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Performance Management: Perceiving Goals as Invariable and Implications for Perceived Job Autonomy and Work Performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-12)In this study, we investigated whether perceiving goals as invariable is negatively related to work performance and whether this relationship is mediated by perceived job autonomy. Perceiving goals as invariable refers to ... -
Pernicious Polychorics: The Impact and Detection of Underlying Non-normality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Ordinal data in social science statistics are often modeled as discretizations of a multivariate normal vector. In contrast to the continuous case, where SEM estimation is also consistent under non-normality, violation of ... -
Personality and political orientation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This study examined the incremental validity of the Big-Five personality traits over primarily demographic factors in predicting Left-Right political orientation (PO) in a large British adult sample. Gender and trait ... -
Personality correlates of passive-aggressiveness: a NEO-PI-R domain and facet analysis of the HDS Leisurely scale
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: This study looked at the relationship between “bright-side” and “dark-side” personality variables by focusing on the controversial trait of Passive-Aggressiveness. Around 4800 British adults completed the ... -
Personality Facets and Intelligence: Compensation and Investment
(Journal article, 2023)This paper revisits the issue of the relationship between personality (the Big Five traits), measured at domain and facet level, and intelligence using two general measures of intelligence. The samples under investigation ... -
Personality Traits and Socio-Demographic Variables as Predictors of Political Interest and Voting Behavior in a British Cohort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study examines the associations between socio-demographic variables, the Big Five personality traits, and the extent of political interest as well as voting behavior, in a large, nationally representative sample in ... -
Personality traits neuroticism and openness as well as early abnormal eye conditions as predictors of the occurrence of eye problems in adulthood
(Journal article, 2017)This study set out to examine the associations between psychological, biomedical and socio-demographic factors in childhood and adulthood associated with the occurrence of self-reported eye conditions in adulthood. In ... -
Plausible futures for the Norwegian offshore energy sector: Business as usual, harvest or rebuild?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The global energy transition from fossil to low-carbon energy challenges the future of the Norwegian petroleum sector, a major factor in the country's economy, now facing financial climate risk and long-term declining ... -
Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007-2019)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Countries have widely diverging regulations regarding the eligibility of public sector employees for political office, and the stringency of such regulations remains fiercely debated. Building on a demand and supply model ... -
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 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 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 ... -
Portfolio Tax Trading with Carryover Losses
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We study portfolio choice with multiple stocks and capital gain taxation assuming that capital losses can only offset current or future realized capital gains. We show, through backtesting using empirical distributions, ... -
Positive Rational Acceptance of Body Image Threats Mediates the Association between Nature Exposure and Body Appreciation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Mounting evidence suggests that exposure to natural environments is associated with more positive body image, but mechanistic pathways are not fully understood. In this study, we tested one such indirect pathway involving ...