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Job Market Alert: We're hiring and invite applications for 2 post doc positions in Labour Economics @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-cele.bsky.social.
Application deadline: 30 November 2025 midnight UTC. #econjobmarket
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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"Cross-Border Shopping of Alcohol—What is the Effect on Tax Revenue and Sales and Which Products Are Most Affected?" - new publication by Frode Steen ( @nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social), Richard Friberg and @sulsaker.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Job Market Alert: We're hiring and invite applications for 2 post doc positions in Labour Economics @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-cele.bsky.social.
Application deadline: 30 November 2025 midnight UTC. #econjobmarket
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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October 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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"Ærlig talt? Moralsk motivasjon i Norge og USA" - ny publikasjon av Kjetil Bjorvatn (@nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social) og @pablosotomota.bsky.social: magmaforskning.econa.no/index.php/ma...
Ærlig talt? Moralsk motivasjon i Norge og USA
Moralsk atferd spiller en avgjørende rolle for økonomiske og sosiale utfall. I denne studien rapporterer vi fra et eksperiment som kartlegger ærlighet i Norge og USA ved hjelp av et bestemt tankeekspe...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Professor Erik Ø. Sørensen has been awarded Peder Sather Grant of $23 000 with Edward Miguel to support their project: "Reporting in Practice: Lessons from 350 RCTs and Interventions to Increase Results Reporting in Economics". sathercenter.berkeley.edu/2025-grantees/
2025 Grantees | Peder Sather Center
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October 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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"Fra ASA til AS: Kan utvidet kvoteringslov gi nye resultater?" - ny publikasjon av Sissel Jensen (@nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-cele.bsky.social):
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Fra ASA til AS: Kan utvidet kvoteringslov gi nye resultater?
I 2023 ble det vedtatt nye krav til kjønnsbalanse i styrene i store og mellomstore aksjeselskaper (AS). Denne artikkelen drøfter i hvilken grad slike krav kan bidra til bedre kjønnsbalanse, ikke bare ...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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"Handheving av kartell i Norden – utvikling og vegen vidare" - ny publikasjon av Lars Sørgard (@nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social) og Ingrid Margrethe Halvorsen Barlund:
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Handheving av kartell i Norden – utvikling og vegen vidare
Artikkelen er resultatet av eit prosjekt der vi har undersøkt korleis nasjonale konkurransestyresmakter i Danmark, Finland, Noreg og Sverige handhevar kartell, både frå eit rettsleg perspektiv og ved ...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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"Decentralized Versus Centralized Competitive Pricing When Size Matters" - new publication by Hans Jarle Kind (@nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social), Malin Arve and Øystein Foros (both @nhhnor.bsky.social): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Decentralized Versus Centralized Competitive Pricing When Size Matters - Review of Industrial Organization
In several markets, retailers consider volume (size) as a crucial factor for competitiveness; this is driven, for example, by volume rebates from suppliers or technological economies of scale. This in...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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"The role of productivity and the relative stagnation of the Philippines since the mid-twentieth century" - new publication by Ola H. Grytten (@nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social): www.businessperspectives.org/index.php/jo...
The role of productivity and the relative stagnation of the Philippines since the mid-twentieth century
Type of the article: Research Article AbstractThe relative stagnation of the Philippine economy since the mid-1900s has been widely debated. It is argued that the negative divergence can be explained ...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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"Trade, renewable energy, and market power in power markets" - new publication by Lars Sørgard & Kurt Brekke (both @nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social) and Odd Rune Straume in Energy Economics:
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Trade, renewable energy, and market power in power markets
Energy markets are shifting toward renewable sources and increased integration, but the implications under market power remain underexplored. We analy…
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October 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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"Counting on the sea: Quantifying the rise of seaborne trade serving the United Kingdom 1820-1913" - new working paper by Jan Tore Klovland (@nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social):
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NHH Brage: Counting on the sea: Quantifying the rise of seaborne trade serving the United Kingdom 1820-1913
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September 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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"Pulled In and Crowded Out: Heterogeneous Outcomes of Merit-Based School Choice" - new publication by Kjell G. Salvanes ( @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-cele.bsky.social), Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kai Liu in @aeajournals.bsky.social:
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Pulled In and Crowded Out: Heterogeneous Outcomes of Merit-Based School Choice
(October 2025) - We analyze the effects of reforming the high school admission system from a residence based allocation to a merit-based allocation. The merit-based system generates oversubscribed sch...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Full fyr i Forskningsdagene: "Hva er egentlig rettferdig – og hvem bestemmer det?" spurte Alexander W. Cappelen (@nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social) Bergens tenåringer. Slik ble kanskje en forskergnist tent? www.nhh.no/nhh-bulletin...
Full fyr i Forskningsdagene
«Hva er egentlig rettferdig – og hvem bestemmer det?» spurte NHHs Alexander W. Cappelen Bergens tenåringer. Slik ble kanskje en forskergnist tent.
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September 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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"Fairness and willingness to compete" - new publication by Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden (both @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social) and @thomasbuser.bsky.social in Experimental Economics: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Fairness and willingness to compete | Experimental Economics | Cambridge Core
Fairness and willingness to compete
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September 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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"Income Equality in the Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons" - new publication by Kjell G. Salvanes (@nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-cele.bsky.social), Magne Mogstad and Gaute Torsvik in @aeajournals.bsky.social:
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Income Equality in the Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons
(September 2025) - Policymakers, public commentators, and researchers often cite the Nordic countries as examples of a socioeconomic model that combines low income inequality with prosperity and growt...
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September 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Professor Stig Tenold (@nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social) has contributed a chapter to new the book "Maritime digitalization and decarbonization: a sustainable future":
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Maritime digitalization and decarbonization: a sustainable future
The book with the title “Maritime Digitalization and Decarbonization: A Sustainable Future” is the second major outcome following the publication of the Proceedings of WMU Maritime Week (WMW) 2024. Th...
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September 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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"Sparking Knowledge: Early Technology Adoption, Innovation Ability and Long-Run Growth" - new publication by Björn Brey (@nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social) in @jeeanews.bsky.social:
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Sparking Knowledge: Early Technology Adoption, Innovation Ability and Long-Run Growth
Abstract. This paper examines the benefits of first-mover advantages in technology adoption. It documents that the early adoption of electricity across lat
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September 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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"Exercise Improves Academic Performance" - new publication by Alexander W. Cappelen, Mathias Ekström and Bertil Tungodden (all @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social), Gary Charness and Uri Gneezy in @jpolecon.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Exercise Improves Academic Performance | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 0, No ja
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September 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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"Do informed consumers pay less?" Households can save money by sharpening their price awareness, shows a new study by the FOOD-project and professor Frode Steen (@nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social):
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Do informed consumers pay less?
Households can save money by sharpening their price awareness, a new study shows.
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August 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Congratulations to Weijia Wang for successfully defending her PhD thesis "Essays on Fairness and Decision Making" at @nhhnor.bsky.social, @nhhecon.bsky.social & @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social www.nhh.no/kalender/eco...
August 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Congratulations to Paula Navarro Sarmiento for successfully defending her PhD thesis "Environmental Taxation and Industrial Organization of Transportation Markets" at @nhhnor.bsky.social & @nhhecon.bsky.social!
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August 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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"Inequality acceptance in China: fairness views, inequality beliefs, and policy attitudes in a socialist market economy" - new article by Alexander W. Cappelen, Bertil Tungodden, Ingvild Almås, Caroline Bonn and Cornelius Cappelen. @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Inequality acceptance in China: fairness views, inequality beliefs, and policy attitudes in a socialist market economy - The Journal of Economic Inequality
Growing inequality poses a fundamental challenge to China’s socialist market economy. In a large-scale comparative study, we examine fairness views and beliefs about the source of inequality in China ...
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August 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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"Nash-in-Nash Bargaining with Price-Setting Firms: Contracts, Profits, and the Role of Slotting Fees" - new working paper by Hans Jarle Kind (@nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social), Øystein Foros and Greg Shaffer:
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NHH Brage: Nash-in-Nash Bargaining with Price-Setting Firms: Contracts, Profits, and the Role of Slotting Fees
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August 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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"The Importance of Codetermination for Gender Diversity in the Boardroom" - new publication by Astrid Kunze (@nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social) and @katrinscharfenkamp.bsky.social:
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The Importance of Codetermination for Gender Diversity in the Boardroom
This study examines the interplay of codetermination law and board gender quotas using novel board-director panel data for Norway. We present descriptive evidence suggesting that boards with employee...
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August 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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"How Context Shapes Economic Decision-Making" - on Thursday 28 August 2025 Weijia Wang will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at @nhhecon.bsky.social, @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social and @nhhnor.bsky.social: www.nhh.no/en/nhh-bulle...
How Context Shapes Economic Decision-Making
On Thursday 28 August 2025 Weijia Wang will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
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August 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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"Cooperation creates moral obligations" - new publication by Alexander W. Cappelen & Bertil Tungodden (both @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social) and Varun Gauri in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization:
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Cooperation creates moral obligations
In a large-scale economic experiment, conducted with a general population sample from the United States, we show that cooperation is seen to create re…
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August 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM