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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 ... -
Winston Churchills politiske gjerning i lys av teori om karismatisk ledelse
(Master thesis, 2023)Aristokraten Winston Churchill videreførte den politiske arven etter sin far Lord Randolph Churchill, Tory Democracy. Han hadde en klar oppfatning av noblesse oblige, at hans klasse nok holdt en opphøyet posisjon, men at ... -
With a little help of my peers. The supportive role of online contacts for the unemployed
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Unemployment is an unfortunate reality, whose overcoming often depends on social support, among other factors. Online social media, such as social network sites and communities, may offer an additional source of such ... -
With great power comes great responsibility": A meta-narratiue reuiew of ethical considerations and implications in the crossroads of Al and Marketing
(Master thesis, 2023)This meta-narrative review examines the ethical implications of using artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing and explores how companies can mitigate the associated risks. To address these concerns, a comprehensive ... -
"With great power comes great responsibility": A meta-narrative review of ethical considerations and implications in the crossroads of Al and Marketing
(Master thesis, 2023)This meta-narrative review examines the ethical implications of using artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing and explores how companies can mitigate the associated risks. To address these concerns, a comprehensive ... -
With or Against Others? Pay-for-Performance Activates Aggressive Aspects of Competitiveness
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)While paying employees for performance (PfP) has been shown to elicit increased motivation by way of competitive processes, the present paper investigates whether the same competitive processes inherent in PfP can also ...