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Sigma Point Filters For Dynamic Nonlinear Regime Switching Models
(CAMP Working Papers Series;4/2015, Working paper, 2015)In this paper we take three well known Sigma Point Filters, namely the Unscented Kalman Filter, the Divided Difference Filter, and the Cubature Kalman Filter, and extend them to allow for a very general class of dynamic ... -
Social Capital and the Viability of Stakeholder-Oriented Firms: Evidence from Savings Banks
(CCGR Working Paper;1/2015, Working paper, 2015)We show that social capital improves the viability of stakeholder-oriented firms operating in competitive markets. Studying exits from the population of Norwegian savings banks after deregulations, we find that banks located ... -
Sovereign wealth funds for macroeconomic purposes
(CME Working Papers;4/2012, Working paper, 2012)Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have become more numerous after the turn of the century, but the largest ones have been set up by non-democratic countries in the Middle East and Asia. Norway´s large SWF is an exception. ... -
Specification Search in Structural Equation Modeling (SEM): How Gradient Component-wise Boosting can Contribute
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Although structural equation model (SEM) is a powerful and widely applied tool particularly in social sciences, few studies have explored how SEM and statistical learning methods can be combined. The purpose of this paper ... -
Stabilt eller robust?
(CME Working Papers;6/2013, Working paper, 2013)Dette arbeidsnotatet består av Månedsbrevet fra årets seks første måneder og Vinterbrevet. (Med Ivar Strompdal som medforfatter): Stabilt eller robust? Elementært, min kjære Watson København i januar Noe må ... -
Sterk krone - fordi vi fortjener det?
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Stiglitz om globalisering
(CME Working paper series;2/2002, Working paper, 2002) -
Stockholder Conflicts and Dividend Payout
(CCGR Working Paper;5/2011, Working paper, 2011)This paper examines how dividend policy influences conflicts of interest between majority and minority stockholders in a large sample of private firms with controlling blockholders. We find that a higher potential for ... -
Supply Flexibility in the Shale Patch: Evidence from North Dakota
(CAMP Working Paper Series;2/2017, Working paper, 2017)We analyse if output exibility in oil production depends on the extraction technology. In particular, we ask to what extent shale oil producers respond to price incentives by changing completion of new wells as well as oil ... -
Supply flexibility in the shale patch: Facts, no fiction
(CAMP Working Paper Series;08/2019, Working paper, 2019-11-18)In two recent papers, Kilian and Zhou (2019) and Kilian (2019) have criticized Bjørnland, Nordvik, and Rohrer (2017), arguing that our finding of a large price elasticity of output for shale producers is not credible. We ... -
Tax concerns and agency concerns in dividend policy: Holding companies as a separating device
(CCGR Working Paper;2/2013, Working paper, 2013)Higher dividends may create value by reducing agency costs, but may also destroy value by increasing tax payments. This paper shows empirically how stockholders use holding companies to establish indirect ownership through ... -
The Commission’s internal conditions for social re-regulation: Market efficiency and wider social goals in setting the rules of financial services in Europe
(CEAS Reports;4/2011, Working paper, 2011)With its scarce budgetary resources and institutional logics favouring market-based problemsolving, the European Union (EU) has been considered a prime example of the regulatory state. When and how can we expect the ... -
The Design of the European Central Bank
(CME Working paper series;1/1998, Working paper, 1998)In this article we analyse issues relating to the design of the future European Central Bank. This design is very much influenced by the differences in incentives to join EMU by its prospective members. We. therefore, start ... -
The Dual-Agency Problem Reconsidered: A Strategic Deviance Perspective on the Franchise Form of Organizing
(CCGR Working Paper;1/2010, Working paper, 2010)Drawing on various theoretical streams, including organizational deviance, we propose that a franchisor cannot assess and control opportunism without comparative information from plural form contractual arrangements provided ... -
The economic impacts of compatibility standards: The case of Office Open XML
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The exchange rate and its fundamentals in a complex world
(CME Working paper series;3/2002, Working paper, 2002) -
The Fiscal Incentive of GHG Cap and Trade: Permits May Be Too Cheap and Developed Countries May Abate Too Little
(CAMP Working Papers Series;9/2014, Working paper, 2014)The theoretical justification for a greenhouse gas (GHG) cap and trade system is that participants will trade emission permits until their marginal cost of abatement equals the equilibrium price of emission permits. However, ... -
The fiscal incentive of GHG cap and trade: Permits may be too cheap and developed countries may abate too little
(Working paper, 2014)The theoretical justification for a greenhouse gas (GHG) cap and trade system is that participants will trade emission permits until their marginal cost of abatement equals the equilibrium price of emission permits. ... -
The Future of the Regulatory State: Adaptation, Transformation or Demise?
(CEAS Reports;1/2011, Working paper, 2011)This short paper is meant to provide for some background ideas to motivate discussions during our workshop. It therefore seeks to make a few short (and hopefully somewhat provocative) points. The idea of the ‘regulatory ... -
The Governance and Finance of Norwegian Family Firms: Main Characteristics of the Population
(CCGR Research Report;01/2018, Working paper, 2018-06)