• Age and Vote Choice: Is There a Conservative Shift among Older Voters? 

      Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Ageing is often believed to induce a movement towards the right of the political spectrum. Yet, empirical evidence remains inconclusive due to a dearth of longitudinal datasets covering multiple cohorts. Using eleven ...
    • Agglomerasjonsmodell 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Moen, Espen R.; Riis, Christian (CREAM Publications;2/2015, Working paper, 2015)
      Agglomerasjonsffekter en samlebetegnelse for svært ulike mekanismer som har det til felles at de stimuleres av økt befolkningstetthet. Det er grunn til å tro at infrastrukturinvesteringer som knytter befolkningskonsentrasjoner ...
    • Arbeidstilbudsmodell 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Moen, Espen R.; Riis, Christian (CREAM Publications; 3/2015, Working paper, 2015)
      Dette modellnotatet presenterer prinsippene for beregning av arbeidsmarkedsvirkninger i merverdianalyser av samferdselsinvesteringer.
    • Are bureaucrats paid like CEOs? Performance compensation and turnover of top civil servants 

      Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Recent research explores the effect of financial and career incentives on public-sector hiring processes and subsequent performance. The reverse relation between performance and bureaucrats' compensation and turnover has ...
    • Can Paying Politicians Well Reduce Corruption? The Effects of Wages and Uncertainty on Electoral Competition 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Morton, Rebecca; Helland, Leif (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We investigate the effects of wages and uncertainty on political corruption as measured by rent-taking. First, our laboratory data show that contrary to standard theory, rent-taking is not independent of, but decreases ...
    • Environmental Policy and the Direction of Technical Change 

      Greaker, Mads; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Should governments direct R&D from "dirty" into "clean" technologies? How im-portant is this compared to carbon pricing? We inquire into this, introducing twonovelties compared to recent literature. We introduce decreasing ...
    • Knowledge spillovers and R&D subsidies to new, emerging technologies 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Is knowledge spillover a rationale for supporting R&D on new, emerging technologies more than R&D on other technologies? In this paper, I analyze whether innovation externalities caused only by knowledge spillovers differ ...
    • Norsk klimapolitikk i et globalt perspektiv 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Utslipp av klimagasser er et globalt problem. Fra et globalt, samfunnsøkonomisk perspektiv ville en optimal løsning være en global avtale som på ett eller annet vis gjorde at utslippene ble redusert tilstrekkelig mye ...
    • Ongoing quest for QWERTY 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Helland, Leif (CREAM Publications;1/2012, Working paper, 2012)
      First, we replicate the remarkable result of Hossain & Morgan (AER 2009), in which subjects in an experimental market tip almost perfectly to the superior platform even if an inferior platform enjoys initial monopoly. Next, ...
    • Platform selection in the lab 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Helland, Leif (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Emerging literature explores experimental platform selection games. These games con- verge rapidly on the superior platform under a wide range of conditions. We replicate the remarkable results of Hossain and Morgan ...
    • Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (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 Rents and Voter Information in Search Equilibrium 

      Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel (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 

      Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel (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 ...
    • Popular support for environmental protection: A life-cycle perspective 

      Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Support for environmental protection is generally perceived as driven by cohort or generational effects. We argue and empirically illustrate that such attitudes also fluctuate over the life cycle. Using rotating panels of ...
    • The power of outside options in the presence of obstinate types 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Helland, Leif; Knutsen, Magnus Våge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We experimentally investigate the role of two-sided reputation-building in dynamic bargaining. In the absence of outside options, rational bargainers have an incentive to imitate obstinate types that are committed to an ...
    • Productivity spillovers through labor mobility in search equilibrium 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Moen, Espen R.; Preugschat, Edgar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This paper proposes an explicit model of spillovers through labor flows in a framework with search frictions. Firms can choose to innovate or to imitate by hiring a worker from a firm that has already innovated. We show ...
    • Reference points in sequential bargaining: theory and experiment 

      Brekke, Kjell Arne; Ciccone, Alice; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Helland, Leif (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      We introduce loss aversion in an infinite-horizon, alternating-offers model. When outside options serve as reference points, the equilibrium of our model follows that of the standard Rubinstein bargaining model, i.e., ...
    • SEQUENTIAL PRICE SETTING: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM A LAB EXPERIMENT 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Helland, Leif; Moen, Espen Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In the Varian (1980; American Economic Review 70(4) (1980), 651–59) model of price competition, a change from simultaneous to sequential price setting dramatically changes equilibrium strategies, and in the unique symmetric, ...
    • Should I stay or should I go? Bandwagons in the lab 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Helland, Leif; Joslin, Knut-Eric Neset (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We experimentally investigate the impact of strategic uncertainty and complementarity on leader and follower behavior using the model of Farrell and Saloner (1985). At the core of the model are endogenous timing, irreversible ...