Norges Handelshøyskole: Recent submissions
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Essays on Dynamic Games: Impacts of Different Contracts and Policy Constraints in a Distributional Robust Approach
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-01) -
Models for Spatial Consequences of Changes in Commuting Patterns
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Tax Complexity as Price Discrimination
(Discussion paper;4/24, Working paper, 2024-02-05)Most tax systems around the world are highly complex. While several economists have studied the potential costs associated with tax complexity, few have explored if complexity can also have beneficial effects. In a novel ... -
Climate Policy and Trade in Polluting Technologies
(Discussion paper;3/24, Working paper, 2024-01-30)This paper studies international trade in equipment used in the combustion of fossil fuels. Informed by a theoretical analysis, we identify a type of technology leakage hitherto unexplored in the literature: a country’s ... -
Time Horizons and Emissions Trading
(Discussion paper;2/24, Working paper, 2024-01-23)We study dynamic cap-and-trade schemes in which a policy of adjustable allowance supply determines the cap on emissions. Focusing on two common supply policies, price and quantity mechanisms, we investigate how the duration ... -
Does Private Ownership in the Kindergarten Sector Benefit the Children? Empirical Evidence from Norway Does the kindergarten's ownership form impact the quality?
(Master thesis, 2022)This paper investigates whether private ownership in the Norwegian childcare sector benefits children. The paper seeks to do so by investigating whether there are differences in quality between public and private kindergartens, ... -
Forecasting price spikes in day-ahead electricity markets: techniques, challenges, and the road ahead
(Discussion paper;1/24, Working paper, 2024-01-17)Due to the increase in renewable energy production and global socioeconomic turmoil, the volatility in electricity prices has considerably increased in recent years, leading to extreme positive and negative price spikes ... -
How Do Firms Respond to Unions?
(DP SAM;25/2023, Working paper, 2023-12-22)This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the margins along which firms in Norway respond to increased union density, using legislative changes in the tax deductibility of union dues as a quasi-exogenous shock to ... -
The Role of Labor Unions in Immigrant Integration
(DP SAM;24/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)We examine if unions narrow or widen labor market gaps between natives and immigrants. We do so by combining rich Norwegian employer-employee matched register data with exogenous variation in union membership obtained ... -
Essays on Energy Markets and the Environment
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-12) -
The legal incidence of ad valorem taxes matters
(DP SAM;23/2023, Working paper, 2023-12-19)It is well known that, for a specific tax, its economic incidence does not depend on which side of the market has the legal obligation to pay the tax. In this paper, we show that, for an ad valorem tax, this legal incidence ... -
Fairness Beliefs Affect Perceived Economic Inequality
(DP SAM;22/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)This paper establishes a causal link from fairness beliefs to perceived economic inequality. I conduct an experiment where participants are asked to estimate various income inequality measures of hypothetical societies. ... -
Guarantees of Origin and Competition in the Spot Electricity Market
(Discussion paper;24/23, Working paper, 2023-12-15)We study the effect of introducing a market for green energy attributes on the market for the energy itself. In Europe, renewable energy producers receive Guarantees of Origin (GOs) that they can sell to consumers who wish ... -
New Insights into Freelancers' and Independent Contractors' Experiences
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-11)This PhD thesis provides new insights into freelancers’ and independent contractors’ experiences. This group of workers has increasing relevance to companies and organization scholars. Many countries have seen significant ... -
Matched Dispatching in Randomized Settings
(Discussion paper;23/23, Working paper, 2023-12-11)This paper examines some problems of matched dispatching in some different random settings. The context of presentation is that of a reality show with a lineup of the participants, and according to some probabilistic ... -
Unleveling the Playing Field? Experimental Evidence on Parents’ Willingness to Give Their Child an Advantage
(DP SAM;21/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)Parents play a pivotal role in shaping the opportunities and outcomes of their children. This paper provides unique evidence on parents’ willingness to give their child an advantage. I report from a large-scale lab-in-the-field ... -
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 ... -
Essays in Household Finance
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-09) -
Essays on Industrial Organisation: Digital Platform Competition, Technology Licensing, and Vertical Markets
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-10)This thesis consists of four chapters on the industrial organisation of digital platforms and vertical markets. The first chapter addresses how competition between digital platforms is affected by targeting technologies, ... -
Why do committees work?
(DP SAM;18/2023, Working paper, 2023-11-21)We report on the results of an experiment designed to disentangle behavioral biases in information aggregation of committees. Subjects get private signals about the state of world, send binary messages, and finally vote ...