In the nine years that have passed since Spotify launched its service in the fall of 2008, the industry for recorded music has experienced a streaming revolution where the industry’s model for consumption and monetization ...

Over the past decade, a number of countries across the world have taken up steps to increase the share of renewables such as Wind and Solar PV in their generation portfolio. EU has a goal to enable the transmission and ...

The purpose of this article is to analyze how competitive forces may influence how media firms like TV channels raise revenue. A media firm can either be financed by advertising revenue, by direct payment from the viewers ...

The Western newspaper industry is going through a severe crisis caused by three factors: the rise of the Internet as a digital distribution channel and sinking circulation numbers; the rise of social media; the economic ...

This paper is dedicated to the sharing economy business models and their features responsible for internationalization. The study proposes derived definitions for the concepts of “sharing economy” and “business model” ...

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 ...

In Norway, buy-back programs have been in force since 1979. Grants have been given to scrap fishing vessels or to sell them out of the country. These programs have been most successful for the purse seine fleet. Since the ...

I study equilibria of non-cooperative budgetary games between an aid donor and a recipient when there is conflict over the preferred allocation of the combined budgets of the two parties. I show that final outcomes are the ...