Department of Economics
Recent Submissions
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Sykere av å vente: Henger ventetid til behandling sammen med varighet av sykmeldinger?
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Health Status, Life Expectancy and Early Claiming of Pension
(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?
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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?
(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
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Industripolitikkens rolle i økonomisk utvikling
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Skill, Scale, and Value Creation in Sustainable Funds
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Plattformansvar, produktsikkerhet og forbrukervelferd
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Har tidlig barnehagegang en effekt på skoleprestasjoner?
(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 ... -
Grunnrenteskatt på havbruk
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg innføringen av grunnrenteskatt på havbruksnæringen i Norge, som ble foreslått av regjeringen 28. september 2022 og trådte i kraft 1. januar 2023. Oppgavens problemstilling er to-delt: den ... -
Competing with precision: incentives for developing predictive biomarker tests
(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
(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 ... -
Sosial og geografisk mobilitet
(Master thesis, 2016-09-02)