Norges Handelshøyskole: Recent submissions
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Illegal insider trading on Oslo stock exchange : an empirical investigation
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis investigate whether substantial illegal insider trading occurs prior to mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and seasoned equity offerings (SEO) on Oslo Stock Exchange. By examining stock price dynamics prior to the ... -
Nepotism vs. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Academia (1088–1800)
(DP SAM;09/2021, Working paper, 2021-03-16)We argue that the waning of nepotism in academia bolstered scientific production in pre-industrial Europe. We build a database of families of scholars (1088–1800), measure their scientific output, and develop a general ... -
Risk and return in yield curve arbitrage : a survey of the USD and EUR interest rate swap markets
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis extends the research of Duarte, Longstaff and Yu (2007) by looking at the risk and return characteristics of yield curve arbitrage. Like in Duarte et al., return indexes are created by implementing a particular ... -
Retail investors’ preferences for lottery stocks : Are retail investors overinvesting in lottery-type stocks due to wealth constraints?
(Master thesis, 2020)We find that retail investors on aggregate are less attracted to stocks with highly skewed returns after an exogenous increase in stock tradability. Using data on the number of Robinhood investors owning U.S. stocks, we ... -
Mixed Member Proportional with faithful accounting
(Discussion paper;5/21, Working paper, 2021-03-15)With present (2021) tally rules, the number of seats in the Bundestag is highly volatile. In 2017 it got 709 seats, 111 of them extra-ordinary. The rules may double the influence of a voter who splits the ballot, contrary ... -
Fairness and Willingness to Compete
(DP SAM;08/2021, Working paper, 2021-03)The large experimental literature on competitiveness has typically ignored a key feature of many competitive settings in society: competition is not always fair. The playing field may be uneven and competitors of unequal ... -
Understanding the Decline in Private Sector Unionization: A Skill-based Approach
(DP SAM;07/2021, Working paper, 2021-03)Private-sector unionization rates have fallen precipitously in the United States over the past half century, from 25% in 1973 to only 7% in 2018. We take a skill-based approach to studying this decline, using data from the ... -
Size-based input price discrimination under endogenous inside options
(DP SAM;06/2021, Working paper, 2021-03)Individual retailers may choose to invest in a substitute to a dominant supplier’s products (inside option) as a way of improving its position towards the supplier. Given that a large retailer has stronger investment ... -
Essays on Reporting and Information Acquisition under Conflict of Interest
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Essays on Information and Fairness
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Size-based input price discrimination under endogenous inside options
(Discussion paper;4/21, Working paper, 2021-03-04)Individual retailers may choose to invest in a substitute to a dominant supplier’s products (inside option) as a way of improving its position towards the supplier. Given that a large retailer has stronger investment ... -
Classroom experiments on technology licensing: Royalty stacking, cross-licensing and patent pools
(Discussion paper;3/21, Working paper, 2021-02-11)We present two classroom experiments on technology licensing. The first classroom experiment introduces the concept of royalty stacking. The students learn that non-cooperative pricing of royalties for complementary ... -
How Do People Trade Off Resources Between Quick and Slow Learners?
(DP SAM;05/2021, Working paper, 2021-02)How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from the first experiment designed to elicit people’s preferences for how to prioritize educational resources, ... -
Information about Fewer Audits Reduces Support for Economic Relief Programs
(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 optimal spending rate versus the expected real return of a sovereign wealth fund
(Discussion paper;1/21, Working paper, 2021-02-04)We consider a sovereign wealth fund that invests broadly in the international financial markets. The influx to the fund has stopped. We adopt the life cycle model and demonstrate that the optimal spending rate from the ... -
Income Inequality and Mortality: A Norwegian Perspective
(DP SAM;04/2021, Working paper, 2021-01)While Norway has experienced income growth accompanied by a large decline in mortality during the past several decades, little is known about the distribution of these improvements in longevity across the income distribution. ... -
It’s About Time A Study of Norwegian managers’ handling of time at work
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-11)This thesis enhances existing insights and knowledge about how managers handle their time through exploring how Norwegian managers handle time at work. More specifically, this thesis aims at answering the following research ... -
Unemployment shocks, cyclical prices and shopping behavior
(DP SAM;03/2021, Working paper, 2021-01)We use rich data from Norway’s biggest grocery chain to show how households and grocery stores react to changing economic conditions. We exploit the regional nature of a recession following the drop in the oil price in ... -
Jobs and technology in general equilibrium: A three-elasticities approach
(DP SAM;01/2021, Working paper, 2021-01-21)The impact of technological progress on jobs and wages has been subject to much empirical and some theoretical work. However, most of this literature has not addressed the general equilibrium interplay between the productive ... -
Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China
(DP SAM;01/2021, Working paper, 2021-01-07)Government regulations are often imperfectly enforced by public officials. In this study, we investigate if real-time monitoring of policy outcomes can improve enforcement of existing regulations by exploring the introduction ...