Browsing Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (SV-IMS) by Issue Date
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Cooperation and between-group competition
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2000-07)Introducing competition between groups may induce cooperation to emerge in defection games despite considerable cost of cooperation. If the groups can confine themselves to a cooperative sector, either by providing incentives ... -
Migration and intergroup conflict
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2000-12)Two groups in conflict produce and appropriate internally generated consumable output in a two-stage game assuming equal within-group sharing and endogenous group sizes. It is shown how agents leave groups with high ... -
Will E-books Change the World?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2001)This paper argues that the evolution of e-book technology is related to the penetrating impact of networks and information technology on society. It defines the concept of e-book and describes some aspects of e-book ... -
Digital lesing
(Research report, 2002)I "Digital lesing" vurderes ebøker og ebokteknologien i forhold til trekk i informasjons- og nettverksamfunnet, i nettverksamfunnet, der distribusjon av tekstbasert digitalt innhold står sentralt. Dette innholdet er i ... -
Felles kamp mot fattigdom? Kritiske blikk på regjeringens utviklingsmelding
(NUPI-rapport;nr. 281, Research report, 2004)10 norske forskere tar for ser stortingsmelding nr 35. Felles Kamp mot fattigdom og kommer med kritiske kommentarer. -
Implementing Quality and Health/Safety Systems in the Hospitality Industry. A Comparison with the Aluminium Industry in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004-11)This paper discusses mechanisms facilitating the implementation and merging of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) management and Quality Management Systems (QMS) in the hospitality industry in Norway. An earlier study ... -
Kommersiell istedenfor åpen publisering : en kritikk av den norske systemet for dokumentasjon av vitenskapelige publikasjoner
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The battle of the sexes when the future is important
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)Contrary to the widespread belief that game repetition induces conciliatory behavior, in a repeated battle of the sexes where player 1 values the future and player 2 is myopic, player 1 is more inclined through conflicting ... -
Digital text cycles: from medieval manuscripts to modern markup
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)The paper argues that the current implementation of digital publishing is a minor step in a long development of digital text cycles. Rather than being a revolution, the digital transformation of text is an evolutionary ... -
Production and conflict models versus rent-seeking models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005-04)Aproduction and conflict (P&C) model and a rent-seeking (RS) model are compared for one group, two groups and K groups. Adding a newagent enlarges the pie in the P&C model, but causes the fixed size pie to be allocated ... -
Income, interdependence, and substitution effects affecting incentives for security investment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)Firms in cyber war compete with external intruders such as hackers over their assets. Each firm invests in security technology when the required rate of return from security investment exceeds the average attack level, or ... -
The stability of anarchy and breakdown of production
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)In Hirshleifer’s (1995) model for unitary actors, combined fighting/production abruptly breaks down when inter-group decisiveness of fighting is above a certain value (above one) or income requirements are not met. Accounting ... -
Jack Hirshleifer: a Nobel prize left unbestowed
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)Jack Hirshleifer (1925–2005) contributed to investment theory, information economics, conflict, and bioeconomics, clarified the foundations of investment and capital theory in the spirit of Fisher, and made basic contributions ... -
Bøker i en digital tid
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)The article presents literature that analyses recent changes in the book industry: concentration of publishing firms, commercialisation, and introduction of new digital technologies. The article pays special attention to ... -
Universitetenes rangering, markeder og målesystemer
(Journal article, 2006-12)At Norges beste universiteter rangeres lavere enn universiteter i flere U land tilkjennegir at Norge utdanner kompetanse med for lav vitenskapelig kvalitet. Norge som nasjon, norsk konkurransedyktighet, norsk industri og ... -
Societal safety, archaeology and the investigation of contemporary mass graves
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006-12)The article focuses on the role of archaeological investigations into mass graves and subsequent revelation of truth and enforcement of justice. Post violent conflict state authorities or rebels ordered massive killings ... -
Reputation, incomplete information, and differences in patience in repeated games with multiple equilibria
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)A game with multiple equilibria and incomplete information, which allows for reputation building, is repeated infinitely many times. Increasing differences in patience contribute to a greater likelihood of cooperation. As ... -
Information sharing among firms and cyber attacks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)As the Sarbanes-Oxley Act strengthens internal controls, and the government encourages information sharing, accounting gains significance through secure representation, storage, and transfer of information, and by laying ... -
Technological change as a trade-off between social construction and technological paradigms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)The theory of social construction of technology (SCOT) and the theory of technological paradigms (TTP) are normally regarded as competing or even incompatible perspectives on technological change. In this paper, we show ... -
En nytteforventningsanalyse av kriminalitet og straff
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)Kriminell atferd bør analyseres ut fra motiv om forventet fordel veid opp mot forventet kostnad i form av straff. I Norge har kriminaliteten økt med en faktor 9 fra 1956-2002 mens fengsling har økt med faktor 1,3. ...