Browsing Scientific articles by Subject "Information acquisition"
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Testing, Disclosure and Approval
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Certifiers often base their decisions on a mixture of information, some of which is voluntarily disclosed by applicants, and some of which they acquire by way of tests or otherwise. We study the interplay between the ... -
The zero-rent society: Evidence from hydropower and petroleum windfalls in Norwegian local governments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Economic theory and evidence suggest that political leaders take advantage of government revenue windfalls – particularly from natural resource exploitation – to enrich themselves. We revisit this hypothesis by combining ...