Articles (FOR): Recent submissions
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Debt Shifting and Thin-Capitalization Rules – German Experience and Alternative Approaches
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This paper presents the general design of thin-capitalization rules and summarizes the economic effects of such rules as identified in theoretical models. We review empirical studies providing evidence on the experience ... -
Hvorfor kjøper bedrifter forsikring?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)De fleste bedrifter bruker forsikring som en del av sin risikostyring. For mange praktikere er dette en selvfølge, men klassiske teoretiske verk innen finans predikerer det motsatte, nemlig at bedriftene bør overlate til ... -
Maritime Shipping and Emissions: A three-layered, damage based approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Policy emphasis in ship design must be shifted away from global and idealized towards regional based and realistic vessel operating conditions. The present approach to reducing shipping emissions through technical standards ... -
An experimental study of prosocial motivation among criminals
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)The fact that criminal behavior typically has negative consequences for others provides a compelling reason to think that criminals lack prosocial motivation. This paper reports the results from two dictator game experiments ... -
Existence And Uniqueness Of Equilibrium In a Reinsurance Syndicate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)In this paper we consider a reinsurance syndicate, assuming that Pareto optimal allocations exist. Under a continuity assumption on preferences, we show that a competitive equilibrium exists and is unique. Our conditions ... -
The Perpetual American Put Option for Jump-Diffusions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)We solve a specific optimal stopping problem with an infinite time horizon, when the state variable follows a jump-diffusion. The novelty of the paper is related to the inclusion of a jump component in this stochastic ... -
Valuation and Risk Management in the Norwegian Electricity Market
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The purpose of this paper is twofold: Firstly, we analyse the option value approximation of traded options in the presence of a volatility term structure. The options are identified as: (a) “European” (written on the forward ... -
Treating missing values in INAR(1) models: An application to syndromic surveillance data
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Time-series models for count data have found increased interest in recent years. The existing literature refers to the case of data that have been fully observed. In this article, methods for estimating the parameters of ... -
Stochastic Stackelberg equilibria with applications to time-dependent newsvendor models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)In this paper, we prove a maximum principle for general stochastic differential Stackelberg games, and apply the theory to continuous time newsvendor problems. In the newsvendor problem, a manufacturer sells goods to a ... -
How electricity price spikes can help overcome the energy efficiency gap
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Using data on Google searches, I suggest that the spiky nature of electricity markets has a strong effect on searching for information on energy efficiency goods. I identify the informational effect by decomposing prices ... -
Strategic Pricing of Commodities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)We consider a setting where a large number of agents are trading commodity bundles. Assuming that agents of the same type have a certain utility attached to each transaction, we construct a statistical equilibrium which ... -
The tyranny puzzle in social preferences: an empirical investigation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)When forming their preferences about the distribution of income, rational people may be caught between two opposite forms of “tyranny.” Giving absolute priority to the worst-off imposes a sort of tyranny on the rest of the ... -
Modeling Freight Markets for Coal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)In this paper we study bulk shipping of coal between the central regions in the world. We compare the performance of cost-minimizing models with a gravity model approach. The main finding in the paper is that cost minimizing ... -
Give and take in dictator games
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)It has been shown that participants in the dictator game are less willing to give money to the other participant when their choice set also includes the option to take money. We examine whether this effect is due to the ... -
Diffusion of pharmaceuticals: cross-country evidence of anti-TNF drugs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article studies the diffusion of biopharmaceuticals across European countries, focusing on anti-TNF drugs, which are used to treat autoimmune diseases (e.g., rheumatism, psoriasis). We use detailed sales information ... -
On Farm Conservation of Crop Genetic Resource: Declining De Facto Diversity and Optimal Funding Strategy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Crop genetic resources (CGRs) are crucial natural resource which ensure food or livelihood security of billions of people today as well as ensure future agricultural innovations. However, the CGR diversity remaining in in ... -
Lederutviklingsprogram som virkemiddel for utvikling av kunnskapsdeling i norske multinasjonale selskaper
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Norske bedrifters oppkjøp av virksomheter utenfor Norge er i økende grad kunnskapsdrevet. Dette betyr at en ønsker å øke bedriftens verdiskaping gjennom å ta i bruk kunnskap fra eller overføre kunnskap til de oppkjøpte ... -
Hvorfor samarbeide?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Mange bedrifter ser på samarbeid som en mulighet til å styrke sin egen konkurransekraft, få tilgang til nye markeder og innfri operasjonelle, samfunnsmessige og miljørelaterte krav og restriksjoner. Samtidig har hver enkelt ... -
Belønninger som styringsverktøy - når bør toppledelsen holde fingrene av fatet?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Utviklingen i virksomhetsstyring de siste 20-30 årene har vært preget av mer systematisk bruk av ikke-finansiell informasjon og større utbredelse av variabel avlønning. I denne artikkelen ser vi disse to trendene i sammenheng ... -
Bok og nettside som integrert læreverk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Denne artikkelen bruker et konkret pedagogisk prosjekt i finans til å vise hvordan ønsket om undervisning med relevans og mangfold kan avleire seg i et læreverk. Vår nøkkel er å utvikle bok og nettside i tidsmessig parallell ...