• Asset Returns, News Topics, and Media Effects 

      Larsen, Vegard Høghaug; Thorsrud, Leif Anders (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 

      Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. (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 ...
    • Environmental Policy and the Direction of Technical Change 

      Greaker, Mads; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (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 

      Moen, Espen Rasmus; Wulfsberg, Fredrik; Aas, Øyvind Nilsen (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 ...
    • The Power of Parties: Evidence From Close Municipal Elections in Norway 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Folke, Olle; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (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 ...