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Call the midwife. Health personnel and mortality in Norway 1887–1920
(Cliometrica;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-18)At the turn of the twentieth century, Norway, like many other countries, experienced a decrease in mortality and a substantial increase in the number of health personnel. In order to assess how these changes were connected, ... -
Can a better informed listener be easier to persuade?
(Economic Theory;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-22)We study the impact of exogenous news on the classic Bayesian persuasion problem. The sender supplies information over multiple periods, but is unable to commit at the onset to the information that she will supply in periods ... -
The Cantril Ladder elicits thoughts about power and wealth
(Scientific Reports;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)The Cantril Ladder is among the most widely administered subjective well-being measures; every year, it is collected in 140+ countries in the Gallup World Poll and reported in the World Happiness Report. The measure asks ... -
Capable Design or Designing Capabilities? An Exploration of Service Design as an Emerging Organizational Capability in Telenor
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This empirical paper examines a process, starting with the managerial decision to make service design an organizational capability, and follows it as it unfolds over time within one organization. Service design has become ... -
The Causal Mechanism of Financial Education: Evidence from Mediation Analysis
(Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization;Volume 177, September 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-30)This paper uses a field experiment in India and mediation analysis to investigate the causal mechanisms between financial education and financial behavior. Focusing on the mediating role of financial literacy, we propose a ... -
Causing or Preventing (Reverse) Discrimination When Transposing EU Free-Movement Rules in the European Economic Area: A First Categorization of the Approaches Adopted by National Legislators
(Nordic Journal of Migration Research;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Within the European Economic Area (EEA), many rights are granted to EU/EEA nationals in terms of free movement and residency. Most of these rights, enshrined in Directive 2004/38/EC, apply also to their family members, ... -
CEO wealth and cross-border acquisitions by SMEs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study examines the role of chief executive officers’ (CEOs) wealth in explaining the cross-border acquisition (CBA) activity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). CBAs require substantial financial resources ... -
The certifier for the long run
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)We build a workhorse model to study the optimal and the equilibrium certifier from a long-run perspective. Firms enter the market, and invest in their capacity to provide qual- ity, before the certification threshold is ... -
Characteristics of Intrapreneurs in Scale-Intensive Service Firms
(Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management, and Innovation;10(2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This empirical paper explores the work of employees in charge of service innovation when firms develop and launch new scale-intensive services by addressing two research questions: i) How do employees responsible for ... -
Choral conducting competences: Perceptions and priorities
(Research Studies in Music Education;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Choral conducting is a complex and multi-faceted leader role. Leading music is a particular kind of leadership through the prominence of gestural communication, and it is a ubiquitous phenomenon across a variety of social ... -
Choral conducting education: The lifelong entanglement of competence, identity and meaning
(Research Studies in Music Education;First Published April 8, 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-08)Choral singing is one of the most widespread musical activities, and choral conductors work in a variety of social settings that involve every imaginable type of choir and musical genre. The conductor role draws on a number ... -
Choral singers' perceptions of musical leadership
(Chapter, 2019)This chapter is about musical leadership and specifically the role of the choral conductor. The conductor role is familiar to anyone who has been singing in a school choir or have been the audience of live or televised ... -
Co-creating Democratic Legitimacy: Potentials and Pitfalls
(Administration & Society;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-14)The aim of the article is to discuss how and to what extent co-creation has the capacity to strengthen democratic legitimacy. By distinguishing between output-based and input-based co-creation, and by discussing types of ... -
Co-creating Democratic Legitimacy: Potentials and Pitfalls
(Administration & Society;Volume 54, Issue 8, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-14)The aim of the article is to discuss how and to what extent co-creation has the capacity to strengthen democratic legitimacy. By distinguishing between output-based and input-based co-creation, and by discussing types of ... -
Comparing sentiment and behavioral based leading indexes for industrial production in Germany: A novel running local test
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Competitive balance: Information disclosure and discrimination in an asymmetric contest
(Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization;volume 184, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-14)We study a design problem for an effort-maximizing principal in a two-player contest with two dimensions of asymmetry. Players have different skill levels and an information gap exists, as only one player knows the skill ... -
Conceptualizing Innovation Capabilities: a Contingency Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Empirical research has confirmed that a positive relationship exists between the implementation of innovation activities and the future performance of organizations. Firms utilize resources and capabilities to develop ... -
The construction of leadership practice: Making sense of leader competencies
(Leadership;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-24)The notion of leadership competencies is a much-debated issue. In this article, we propose that how the leader makes sense of his or her competencies is key to leadership practice. Specifically, we look at how leaders ... -
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador: A Comment
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Corporate hedging and the variance of stock returns
(Journal of Corporate Finance;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)By means of a difference-in-differences approach on the volatility of stock returns (σ-DID), we investigate the effect that hedging has on corporate risk. Examining the relation between hedging and the idiosyncratic variance ...