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What drives the Rebound Effect in transportation? An evaluation based on a Traveling Purchaser Problem
(Master thesis, 2022)Limiting climate change is one of the most important challenges of the 21st century. Focusing on the transport sector, encouraging the use of more energy-efficient transport modes, and improving the performance of vehicles ... -
What Explains the Gender Gap in College Track Dropout?Experimental and Administrative Evidence.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)We exploit a unique data set, combining rich experimental data with high-quality administrative data, to study dropout from the college track in Norway, and why boys are more likely to drop out. The paper provides three ... -
What Happened in Burlington?
(Discussion paper;26/15, Working paper, 2015-10-07)Three visualization techniques illustrate the distribution of electoral preferences over a candidate triple. Two of them, introduced here, concern an IRV tally. The conditions that may allow the “pushover strategy” and ... -
What happens when it's windy in Denmark?: an empirical analysis of wind power on price volatility in the Nordic electricity market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-12)This paper attempts to empirically test the effect that wind power production in Denmark has on volatility of the nord-pool wholesale electricity prices. The main result is that wind power tends to significantly reduce ... -
What is stopping Norwegian firms from innovating their business models? : towards a business model perspective on innovation
(Master thesis, 2016)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the diverging concept on business model innovation and understand why Norwegian firms fail to innovate their business models. In doing so, the differences and relationship between ... -
What is the optimal allocation towards real estate in the portfolio of the global pension fund global?
(Master thesis, 2012)In this master thesis we evaluate the optimal future investment allocation towards real estate for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG). Based on an assessment of the relative ... -
What is the value of ESG ratings for responsible investors in allocating capital towards sustainable companies? : evidence from European institutional investors
(Master thesis, 2020)There is a strong momentum to complement traditional financial measures with sustainability indicators. In that regard, the ESG ratings market plays a role of intermediary between the corporate and the investment sectors. ... -
What is wrong with IRV?
(Discussion paper;13/18, Working paper, 2018-10-22)Struggles over the single-seat preferential election method IRV, Instant Runoff Voting, (a.k.a. AV, Alternative Vote or RCV, Ranked-Choice Voting) go on in many arenas: legislatures, courts, websites, and scholarly ... -
What limits the powerful in imposing the morality of their authority?
(DP SAM;18/2017, Working paper, 2017-10)This paper models a game between an authority, seeking to implement its preferred morality, and a parental generation, seeking to socialize a younger generation into the their own morality. The authority chooses a coercion ... -
What makes employees trust forecasted numbers?
(Report;2015:19, Research report, 2015-12)Volatile and changing market conditions have made financial planning tools of increasing importance for managers and practitioners. In recent years, the use of traditional budgets has been criticised as a management control ... -
What makes employees trust forecasted numbers?: a case study on how employees make sense of the rolling forecasting process and its effect on trust
(Master thesis, 2015)Volatile and changing market conditions have made financial planning tools of increasing importance for managers and practitioners. In recent years, the use of traditional budgets has been criticised as a management ... -
What Makes Hiring Difficult? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data
(DP SAM;20/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)We designed an innovative survey of firms and linked it to Danish administrative data to yield new insights about the factors that can influence firms’ hiring decisions. Several important findings stand out: (1) search and ... -
What makes people refuse to lie? : understanding pure lie aversion
(Master thesis, 2012)In this paper, I examine pure lie aversion in a controlled experiment. When both the liar and the person that is being lied to benefits from the lie, why do some people still refuse to lie? I use treatments to capture pure ... -
What money can buy? : three centuries of Norwegian wage and price development
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-10)On the basis of newly utilized data from one of the largest manual historical archives on wages and prices internationally and unpublished data from Statistics Norway this article offers new wage and price series for ... -
What patients want from their doctors : an analysis of patients’ online reviews and ratings of their regular general practitioners
(Master thesis, 2014)Understanding what dimensions of health care quality patients respond to is essential in order to recognize how patient demand contributes to health care quality maintenance. In this paper I analyze patients’ online reviews ... -
What puzzles? : new insights in asset pricing
(Discussion paper;2012:13, Working paper, 2012-11)Motivated by the problems of the conventional model in rationalizing izing market data, we derive the equilibrium interest rate and risk premiums using recursive utility in continuous time. In a representative- agent ... -
What students need (and want): semantically-oriented queries in large online corpora
(Journal article, 2010)The 400 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) [1990-2009] is the only large, balanced, up-to-date corpus of English that is publicly available. There are many features in this corpus that allow ... -
What the hack? : an empirical analysis of the stock market reactions to hacking announcements
(Master thesis, 2020)To raise awareness of the financial consequences for companies that do not safeguard personal data, this thesis investigates the stock market reaction following hacks. Furthermore, it investigates the role consumers and ... -
When a price is enough : implementation in optimal tax design
(Discussion paper;32/14, Working paper, 2014-09)This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's secondbest allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible ...