Working papers (SNF): Recent submissions
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Price-dependent profit-sharing as a channel coordination device
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-03)We show how an upstream firm by using a price-dependent profit-sharing rule can prevent destructive competition between downstream firms that produce relatively close substitutes. With this rule the upstream firm induces ... -
Strive for better yield - Yara AS
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-06)This case study focuses on Yara International ASA. Yara is a Norwegian multinational chemical company which converts energy and nitrogen from the air into vital products for farmers and industrial customers. The company ... -
“The local taste champion” Rieber & Søn ASA
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-06)Rieber & Søn is a Norwegian multinational food company that currently has fully-owned production units in seven European countries and sales and market offices in a further six countries. The purpose of this rich case study ... -
On revenue and welfare dominance of ad valorem taxes in two-sided markets
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-04)A benchmark result in public economics is that it is possible to increase both tax revenue and welfare by making a monopoly subject to ad valorem taxes rather than unit taxes. We show that such revenue and welfare dominance ... -
Local content development : experiences from oil and gas activities in Norway
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-02)In the paper industrial development connected to upstream oil and gas activities in Norway is discussed. Several factors explain the success of Norway in this respect. Some of these factors are of a kind that only rarely ... -
Modelling farmers' labour supply in CGE models
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-03)In most CGE models with special focus on farm policy, the on-farm wage either follows the ordinary wage in the economy or it is varies according to an assumption of sector specific farm labour. This paper demonstrates a ... -
Estimating the elasticity of transformation between on-farm work and off-farm work for Norwegian dairy farmers
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)We have collected a sample of 2191 milk farm households. The sample contains information on incomes made off- and on-farm and working hours devoted into those two activities, during the years 1996-2004,. Based on a method ... -
Explaining off-farm labour supply : the importance of income
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)We have collected a panel of 4,723 farm holders as of 1994. In 1995 these farmers face the choice either to continue or to quit farming, for example by working full time in an another industry. Presumable, when individuals ... -
Managing resistance to transfer of knowledge in MNCs
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)MNC’s may gain a competitive advantage by continuously seeking to enhance and develop their products by drawing on its scattered knowledge base. This calls for sharing of knowledge between its different units. This paper ... -
The development of social capital for knowledge-sharing purpose in multinational corporations
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)The major challenge for MNCs that contain knowledge-rich foreign subsidiaries is to utilize those resources and capabilities for the MNC as a whole. While structure has a role to play there is a growing acceptance that the ... -
Leadership development programmes and the development of social capital in MNEs
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)The setting of this paper is the internal training programme of a major Norwegian multinational enterprise (MNE). The programme is aiming at greater MNE-wide integration in order to promote knowledge sharing. It is shown ... -
Managing organization development and change across Scandinavian borders
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)Many of our change theories and models originate from North America, and recently the question concerning how these theories apply across borders has been raised. In general, more bottom-up and inclusive processes are ... -
Pricing of on-line advertising: pay-per-view or pay-per-click?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-10)We analyse the choice of pay-per-view (PPV) and price-per-click (PPC) when a web publisher is a price taker in the market for advertising banners, and the number of visits is decreasing in advertising. The main result is ... -
Why are mobile voice calls so expensive when abroad?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-11)Mobile phone usage when traveling abroad is expensive. We show that the more firms enter the market - which may lower domestic voice call prices - the higher wholesale and retail prices for mobile usage abroad may become. -
Investment mechanism design and public policy for a natural gas grid
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-11)This paper discusses how the government can design investment mechanisms to induce a socially optimal capacity increase in a gas grid that is owned by a syndicate of gas producers. Designing the investment mechanisms, the ... -
En empirisk analyse av multinasjonale selskapers kapitalstruktur med hensyn på skattemotivert gjeldsskifting
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-06)Det har i den senere tid av media blitt rettet oppmerksomhet mot multinasjonale selskaper og skattetilpassning. Internprisingsmekanismene har vært i fokus, men også kapitalstruktur er et område med voksende interesse. ... -
Wind power, network congestion and hydro resource utilisation in the Norwegian power market
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-11)Capacity constraints in electricity networks can have important impacts on utilisation of new renewable energy capacity and incumbent generation resources. Neglect of such impacts in development of renewable energy resources ... -
Investment in transmission
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-11)Transmission is an integral part of the electricity system. However, even within a centralised system of generation and transmission it has never been a trivial exercise to perform coordination of expanding loads, generation ... -
Licensing technology and foreclosure
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-12)We consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The owner of the superior technology (the dominant firm) can license or transfer the source of its dominance ... -
Optimal tariff and ownership structure for a natural gas transportation network
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-11)This paper discusses how the government can set transportation tariffs to induce socially optimal transportation of natural gas in a network owned by a syndicate of gas producers. In a setting where the gas is exported to ...