We estimate the job displacement effect on criminal behavior for young adult Norwegian men separated from their plant of employment during a mass layoff. Displaced workers experience a 20 percent increase in criminal charge ...

The chapter discusses the innovation of firms operating in the subsea industry. The subsea industry is a high technology industry making oil extraction possible and safer in deep seas and rough weather conditions. Norway ...

This paper explores the role of large buyers at the Norwegian pelagic auction. The auction is electronic, with no product inspections and conducted on a first-price, sealed-bid basis. Hedonic price modelling was applied ...

Knowledge-intensive services firms (KIS) depend on the skills and networks of employees, and tend to cluster in large-city regions. This raises the fundamental question of whether KIS ‘learn through urban labour pools’ in ...

Sustainable entrepreneurship, that is, venturing with the aim of contributing to a shift of practices towards environmental and social sustainability, is an increasingly prominent phenomenon. This article investigates how ...

Ecolabels are supposed to reduce the information asymmetry between producers and consumers, but they may also produce a warm glow of “green” behavior. We design discrete choice experiments to measure the relative importance ...

Models for variances and covariances of asset returns are crucial in risk management and asset allocation. Traditionally, these models were based on daily returns. Daily opening, high, low and closing (OHLC) prices have ...

Psychological ownership (PO) is a phenomenon whereby individuals feel ownership of goods they do not necessarily formally own. A substantial body of literature in marketing, consumer psychology, and organizational sciences ...

The Western world faces an ageing of the population due to large cohorts born after the Second World War. Their life expectancies are increasing, their health is better as compared to previous generations, and smaller ...

Demand for farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) has been increasing dramatically. Simultaneously, the industry faces increasingly large ecological challenges with the grow-out phase at sea. As a result, and with the aid ...