• Dividends and taxes: The moderating role of agency conflicts 

      Berzins, Janis; Bøhren, Øyvind; Stacescu, Bogdan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We find that potential conflicts between majority and minority shareholders strongly influence how dividends respond to taxes. When the controlling shareholder has a smaller stake, the incentives to extract private benefits ...
    • Does mandatory gender balance work? Changing organizational form to avoid board upheaval 

      Bøhren, Øyvind; Staubo, Siv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Norway is the first, and so far the only, country to mandate a minimum fraction of female and male directors on corporate boards. We find that after a new gender balance law surprisingly stipulated that the firm must be ...
    • Peer-level analyst transitions 

      Hope, Ole-Kristian; Su, Xijiang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This study examines the effect of peer-level analyst transitions (i.e., switching between brokerage houses) on associated regular incumbent analysts' forecasting performance. We employ a difference-in-differences research ...
    • Wall street analysts as investor relations officers 

      Hope, Ole-Kristian; Huang, Zhongwei; Moldovan, Rucsandra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This paper examines the practice of hiring financial analysts as investor relations officers (IRO). We posit that analysts-turned-IROs (AIROs) have a competitive advantage in communicating with investors, thereby lowering ...