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Boyan Jovanovic: recipient of the 2019 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The 2019 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research has been awarded to Professor Boyan Jovanovic at New York University in the USA. Boyan Jovanovic has developed pioneering research that advances our understanding of the ... -
Bør den indirekte pressestøtten gis som momsfritak eller skattefradrag? :
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Papiraviser er fritatt for moms. Dette representerer en indirekte subsidie i størrelsesorden 1,5 milliarder kroner per år. Skattefradrag for redaksjonelle kostnader har vært foreslått som et supplerende virkemiddel i en ... -
Can lonely riders become three musketeers? : creating effective joint operations among farmers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Individuals as well as organizations often need to work together to achieve economies of scale and scope. However, collaboration can be a challenge, and one example in which the potential benefit of cooperation has been ... -
Childhood Nutrition and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a School Breakfast Program
(DP SAM;15/2016, Working paper, 2016-11-29)While a growing literature documents the short-term effects of public programs providing children with nutritious food, there is scarce evidence of the long-term eects of such programs. This paper studies the long-term ... -
Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign
(SAM;28/2015, Working paper, 2015-12-02)This paper examines the economic impact of a tuberculosis control program launched in Norway in 1948. In the 1940s, Norway had one of the highest tuberculosis infection rates in Europe, affecting about 85 percent of the ... -
Do foreign investors have an edge? : a study of Norwegian equity mutual funds
(Master thesis, 2013)This paper examines the performance and investor behavior of Norwegian equity mutual funds in the time periods 1990-2012 and 2006-2012, respectively. The behavioral part try to reveal differences between local (Norwegian) ... -
Do Fossil fuel Taxes Promote Innovation in Renewable Electricity Generation?
(DP SAM;16/2016, Working paper, 2016-11-29)We evaluate the role of a fossil fuel tax and research subsidy in directing innovation from fossil fuel toward renewable energy technologies in the electricity sector. Using a global firm-level electricity patent database ... -
Do venture capitalists succeed outside their comfort zone? : an empirical study of venture capital firms' performance as they move into new nations or industries
(Master thesis, 2014)This thesis aims to analyze the performance of venture capitalists (VCs) at the moment they invest in new nations or industries. Our sample consists of 29,172 venture capital back ed entrepreneurial firms from ... -
Do ‘soft law’ board gender quotas work? Evidence from a natural experiment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In a new era of “open governance”, in which societal and corporate change is taking place, 15 predominantly European countries, including Spain, enacted board gender quotas to increase the share of women on boards. In ... -
Dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs and state-dependent drift
(Working paper;2014:1, Working paper, 2014)We present an efficient numerical method to determine optimal portfolio strategies under time- and state-dependent drift and proportional transaction costs. This scenario arises when investors have behavioral biases or ... -
Effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background: Adolescent pregnancies pose a risk to the young mothers and their babies. In Zambia, 35% of young girls in rural areas have given birth by the age of 18 years. Pregnancy rates are particularly high among ... -
En eksplorativ studie av samspillet mellom auksjoner og forhandlinger i et større norsk industrielt selskap
(Master thesis, 2013)Hovedtemaet i denne utredningen er samspillet mellom auksjoner og forhandlinger. Et annet ord for dette samspillet er auksjonsforhandlinger som er en todelt auksjons- og forhandlingsprosess hvor en innledende auksjon ... -
Explaining women's presence on corporate boards: The institutionalization of progressive gender-related policies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We draw on a phenomenological model of institutional theory to explore how sub-national policies shape corporate board gender diversity of publicly traded firms. Using a sample of S&P 1500 firms in 49 U.S. states from ... -
Finanzialization av råvaremarkedet : en empirisk studie av sammenhengen mellom avkastningen i det amerikanske aksje- og råvaremarkedet
(Master thesis, 2013)Etter råvarers kraftige prisoppgang før, og med etterfølgende nedgang under den seneste finanskrisen, har den økte deltakelsen fra finansielle investorer i råvaremarkedet etter 2004 fått økt oppmerksomhet. Dette blir ofte ... -
Fragmentation and stability of markets
(Working paper;2013:7, Working paper, 2013-07)Trading skills are highly rewarded in practice but largely ignored in theoretical models of financial markets. This paper demonstrates the importance of skills by exploring their interaction with market fragmentation and ... -
From Fossil Fuels to Renewables: The Role of Electricity Storage.
(SAM;11/2016, Working paper, 2016-06-07)We analyze the role of electricity storage for technological innovations in electricity generation. We propose a directed technological change model of the electricity sector, where innovative firms develop better ... -
Further Unbundling Institutions.
(SAM;13/2016, Working paper, 2016-10-07)This paper analyzes the effects of institutions on economic development, and focuses on separating political institutions from contracting and economic institutions. For a sample of former European colonies, I find that ... -
Global potential for carbon storage based on forest ecosystems
(Master thesis, 2014)As our concerns about climate change grow, how much anthropogenic emission biosphere can absorb as a net carbon sink remains an important issue . This thesis builds a physical model and an economic model of ... -
Healthy(?), Wealthy, and Wise Birth Order and Adult Health.
(SAM;03/2016, Working paper, 2016-02-12)While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children’s outcomes such as education, IQ scores, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper uses a large dataset on ... -
Hero shots: involved fathers conquering new discursive territory in consumer culture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)In this paper, we explore how visual expressions of culture offer new discursive territory within which consumer cultural ideals can be negotiated on a global scale. Through a critical visual analysis of the revelatory ...