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CCS : failing to pass decision gates
Emhjellen, Magne; Osmundsen, Petter - 2013
Socio-economic criteria for climate projects have been used in analysing the value of the climate benefit of a reduction in CO2. These reports are optimistic, yet CCS demonstration plants are not implemented as expected. Little attention has been devoted to profitability assessments based on...
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Pro-cyclical petroleum investments and cost overruns in Norway
Dahl, Roy Endré; Lorentzen, Sindre; Oglend, Atle; … - 2016
Development projects in the oil industry often have cost overruns. Through analysis of data from Norwegian development projects in the petroleum industry, this paper investigates the common effect of business cycle developments on cost overruns. Lack of capacity and expertise in a tight supplier...
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Oil project selection by metrics
Emhjellen, Magne; Osmundsen, Petter - 2016
The recent fall in oil prices has led to extensive capital rationing, and thereby given rise to a renewed focus on parameters for project selection which supplement net present value. While the financial crisis was creating capital constraints, the oil industry seemed to be paying great...
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CCS : failing to pass decision gates
Emhjellen, Magne; Osmundsen, Petter - 2014
There is a planning gap for CCS projects in Europe. CCS demonstration plants are not implemented as expected. This fact is at odds with optimistic valuation reports that apply socio-economic valuation criteria for climate projects. However, CCS plants are in most cases to be implemented by...
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Identifying leadership skills required in the digital age
Klus, Milan Frederik; Müller, Julia - 2020
How should executives lead organisations and their employees in an increasingly digitalized business environment and what skills are needed to succeed? Although the evolution of digital technologies considerably changes working environments in organisations and creates new challenges for...
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Projecting the spread of COVID19 for Germany
Donsimoni, Jean Roch; Glawion, René; Plachter, Bodo; … - 2020
We model the evolution of the number of individuals that are reported to be sick with COVID-19 in Germany. Our theoretical framework builds on a continuous time Markov chain with four states: healthy without infection, sick, healthy after recovery or after infection but without symptoms and...
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Petroleum tax competition subject to capital rationing
Osmundsen, Petter; Løvås, Kjell; Emhjellen, Magne - 2017
The recent dramatic fall in oil prices has led to extensive capital rationing in international oil companies, and subsequent fierce competition between resource extraction countries to attract scarce investment. This situation is not adequately addressed by the large literature on international...
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Union bargaining power and product innovation : relevance of the preference function
Basak, Debasmita; Hoefele, Andreas; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2014
We show the effects of the bargaining power of labour unions on product innovation under decentralised and centralised … union bargaining power increases or decreases product innovation depends on the type of wage bargaining, market expansion … union bargaining power increases innovation if bargaining is decentralised, the market expansion effect is weak and the cost …
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Private versus social incentives for pharmaceutical innovation
González, Paula; Macho-Stadler, Inés; … - 2015
We provide a theoretical framework to contribute to the current debate regarding the tendency of pharmaceutical companies to direct their R&D toward marketing products that are "follow-on" drugs of already existing drugs, rather than toward the development of breakthrough drugs. We construct a...
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Processing immigration shocks : firm responses on the innovation margin
Gray, Rowena; Montresor, Giulia; Wright, Greg C. - 2017
. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the … countries increased process innovation and reduced product innovation. This implies that the innovation response to labor supply …-skill intensity of firm production as well as firm size. In addition, the reduction in product innovation is lessened for firms whose …
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