Department of Economics: Recent submissions

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    • Health Status, Life Expectancy and Early Claiming of Pension 

      Aakvik, Arild; Holmås, Tor Helge; Kjerstad, Egil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Prior to 2011, individual life expectancy played no role in the Norwegian old-age pension system. However, after the 2011 reform, life expectancy became a central factor for early pension take-up. Asymmetric information ...

    • Do Temporary Demand Shocks Have Long-Term Effects for Startups? 

      Hvide, Hans K.; Meling, Tom G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Using procurement auctions and register data, we find that temporary demand shocks have long-term effects for startups. Startups that win a procurement auction have 20 higher sales and employment and are more profitable ...

    • (Breaking) intergenerational transmission of mental health 

      Bütikofer, Aline; Ginja, Rita; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Landaud, Fanny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      We estimate health associations across generations using information on healthcare visits from administrative data for the entire Norwegian population. A parental mental health diagnosis is associated with a 9.3 percentage ...

    • Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs 

      Huber, Christoph; Dreber, Anna; Huber, Jürgen; Johannesson, Magnus; Kirchler, Michael; Weitzel, Utz; Abellán, Miguel; Adayeva, Xeniya; Ay, Fehime Ceren; Barron, Kai; Berry, Zachariah; Bönte, Werner; Brütt, Katharina; Bulutay, Muhammed; Campos-Mercade, Pol; Cardella, Eric; Claassen, Maria Almudena; Cornelissen, Gert; Dawson, Ian G J; Delnoij, Joyce; Demiral, Elif E.; Dimant, Eugen; Doerflinger, Johannes Theodor; Dold, Malte; Emery, Cécile; Fiala, Lenka; Fiedler, Susann; Freddi, Eleonora; Fries, Tilman; Gasiorowska, Agata; Glogowsky, Ulrich; M Gorny, Paul; Gretton, Jeremy David; Grohmann, Antonia; Hafenbrädl, Sebastian; Handgraaf, Michel; Hanoch, Yaniv; Hart, Einav; Hennig, Max; Hudja, Stanton; Hütter, Mandy; Hyndman, Kyle; Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Isler, Ozan; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Jolles, Daniel; Juanchich, Marie; Kc, Raghabendra Pratap; Khadjavi, Menusch; Kugler, Tamar; Li, Shuwen; Lucas, Brian; Mak, Vincent; Mechtel, Mario; Merkle, Christoph; Meyers, Ethan Andrew; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Nesterov, Alexander; Neyse, Levent; Nieken, Petra; Nussberger, Anne-Marie; Palumbo, Helena; Peters, Kim; Pirrone, Angelo; Qin, Xiangdong; Rahal, Rima Maria; Rau, Holger; Rincke, Johannes; Ronzani, Piero; Roth, Yefim; Saral, Ali Seyhun; Schmitz, Jan; Schneider, Florian; Schram, Arthur; Schudy, Simeon; Schweitzer, Maurice E.; Schwieren, Christiane; Scopelliti, Irene; Sirota, Miroslav; Sonnemans, Joep; Soraperra, Ivan; Spantig, Lisa; Steimanis, Ivo; Steinmetz, Janina; Suetens, Sigrid; Theodoropoulou, Andriana; Urbig, Diemo; Vorlaufer, Tobias; Waibel, Joschka; Woods, Daniel; Yakobi, Ofir; Yilmaz, Onurcan; Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz; Zeisberger, Stefan; Holzmeister, Felix (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Does competition affect moral behavior? This fundamental question has been debated among leading scholars for centuries, and more recently, it has been tested in experimental studies yielding a body of rather inconclusive ...

    • Competition and Career Advancement 

      Johnsen, Julian Vedeler; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers' career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their ...

    • Co-operative investment by downstream rivals: network sharing in telecom markets 

      Foros, Øystein; Hansen, Bjørn; Vergé, Thibaud (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Ever-increasing data consumption and evolving technologies make cooperation on investments and network sharing crucial issues in mobile telecommunications markets. In this paper, we analyze incentives for cooperation and ...

    • Therapeutic reference pricing and drug innovation incentives 

      Straume, Odd Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Therapeutic reference pricing (TRP) of pharmaceuticals is widely thought to steer drug innovation incentives away from ‘me-too’ innovations with little therapeutic benefit. However, the present paper shows that, if the ...

    • Asymmetrisk prissetting i den norske hurtiglademarknaden 

      Sortland, Berit Siggervåg (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)
      Denne oppgåva undersøker kva marknadsforhold som bidrar til asymmetrisk prissetting i den kompetetive hurtiglademarknaden i Noreg. I lys av Europas energikrise i 2022, har ikkje ladeprisane i Noreg følgt den nedgåande ...

    • Folketrygdfondet vs. private aksjefond: En analyse av meravkastning gjennom aktiv forvaltning 

      Rossgård, Andrea (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)
      Folketrygdfondet er et offentlig fond som forvalter over 350 milliarder kroner på vegne av Statens pensjonsfond Norge. Denne oppgaven undersøker hvor dyktige forvalterne av Folketrygdfondet er i det norske aksjemarkedet ...

    • Educational Shifts in the Age of Automation: Does increasing robotization influence Norwegian students’ educational choices? 

      Ørnsrud, Eirin (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)
      Over the past few decades, rapid advancement in robotic technology has significantly transformed global industries, labour markets, and many other facets of society. Robotization has disrupted traditional tasks and ...

    • The resource curse. Who is blessed or cursed by resource abundance? A comparative analysis 

      Konstad, Jo (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

    • Industripolitikkens rolle i økonomisk utvikling 

      Flornes, Herman (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

    • Har tidlig barnehagegang en effekt på skoleprestasjoner? 

      Syltøy, Andrine (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)
      Tidligere forskning viser at barnehage generelt har en positiv effekt på barns læring og utvikling. I tillegg påstår økonomisk teori at en investering i tidlig barndom gir høyere avkastning i humankapital enn en tilsvarende ...

    • Competing with precision: incentives for developing predictive biomarker tests 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Dalen, Dag Morten; Straume, Odd Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      We study the incentives of drug producers to develop predictive biomarkers, taking into account strategic interaction between drug producers and health plans. For this purpose, we develop a two-dimensional spatial framework ...

    • Emerging integrated care models for children and youth with mental health difficulties in Norway: a horizon scanning study 

      Holmen, Ida Charlotte; Waibel, Sina; Kaarbøe, Oddvar Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background The implementation of Integrated Care Models (ICMs) represents a strategy for addressing the increasing issues of system fragmentation and improving service customization according to user needs. Available ...

    • Comparing input interfaces to elicit belief distributions 

      Crosetto, Paolo; de Haan, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This paper introduces a new software interface to elicit belief distributions of any shape: Click-and-Drag. The interface was tested against the state of the art in the experimental literature—a text-based interface and ...

    • The price of cost-effectiveness thresholds under therapeutic competition in pharmaceutical markets 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Dalen, Dag Morten; Straume, Odd Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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 ...

    • Assortative Matching at the Top of the Distribution: Evidence from the World’s Most Exclusive Marriage Market 

      Goni, Marc (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Using novel data on peerage marriages in Britain, I find that low search costs and marriage-market segregation can generate sorting. Peers courted in the London Season, a matching technology introducing aristocratic bachelors ...

    • Optimal funding coverage in a mixed oligopoly with quality competition and price regulation 

      Ghandour, Ziad; Straume, Odd Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We study the optimal design of a public funding scheme in a mixed oligopoly setting (with applications to health care and education) with one welfare-maximising public provider and two profit-maximising private providers, ...

    • Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats 

      Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar Kyrkjebø; Roth, Christopher (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand ...