Department of Economics
Recent Submissions
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Strategic interaction in the market for charitable donations: The role of public funding
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Government financing of charities influences their fundraising and private donations. To analyze competition between charities, we modify the model of fundraising introduced by Andreoni and Payne, where there are two groups ... -
Har den intergenerasjonelle mobiliteten gått ned etter skole reform 94?
(Master thesis, 2024-09-02)I denne oppgaven undersøkes om den intergenerasjonelle mobiliteten har blitt endret etter skolereform 94. Det blir brukt 3 metoder for å undersøke dette. Intergenerasjonell elastisitet(IGE), inntektskvartiler og retning ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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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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 ... -
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 ... -
Comparing input interfaces to elicit belief distributions
(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
(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 ...