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Diagnoseverktøy for skolen som lærende organisasjon
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2007-12)Dette notatet redegjør for diagnoseverktøy for skolen som lærende organisasjon. Verktøyet består av et spørrebatteri som inngår i en større spørreundersøkelse blant medarbeidere i grunnskolen og videregående skole, og er ... -
Risk exchange as a market or production game
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-09)Risk exchange is considered here as a cooperative game with transferable utility. The set-up fits markets for insurance, securities and contingent endowments. When convoluted payoff is concave at the aggregate endowment, ... -
Private information, transfer utility, and the core
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-09)Considered here are transferable-utility, coalitional production or market games,featuring differently informed players. It is assumed that personalized contracts must comply with idiosyncratic information. The setting may ... -
Product development in IT and telecommunications information acquisition strategies
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-10)Investment projects within information technology and telecommunication industries face high uncertainty with respect to future cash flows, especially due to technological innovations and changing markets. Competition among ... -
Feasibility in finite time
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-10)It is common to tolerate that a system`s performance be unsustainable during an interim period. To live long however, its state must eventually satisfy various constraints. In this regard we design here differential ... -
Older and wiser? : birth order and IQ of young men
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-08)While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children’s outcomes such as education and earnings, the evidence on the effects of birth order on IQ is decidedly mixed. This paper uses a large dataset ... -
The evolution of inequality in productivity and wages : panel data evidence
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-08)There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). ... -
Slotting allowances to coordinate manufacturers’ retail sales effort
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-07)Slotting allowances are fees paid by manufacturers to get access to retailers’ shelf space. Although the main attention towards slotting allowances has been within the grocery industry, slotting allowances have also been ... -
Small family, smart family? : family size and the IQ scores of young men
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-08)How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of educational attainment and future labor market success; as a result, understanding the determinants of cognitive ... -
Effect measurement – Norad`s programme for master studies (NOMA)
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-06)Norads’ programme for master studies (NOMA) is a programme aimed at strengthening tertiary educational institutions in countries in the south through collaboration between Norwegian and local institutions. This working ... -
Pennies from heaven - Using exogenous tax variation to identify effects of school resources on pupil achievement
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-07)Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort ... -
Regional fordeling av sysselsetting i norsk petroleumsrelatert leverandørindustri
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2007-08)Prosjektet er finansiert av OED og kartlegger regional fordeling av arbeidsplasser i den spesialiserte leverandørindustrien for petroleumssektoren sommeren 2007. Analysen inkluderer ikke leverandører av generelle varer ... -
Another tale of two-sided markets
(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 ... -
Cooperative equilibria in fisheries : how many players?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-04)This paper investigates conditions under which fisheries agreements between states are self-enforcing. Cooperative solutions can be self-enforcing if parties to the agreement punish those who depart from the cooperative ... -
Global warming stationarity in sea temperature data
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-06)According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), the earth's climate is already changing. The objective of the paper is to analyze how the average yearly sea temperature has evolved at two different ... -
Prioriteringspraksis før og etter sykehusreformen
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2007-03)Dette notatet dokumenter resultater fra ett av flere arbeider som hadde som formål å evaluere effekter av sykehusreformen. Målet med reformen, som ble gjennomført fra 1. januar 2002, var å legge grunnlaget for en helhetlig ... -
Et tiår etter Bosman : konsekvenser for utviklingen av norsk toppfotball
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Optimal population and capital dynamics in fisheries with irreversible investments
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-06)A multi-dimensional, non-linear dynamic model in continuous time is presented for the purpose of finding the optimal combination of exploitation and capital investment in optimal renewable resource management. Non-malleability ... -
Assessing the economic effects of trade barriers
(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 ... -
Taxes and decision rights in multinationals
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-04)We examine how a multinational’s choice to centralize or decentralize its decision structure is affected by country tax differentials. Within a simple model that emphasizes the multiple conflicting roles of transfer prices ...