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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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Anomalies of Instant Runoff Voting
(Discussion paper;6/20, Working paper, 2020-06-23)Struggles over the single-seat preferential election method IRV (Instant Runoff Voting) go on in public arenas and scientific journals, with focus on two “anomalies”. “Monotonicity failures” are preference distributions ... -
Two centuries of economic growth: Norwegian GDP 1816-2020
(DP SAM;10/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)Existing historical GDP series for Norway do not always coincide with our historical knowledge of the economic development. This is to a large extent a result of lack of calculations from the production side and in addition ... -
The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
(DP SAM;09/2020, Working paper, 2020-06-08)Working memory capacity is thought to play an important role for a wide range of cognitive and noncognitive skills such as fluid intelligence, math, reading, the inhibition of pre-potent impulses or more general self-regulation ... -
Weber revisited: A literature review on the possible Link between Protestantism, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
(DP SAM;08/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)The present paper looks at the Weber-Tawney thesis on the positive link between Protestant ethic and economic growth. Both scholars observed that Protestant areas in the Western world seemed to gain faster and more wealth ... -
Essays on game theory and fisheries management
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Autentisk ledelse under press : hvordan påvirkes ens ledelse når tiden renner ut og konsekvensene stiger? : et eksperiment basert på en gruppeledervignett
(Master thesis, 2013)Formålet med denne utredningen er å belyse hvordan press påvirker autentisk ledelse (AL). Et eksperiment ble utført med utvalg bestående av studenter fra Norges Handelshøyskole, Universitetet i Bergen og Befalsskolen for ... -
Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-06) -
Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?
(DP SAM;07/2020, Working paper, 2020-05)Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? ... -
Essays on household decision-making and women’s labor supply in Ethiopia
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-06) -
Essays in Auditing
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-06) -
Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-06) -
Private real estate investing : expectations vs. reality : an empirical analysis on the characteristics of private real estate in oslo between 2005-2018
(Master thesis, 2019)In this thesis, we analyze the characteristics of private real estate (PRE) as an asset. The analysis is done in several increments, starting from the one-year holding period index risk and return of PRE. Each subsequent ... -
Solidarity and Fairness in Times of Crisis
(DP SAM;06/2020, Working paper, 2020-05-14)In a large-scale pre-registered survey experiment with a representative sample of more than 8,000 Americans, we examine how the COVID-19 pandemic causally affects people’s solidarity and fairness. We randomly manipulate ... -
Sampling risk evaluations in a tax fraud case: Some modelling issues
(Discussion paper;5/20, Working paper, 2020-05-13)This work is a follow-up to Lillestøl (2019). The context is the use of sample data to support claims of tax fraud at eateries, where the possibilities of embezzlement are overreporting of take-away sales and underreporting ... -
Software vulnerabilities and bug bounty programs
(Discussion paper;4/20, Working paper, 2020-05-12)Many software developers employ bug bounty programs that award a prize for the detection of bugs in their software. We analyze, in a model with asymmetric information, under which conditions a bug bounty program is beneficial ...