• China’s seafood imports – not for domestic consumption? 

      Asche, Frank; Yang, Bixuan; Gephart, Jessica A.; Smith, Martin D.; Anderson, James L.; Camp, Edward V.; Garlock, Taryn; Love, David C.; Oglend, Atle; Straume, Hans-Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Global trade in seafood is tightly coupled with environmental, economic, and social sustainability (1–3). Yet, two features of global seafood trade hamper efforts to promote sustainability. First, the recent practice of ...
    • Estimating Pricing Rigidities in Bilateral Transactions Markets 

      Oglend, Atle; Asche, Frank; Straume, Hans-Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      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 ...
    • 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)
      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 ...
    • Insights from transaction data: Norwegian aquaculture exports 

      Straume, Hans-Martin; Landazuri-Tveteraas, Ursula; Oglend, Atle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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 ...
    • Price dispersion and the stability of trade* 

      Oglend, Atle; Asche, Frank; Pincinato, Ruth Beatriz; Straume, Hans-Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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 

      Oglend, Atle; Straume, Hans-Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      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 ...
    • Salmon trout, the forgotten cousin? 

      Landazuri-Tveteraas, Ursula; Oglend, Atle; Steen, Marie; Straume, Hans-Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This study investigates potential economic reasons why the production of trout is maintained in Norway by analyzing prices and production for Norwegian Atlantic salmon and trout. The species Atlantic salmon dominates the ...
    • The structure of Norwegian seafood trade 

      Straume, Hans-Martin; Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle; Gaasland, Ivar; Pettersen, Ingrid Kristine; Sogn-Grundvåg, Geir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      While seafood is a highly traded commodity, lack of data has largely prevented examination of the firms and industries that are conducting the actual transactions. In this paper we use highly disaggregated data to provide ...
    • Tools of the trade: trade flexibility with respect to margins and buyers 

      Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle; Straume, Hans-Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Access to highly disaggregated trade data allows for a more nuanced investigation of different margins of trade, and the factors known to influence them. In this paper, the number of importers and shipments to each importer ...