• Essays on Shareholder Engagement and Voting 

  Li, Xuan (Doctoral thesis, 2024-05)

  Navigating through a PhD is like walking alone on a dark winter night. The kindness I have encountered along the way is the twinkling stars that accompany me and guide me in the darkness. For that, I am forever ...

• Representations of Uncertainty for Decision Modelling 

  Narum, Benjamin (Doctoral thesis, 2024-05)

  First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisors Stein W. Wallace, Julio C. Goez and Francesca Maggioni. I would also like to extend my thanks to my co-authors Jamie Fairbrother and Geir ...

• Convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies: Some reflections based on new data for the Baltic countries 

  Bruno, Lars Christian; Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;05/2024, Working paper, 2024-04-18)

  This short paper uses recent estimates of GDP per capita for the Baltic countries for the 1919-2020(22) period to test for convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies. Drawing from the methodology used in Bernard ...

• Innocuous Exam Features? The Impact of Answer Placement on High-Stakes Test Performance and College Admissions 

  Franco, Catalina; Povea, Erika (DP SAM;04/2024, Working paper, 2024-04-14)

  We exploit randomness in college entrance exams in Colombia to study how the placement of answers impacts multiple-choice test results and access to college. Using administrative data, we find that: first, applicants are ...

• The Effects of Labour Migration and Interventions on Tax Compliance 

  Lange, Thomas (Doctoral thesis, 2024-04)

  First of all, I would like to thank my supervisors at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Evelina Gavrilova-Zoutman and Floris Zoutman for excellent guidance throughout my PhD. Following my many years outside ...

• Servant Leadership in a Marketing Context 

  Zarei, Mohammad (Doctoral thesis, 2024-03)

  Research on Servant Leadership (SL) is gaining momentum in the management literature, but the role and effects of this style of leadership have not received much attention in the marketing literature. The purpose of ...

• Will Artificial Intelligence Get in the Way of Achieving Gender Equality? 

  Carvajal, Daniel; Franco, Catalina; Isaksson, Siri (DP SAM;03/2024, Working paper, 2024-03-14)

  The promise of generative AI to increase human productivity relies on developing skills to become proficient at it. There is reason to suspect that women and men use AI tools differently, which could result in productivity ...

• Business model digitalization, competition, and tax savings 

  Casi, Elisa; Lisowsky, Petro; Stage, Barbara M. B.; Todtenhaupt, Maximilian (Discussion paper;6/24, Working paper, 2024-03-13)

  We examine the effect of business model digitalization on competition and how corporate tax savings through digitalization may augment this relationship. Global policymakers express concern that digitalization-related tax ...

• Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? Evidence from the lab 

  Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia (DP SAM;02/2024, Working paper, 2024-03)

  We study the relationship between inequality and social instability. While the argument that inequality can be damaging for the cohesion of a society is well established, the empirical evidence is mixed. We use a novel ...

• Smartphone Bans, Student Outcomes and Mental Health 

  Abrahamsson, Sara (DP SAM;01/2024, Working paper, 2024-02)

  How smartphone usage affects well-being and learning among children and adolescents is a concern for schools, parents, and policymakers. Combining detailed administrative data with survey data on middle schools’ smartphone ...

• A Distributional Robust Analysis of Buyback and Cap-and-Trade Policies 

  Fakhrabadi, Mahnaz; Sandal, Leif K. (Discussion paper;5/24, Working paper, 2024-02-20)

  This study delves into a dynamic Stackelberg game comprised of a manufacturer and a retailer, operating in an environment with fluctuating demand and price-dependent consumer behavior. The multi-period optimization challenges ...

• Method for Fusing Predictor Levels with Application to Insurance Data 

  Jensen, Henriette Nøkleberg; Rafn, Mathias William (Master thesis, 2018)

  The aim of this thesis is to determine whether the prediction accuracy of a model can be improved by using a data-driven method to bin continuous variables and group the levels of categorical variables. We use data on ...

• Styringssystemet i en produksjonsbedrift : En case-studie om styringssystemet i elektrolyseavdelingen ved Hydro Aluminium Høyanger 

  Bruaas, Tina (Master thesis, 2018)

  Formålet med denne utredningen er å identifisere hvordan styringssystemet tilrettelegger for at bedrifter kan tilpasse seg omgivelsene. Bedrifter må stadig forbedre seg og må derfor ha et styringssystem som tilpasser seg ...

• Essays on Dynamic Games: Impacts of Different Contracts and Policy Constraints in a Distributional Robust Approach 

  Fakhrabadi, Mahnaz (Doctoral thesis, 2024-01)

• Models for Spatial Consequences of Changes in Commuting Patterns 

  Gholami, Azam Azad (Doctoral thesis, 2024-02)

• Tax Complexity as Price Discrimination 

  Agersnap, Ole; Bjørkheim, Julie Brun (Discussion paper;4/24, Working paper, 2024-02-05)

  Most tax systems around the world are highly complex. While several economists have studied the potential costs associated with tax complexity, few have explored if complexity can also have beneficial effects. In a novel ...

• Climate Policy and Trade in Polluting Technologies 

  Ferguson, Shon M.; Heijmans, Roweno J.R.K. (Discussion paper;3/24, Working paper, 2024-01-30)

  This paper studies international trade in equipment used in the combustion of fossil fuels. Informed by a theoretical analysis, we identify a type of technology leakage hitherto unexplored in the literature: a country’s ...

• Time Horizons and Emissions Trading 

  Heijmans, Roweno J.R.K.; Engström, Max (Discussion paper;2/24, Working paper, 2024-01-23)

  We study dynamic cap-and-trade schemes in which a policy of adjustable allowance supply determines the cap on emissions. Focusing on two common supply policies, price and quantity mechanisms, we investigate how the duration ...

• Does Private Ownership in the Kindergarten Sector Benefit the Children? Empirical Evidence from Norway Does the kindergarten's ownership form impact the quality? 

  Rougier, Erik Barstad (Master thesis, 2022)

  This paper investigates whether private ownership in the Norwegian childcare sector benefits children. The paper seeks to do so by investigating whether there are differences in quality between public and private kindergartens, ...

• Forecasting price spikes in day-ahead electricity markets: techniques, challenges, and the road ahead 

  Sheybanivaziri, Samaneh; Le Dréau, Jérôme; Kazmi, Hussain (Discussion paper;1/24, Working paper, 2024-01-17)

  Due to the increase in renewable energy production and global socioeconomic turmoil, the volatility in electricity prices has considerably increased in recent years, leading to extreme positive and negative price spikes ...

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