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Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Building on agency-theoretical perspectives of public bureaucracies, we argue that politician–bureaucrat preference alignment can have important implications for bureaucrats’ pay. We study such private gains to bureaucrats ... -
Political competition, party polarization, and government performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Lack of party competition may impair government efficiency. If the voters are ideologically predisposed to cast their vote in favor of one political party, they may reelect an underperforming incumbent. Party polarization ... -
Political Donations and the Allocation of Public Procurement Contracts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We study whether and when firms’ donations to political parties induce favouritism in public procurement allocations. Our analysis builds on a unique, comprehensive dataset covering all public procurement contracts and all ... -
Political Donations, Public Procurement and Government Efficiency
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Public procurement markets are worth 10–15% of global GDP. Recent empirical evidence suggests that firms’ political donations can induce important distortions in the allocation of public procurement contracts. In this ... -
Political dynasties and the incumbency advantage in party-centered environments
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)A handful of recent studies have investigated the causal effect of incumbency on dynasty formation in candidate-centered electoral contexts. We use candidate-level data and a regression discontinuity design to estimate the ... -
Political Dynasties in Democracies: Causes, Consequences and Remaining Puzzles
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Kinship often continues to play an important role in determining the ruling class even under modern democratic elections in a wide range of countries. In recent years, academic interest in the causes and consequences of ... -
Political Dynasties, Electoral Institutions and Politicians’ Human Capital
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article focuses on political dynasties’ potential consequences, and particularly investigates whether and when they lead to the selection of dynastic politicians with relatively lower education levels. I exploit the ... -
Political economy and corporate governance : political connection of board directors and political moderation of CEO-wages in Norwegian state-owned companies
(Master thesis, 2012-05-09)This thesis examines the relationship between political connection of board directors and CEO-wages in 27 Norwegian state-owned companies and enterprises in 2000-2010. I hypothesize that political connected directors ... -
Political Rents and Voter Information in Search Equilibrium
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Political parties commited to grab rents may run for election, and even win, if citizens are uninformed. But, how is the political equilibrium affected if citizens can mitigate this information problem through costly ... -
Political Rents and Voter Information in Search Equilibrium
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Political parties committed to grab rents may run for election, and even win, if citizens are uninformed. But, how is the political equilibrium affected if citizens can mitigate this information problem through costly ... -
Political risk and international investment : the renewable energy market in Australia and the 2013 election
(Master thesis, 2013-02-13)Renewable energy has become a controversial political- and economical topic. The world community are on a global scale experiencing shrinking reserves of non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels, which also are ... -
Political skill, participation in decision-making and organizational commitment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Purpose Research has demonstrated that political skill is associated with leadership effectiveness. However, the field still lacks understanding of how political skill makes leaders more effective. The purpose of this paper ... -
Politicians and Scandals that Damage the Party Brand
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Scandals can cause serious damage to political parties’ brand name and reputation, which may taint all members of the party—even those not implicated in the scandal. In this article, we therefore explore how (uninvolved) ... -
The Politics of Distributing Blame and Credit: Evidence from a Survey Experiment with Norwegian Local Politicians
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)How do politicians attribute responsibility for good and poor policy outcomes across multiple stakeholders in a policy field where they themselves can affect service provision? Such ‘diffusion’ decisions are crucial to ... -
Politiets strategiske terrorbekjempelse av al-Qaida og ISIL
(Master thesis, 2017)Formålet med denne oppgaven er å undersøke om det finnes viktige forskjeller og likheter mellom al-Qaida og ISIL, som kan ha betydning for politiets strategi for bekjempelse av terror. Vi har benyttet en kvalitativ ... -
Politikkens mørke side
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)denne bacheloroppgaven blir det undersøkt hvordan ulike velgergruppers atferd, i form av nytteeffekt, blir påvirket av negativ og positiv politisk reklame. Velgerne er kategorisert etter personlighetstrekk, og apati til ... -
Politiske eliter: Er det forskjell på personlighetstrekk hos toppolitikere og toppbyråkrater?
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne studien har undersøkt om det er forskjell på personlighetstrekk (Big 5) hos toppolitikere og toppbyråkrater i Oslo, og hva en slik forskjell i så fall består i. Studien bekreftet hovedhypotesen om at det foreligger ... -
Politiske konjunktursykler i Norge
(Bachelor thesis, 2018)I denne utredningen tar jeg for meg temaet politiske konjunktursykluser i Norge etter andre verdenskrig, og analyseres innenfor et rammeverk for makroøkonomisk teori. Utredningen har følgende problemstilling: Finnes det ... -
Portfolio Optimization : On Risk Measures and Estimation Techniques
(Master thesis, 2016)This thesis focuses on the risk measure in the Markowitz algorithm. We discuss why assuming normality is unrealistic, and why the unconditional sample covariance matrix is an inappropriate input for the algorithm. We compare ... -
Portfolio risk hedging: Currency exposure and Shrinkage techniques
(Master thesis, 2022)We apply different shrinkage techniques to the covariance and concentration matrices used for the minimum variance currency risk hedging of a globally diversified portfolio. The techniques are applied with the aim to induce ...