• Fraud detection by a multinomial model: Separating honesty from unobserved fraud 

      Andersson, Jonas; Olden, Andreas; Rusina, Aija (Discussion paper;15/20, Working paper, 2020-12-31)
      In this paper we investigate the EM-estimator of the model by Caudill et al. (2005). The purpose of the model is to identify items, e.g. individuals or companies, that are wrongly classified as honest; an example of this ...
    • Information about Fewer Audits Reduces Support for Economic Relief Programs 

      Haaland, Ingar; Olden, Andreas (Discussion paper;2/21, Working paper, 2021-02-05)
      Using a probability-based sample of the Norwegian population, we test whether an informational treatment about fewer audits by the Norwegian Tax Administration during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis affects support for an ...
    • The Triple Difference Estimator 

      Olden, Andreas; Møen, Jarle (Discussion paper;1/20, Working paper, 2020-04-22)
      Triple difference has become a widely used estimator in empirical work. A close reading of articles in top economics journals reveals that the use of the estimator to a large extent rests on intuition. The identifying ...
    • What Do You Buy When No One’s Watching? The Effect of Self-Service Checkouts on the Composition of Sales in Retail 

      Olden, Andreas (Discussion paper;3/18, Working paper, 2018-03-16)
      Buying items that are unhealthy or are of a private nature may carry a stigma and cause embarrassment. I analyze whether the anonymity provided by self-service checkouts changes customers' shopping patterns in grocery ...