• Who Acquires Information in Dealer Markets? 

      Rudiger, Jesper; Vigier, Adrien Henri (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      We study information acquisition in dealer markets. We first identify a one-sided strategic complementarity in information acquisition: the more informed traders are, the larger market makers' gain from becoming informed. ...
    • Who dies early? Education, mortality and causes of death in Norway 

      Grytten, Jostein Ivar; Skau, Irene; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We estimated the effects of education on mortality and causes of death in Norway. We identified causal effects by exploiting the staggered implementation of a school reform that increased the length of compulsory education ...
    • Who Should Pick up the Bill? Distributing the Financial Burden of Technological Innovations in Schools 

      Geys, Benny; Hassan, Mamdouh (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Technological innovations in classrooms generally come with substantial financial price tags. Although the distribution of such financial costs is of critical importance to practitioners, (potential) users, and policy-makers, ...
    • Who Trusts Social Media? 

      Warner-Søderholm, Gillian; Bertsch, Andy; Sawe, Everlyn; Lee, Dwight; Wolfe, Trina; Meyer, Josh; Engel, Josh; Fatilua, Uepati Normann (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Trust is the foundation of all communication, yet a profound question in business today is how can we psychologically understand trust behaviors in our new digital landscape? Earlier studies in internet and human behavior ...
    • Who’s Got The Time? Temporary Organising Under Temporal Institutional Complexity 

      Pemsel, Sofia; Söderlund, Jonas (Chapter, 2020)
      This chapter addresses the challenges associated with temporary organising under conditions of institutional complexity. The authors draw on findings from an in-depth case study of a megaproject initiated to reshape ...
    • Why and how motives (still) matter 

      Benito, Gabriel R. G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Purpose – The article provides a discussion of the relevance of motives for companies’ internationalization. Design/methodology/approach – Conceptual discussion building on established classifications of motives of ...
    • Why are consumers less loss averse in internal than external reference prices? 

      van Oest, Rutger D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      The literature has produced mixed support for loss aversion in a reference price context and the outcome may depend on the type of reference price. One extant study has reported empirical evidence that consumers are less ...
    • Why do employees speak up? Examining the roles of LMX, perceived risk and perceived leader power in predicting voice behavior 

      Duan, Jinyun; Lapointe, Émilie; Xu, Yue; Sarah, Brooks (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The purpose of this paper is to understand better why employees voice. Drawing on social information processing theory and insights derived from the literature on power, the authors suggest that leader–member exchange (LMX) ...
    • Why do parties fail? Cleavages, government fatigue and electoral failure in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary 1992–2012 

      Bakke, Elisabeth; Sitter, Nick (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 Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children? 

      Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte (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 does junior put all his eggs in one basket? A potential rational explanation for holding concentrated portfolios 

      Roche, Hervé; Tompaidis, Stathis; Yang, Chunyu (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 ...
    • Will the locals benefit? The effect of wind power investments on rural wages 

      Mauritzen, Johannes (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 

      Mauritzen, Johannes (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 

      Geys, Benny; Qari, Salmai (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 Pay for Crowdfunding Local Agricultural Climate Solutions 

      Bjerke Soldal, Olav; Stoknes, Per Espen; Hansen, Sissel; Kvande, Ingvar; Weddegjerde, Sylvia (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 ...
    • With a little help of my peers. The supportive role of online contacts for the unemployed 

      Fieseler, Christian; Meckel, Miriam; Müller, Severina (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 or Against Others? Pay-for-Performance Activates Aggressive Aspects of Competitiveness 

      Gläser, Daniel; van Gils*, Suzanne; Van Quaquebeke, Niels (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 ...
    • Women and Employee-Elected Board Members, and Their Contributions to Board Control Tasks 

      Huse, Morten; Nielsen, Sabina Tacheva; Hagen, Inger Marie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      We present results from a study about women and employee-elected board members, and fill some of the gaps in the literature about their contribution to board effectiveness. The empirical data is from a unique data set of ...
    • Women and multiple board memberships: Social capital and institutional pressure 

      Rigolini, Alessandra; Huse, Morten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We show unintended consequences of quota regulations to get women on boards. Board members may have diferent characteristics, and even among women, there are variations. We assume that the characteristics of the board ...
    • Women seek more variety in rewards when closer to ovulation 

      Faraji-Rad, Ali; Moeini-Jazani, Mehrad; Warlop, Luk (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      We propose that women's increased generalized sensitivity to rewards during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle causes them to seek more variety in rewards when they are in the fertile phase than when they are not in ...