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A Fundamental Externality in the Labour Market? Ragnar Frisch on the socially optimal amount of work.
(DP SAM;2/2018, Working paper, 2018-01)In the late 1940s, Ragnar Frisch published two articles in Norwegian that constitute a pioneering attempt to apply welfare economics to a problem of economic policy. The main contention of the articles is that there exists ... -
Principal-agent problem in technology projects on kickstarter : an exploratory case study
(Master thesis, 2016)I conducted an exploratory research of the little understood principal-agent interaction in a reward-based crowdfunding environment. A broad-stroke exploratory research like this is unavoidably limited in the extent to ... -
Measuring sustainable livelihood restoration in hydropower : commensuration and its effects on voluntary adoptors of the IFC performance standards
(Master thesis, 2017)An increase in stakeholder focus on the environmental and social impacts of large infrastructure projects has led many actors to engage in Corporate Social Responsibility. In no area is this truer than in large scale ... -
The Effects of a Day Off from Retail Price Competition: Evidence on Consumer Behavior and Firm Performance in Gasoline Retailing.
(DP SAM;1/2018, Working paper, 2018-01)First, we analyze how regular days off from competition and a time-dependent price pattern affect firm performance. Second, we examine the effects on firms' profitability from consumers’ changing search- and timing behavior. ... -
High-performing trauma teams: frequency of behavioral markers of a shared mental model displayed by team leaders and quality of medical performance
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Service, innovation and dynamic capabilities : from conceptualization to explanation
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-11)The overall purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the role of dynamic capabilities in service innovation. However, I do not accept the notions of service innovation and dynamic capabilities as given, but instead ... -
NHH Bulletin - Nr. 02/2017
(Journal issue, 2017)NHH Bulletin er et forskningsmagasin som gis ut av Norges Handelshøyskole, Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning (SNF) og konsulentselskapet AFF. -
The influence of price colour on price perception: a master thesis on behavioural pricing
(Master thesis, 2017)It is well known in marketing that colour imposes an important influence on human behaviour. However, only little research has been dedicated to the influence of price colour on price judgement for non-discounted prices. ... -
Sammenhengen mellom futuresprisen på laks og aksjekursen til oppdrettsselskapene på Oslo Børs : en empirisk analyse av laksefutures og aksjekursen til norske oppdrettsselskap
(Master thesis, 2017)Denne oppgaven omhandler sammenhengen mellom futuresprisen og aksjeprisen til oppdrettsselskapene på Oslo Børs. Laks er en av Norges største eksportvarer, og en industri hvor Norge peker seg ut som en av verdens ledende ... -
Digitalisering som driver for organisatorisk endring: en casestudie av et offentlig digitaliseringsprosjekt
(Master thesis, 2017)I denne masterutredningen har vi undersøkt de organisatoriske effektene av digitaliseringsprosjektet Mine pasientreiser. Prosjektet innebar en overgang fra manuell til automatisk saksbehandling av pasientreiser uten ... -
The effect of ownership concentration on deal probability in corporate takeovers : an empirical study of ownership concentration, with new evidence consistent with the free-rider proposition
(Master thesis, 2017)The main purpose of this thesis is to empirically examine the relationship between the target firm’s ownership concentration and deal probability, conditional on a bid having been made. To examine this relationship in a ... -
Attitudes towards large income risk in welfare states: an international comparison.
(DP SAM;20/2017, Working paper, 2017-12)Using survey data and the instrument developed by Barsky et al. (1997), we estimate the distribution of attitudes towards income risk in a country where many employment and health-related risks are generously covered by a ... -
Harvesting in a Fishery with Stochastic Growth and a Mean-Reverting Price
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)We analyze a continuous, nonlinear bioeconomic model to demonstrate how stochasticity in the growth of fish stocks affects the optimal exploitation policy when prices are stochastic, mean-reverting and possibly harvest ... -
‘Typically Norwegian to be impolite.’ Impoliteness according to whom?
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When Leadership leads to Loathing: The Effect of Culturally (In)Congruent Leadership on Employee Contempt and Voluntary Work Behaviors
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article suggests that contempt ― a proclivity towards loathing others ― as an emotional response, can arise as a consequence of culturally incongruent leadership, i.e. leader behaviors and actions that do not comply ... -
Optimal multi-dimensional stochastic harvesting with density-dependent prices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)We prove a verification theorem for a class of singular control problems which model optimal harvesting with density-dependent prices or optimal dividend policy with capitaldependent utilities. The result is applied to ... -
Creaming - and the depletion of resources: A Bayesian data analysis
(Discussion paper;16/17, Working paper, 2017-11-16)This paper considers sampling in proportion to size from a partly unknown distribution. The applied context is the exploration for undiscovered resources, like oil accumulations in different deposits, where the most promising ... -
A flying start? Maternity leave benefits and long-run outcomes of children
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)We study a change in maternity leave entitlements in Norway. Mothers giving birth before July 1, 1977, were eligible for 12 weeks of unpaid leave, while those giving birth after that date were entitled to 4 months of paid ... -
Semantic and Pragmatic Value of Norwegian Greetings the Last Hundred Years
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)this article addresses changes in norwegian greeting rituals during the last century seen from two viewpoints: First, an article in Maal og Minne (lundeby 1995) against the answers to a questionnaire on greetings ... -
Zonal attachment of fish stocks and management cooperation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This paper studies the incentive-compatibility of distributing fish quotas on the basis of zonal attachment of stocks. Two countries sharing two fish stocks are studied, with the zonal attachment of both stocks varying ...