• Accounting Method Choice and Market Valuation in the Extractive Industries 

      Misund, Bård (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11)
      For more than 40 years, oil and gas companies have been able to choose between two competing methods for accounting for exploration activities. The implication is that two otherwise identical companies can report substantially ...
    • Accounting Method Choice and Market Valuation in the Extractive Industries 

      Misund, Bård (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11)
      For more than 40 years, oil and gas companies have been able to choose between two competing methods for accounting for exploration activities. The implication is that two otherwise identical companies can report substantially ...
    • Catch, Stock Elasticity, and an Implicit Index of Fishing Effort 

      Ekerhovd, Nils-Arne; Gordon, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-12)
      Economists are interested in the relationship between fishing effort and stock size, and the impact on catch levels. The interest lies in the stock elasticity where it is thought that for pelagic fish species it is close ...
    • Do political risks harm development of oil fields? 

      Bøe, Kristine; Jordal, Therese; Mikula, Stepan; Molnar, Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-11)
      We examine the impact of political risks and financial development on investments in the petroleum industry utilizing a unique dataset of investments in individual oil and gas fields around the world. We find that the ...
    • Exploration vs. acquisition of oil and gas reserves: Effect on stock returns 

      Misund, Bård (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-21)
      This paper examines how oil and gas companies’ reserves growth affects their share price returns. In particular we examine three issues affecting the relation between reserves changes and oil and gas firm returns. First, ...
    • Father Presence and the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment 

      Rege, Mari; Votruba, Mark; Kalil, Ariel; Mogstad, Magne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11)
      We use administrative data from Norway to analyze how fathers’ presence affects the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Our empirical strategy exploits within family variation in father exposure that ...
    • Global Pipelines for Innovation: Insights from the case of Norway 

      Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Huber, Franz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)
      Using data on 418 Norwegian firms, the results confirm the hypotheses that innovative/radically innovative firms tend to be more involved in international personal and formal networks than non-innovative/incrementally ...
    • Hedging efficiency of Atlantic salmon futures 

      Misund, Bård; Asche, Frank (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-08)
      This article examines the hedging properties of Atlantic salmon futures. Hedging is important because it allows for mitigation of the risk of adverse price changes in the spot market. We examine the hedging efficiency of ...
    • Hooked up to the international artistic community: external linkages, absorptive capacity and exporting by small creative firms 

      Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Jøsendal, Kari (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      The contemporary economy is marked both by the growth in international trade and the increasing importance of the creative industries. However, these activities are dominated by big firms and big cities, spurring a large ...
    • How exchange rate affects Chinese processing trade? The case of ground fish 

      Zhang, Dengjun; Xie, Jinghua; Myrland, Øystein (Journal article, 2017-09)
      As imports destined for primary processing and then exporting occur across industries, in this study we developed a structural model to examine how exchange rate affects the exports of processed ground fish from China. The ...
    • Hva er det med oljeinvesteringene? 

      Mohn, Klaus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)
      Høye oljepriser og knapphet på olje- og gassressurser har løftet forsyningssikkerhet i energimarkedet mot toppen av den geopolitiske agendaen. Enorme energiinvesteringer er påkrevd for å møte forventningene om økonomisk ...
    • Hva er det med økonomene? 

      Mohn, Klaus (Journal article, 2006-09)
      Økonomiske overlegninger har preget tankesett og dagligliv for mennesker i uminnelige tider. Refleksjoner om produktivitet, nytte og velferd, arbeidsdeling og handel har alltid vært viktige faktorer for menneskers ...
    • Investment and revenue cap under incentive regulation: The case study of the Norwegian electricity distributors 

      Zhang, Dengjun; Xie, Jinghua (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11)
      Electricity distribution operators are regulated as monopolies around the world. Incentive regulation is further applied to relate their allowed revenues (revenue cap) to cost efficiency and investment. Incentive regulation ...
    • Letevirksomhet og ressursutvikling på norsk kontinentalsokkel 

      Mohn, Klaus; Osmundsen, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)
      Letevirksomheten er en kritisk forutsetning for feltutvikling og produksjon av olje og naturgass. Vi spesifiserer og estimerer en enkel modell for leteaktiviteten på norsk sokkel. Resultatene indikerer robuste, men ...
    • Leting etter olje og naturgass : tallenes tale 

      Mohn, Klaus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)
      Høye oljepriser og knapphet på petroleumsressurser har rettet verdens oppmerksomhet mot sikkerhet i energiforsyningen. Vellykket leteaktivitet er en kritisk faktor for framtidig produksjon av olje og naturgass. Vi analyserer ...
    • Networking, context and firm-level innovation: Cooperation through the regional filter in Norway 

      Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07)
      The paper assesses the role for innovation of one aspect which has been generally overlooked by evolutionary economic geography: context. It analyses how context shapes the impact of collaboration on firm-level innovation ...
    • Not too close, not too far: testing the Goldilocks principle of ‘optimal’ distance in innovation networks 

      Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Huber, Franz; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      This paper analyses how the formation of collaboration networks affects firm-level innovation by applying the ‘Goldilocks principle’. The ‘Goldilocks principle’ of optimal distance in innovation networks postulates that ...
    • Nothing is in the air 

      Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-03)
      It has often been argued that “there is something in the air” which makes firms in high-density environments—such as cities or clusters—more innovative. The co-location of firms facilitates the emergence of serendipity and ...
    • Oljepris, petroleumsvirksomhet og norsk økonomi 

      Mohn, Klaus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008)
      Høy internasjonal vekst, god OPEC-disiplin, tiltakende knapphet på oljereserver og skjerpet fokus på forsyningssikkerhet har sammen med en svakere dollar løftet oljeprisen fra 18 USD/ fat i 1999 til over 70 USD/fat i ...
    • Organizing Product Innovation: Hierarchy, Market or Triple-Helix Networks? 

      Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Gjelsvik, Martin; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      This paper assesses the extent to which the organization of the innovation effort in firms – as well as the geographical scale at which this effort is pursued – affects the capacity to benefit from product innovations. ...