• 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 ...
    • Domestic labour markets and foreign direct investment 

      Haaland, Jan Ingvald Meidell; Wooton, Ian (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)
      We study how the labour market and industry uncertainty affect the investment decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In an uncertain business climate, MNEs must take account of the future in deciding where to locate ...
    • Early information in auctions with entry 

      Vagstad, Steinar (Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-01)
      Consider an auction in which potential bidders must sink an entry investment before learning their values, but where the auction designer can release information so that the bidders learn their values before entry. Such ...
    • Media market concentration, advertising levels, and ad prices 

      Anderson, Simon P.; Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Peitz, Martin (Working paper;2012:02, Working paper, 2012-01)
      Standard media economics models imply that increased platform competition decreases ad levels and that mergers reduce per-viewer ad prices. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. We attribute the theoretical predictions ...
    • Multinational firms : easy come, easy go? 

      Haaland, Jan Ingvald Meidell; Wooton, Ian (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 ...
    • Should auctioneers supply early information for prospective bidders? 

      Vagstad, Steinar (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-06)
      Consider an auction in wich potential bidders must sink an entry investment before learning their values (Levin and Smith, 1994). Suppose the auction designer can make the bidders learn their value before entry (as in ...
    • Why there? Decomposing the choice of target industry 

      Lien, Lasse B.; Klein, Peter G. (Working papers;34/13, Working paper, 2013-12)
      How do diversifying firms chose their target industries? We explore target-industry choice empirically by focusing on the relative importance of target-market characteristics and the focal firm’s resources and capabilities. ...