Department of Economics
Recent Submissions
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Three essays on regulation in Energy and Environmental Economics
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-08-20)There are four chapters in this thesis. The first is an introductory chapter, and the remaining three are composed of the research papers. The first part of the introductory chapter presents the problem of negative ... -
Perish or prosper: Trade patterns for highly perishable seafood products
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years trade with highly perishable agricultural products like fresh fish, berries, and cut flowers has increased substantially. The perishability of these products appears to challenge conventional wisdom when ... -
Vertical control, opportunism, and risk sharing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)A manufacturer who offers secret contracts faces an opportunism problem: She undercuts her own input prices and fails to offset retail competition. I show that this problem diminishes when retailers are risk averse and ... -
Towards a relational conception of the compact city
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Compact city strategies have become central to the development of urban sustainability politics. Cities across the globe are pursuing high-density, mixed-use developments and energy-efficient transportation systems. However, ... -
It Pays to be Nice: The Benefits of Cooperating in Markets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)We contribute to the experimental literature by examining the causal effect of partner choice opportunities on the earnings of different cooperative types. We first elicit cooperative types and then randomly assign subjects ... -
Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence From Exogenously-Assigned General Practitioners
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)We use exogenously-assigned general practitioners to study the effects of female role models on educational outcomes of girls. Girls who are exposed to female GPs are more likely to sort into male-dominated education ... -
Labor market concerns and support for immigration
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in ... -
The intuitive cooperation hypothesis revisited: a meta-analytic examination of effect size and between-study heterogeneity
(Journal article, 2020)The hypothesis that intuition promotes cooperation has attracted considerable attention. Although key results in this literature have failed to replicate in pre-registered studies, recent meta-analyses report an overall ... -
Sysselsettingseffekter av pensjonsreformen - avhenger de av helsetilstand.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Denne analysen undersøker om dårlig helse hindrer individer fra å kunne øke sitt arbeidstilbud slik pensjonsreformen la opp til. Vi analyserer effekten av reformen på arbeidsdeltakelse og avtalte timer i arbeid for mennesker ... -
Health effects of reduced workload for older employees
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)To keep elder employees in the labour force, introducing age-dependent job conditions can be a policy measure. However, we know little about the effect of such initiatives. We investigate the effects of a particular programme ... -
Essays on Economic Incentives and Implications of Biomarker Tests
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-12)This thesis consists of four chapters: an introductory chapter and three research papers on specific economic aspects of personalized medicine. The approach is empirical in the first paper and theoretical in the second and ... -
For en neve dollars til: Hvilken rolle spiller private pengeoverføringer fra utlandet for husholdninger i Somalia?
(Master thesis, 2020-09-12) -
Drivkreftene bak fordelingen av bistand og andre offisielle kapitalstrømmer fra Kina til Verden: En replikasjonsstudie av Dreher m. fl. (2018)
(Master thesis, 2020-08-20)Denne oppgaven er en replikasjon av Dreher m.fl. (2018). I skyggen av den såkalte replikasjonskrisen i akademia søker denne oppgaven å se om resultatene fra Dreher m. fl. (2018) kan gjenskapes ved bruk av det originale ... -
Individual placement and support for young adults at risk of early work disability (the SEED trial). A randomized controlled trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Objectives: Individual placement and support (IPS) is an effective approach for helping people with severe mental illness gain employment. This study aimed to investigate if IPS can be effectively repurposed to support ... -
More or less money? An experimental study on receiving money
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Is more money better than less? Not always. It depends on the situation. If more money for oneself means less money for a stranger, the majority of participants in dictator games choose less money for themselves. But if ... -
Preregistration and reproducibility
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Many view preregistration as a promising way to improve research credibility. However, scholars have argued that using pre-analysis plans in Experimental Economics has limited benefits. This paper argues that preregistration ... -
Digital Health Transformation of Integrated Care in Europe: Overarching Analysis of 17 Integrated Care Programs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Digital health tools comprise a wide range of technologies to support health processes. The potential of these technologies to effectively support health care transformation is widely accepted. However, wide ... -
Evaluation of integrated care services in Catalonia: population-based and service-based real-life deployment protocols
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Comprehensive assessment of integrated care deployment constitutes a major challenge to ensure quality, sustainability and transferability of both healthcare policies and services in the transition toward a ... -
Competition and physician behaviour: Does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on its impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to endogeneity issues. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in addition to own ... -
Competition and equity in health care markets
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We provide a model where hospitals compete on quality under fixed prices to investigate how hospital competition affects (i) quality differences between hospitals, and as a result, (ii) health inequalities across hospitals ...
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