Blar i Handelshøyskolen BI på tidsskrift "The Scandinavian Journal of Economics"
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Asset Returns, News Topics, and Media Effects
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We decompose the textual data in a daily Norwegian business newspaper into news topics and investigate their predictive and causal role for asset prices. Our findings suggest that news published through the mass media has ... -
Causal effects of paternity leave on children and parents
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Reserving a share of the parental leave period for fathers is considered necessary for inducing fathers to take leave, and for men's increased participation in child-rearing. We investigate how a parental leave reform ... -
Competing with precision: incentives for developing predictive biomarker tests
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We study the incentives of drug producers to develop predictive biomarkers, taking into account strategic interaction between drug producers and health plans. For this purpose, we develop a two-dimensional spatial framework ... -
Environmental Policy and the Direction of Technical Change
(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 ... -
Price Dispersion and the Role of Stores
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In this paper, we study price dispersion in the Norwegian retail market for 766 products across 4,297 stores over 60 months. Price dispersion for homogeneous products is significant and persistent, with a coefficient of ... -
Price dispersion and the stability of trade*
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Research on trade relationships has documented a high rate of relationship breakup and churning. We use data on Norwegian exports to document two stylized facts about the stability of trade relationships. First, the ... -
Reference points in sequential bargaining: theory and experiment
(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., ... -
The Power of Parties: Evidence From Close Municipal Elections in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We show that small shifts in representation can affect policy in proportional election systems. Using data from Norway, we find that a larger left-wing party leads to more property taxation, higher childcare spending, and ...