I denne antologien har jeg samlet et utvalg skriftlige arbeider, blant i alt i overkant av hundre med smått og stort, som jeg har forfattet i perioden 2004 – 2016; noen sammen med andre. I utvalget har jeg lagt vekt på ...

Research has shown that generalist CEOs enjoy higher pay than do specialist CEOs. However, the implication of CEO expertise on how CEOs are paid is largely unknown. We conjecture that because of information asymmetry, ...

We examine how companies voluntarily change their financial reporting conservatism in response to an exogenous decrease in analyst coverage. We hypothesize that more severe information asymmetry and weaker external ...

Governments worldwide use targeted tax policies to trade off the gains from increased FDI against the cost of excessive profit shifting by multinational firms. We show that optimal tax systems generally incorporate both ...

We have collected odds and results from 7 474 horse races in Norway and Sweden for a period of approximately 1.5 years. Based on the odds from the win game, we construct a profitable betting strategy for the corresponding ...

Investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) were supposed to become an integral part of multilateral trade and investment agreements although the partner countries of these deals do not suffer from substantial institutional ...

Christmas is when people are expected to act selflessly for the well-being of others, but are people actually more altruistic at this time of the year? Responding to this question poses a challenge because of the confounding ...

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit ...

This study proposed a modelling framework which addresses various issues such as decreasing marginal yield of corn with respect to fertilizer use in biofuel production and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions. Particularly, ...

We examine how government intervention in the automobile market aected the batteryelectric vehicle adoption in the Norwegian counties in the period between 2010 and 2014, and what regional dierences influenced the ...