Working papers (SNF): Recent submissions
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Employing endogenous access pricing to enhance incentives for efficient upstream operation
(Working paper;09/13, Working paper, 2013-01)Endogenous access pricing (ENAP) is an alternative to the more traditional form of access pricing that sets the access price to reflect the regulator’s estimate of the supplier’s average cost of providing access. Under ... -
Avanseregulering i den norske bokmarknaden. Teoretiske og praktiske effektar
(Arbeidsnotat;40/13, Working paper, 2013-10)17. juni 2013 vart boklova vedteken på Stortinget. Lova spesifiserer ei avanseregulering i form av ein maksimal rabatt leverandør kan gje forhandlar og eit ikkje-diskrimineringsprinsipp basert på vertikalt eigarskap. Denne ... -
The opportunism problem revisited : the case of retailer sales effort
(Working paper;30/13, Working paper, 2013-09)We study a setting where the opportunism or commitment problem identified by Hart and Tirole (1990) may arise. An upstream monopolist may sell its product to two differentiated downstream retailers. Contract unobservability ... -
Are individual forecasters rational? a study of inflation expectations using forecasts from the survey of professional forecasters
(Working paper;50/12, Working paper, 2012-12)How is the forecast behaviour of professional individuals? Are they accurate and efficient, and how are their performances compared to the consensus’ performance? Do their forecasts differ in the special episodes of the ... -
Measuring asymmetries in financial returns : an empirical investigation using local gaussian correlation
(Working paper;12/13, Working paper, 2013-03)A number of studies have provided evidence that financial returns exhibit asymmetric dependence, such as increased dependence during bear markets, but there seems to be no agreement as to how such asymmetries should be ... -
Knowledge investments in recessions : the effects of demand and credit
(Working paper;34/12, Working paper, 2012-10)We examine how recessions change firms’ knowledge investments. Unlike existing work we split the effects of recessions into demand reductions, and problems with access to credit. Our main findings are that investments in ... -
The business model of the British Virgin Islands and Panama
(Working paper;31/13, Working paper, 2013-09)In this note, we describe the history and the main characteristics of the tax havens The British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Panama. We discuss the financial channels used in these jurisdictions to move money and assets across ... -
Implicit cooperation? The northeast atlantic mackerel fishery
(Working paper;14/13, Working paper, 2013-04)This paper presents a quarterly, game-theoretic model of the Northeast Atlantic mackerel to study the fishing strategies of five players, the EU, Norway, the Faeroe Islands, Iceland, and the international fishery on the ... -
Pensjonssystem i Kina. En analyse med en numerisk overlappende generasjonsmodell
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Management of pelagic fisheries in the north east atlantic : Norwegian spring spawning herring, mackerel and blue whiting
(Working paper;13/13, Working paper, 2013-05)The purpose of this paper is to give an overview over the fisheries for Norwegian spring spawning herring, mackerel and blue whiting and analyse how they are managed. The stocks under consideration are harvested by coastal ... -
Anatomy of cartel contracts
(Working paper;49/13, Working paper, 2013-12)We study cartel contracts using data on 18 contract clauses of 109 legal Finnish manufacturing cartels whose legal status is reminiscent of e.g. the U.S Sugar Institute. One third of the clauses relate to raising profits; ... -
Publication bias in the returns to R&D literature
(Working paper;06/12, Working paper, 2012-09)We conduct a meta-analysis of the private returns to R&D literature and find that 26 % of the results in a hypothetical complete literature are missing. The combined estimate for the marginal returns to R&D falls from 18.2 ... -
Norwegian corporate accounts : documentation and quality assurance of SNF’s and NHH’s database of accounting and company information for Norwegian companies
(Working paper;42/13, Working paper, 2013-11)This working paper describes the database used by the Institute for Research in Economics (SNF) and the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in research based on companies' accounts. The objective of this working paper and ... -
Darwin, recessions and firms : an evolutionary perspective on firms in recessions
(Working paper;05/13, Working paper, 2013-01)Evolutionary theory is well suited for studying how firms are affected by recessions, but little focus has been given, both theoretically and empirically, to this phenomenon. In this paper I draw on evolutionary theory and ... -
Netthandel : litteraturgjennomgang innenfor emnet internetthandel og prissammenligning
(Arbeidsnotat;23/12, Working paper, 2012-08)Denne utredningen er en litteraturgjennomgang innenfor emnet netthandel. Utredningen fokuserer på modeller og teori innenfor emnet, spesielt med fokus på prissammenligningssider. Jeg undersøker tre bestemte modeller som ... -
Hvor stabilt er prestasjonsnivået til norske bedrifter under nedgangstider? En empirisk studie av effekten til nedgangstidene på 2000-tallet
(Arbeidsnotat;45/12, Working paper, 2012-12)Formålet med denne masterutredningen har vært å undersøke hvor stabilt prestasjonsnivået til norske bedrifter har vært under dot.com og finanskrisen i perioden 1999-2010. Det ble utført analyser av bedriftsprestasjoner ... -
The turn-around of Uninor
(Working paper;06/13, Working paper, 2013-01)On October 29, 2008, Telenor of Norway announced its plans to enter the Indian mobile telecom market. Despite a strong start, revenue did not grow in line with business projections. In a highly congested market, price war ... -
Hvordan påvirkes reallønnen av makroøkonomiske faktorer og næringstilhørighet? En empirisk analyse av norske lønnsdata for sivilingeniører og siviløkonomer i perioden 1986 - 2009
(Arbeidsnotat;48/12, Working paper, 2012-10)Formålet med denne utredningen har vært å studere hvorvidt det er en sammenheng mellom reallønnen til sivilingeniører og siviløkonomer og konjunkturene i den norske økonomien, samt hvilken betydning næringstilhørighet har ... -
A crisis not wasted : institutional and structural reforms behind Norway’s strong macroeconomic performance
(Working paper;50/13, Working paper, 2013-12)This paper draws the line between the Norwegian boom-bust cycle and crises in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the succeeding institutional and structural reforms and the strong macroeconomic performance and stability of ... -
Fastpris på bøker
(Arbeidsnotat;47/13, Working paper, 2013-12)Det er omstridt hvorvidt bokbransjen skal tillates å benytte fastpriser (bindende videresalgspriser). Et premiss hos mange som er skeptisk til faste bokpriser er at det fjerner konkurranse og leder til høyere sluttbrukerpriser. ...