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Why bother? Ekstrarolleatferd i et narrativt perspektiv
(Master thesis, 2022)Hva driver de som yter mer enn de må på jobb? Vår studie startet med en undring over ekstrarolleatferd, som forskning viser at fører til prestasjoner i organisasjoner. Vi har valgt en narrativ tilnærming i studiet. Vi ... -
Why Do Boards Exist? Governance in the Absence of Corporate Law
(CCGR Working Paper;1/2017, Working paper, 2017)We study how owners trade off the costs and benefits of establishing a board in a historical setting, where boards are optional and authority over corporate decisions can be freely allocated across the general meeting, the ... -
Why do companies go public at MTFs? An empirical analysis of the Swedish market
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis sets out to highlight the motivations to list at a multilateral trading facility rather than a regulated market. I use a sample of Swedish companies going public between 2007 and 2013 to document the difference ... -
Why do compounding firms obtain significantly higher share price returns compared to other seruice and infrastructure firms?
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis aims to investigate the phenomenon of compounders and their ability to obtain significant and often unexplainably high returns on their acquisitions. It compares compounders with other service and infrastructure ... -
Why do employees speak up? Examining the roles of LMX, perceived risk and perceived leader power in predicting voice behavior
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The purpose of this paper is to understand better why employees voice. Drawing on social information processing theory and insights derived from the literature on power, the authors suggest that leader–member exchange (LMX) ... -
Why do managers disclose risks accurately? Textual analysis, disclosures, and risk exposures
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)I provide an economic model that justifies using bag-of-words, topic modeling, and machine learning techniques to measure firms’ risk exposures using the percentage they allocate to each risk in their financial statements. ... -
Why do parties fail? Cleavages, government fatigue and electoral failure in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary 1992–2012
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)During the first two decades after the collapse of communism 37 political parties won representation in the Czech, Slovak or Hungarian Parliaments. By 2012, 22 of these parties had failed in the sense that they have fallen ... -
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness. (Online appendix)
(CAMP Working Paper Series;2/2013, Working paper, 2013)In this online appendix we extend the basic model in the paper in several directions, discuss the robustness of the results, and moreover what new mechanisms our extensions implies as compared to the ones in the basic model. -
Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)We show that family background matters significantly for children’s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents raising them. The ... -
Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)We show that family background matters significantly for children’s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents raising them. The ... -
Why does junior put all his eggs in one basket? A potential rational explanation for holding concentrated portfolios
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Empirical studies of household portfolios show that young households, with little financial wealth, hold underdiversified portfolios that are concentrated in a small number of assets, a fact often attributed to behavioral ... -
Why should we care about effect size and how to measure and communicate it in management research.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The measurement and communication of the effect size of an independent variable on a dependent variable is critical to effective statistical analysis in the Social Sciences. We develop ideas about how to extend traditional ... -
WHY TURNOVERS? EXAMINING THE DRIVERS OF CEO TURNOVER IN FAMILY FIRMS
(Master thesis, 2020)I examine the potential drivers for replacement of CEOs in privately held firms in Norway emphasizing on family firms. I studied how different family-related characteristics and change in firm performance are related to ... -
Will the locals benefit? The effect of wind power investments on rural wages
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)An important and poorly understood question when communities consider wind power investments is whether the local population will benefit financially. I examine the effect of wind power investment on wages in rural counties ... -
Will the locals benefit? The effect of wind power investments on rural wages
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)An important and poorly understood question when communities consider wind power investments is whether the local population will benefit financially. I examine the effect of wind power investment on wages in rural counties ... -
Will you still trust me tomorrow? The causal effect of terrorism on social trust
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)How do people respond to terrorist events? Exploiting the timing of the 2010 wave of the annual ‘Society Opinion Media’ survey in Sweden, we study the causal effect of the Stockholm bombings of 11 December 2010 on Swedish ... -
Willingness to buy US products in three Southeast European countries: The effects of cognitive, affective and conative components of country-of-origin image.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The objective of this research is to present results from a survey conducted in Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, addressing the negative influence of warfare by USA upon consumer behavior in the region. The results ... -
Willingness to Pay for Crowdfunding Local Agricultural Climate Solutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The recent rise in climate concern among citizens worldwide is coinciding with a rising interest in agricultural climate solutions. The future scaling-up of these solutions, however, requires more knowledge about the ... -
Winners and Losers from Property Taxation
(HOFIMAR Working Paper Series;4/2024, Working paper, 2024-06-21)This paper studies how down-payment requirements for house purchases affect households’ saving and housing decisions, and the implications for macroeconomic policy. Using a quantitative model, we find that households not ... -
The Winners and Losers of COVID-19 - A Global Comparative Study
(Master thesis, 2021)Determinants explaining country-level success and failure when handling COVID-19 are disputed. The gender of state leaders, political affiliation and stringency of containment measures have all been argued as potential ...