• Accounting Method Choice and Market Valuation in the Extractive Industries 

      Misund, Bård (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11)
      For more than 40 years, oil and gas companies have been able to choose between two competing methods for accounting for exploration activities. The implication is that two otherwise identical companies can report substantially ...
    • Accounting Method Choice and Market Valuation in the Extractive Industries 

      Misund, Bård (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11)
      For more than 40 years, oil and gas companies have been able to choose between two competing methods for accounting for exploration activities. The implication is that two otherwise identical companies can report substantially ...
    • Can policy and financial risk predict stock markets? 

      Helseth, Marius Aleksander Emblem; Krakstad, Svein Olav; Molnar, Peter; Norlin, Karl-Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Since higher risk should be rewarded with higher expected returns, more risky time periods are expected to predict rising stock markets. This paper focuses on implied volatility as a measure of financial risk and economic ...
    • Catch, Stock Elasticity, and an Implicit Index of Fishing Effort 

      Ekerhovd, Nils-Arne; Gordon, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-12)
      Economists are interested in the relationship between fishing effort and stock size, and the impact on catch levels. The interest lies in the stock elasticity where it is thought that for pelagic fish species it is close ...
    • Changes in health and health behavior associated with retirement 

      Syse, Astri; Veenstra, Marijke; Furunes, Trude; Mykletun, Reidar J.; Solem, Per Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-12)
      Objectives: While poor health contributes to early work exits, it is less clear how early work exits affect health. This study therefore examines changes in health associated with retirement. Method: Survey data from ...
    • Connectedness of energy markets around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic 

      Akyildirim, Erdinc; Cepni, Oguzhan; Molnar, Peter; Uddin, Gazi Salah (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This paper studies the connectedness among energy equity indices of oil-exporting and oil-importing countries around the world. For each country, we construct time-varying measures of how much shocks this country transmits ...
    • Determinants of the forward premium in the Nord pool electricity market 

      Haugom, Erik; Molnar, Peter; Tysdahl, Magne Ødegaard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Nord Pool is the leading power market in Europe. It has been documented that the forward contracts traded in this market exhibit a significant forward premium, which could be a sign of market inefficiency. Efficient power ...
    • Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles? 

      Rigby, David L.; Roesler, Christoph; Kogler, Dieter; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert; Balland, Pierre-Alexandre (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Smart Specialisation was conceived as a ‘bottom-up’ framework to identify new growth paths connected to knowledge cores within regions. Although operationalization of Smart Specialisation has proven difficult, recent ...
    • Do political risks harm development of oil fields? 

      Bøe, Kristine; Jordal, Therese; Mikula, Stepan; Molnar, Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-11)
      We examine the impact of political risks and financial development on investments in the petroleum industry utilizing a unique dataset of investments in individual oil and gas fields around the world. We find that the ...
    • Do scientific capabilities in specific domains matter for technological diversification in European regions? 

      Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Do scientific capabilities in regions translate into technological leadership? This is one of the most pressing questions in academic and policy circles. This paper analyzes the matching of scientific and technological ...
    • Economics of aquaculture: special issue introduction. 

      Asche, Frank; Tveterås, Ragnar (Journal article, 2002)
    • The Effect of Public–Private Partnerships on Innovation in Infrastructure Delivery 

      Liu, Lucia Xiaoyan; Clegg, Stewart Roger; Pollack, Julien (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have been promoted as achieving value for money in government projects through innovation. Private investment, contract bundling, and transferring risk to the private sector are regarded ...
    • The emergence of artificial intelligence in European regions: the role of a local ICT base 

      Xiao, Jing; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The purpose of this study is to investigate how a regional knowledge base of information and communication technologies (ICTs) influences the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in European regions. ...
    • Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts 

      Atta-Owusu, Kwadwo; Fitjar, Rune Dahl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The third mission of universities is often conceived as a regional one, encompassing contributions to regional development and engagement with regional actors. Yet, universities are increasingly global institutions with ...
    • Entry and exit decisions under public and private information: an experiment 

      Chernulich, Aleksei; Horowitz, John; Rabanal, Jean Paul; Rud, Olga; Sharifova, Manizha (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We design an experiment to study how reversible entry decisions are affected by public and private payoff disclosure policies. In our environment, subjects choose between a risky payoff, which evolves according to an ...
    • Ethical Infrastructure and Successful Handling of Workplace Bullying 

      Einarsen, Kari; Mykletun, Reidar; Einarsen, Ståle Valvatna; Skogstad, Anders; Salin, Denise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-03)
      Antecedents and consequences of workplace bullying are well documented. However, the measures taken against workplace bullying, and the effectiveness of such measures, have received less attention. This study addresses ...
    • Exploration vs. acquisition of oil and gas reserves: Effect on stock returns 

      Misund, Bård (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-21)
      This paper examines how oil and gas companies’ reserves growth affects their share price returns. In particular we examine three issues affecting the relation between reserves changes and oil and gas firm returns. First, ...
    • Faglig sneverhet 

      Laudal, Thomas (Journal article, 2010-06)
      Jeg har fått anledning til å gi et kort svar til innlegget fra Bruvoll og Hasane i forrige av Samfunnsøkonomen. Jeg begrenser meg til to tema: "Misforståelsen" om motsetningen mellom politikk og marked, og virkninger av ...
    • Father Presence and the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment 

      Rege, Mari; Votruba, Mark; Kalil, Ariel; Mogstad, Magne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11)
      We use administrative data from Norway to analyze how fathers’ presence affects the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Our empirical strategy exploits within family variation in father exposure that ...
    • Firm Size, Commodity Price, and Interdependence Between Firm-Level stock prices 

      Zhang, Dengjun; Myrland, Øystein; Xie, Jinghua (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-08)
      This study aims to investigate the interdependence between stock prices of salmon firms listed at Oslo Stock Exchange and to evaluate how this correlation is affected by firm size and salmon commodity price. Technically, ...