• 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 ...
    • Aquaculture development in Asia : current status, economics and future outlook 

      Dey, Madan Mohan; Sheriff, Natasja; Bjørndal, Trond (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-11)
      The purpose of this article is to analyse aquaculture development in selected Asian countries. The contribution of Asia to world aquaculture will be documented. In Asia, different culture systems are practised and numerous ...
    • 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 ...
    • Bindende tilsagn i konkurransesaker – forordning 1 art. 9 og relevansen for konkurranseloven 

      Hjelmeng, Erling (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2011-05)
      Denne fremstillingen tar for seg den formaliserte forliksadgangen (tilsagn), i EU- og EØS-konkurranseretten, jf. forordning 1 art. 9. Formålet med fremstillingen er særlig å vurdere om det er grunn til å innføre en liknende ...
    • Business Region Bergen : bakgrunnsnotat for indikatorer 

      Andersen, Christian; Mjørlund, Rune; Rusten, Grete (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2009)
      SNF har på oppdrag av Business Region Bergen (BRB) utarbeidet et sett med indikatorer for relevante økonomiske og strukturelle forhold innen BRB. For en del indikatorer er det ikke tilgang på kommunedata, og indikatorene ...
    • Buying power in UK retail chains : a residual supply approach 

      Asche, Frank; Nøstbakken, Linda; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-11)
      The development of supermarket chains has led to substantial concentration in food supply chains, and has raised concerns not only that these companies can exploit oligopoly power, but also oligopsony power. In this paper, ...
    • Bør kommuner kjøpe helseforsikring 

      Askildsen, Jan Erik; Holmås, Tor Helge; Nordanger, Lene Kristin (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2006-12)
      Private helseforsikringer har så langt hatt et relativt beskjedent omfang i Norge, også sammenliknet med våre skandinaviske naboland. Den viktigste årsaken til at relativt få tegner private forsikringer mot sykdom, er ...
    • Can land reform be an effective approach to alleviate poverty and inequality in Nepal? 

      Adhikari, Chandra Bahadur; Bjørndal, Trond (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-09)
      Land is the main source of income and consumption for the Nepalese people. This study analyses the economic relationship between access to land and poverty in Nepal by establishing the link between land and consumption as ...
    • Capacity adjustment and drivers of investment in a fishery with tradable output quotas 

      Nøstbakken, Linda (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-03)
      In this study, I analyse what drives investment and capital development, and hence the development of fishing capacity in a well-managed fishery. An empirical analysis of drivers of firm-level investment in the Norwegian ...
    • Capacity and compliance in quota regulated industries 

      Lazkano, Itziar; Nøstbakken, Linda (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-10)
      Production quotas can restore efficiency in industries characterized by production externalities, such as resource industries and industries with environmental regulations. However, with imperfect quota enforcement, firms ...
    • Cartels uncovered 

      Hyytinen, Ari; Steen, Frode; Toivanen, Otto (Working paper, Working paper, 2011-03)
      How many cartels are there? The answer is important in assessing the need for competition policy. We present a Hidden Markov Model that answers the question, taking into account that often we do not know whether a cartel ...
    • Cheating about the cod 

      Hannesson, Rögnvaldur (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-12)
      The Northeast Arctic cod is managed by a total quota shared evenly between Norway and Russia. It appears that Russia has been overfishing its quota by substantial amounts for a number of years, due to insufficient monitoring ...
    • Climate change and credibility of fish stock agreements : the case of the north-east arctic cod 

      Ekerhovd, Nils-Arne (2010:52, Working paper, 2010-12)
      We simulate how an increase in the productivity of the North-East Arctic cod stock would affect the Russian-Norwegian cooperation on the management of the stock. The productivity increase is linked to environmental conditions ...
    • Continuous harvesting costs in sole-owner fisheries with increasing marginal returns 

      Sandal, Leif Kristoffer; Steinshamn, Stein Ivar; Maroto, Jose M.; Moran, Manuel (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-06)
      We develop a bioeconomic model to analyze a sole-owner fishery with fixed costs as well as a continuous cost function for the generalized Cobb-Douglas production function with increasing marginal returns to effort level. ...
    • Cooperative and non-cooperative management of the northeast atlantic cod fishery 

      Bjørndal, Trond; Lindroos, Marko (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-06)
      The fishery for Northeast Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the Barents Sea is one of the most valuable fisheries in the North Atlantic. After the introduction of Extended Fisheries Jurisdiction, cod is a shared stock between ...
    • Developing social capital through the SLU leadership development program 

      Stensaker, Inger G.; Kjøde, Arne; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-07)
      This report is one of several reports within the GOLD research project at SNF. The research project aims to identify tools and techniques applied by Norwegian-based multinational companies that seek to develop a competitive ...
    • Discipline networks in Statoil : outcomes, success factors and challenges for network leaders 

      Nesheim, Torstein; Olsen, Karen Modesta (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-04)
      In this paper we describe and analyze outcomes, success factors and challenges of 131 discipline networks in Statoil. Based on a survey of 2.517 members of these networks, we find that a) participation in discipline networks ...
    • Economic integration and the relationship between profit and wage taxes 

      Haufler, Andreas; Klemm, Alexander; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-08)
      This paper analyzes the development of the ratio of corporate taxes to wage taxes using a simple political economy model with workers and capitalists that own internationally mobile and immobile firms. Among other results, ...
    • Effects of flat tax reforms on economic growth in the OECD countries 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia; Jensen, Tom Stephan (Working paper, Working paper, 2011-06)
      This paper explores how a transition from a progressive to a flat tax scheme would affect economic growth in the OECD countries on the period from 1997 to 2007. A meta-regression analysis on eighteen calibration studies ...
    • The effects of variety and bundling on choice and satisfaction: Applications to new telecommunication and media services 

      Pedersen, Per E.; Nysveen, Herbjørn (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-11)
      The purpose of this working paper is twofold; 1)to review consumer behavior literature on how assortment variety and bundling influence choice related variables, and 2)to apply this review on an analysis of telecommunication ...