Blar i NHH Brage på forfatter "Gavrilova, Evelina"
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A partner in crime : assortative matching and bias in the crime market
Gavrilova, Evelina (Discussion papers;25/14, Working paper, 2014-06)I identify a discriminatory bias in partnership formation within the property crime mar- ket in the United States. Theoretically, the prisoner's dilemma creates an incentive for a criminal to form a partnership with a ... -
Dynamic Causal Forests, with an Application to Payroll Tax Incidence in Norway
Gavrilova, Evelina; Langørgen, Audun; Zoutman, Floris T. (Discussion paper;9/23, Working paper, 2023-06-29)This paper develops a machine-learning method that allows researchers to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects with panel data in a setting with many covariates. Our method, which we name the dynamic causal forest (DCF) ... -
How to Use One Instrument to Identify Two Elasticities
Gavrilova, Evelina; Zoutman, Floris T.; Hopland, Arnt O. (Discussion paper;2/17, Working paper, 2017-02-27)We show that an insight from taxation theory allows identification of both the supply and demand elasticities with only one instrument. Ramsey (1928) and subsequent models of taxation assume that a tax levied on the demand ... -
Identifying the Gender Gap in Financial White Collar Crime : An Empirical Study o n SEC Litigation Reports and the Impact on Current White Collar Crime Gender Theory
Potts, Aidan; Bradshaw, Michael (Master thesis, 2021)Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to explore whether there is a gender gap in white collar crime using a data-driven textual analysis of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) litigation releases. This paper ... -
Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime
Gavrilova, Evelina; Kamada, Takuma; Zoutman, Floris T. (Discussion paper;05/15, Working paper, 2015-01-19)We examine the effect of medical marijuana laws (MML) on crime treating the introduc- tion of MML as a quasi-experiment and using three different data sources. First, using data from the Uniform Crime Reports, we find ... -
Pot i butikk : Hvilket skatteproveny kan Norge forvente ved en legalisering av rekreasjonell cannabis?
Rokkan, Anne Aase (Master thesis, 2021)De siste årene har en debatt om avkriminalisering av cannabis skapt stort engasjement i Norge. Et reformforslag fikk ikke flertall i Stortinget i juni i år, men debatten ser ikke ut til å være over. De fleste ungdomspartiene, ... -
Stairway to (Secrecy) Heaven: Market Attitudes towards Secrecy Shopping
Gavrilova, Evelina; Polakova, Aija (Discussion paper;19/18, Working paper, 2018-12-18)We study asset price reactions to news on firms' decisions to acquire affiliates located in known secrecy havens. Our sample consists of data on the S&P 500 companies in the period 2007 to 2014. We find that acquisitions ... -
Strategic financial statement analysis and valuation of Aker solutions ASA
Farstadvoll, Haakon Simonsen (Master thesis, 2017)The purpose of this paper is to estimate the fair value of Aker Solutions ASA per 31.05.2017. The fair value is held up against the market price to make a recommendation as to what investment strategy an external, ... -
Welfare Effect of Closing Loopholes in the Dividend-Withholding Tax: The Case of Cum-cum and Cum-ex Transactions
Casi, Elisa; Gavrilova, Evelina; Murphy, David; Zoutman, Floris T. (Discussion paper;7/22, Working paper, 2022-02-22)We study the effect of reforms that close loopholes in the enforcement of the dividend withholding tax (DWT). We focus on a Danish reform enacted in 2016, and compare Denmark to its Nordic neighbors. Our main outcome of ...