• The importance of co-determination for gender diversity in the boardroom 

  Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin (DP SAM;12/2025, Working paper, 2025-05-15)

  This study examines the interplay of co-determination law and board gender quotas using novel board-director panel data for Norway. We present descriptive evidence suggesting that boards with employee representatives on ...

• Introduction to special issue on corporate and startup collaborations in an age of disruption: looking beyond the dyad 

  Giones Valls, Ferran; Shankar, Raj K.; Smith, Sheryl Winston; Garcia-Herrera, Cristobal; Timmermans, Bram (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Established organisations and new ventures search for knowledge in the face of disruption. The activation of corporate-startup collaborations facilitates access to new and complementary knowledge. This type of collaboration ...

• Conventional or organic cattle farming? Trade-offs between crop yield, livestock capacity, organic premiums, and government payments 

  Bang, Rasmus; Hansen, Bjørn Gunnar; Guajardo, Mario; Sommerseth, Jon Kristian; Flaten, Ola; Asheim, Leif Jarle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  CONTEXT An important question for farmers is whether to run their farm conventionally or organically. This choice can significantly affect the farm's financial performance and its impact on the environment. OBJECTIVE The ...

• Channel Coordination on Exclusive vs. Non-Exclusive Content under Endogenous Consumer Homing 

  Arve, Malin; Dyskeland, Ole Kristian; Foros, Øystein (Discussion paper;17/25, Working paper, 2025-05-13)

  We analyze competition between two digital platforms selling subscriptions for unlimited access to their content catalogs (e.g., streaming and TV broadcasting platforms). A content provider offers additional content to the ...

• Win-win or lose-win? Economic-climatic synergies and trade-offs in dual-purpose cattle systems 

  Bang, Rasmus; Samsonstuen, Stine; Hansen, Bjørn Gunnar; Guajardo, Mario; Møller, Hanne; Sommerseth, Jon Kristian; Goez, Julio C.; Flaten, Ola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  CONTEXT Researchers have identified numerous strategies to improve economic performance and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity in combined milk and beef production on dairy farms. However, there remains a need ...

• Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats? 

  Cappelen, Alexander Wright; de Haan, Thomas; Tungodden, Bertil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

• Conversation logs as a source of insight: Predicting user satisfaction for customer service chatbots 

  Ay, Fehime Ceren; Freddi, Eleonora; Følstad, Asbjørn; Hodnebrog, Stig; Kvale, Knut; Sell, Olav Alexander; Ulsaker, Simen Aardal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Predicting user satisfaction for chatbots in customer service operations is important for their successful uptake. Based on chatbot conversation logs and corresponding satisfaction scores from a much used intent-based ...

• Competition, quality and integrated health care 

  Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

• Optimal risk sharing with translation invariant recursive utility in continuous time 

  Aase, Knut K. (Discussion paper;16/25, Working paper, 2025-01-12)

  We consider optimal risk sharing where agents have preferences represented by translation invariant recursive utility. The dynamics in continuous time is driven by diffusion processes. The model has some appealing features ...

• The economics of risk sharing in discrete time with translation invariant recursive utility 

  Aase, Knut K. (Discussion paper;15/25, Working paper, 2025-01-09)

  We consider optimal risk sharing in a dynamic setting, where agents have preferences represented by translation invariant recursive utility. This model has some appealing features, both compared to the scale invariant one ...

• Investment universe-level returns to scale and active fund management 

  Ørpetveit, Andreas (Discussion paper;14/25, Working paper, 2025-01-08)

  Research shows that competition negatively impacts fund alpha. I derive that fund managers can counteract this impact by adjusting the level of active management. In an international sample, I find that the impact of ...

• Competition and incentives in the mutual fund industry: Evidence from product development strategies 

  Ørpetveit, Andreas (Discussion paper;13/25, Working paper, 2025-05-07)

  Despite extensive evidence of how competition in the mutual fund industry affects fees and performance outcomes, less is known about its effect on the incentives of market participants. This paper examines how competition ...

• Parental Leave from the Firm’s Perspective 

  Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid (DP SAM;11/2025, Working paper, 2025-05-05)

  This study investigates the firm’s response to parental leave induced worker absence. Combining a 20-week maternal leave expansion in Norway and detailed matched employer-employee data between 1983 and 2013, we identify ...

• Collaborative logistics and digital technologies in rural contexts: a systematic review and a decision aid model for logistics decision-makers 

  Moazzeni, Sahar; Sgarbossa, Fabio (Discussion paper;12/25, Working paper, 2025-04-30)

  Collaboration and digital technologies are critical enablers for improving logistics systems by enhancing coordination, optimizing resource use, and increasing supply chain responsiveness. Although both areas have been ...

• Dokken - kampen om kantsteinen 

  Tendal, Pia; Lundeby, Maja Sofie (Master thesis, 2024)

  Oppgaven er utarbeidet som en del av forskningsprosjektet CityFreight og har som mål å undersøke hvordan det kan tilrettelegges for effektiv varetransport på Dokken, et område som står overfor en omfattende transformasjon. Når ...

• The Sufficient Statistics Approach Applied To International Tax Policy 

  Zoutman, Floris T. (Discussion paper;11/25, Working paper, 2025-04-16)

  This paper extends the sufficient statistics approach to study international tax policy. International policy differs from domestic policies because i.) from the perspective of domestic policy makers the welfare weight on ...

• Statistical Modeling of Climate Risk in Home Insurance Claims 

  Shi, Yue (Doctoral thesis, 2025-04)

• Media attention and price competition: Evidence from Norwegian grocery retailing 

  Foros, Øystein; Friberg, Richard; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg; Steen, Frode (Discussion paper;10/25, Working paper, 2025-04-14)

  Consumer journalism guides purchasing decisions when consumers lack complete information about attributes such as price, quality, and location. We focus on consumer journalism in the grocery market, where it is too time ...

• Good to Great : How Marine Harvest Can Innovate to Grow, and Grow to Innovate Amid Imperfect Industry Structure and Regulation 

  Gaskill, James M. (Master thesis, 2018)

  Spatial conflicts exist between firms and farms in the Norwegian Salmon Farming industry which perpetuates sea lice and disease issues and prevents the industry from growing. Lack of growth in Norway in the face of increasing ...

• The Power to Discriminate 

  Dodini, Samuel; Willén, Alexander (DP SAM;10/2025, Working paper, 2025-04-07)

  This paper examines the relationship between labor market power and employer discrimination, providing new causal evidence on when and where discriminatory outcomes arise. We leverage job displacements from mass layoffs ...

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