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    • MMP-Elections: Equal Influence and Controlled Assembly Size 

      Stensholt, Eivind (Discussion paper;6/23, Working paper, 2023-05-31)
      In an MMP election (Mixed Member Proportional) of a legislature, a QP-ballot supports party Q in a single-seat constituency and a list of candidates from P. With ꙍ(j) constituency seats won and list support in z(Pj) ballots, ...
    • Essays on Economic Inequality and Mobility 

      Karadakic, René (Doctoral thesis, 2023-06)
    • Governing Knowledge Sharing and Transfer in MNCs by Organizational Mechanisms Enabling Social Interaction 

      Steen, Christina Roe (Doctoral thesis, 2023-04)
      This dissertation aims to contribute to the understanding of how multinational companies (MNCs) use organizational mechanisms enabling social interaction to govern knowledge sharing and transfer within the company. The ...
    • Studies on Interorganizational Networks: The Case of Two Regional Clusters in Norway 

      Lin, Yi (Doctoral thesis, 2023-05)
      The overall purpose of this dissertation is to study interorganizational networks. Firms are open systems and simultaneously embedded in interorganizational networks of various kinds. Interorganizational networks consist ...
    • THREE CHAPTERS ON FAIRNESS PREFERENCES 

      Madland, Kjetil Røiseland (Doctoral thesis, 2023-05)
    • Essays on Empirical Labor and Health Economics 

      Abrahamsson, Sara (Doctoral thesis, 2023-05)
    • The Career Effects of Union Membership 

      Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander; Zhu, Li (SAM DP;12/2023, Working paper, 2023-05)
      We combine exogenous variation in union membership with detailed administrative data and a novel field survey to estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role ...
    • Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Commuting 

      Bütikofer, Aline; Karadakic, René; Willén, Alexander (SAM DP;11/2023, Working paper, 2023-05)
      Childbirth increases the opportunity cost of commuting and makes it difficult for both parents to work far away from home. Using detailed Norwegian register data, we show that the commuting patterns of men and women diverge ...
    • Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the United States 

      Bartling, Björn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Hermes, Henning; Skivenes, Marit; Tungodden, Bertil (SAM DP;09/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-16)
      We study paternalistic preferences in two large-scale experiments with participants from the general population in the United States. Spectators decide whether to intervene to prevent a stakeholder, who is mistaken about ...
    • Competition and risk taking in local bank markets: evidence from the business loans segment 

      Canta, Chiara; Nilsen, Øivind A.; Ulsaker, Simen A. (SAM DP;10/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-18)
      This paper studies empirically the relationship between competition and risk taking in banking markets. We exploit an unique dataset providing information about all bank loans to Norwegian firms over several years. Rather ...
    • Underrepresentation, Quotas and Quality: A dynamic argument for reform 

      Arve, Malin; Valasek, Justin (SAM DP;08/2023, Working paper, 2023-05)
      The trade-off between increased representation and perceived quality is central to the debate on how to address underrepresentation in high-profile professions. We address this trade-off using a dynamic model of career ...
    • Swallow this: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability 

      Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof (SAM DP;07/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-06)
      Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young ...
    • Analytical environments 

      Bivand, Roger (Chapter, 2022)
    • Crash risk in the Nordic Stock Market - a cross-sectional analysis 

      Fjærvik, Thomas (Discussion paper;5/23, Working paper, 2023-04-28)
      This paper takes the viewpoint of an investor that can invest in the Nordic countries Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The four markets are treated as one integrated market. In the analysis we investigate whether there ...
    • Cancel the deal? An experimental study on the exploitation of irrational consumers 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Meissner, Stefan; Tungodden, Bertil (SAM DP;06/2023, Working paper, 2023-04-06)
      Consumers can sometimes be exploited because they make mistakes in their valuation of products. We present the results from a large-scale experimental study that examines whether third-party spectators from the general ...
    • Quality Investing in the Nordics : An empirical analysis of the QMJ factor in the Nordic countries, excluding Iceland 

      Andersen, Tobias Rau; Haugen, James Martin Fan (Master thesis, 2022)
      This master thesis provides empirical evidence that quality investing in the Nordics, excluding Iceland, produces abnormal returns. Even though investors are willing to pay a premium for quality, the QMJ factor introduced ...
    • How Are Gender Norms Perceived? 

      Bursztyn, Leonardo; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil; Voena, Alessandra; Yanagizawa-Drott, David (SAM DP;05/2023, Working paper, 2023-03-22)
      Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality. Using newly-collected, nationally representative datasets from 60 countries covering 80% of the world population, this paper studies gender norms ...
    • A Subgame Perfect Approach to a Multi-Period Stackelberg Game with Dynamic, Price-Dependent, Distributional-Robust Demand 

      Fakhrabadi, Mahnaz; Sandal, Leif K. (Discussion paper;4/23, Working paper, 2023-03-22)
      This paper investigates a multi-periodic channel optimization facing uncertain, price dependent, and dynamic demand. The picture of the market uncertainty is incomplete, and only the price and time-dependent mean and ...
    • The Economics of the Global Minimum Tax 

      Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank (Discussion paper;3/23, Working paper, 2023-03-14)
      This paper shows that the OECD inclusive framework of Pillar Two fails to implement the claimed 15% minimum corporate tax for subsidiaries of multinational corporations. The reason is that the Substance-based Income Exclusion ...
    • The Price of Cost-effectiveness Thresholds 

      Brekke, Kurt R.; Dalen, Dag Morten; Straume, Odd Rune (SAM DP;04/2023, Working paper, 2023)
      Health systems around world are increasingly adopting cost-effectiveness (CE) analysis to inform decisions about access and reimbursement. We study how CE thresholds imposed by a health plan for granting reimbursement ...