Blar i NHH Brage på emneord "VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200"
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A Fundamental Externality in the Labour Market? Ragnar Frisch on the socially optimal amount of work.
(DP SAM;2/2018, Working paper, 2018-01)In the late 1940s, Ragnar Frisch published two articles in Norwegian that constitute a pioneering attempt to apply welfare economics to a problem of economic policy. The main contention of the articles is that there exists ... -
Accountability and taxation: Experimental evidence
(DP SAM;24/2018, Working paper, 2018-11)The Rentier State Hypothesis states that taxation promotes government accountability. The argument is that citizens demand more accountability for spending of tax revenue than for spending of windfall revenue (e.g., natural ... -
Advertising and Newspaper Differentiation: On the Role of Readers’ Advertising Taste
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)Newspapers have an incentive to moderate their profile in order to gain a larger readership and thus higher advertising revenue. We show that this incentive is weakened both if readers are ad-haters and if they are ad-lovers. -
All-pay auctions with affiliated values
(DP SAM;13/2017, Working paper, 2017-08)This paper analyzes all-pay auctions where the bidders have affiliated values for the object for sale and where the signals take binary values. Since signals are correlated, high signals indicate a high degree of competition ... -
Ambiguity Attitudes in the Loss Domain: Decisions for Self versus Others.
(DP SAM;11/2018, Working paper, 2018-05)We study whether people’s ambiguity attitudes differ when deciding for themselves or for others in the loss domain. We find no differences in ambiguity attitudes between self- and other-regarding decision-making. Our results ... -
An analysis of the two-bidder all-pay auction with common values
(DP SAM;17/2018, Working paper, 2018-08)This paper studies a symmetric two-bidder all-pay auction where the bidders compete for a prize whose unknown common value is either high or low. The bidders’ private signals (or types) are discrete and affiliated through ... -
Attitudes towards large income risk in welfare states: an international comparison.
(DP SAM;20/2017, Working paper, 2017-12)Using survey data and the instrument developed by Barsky et al. (1997), we estimate the distribution of attitudes towards income risk in a country where many employment and health-related risks are generously covered by a ... -
Competition and physician behaviour: Does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates?
(DP SAM;3, Working paper, 2017)Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit ... -
The creative consumer : exploring consumer behavior from a creativity perspective
(Ph.D. thesis, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This research focuses on consumer creativity and uses frameworks from creativity theory to understand consumer behavior. Because this ... -
Cultural intelligence : factors and measurement
(Master thesis, 2008)This thesis focuses on cultural intelligence and the factors that are associated with individuals who have the ability to succeed in an international work environment. In review of the literature, the concept of cultural ... -
Empowering the disabled through savings groups: Experimental evidence from Uganda.
(DP SAM;5/2018, Working paper, 2018-03)We report from the first randomized controlled trial of a development program targeting people with disabilities: a village savings‐ and loans program in rural Uganda. We find that it has had a strong, positive impact ... -
Euler Equations, Subjective Expectations and Income Shocks
(DP SAM;21/2018, Working paper, 2018)In this paper, we make three substantive contributions: first, we use elicited subjective income expectations to identify the levels of permanent and transitory income shocks in a life-cycle framework; second, we use these ... -
Exercise Improves Academic Performance.
(DP SAM;8/2017, Working paper, 2017-08)We report the results of a randomized controlled trial testing whether incentivizing physical exercise improves the academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The ... -
Fairness in Winner-Take-All Markets
(DP SAM;8/2018, Working paper, 2018-04)The paper reports the first experimental study on people’s fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income ... -
The German-Norwegian working climate : include a field study to test the nature of the German-Norwegian working relationship : a perfect match or a cultural clash?
(Master thesis, 2008)Germany and Norway are two countries of close geographical proximity. In addition to the physical dimension, Germany and Norway have partly a shared history, and today the two countries are important trading partners. ... -
Going Fast or Going Green? Evidence from Environmental Speed Limits in Norway
(DP SAM;12/2017, Working paper, 2017-08)This paper studies the impact of speed limits on local air pollution, using a series of datespecific speed limit reductions in Oslo over the 2004-2015 period. We find that lowering the speed limit from 80 to 60 km/h reduces ... -
Grading standards, student ability and errors in college admission
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-06)Grades are important for admission of students in most higher education programmes. Analysing admission and student performance data at a major Norwegian business school, we find that the grading practice of teachers ... -
Hotspot crowding and over-tourism: Antecedents of destination attractiveness
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study develops a unique model capturing antecedents of place attractiveness in tourism hotspot crowding contexts. A structural equation model reveals three density dimensions: one destination image variable and two ... -
Household bargaining and spending on children: Experimental evidence from Tanzania.
(DP SAM;19/2017, Working paper, 2017-10)It is frequently assumed that money in the hands of women leads to better out-comes for their children than money in the hands of men. However, empirical and theoretical evidence are mixed. We conduct a novel between-subject ... -
Incarceration Spillovers in Criminal and Family Networks
(DP SAM;15/2018, Working paper, 2018-08)Using quasi-random assignment of criminal cases to judges, we estimate large incarceration spillovers in criminal and brother networks. When a defendant is sent to prison, there are 51 and 32 percentage point reductions ...