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Investor sophistication : empirical analysis of capital allocation decisions of Norwegian mutual fund investors
(Master thesis, 2020)Whether mutual fund investors act rationally when making capital allocation decision has for long time been one of the key topics in the mutual fund literature. This paper is one of the first attempts to assess investor ... -
High-frequency market reactions to unscheduled stock-specific news : an empirical analysis of the intraday market dynamics at the Oslo stock exchange
(Master thesis, 2020)We use pre-processed news data combined with high-frequency stock data from the Oslo Stock Exchange to test the following hypotheses: (1) the sentiment of news articles can predict the direction of intraday abnormal ... -
Betydningen av driftsavtalen for fysioterapeuter i Bergen kommune : deltidshjemler gir kommunen billig fysioterapi
(Master thesis, 2020)Det har vært flere saker i media om misnøye relatert til deltidshjemler blant avtalefysioterapeutene i Norge. Mange mener at de arbeider gratis for kommunen, og de føler seg urettferdig behandlet. Avtalefysioterapi i ... -
Ressursrente og ressursrentebeskatning av landbasert vindkraft : en analyse av ressursrente og ressursrentebeskatning av landbasert vindkraft i Norge
(Master thesis, 2020)This master thesis focuses on the resource rent and the subsequent taxation of resource rent in onshore wind power in Norway. In an industry that has experienced rapid growth in profitability in a short period of time, ... -
The Wealth of a Nation: Norways Road to Prosperity
(DP SAM;17/2020, Working paper, 2020-09)The present paper discusses Norway’s way to prosperity during the two last centuries. The main reason for its wealth seems to have been the ability to meet international demand by utilizing its rich natural resources, ... -
Royalty Taxation under Profit Shifting and Competition for FDI
(Discussion paper;11/20, Working paper, 2020-09-09)Multinational corporations increasingly use royalty payments for intellectual property rights to shift profits globally. This threatens not only the tax base of countries worldwide, it also affects the nature of competition ... -
The Effect of Gender-Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence From India
(DP SAM;16/2020, Working paper, 2020-09)Women are the primary recipients of many welfare programs around the world. Despite frequent claims that targeting women induces beneficial consumption shifting and gender equality, the empirical evidence on the effect of ... -
Mixed Member Proportional; equal influence and assembly size
(Discussion paper;10/20, Working paper, 2020-08-31)With the present (2020) tally rules, the number of seats in the Bundestag is highly volatile. In 2017 it got 709 seats, 111 of them extra-ordinary. The tally rules may double the influence of a voter who splits the vote; ... -
Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Multinational Firm Behavior
(Discussion paper;9/20, Working paper, 2020-08-28)This paper shows that Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) makes multinational firms more aggressive by increasing cost-reducing investments with the aim to enlarge the potential compensation an ISDS provision may ... -
A Poorly Understood Disease? The Unequal Distribution of Excess Mortality Due to COVID-19 Across French Municipalities
(DP SAM;15/2020, Working paper, 2020-08)While COVID-19 was responsible for more than 600,000 deaths worldwide as of July 24, 2020, very little is known about the socio-economic heterogeneity of its impact on mortality. In this paper, we combine several administrative ... -
Kyle equilibrium under random price pressure
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We study the equilibrium in the model proposed by Kyle (Econometrica 53(6):1315–1335, 1985) and extended to the continuous-time setting by Back (Rev Financ Stud 5(3):387–409, 1992). The novelty of this paper is that we ... -
Konsekvenser av krav til økt dyrevelferd : hvilke effekter har løsdriftskravet på melkebønders lønnsomhet og norsk landbruk?
(Master thesis, 2020)I 2003 vedtok Stortinget at alt storfe skulle være oppstallet i løsdriftsfjøs innen 2024, som senere ble utsatt til 2034. Dette omtales som løsdriftskravet, og hovedmålsetningen bak vedtaket var å bedre dyrevelferden. ... -
Competition and Career Advancement: The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave
(DP SAM;13/2020, Working paper, 2020)Does leave-taking matter for young workers’ careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect—relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm—as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy ... -
Puritan Motivation for Serial Entrepreneurship: The Haugean Example
(DP SAM;12/2020, Working paper, 2020-08)It is well known that protestant and puritan environments historically have fostered entrepreneurs. This paper looks at serial entrepreneurship which took place in Norway in the 19th century in networks led by the puritan ... -
A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
(DP SAM;14/2020, Working paper, 2020-08)Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register ... -
Energy Intensity and the Environmental Kuznets Curve
(DP SAM;11/2020, Working paper, 2020-07)During the last decades several scholars have argued that environmental degradation first increases in initial phases of economic growth, and thereafter declines as economic growth enters a certain level in developed ... -
The cost of extreme weather : an analysis of the physical climate risk in Hordaland
(Master thesis, 2019)Climate change is expected to have numerous societal impacts in the years to come through an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events. The climate impact is of socio-economic interest, as extreme ... -
Labor Market Effects of COVID-19 in Sweden and its Neighbors: Evidence from Novel Administrative Data
(Discussion paper;8/20, Working paper, 2020-07-24)This paper studies the labor market effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the Nordic countries which showed one of the highest variations in NPIs despite having ... -
Contingent Claims Evaluation when the Convenience Yield is Stochastic: Analytical Results
(Discussion paper;1/91, Working paper, 1991-02)This paper considers contingent claims on a commodity when both the spot price and the convenience yield are generated by diffusion processes. By adopting the Gibson and Schwartz (1990) assumptions on the economy, we derive ... -
Playing Easy or Playing Hard to Get: When and How to Attract FDI
(Discussion paper;7/20, Working paper, 2020-06-30)We study the link between a country’s institutional quality in tax collection and its optimal corporate tax policies in a model of heterogeneous multinationals that can shift income using both debt and transfer prices. ...