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    • Factor analyzing ordinal items requires substantive knowledge of response marginals 

      Grønneberg, Steffen; Foldnes, Njål (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In the social sciences, measurement scales often consist of ordinal items and are commonly analyzed using factor analysis. Either data are treated as continuous, or a discretization framework is imposed in order to take ...
    • Factors affecting adult trait Neuroticism in a nationally representative sample 

      Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This study explores factors in childhood and adulthood that affect adult trait Neuroticism in a large, nationally representative sample. 5785 participants provided information on family social background measured at birth; ...
    • Factors influencing adult savings and investment: Findings from a nationally representative sample 

      Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This study explored a longitudinal data set of over 5766 adults examining factors that influence adult savings and investment. Data were collected at birth, in childhood (at age 11) and adulthood (at ages 33 and 50 yrs) ...
    • Factors influencing the choice of beer: A review 

      Betancur, Maria Isabel; Motoki, Kosuke; Spence, Charles; Velasco, Carlos (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Research on those variables that have been shown to influence the consumer’s choice of beer is reviewed. The focus is on the choice of whether to drink beer as opposed to a beverage from another category, and to a greater ...
    • Facts or knowledge? A Review of private internal reports of investigations by Fraud examiners 

      Gottschalk, Petter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      The purpose of this article is to reflect on the difference between facts and knowledge, as we suggest that knowledge is facts combined with interpreta-tion, context, and reflection. The distinction is important when ...
    • Fallibility at work: Rethinking excellence and error in organizations 

      Kvalnes, Øyvind (Book, 2017)
      This book addresses how organizations can deal with human fallibility in order to create space for excellence at work. Some mistakes in work settings put lives at risk, while others create openings for innovative breakthroughs. ...
    • Family Ties and Socio-Economic Outcomes in High vs. Low Income Countries 

      Daniele, Gianmarco; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Alesina and Giuliano (J. Econ. Growth, 15(2), 2010) illustrate that strong family ties lead to lower geographical mobility and reduced labor force participation of young and female individuals. We extend their analysis by ...
    • Fear from Afar, Not So Risky After All: Distancing Moderates the Relationship Between Fear and Risk Taking 

      Mayiwar, Lewend; Björklund, Fredrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A growing line of research has shown that individuals can regulate emotional biases in risky judgment and decision-making processes through cognitive reappraisal. In the present study, we focus on a specific tactic of ...
    • Filling the Mattress’. Trust development in the governance of megaprojects 

      Ruijter, Hans; van Marrewijk, Alfons; Veenswijk, Marcel; Merkus, Sander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The development of trust is a major challenge for the governance of public private infrastructure megaprojects. Contractual pre-arrangements should provide a blueprint for collaborative behavior and trust development but ...
    • The Finance Uncertainty Multiplier 

      Alfaro, Iván; Bloom, Nicholas; Lin, Xiaoji (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      We show how real and financial frictions amplify, prolong and propagate thenegative impact of uncertainty shocks. We first use a novel instrumentation strategy toaddress endogeneity in estimating the impact of uncertainty ...
    • Financial constraints in search equilibrium: Mortensen Pissarides meet Holmstrom and Tirole 

      Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen R. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      A key lesson from the Great Recession is that firms’ leverage and access to finance are important for hiring and firing decisions. It is now empirically established that bank lending is correlated with employment losses ...
    • Financial Distress and Money Attitudes 

      Fenton-O’Creevy, Mark; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This study was concerned with the construction and validation of a Financial Distress Index (FDI). A stratified (U.K.) sample of 2000 adults completed the new measure, as well as measures of financial anxiety, general ...
    • Financial reporting and corporate political connections: An analytical model of interactions 

      Bleibtreu, Christopher; Königsbruber, Roland; Lanzi, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We analyze the interactions between accounting institutions and corporate political connections (CPCs). We present a model where a costly policy depends on the perceived economic condition of a firm. This policy and the ...
    • Finding Meaning in a Hopeless Place? The Construction of Meaningfulness in Digital Microwork 

      Kost, Dominique; Fieseler, Christian; Wong, Sut I (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      New forms of employment centered on the completion of simple and atomized tasks, such as online microwork, raise the question of the possible gratifications that could be derived from such work when compared to more ...
    • Fiscal fairness as a political argument 

      Mahieu, Bram; Geys, Benny; Heyndels, Bruno (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Governments typically apply several tax instruments. The tax choice literature sees the choice among these as depending on the political costs involved. One source of such costs is (horizontal) inequity in the distribution ...
    • A flexible predictive density combination for large financial data sets in regular and crisis periods 

      Casarin, Roberto; Grassi, Stefano; Ravazzolo, Francesco; van Dijk, Herman K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      A flexible predictive density combination is introduced for large financial data sets which allows for model set incompleteness. Dimension reduction procedures that include learning allocate the large sets of predictive ...
    • Follower jealousy at work: A test of Vecchio’s model of antecedents and consequences of jealousy 

      Thompson, Geir; Buch, Robert; Glasø, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The present study tests the validity of Robert P. Vecchio's seminal work on antecedents and consequences of jealousy. Specifically, we examine whether antecedents such as in-group status, supervisory considerateness, and ...
    • Forecasting cryptocurrencies under model and parameter instability 

      Catania, Leopoldo; Grassi, Stefano; Ravazzolo, Francesco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper studies the predictability of cryptocurrency time series. We compare several alternative univariate and multivariate models for point and density forecasting of four of the most capitalized series: Bitcoin, ...
    • Forecasting energy commodity prices: A large global dataset sparse approach 

      Ferrari, Davide; Ravazzolo, Francesco; Vespignani, Joaquin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This paper focuses on forecasting quarterly nominal global energy prices of commodities, such as oil, gas and coal, using the Global VAR dataset proposed by Mohaddes and Raissi (2018). This dataset includes a number of ...
    • Forslag til ny Norsk regnskapsstandard: Nasjonale avvik i forhold til IFRS for SMEs 

      Stenheim, Tonny; Baksaas, Kjell Magne; Schwencke, Hans Robert (Journal article, 2017)
      Regnskapslovutvalget har foreslått at ny norsk regnskapsstandard skal bygge på IFRS for SMEs og et system som beskriver de rammene som vil gjelde for avvik fra IFRS for SMEs. Det er imidlertid uklart hvor stor frihet ...