norwegian cod fishing industry 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn; Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-01)
      The background for the paper is the expected climate change and its effect on the Norwegian cod fishing industry. Global warming is predicted to increase the stock of cod in the Barents Sea. Oceanographers expect that the ...

    • Climate change and its effect on the Norwegian herring fishery 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn; Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-04)
      The effects of climate change on revenues in the Norwegian herring fishery are considered. The catch quota of Norwegian spring spawning herring is assumed to increase by 25% as a result of warming of the Norwegian Sea and ...

    • Climate change and its effect on the Norwegian mackerel fishery 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn; Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-04)
      The background for the paper is the expected climate change and its effect on the Norwegian mackerel fishing industry. Global warming is expected to affect the ecosystem in the Northeast Atlantic. Considerable uncertainty ...

    • The collapse of the Norwegian herring fisheries in the late 1950s and 60s : crisis, adaptation, and recovery 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn; Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-03)
      This paper deals with the economic effects of the collapse of the Atlanto-Scandian and the North Sea herring stocks on the Norwegian fisheries. In the late 1950s the Norwegian winter herring fishery failed, and in the 1960s ...

    • A Descriptive Analysis of the Seafood Market in Sweden 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-03)
      The background for the paper is the analysis of determinants influencing the Norwegian export of smoked salmon to Sweden. The conditions for export of smoked salmon from Norway have deteriorated after Sweden became a member ...

    • Global warming stationarity in sea temperature data 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-06)
      According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), the earth's climate is already changing. The objective of the paper is to analyze how the average yearly sea temperature has evolved at two different ...

    • A reduction in the quota for Northeast Arctic cod and the income effect on the Norwegian fishing fleet 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-06)
      The paper analyses the economic effect a change in TAC (Total Allowable Catch) will have on the Norwegian fishing industry. For the coming year ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) has recommended a ...

    • A statistical analysis of the swedish import of smoked salmon from Norway 

      Lorentzen, Torbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-03)
      The analysis adresses the question of whether Sweden's membership in the EU has had any influence on the import of smoked salmon from Norway. After Sweden became a member of EU in 1995, the trade conditions changed from ...