Blar i Working papers (SNF) på forfatter "Sørgard, Lars"

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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 ...

    • An acquisition in the Nordic ferry market: rivalry or coordination on capacity? 

      Steen, Frode; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)
      The purpose of this article is to test the effect of Color Line’s acquisition of Larvik Line in September 1996. We formulate theoretical predictions for the changes in sales, capacity and capacity utilisation following an ...

    • 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 ...

    • Collude, compete, or both? : deregulation in the Norwegian airline industry 

      Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Steen, Frode; Sørgard, Lars (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Contracting versus bypassing 

      Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-11)
      One existing distributor controls the existing access to end users. There are one incumbent producer and one potential entrant, both with a potential for bypassing the distributor. We find that the distributor always signs ...

    • Downstream merger with upstream market power 

      Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)
      We examine how a downstream merger affects input prices and, in turn, the profitability of a such a merger under Cournot competition with differentiated products. Input suppliers can be interpreted as ordinary upstream ...

    • Electricity production in a hydro system with a reservoir constraint 

      Mathiesen, Lars; Skaar, Jostein; Sørgard, Lars (2011:03, Working paper, 2011-02)
      The purpose of this article is to analyze how market power may affect the allocation of production between seasons (summer and winter) in a hydro power system with reservoir constraints and inflow uncertainty. We find that ...

    • Enforcement with heterogeneous cartels 

      Jensen, Sissel; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper;14/12, Working paper, 2012-07)
      The purpose of this article is to analyze the minimum fines needed in order to prevent price fixing when there is heterogeneity in the potential for a cartel overcharge across industries. We show that the incentive constraint ...

    • Entry in telecommunication : customer loyalty, price sensitivity and access prices 

      Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-11)
      Telecommunications is an industry characterised by heavy investments in infrastructure. Historically, one firm has typically been granted a national monopoly. Recently, competition has been opened up. Entrants have been ...

    • 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 ...

    • From a regulated duopoly to a private monopoly : the deregulation of the Norwegian airline industry 

      Steen, Frode; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-07)
      We explain the economics of deregulation in the Norwegian market. We observed a transition from a regulated duopoly prior to 1994 to a monopolised airline market in 2001. We explain how eight years of deregulation and ...

    • IKT-næringen : integrasjon, konkurranse eller vennskap? 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2000-09)
      Et av de mest slående trekk innenfor det vi kan karakterisere som IKT-industrien (informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi), er de omfattende alliansedannelsene mellom bedrifter som har svært ulik kjernevirksomhet. Eksempelvis ...

    • International complementarities in the internet : should domestic local access prices be regulated? 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-10)
      The Internet can be seen as the convergence of different industries like telecommunication, software, and media into an international oligopoly, where the end-user is offered a bundle consisting of complementary products ...

    • Managerial incentives and access price regulation 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-10)
      Policy makers have identified the non-discrimination principle as a key instrument to regulate vertically integrated firms in control of upstream bottlenecks. Economists argue that the non-discrimination principle may ...

    • Markedsdynamikk i dataindustrien 

      Sørgard, Lars (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2004-08)
      Hensikten med dette notatet er å betrakte den dynamiske utviklingen i dataindustrien og belyse teorien ved å betrakte hvordan Microsoft har lyktes i å bli dominerende og befeste sin dominans. Vi vil i dette notatet prøve ...

    • Market segmentation in two-sided markets : tv rights for premier league 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper;31/12, Working paper, 2012-12)
      This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to ...

    • Måling og prioriteringer i konkurransepolitikken 

      Sørgard, Lars (Arbeidsnotat;15/12, Working paper, 2012-06)
      Samfunnet er selvsagt opptatt av at konkurransemyndighetene foretar de riktige valgene, og derigjennom bidrar til en effektiv bruk av samfunnets ressurser. Sett i et slikt perspektiv er det fornuftig at en måler effekten ...

    • Media competition when the audience dislikes advertising : a theory of vertical alliances on the internet 

      Barros, Pedro P.; Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)
      This paper presents a model of media competition in a situation where the media is advertising-financed, but where the media consumers dislike commercials. It is shown that equilibrium prices of advertising are actually ...