Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Straume, Hans-Martin"

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    • Challenges and opportunities: impacts of COVID-19 on Norwegian seafood exports 

      Asche, Frank; Straume, Hans-Martin; Garlock, Taryn M.; Johansen, Ulf; Kvamsdal, Sturla Furunes; Nygård, Rune; Pincinato, Ruth Beatriz; Tveterås, Ragnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      A rapidly growing literature shows that COVID-19 and the measures to contain the spread of the virus can have significant market impacts for seafood. These can be interruptions of production, or reductions in demand directly ...

    • Cod stories: Trade dynamics and duration for Norwegian cod exports 

      Asche, Frank; Cojocaru, Andreea-Laura; Gaasland, Ivar; Straume, Hans-Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-12)
      In recent years, trade dynamics have been receiving increased attention, and the general literature indicates that commodities are different. In this paper, the duration of trade relationships for Norwegian export firms ...

    • Delivering the Goods: The Determinants of Norwegian Seafood Exports 

      Straume, Hans-Martin; Anderson, James L.; Asche, Frank; Gaasland, Ivar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)
      Seafood is the world’s most traded food product. In recent years, aquaculture has become an increasingly important part of seafood production, facilitating increased trade. However, despite evidence that fish farmers have ...

    • Dynamics of Buyer-Seller Relations in Norwegian Wine Imports 

      Landazuri-Tveteraas, Ursula; Straume, Hans-Martin; Asche, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      As for all traded products, aggregated wine imports build on numerous trades at the firm level. To ensure consumers access to a variety of wines with different qualities, importers need to connect to different wine exporters. ...

    • Essays on International Trade of Salmon and Wine 

      Tveteraas, Ursula Landazuri (PhD thesis UiS; 526, Doctoral thesis, 2020-06)
      This thesis deals with the trade of two products, salmon and wine, exported from and to Norway. The World has benefitted from innovations and productivity growth in the Norwegian salmon aquaculture industry, increasing the ...

    • Estimating Pricing Rigidities in Bilateral Transactions Markets 

      Øglend, Atle; Asche, Frank; Straume, Hans-Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)
      Many price indices are constructed using bilateral transaction prices. This paper shows how the time series behavior of cross-sectional price moments can reveal useful information about pricing behavior in bilateral ...

    • Futures market hedging efficiency in a new futures exchange: Effects of trade partner diversification 

      Øglend, Atle; Straume, Hans-Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12)
      This paper uses transaction data to examine hedging efficiency in a new futures exchange; the Fish Pool salmon futures exchange in Norway. The paper utilizes data on firm level exporter/importer transaction prices to ...

    • Impacts of Covid-19 on Norwegian Salmon exports: A firm-level analysis 

      Straume, Hans-Martin; Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle; Abrahamsen, Eirik Bjorheim; Birkenbach, Anna M.; Langguth, Johannes; Lanquepin, Guillaume; Roll, Kristin Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-02)
      A rapidly growing literature investigates how the recent Covid-19 pandemic has affected international seafood trade along multiple dimensions, creating opportunities as well as challenges. This suggests that many of the ...

    • Impacts of COVID-19 on U.S. Seafood Availability 

      Anderson, James L.; Asche, Frank; Garlock, Taryn; Hegde, Shraddha; Ropicki, Andrew; Straume, Hans-Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Seafood is the food group with the highest share traded, and the U.S. is the world’s largest seafood importer, importing 79% of the seafood consumed. Hence, a study examining the impacts of the measures to contain COVID-19 ...

    • Insights from transaction data: Norwegian aquaculture exports 

      Straume, Hans-Martin; Landazuri-Tveteraas, Ursula; Oglend, Atle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      This paper discusses how transaction data can be used to shed light on trade dynamics in seafood exports, with Norwegian salmon exports as the case. There is a large literature on exports and imports of salmon between ...

    • Intermediaries in Norwegian salmon exports 

      Straume, Hans-Martin; Asche, Frank; Øglend, Atle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Production of a number of important aquaculture species is highly export oriented, and intermediaries play an important role in the supply chains facilitating the trade. This paper examines the role of intermediaries (e.g. ...

    • Is capture-based aquaculture viable? The case of Atlantic cod in Norway 

      Pettersen, Ingrid Kristine; Asche, Frank; Bronnmann, Julia; Sogn-Grundvåg, Geir; Straume, Hans-Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Capture-based aquaculture (CBA) is an important branch of the aquaculture industry that differs from closed cycle farming in that the stocking material consists of captured wild fish or other aquatic organisms. By skipping ...

    • Norwegian export of farmed salmon − trade costs and market concentration 

      Asche, Frank; Gaasland, Ivar; Straume, Hans-Martin; Vårdal, Erling (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04)
      While variation in unit value most commonly has been associated with quality in the trade literature, observed differences in prices between markets might also be explained by variation in market concentration and the ...

    • Perish or prosper: Trade patterns for highly perishable seafood products 

      Asche, Frank; Straume, Hans-Martin; Vårdal, Erling (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)
      In recent years trade with highly perishable agricultural products like fresh fish, berries, and cut flowers has increased substantially. The perishability of these products appears to challenge conventional wisdom when ...

    • Price dispersion and the stability of trade* 

      Øglend, Atle; Asche, Frank; Pincinato, Ruth Beatriz; Straume, Hans-Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-02-02)
      Research on trade relationships has documented a high rate of relationship breakup and churning. We use data on Norwegian exports to document two stylized facts about the stability of trade relationships. First, the ...

    • Price dispersion and the stability of trade* 

      Asche, Frank; Pincinato, Ruth Beatriz; Straume, Hans-Martin; Øglend, Atle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Research on trade relationships has documented a high rate of relationship breakup and churning. We use data on Norwegian exports to document two stylized facts about the stability of trade relationships. First, the ...

    • Pricing efficiency across destination markets for Norwegian salmon exports 

      Øglend, Atle; Straume, Hans-Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02)
      This paper investigates how pricing efficiency of Norwegian salmon exports varies across destination market characteristics. Efficiency is defined as the rate at which individual transaction prices adjust to common market ...

    • Product forms and price transmission in major European salmon markets 

      Straume, Hans-Martin; Asche, Frank; Landazuri-Tveteraas, Ursula; Misund, Bård; Pettersen, Ingrid Kristine; Zhang, Dengjun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Product development is often an important component in increasing demand for successful aquaculture species. However, this topic has not received much attention due to limited data availability. In this paper, we investigate ...

    • Production growth, company size, and concentration: The case of salmon 

      Pandey, Rudresh; Asche, Frank; Misund, Bård; Nygård, Rune; Adewumi, Olugbenga Michael; Straume, Hans-Martin; Zhang, Dengjun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The largest companies in salmon aquaculture are rapidly getting bigger due to organic growth as well as mergers and acquisitions, and the largest are now multi-national companies. There are two main explanations for this ...

    • Production growth, company size, and concentration: The case of salmon 

      Pandey, Rudresh; Asche, Frank; Misund, Bård; Nygård, Rune; Adewumi, Olugbenga Michael; Straume, Hans-Martin; Zhang, Dengjun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-08)
      The largest companies in salmon aquaculture are rapidly getting bigger due to organic growth as well as mergers and acquisitions, and the largest are now multi-national companies. There are two main explanations for this ...