• Essays on portfolio choice 

      Døskeland, Trond M. (Doctoral thesis, 2007)
      The four papers that make up my thesis take different approaches to portfolio choice. The first paper, Expertise Bias, is an empirical paper investigating individuals' portfolio choice. The main finding is that individual ...
    • Intergenerational Effects of Guaranteed Pension Contracts 

      Døskeland, Trond M.; Nordahl, Helge A. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-09)
      In this paper we show that there exist an intergenerational cross-subsidization effect in guaranteed interest rate life and pension contracts as the different generations partially share the same reserves. Early generations ...
    • Optimal Pension Insurance Design 

      Døskeland, Trond M.; Nordahl, Helge A. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-09)
      In this paper we provide a framework for how the traditional life and pension contracts with a guaranteed rate of return can be optimized to increase customers’ welfare. Given that the contracts have to be priced correctly, ...