NHH Brage: Recent submissions
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Unleveling the Playing Field? Experimental Evidence on Parents’ Willingness to Give Their Child an Advantage
(DP SAM;21/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)Parents play a pivotal role in shaping the opportunities and outcomes of their children. This paper provides unique evidence on parents’ willingness to give their child an advantage. I report from a large-scale lab-in-the-field ... -
What Makes Hiring Difficult? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data
(DP SAM;20/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)We designed an innovative survey of firms and linked it to Danish administrative data to yield new insights about the factors that can influence firms’ hiring decisions. Several important findings stand out: (1) search and ... -
Essays on Industrial Organisation: Digital Platform Competition, Technology Licensing, and Vertical Markets
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-10)This thesis consists of four chapters on the industrial organisation of digital platforms and vertical markets. The first chapter addresses how competition between digital platforms is affected by targeting technologies, ... -
Essays in Household Finance
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Taking the competitor’s pill: when combination therapies enter pharmaceutical markets
(DP SAM;19/2023, Working paper, 2023-11-22)We study the competitive effects of combination therapies in pharmaceutical markets, which crucially hinge on the additional therapeutic value of combinatory use of drugs and the therapeutic substitutability with the most ... -
Why do committees work?
(DP SAM;18/2023, Working paper, 2023-11-21)We report on the results of an experiment designed to disentangle behavioral biases in information aggregation of committees. Subjects get private signals about the state of world, send binary messages, and finally vote ... -
Lost in Information: National Implementation of Global Tax Agreements
(Discussion paper;22/23, Working paper, 2023-11-13)This paper studies how national implementation shapes individual responses to global agreements by looking at the introduction of the multilateral standard for automatic information exchange on financial assets, i.e., the ... -
Home bias in shareholder voting
(Discussion paper;21/23, Working paper, 2023-11-10)Institutional investors’ proxy voting decisions are influenced by their geographic proximity to portfolio firms. Using a sample of over 50 million votes cast by U.S. and non-U.S. investors globally, I find that investors ... -
Unraveling Coordination Problems
(Discussion paper;20/23, Working paper, 2023-11-09)The interplay between strategic beliefs and policy complicates policy design in coordination games. To untangle this relationship, we study policy design in the context of equilibrium selection. We characterize the unique ... -
Evaluating Norway’s electric vehicle incentives
(Discussion paper;19/23, Working paper, 2023-11-08)We use product-level data from 2000 to 2021 to evaluate Norway’s incentives for consumers to choose electric vehicles. These include taxes on fossil fuels, EV exemption from car purchase taxes, and other incentives, like ... -
Time and frequency dynamics of connectedness between green bonds, clean energy markets and carbon prices
(Discussion paper;18/23, Working paper, 2023-11-07)In this paper, we investigate the time and frequency dynamics of connectedness among green assets such as green bonds, clean energy markets, and carbon prices. Using daily price data, we explore return spillovers across ... -
Hidden semi-Markov models for rainfall-related insurance claims
(Discussion paper;17/23, Working paper, 2023-11-06)We analyze the temporal structure of a novel insurance dataset about home insurance claims related to rainfall-induced damage in Norway, and employ a hidden semi-Markov model to capture the non-Gaussian nature and temporal ... -
Optimization-based Evacuation on Cruise Vessels Using Two-way Communication
(Discussion paper;16/23, Working paper, 2023-10-31)We study the evacuation of large cruise vessels under hazardous conditions. Based on a new sensor mesh technology, allowing wire-less two-way communication also when electricity is lost, we propose an optimization-based ... -
Home Equity-Based Borrowing and Corporate Financing : Evidence from Norwegian Private Firms
(Working paper, 2023)Home equity-based borrowing has been blamed in the literature for causing financial instability (e.g., Mian and Sufi, 2011). In this study, we examine the bright side of home equity-based borrowing. Using Norwegian ... -
Formuesskattens virkninger på familieeide bedrifter : n analyse av skattens virkninger på selskapets drift og sammenhengen mellom selskapets finansielle situasjon
(Master thesis, 2023)I denne masterutredningen tar vi for oss formuesskattens effekt på driften av familieeide selskaper. Nyhetsbildet har den siste tiden vært preget av norske milliardærer som flytter til utlandet, og begrunner valget ved ... -
Aggregert netto pengestrøm til norske aksjefond og markedsavkastning i Norge : En empirisk analyse av forholdet mellom aggregert netto pengestrøm til norske aksjefond og markedsavkastning i Norge
(Master thesis, 2023)Denne masteroppgaven analyserer forholdet mellom netto flow til fond og avkastning på makronivå i Norge i perioden januar 2010 til desember 2022. Hensikten med oppgaven har vært todelt: ( 1) analysere om aggregert netto ... -
Prising av villaforsikring : En kvalitativ studie av prisprosesser blant norske forsikringsaktører
(Master thesis, 2023)Denne masterutredningen kartlegger hvordan norske forsikringsaktører fastsetter pris for villaforsikring i privatmarkedet. Ved utførelse av fem semistrukturerte intervjuer legger den kvalitative studien til rette for å ... -
Artificial Intelligence and Firm Performance in Norway : "Which Norwegian firms are adopting Artificial Intelligence, and how does the adoption of AI affect firm performance?"
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates firms’ adoption of artificial intelligence technology and its effects on firm performance. Due to the rapid technological advances of artificial intelligence, this field of research is still ... -
Digital teknologi – avgjørende for en bærekraftig matvareforsyningskjede : En kvalitativ casestudie
(Master thesis, 2023)For å møte FNs bærekraftsmål, må bedrifter på tvers av bransjer omstille sin virksomhet i større eller mindre grad. Matvarebransjen utmerker seg som en av de mest miljøbelastende bransjene globalt, og står i dag for 1/3 ... -
Combating Withholding Tax Reclaim Schemes in Europe : An event study examining the effect of policies aimed at combating fraudulent withholding tax reclaim schemes
(Master thesis, 2023)In the last decade, numerous tax scandals have been exposed to the public. Among the largest of these is the so-called CumEx scandal, which revealed how billions of euros have been fraudulently acquired from European ...