Browsing Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi by Document Types "Doctoral thesis"
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Three Essays on Transport Economics and Policy
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:57, Doctoral thesis, 2021)SUMMARY Transport choices represent a classic example of individual decisions being made without fully accounting for wider effects on society. This disparity between the costs carried by individuals and by society, namely ... -
Three essays on Transportation and Environmental Economics; With a focus on Machine Learning Applications
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:250, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis uses machine learning and traditional statistical approaches to explore air pollution, mortality, and different aspects of transportation to draw forth policy recommendations regarding climate change and ... -
Three perspectives on real investments in the manufacturing industry An empirical approach
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:104, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This Ph.D. thesis discusses the real investment in the manufacturing industry in Norway and the firms’ decision-making-process from three different perspectives. I show, using a novel approach, that firms, and particularly ... -
Trade Unions and Productivity. Empirical Analyses of the Norwegian Labor Market
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:406, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis is concerned with the question of how trade unions influence the productivity of firms and workers. To answer this question, I utilize rich administrative register data from Norway to investigate how unions ... -
Transparency in Financial Markets: Are the Effects Visible?
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2024:122, Doctoral thesis, 2024)This thesis includes three papers providing empirical evidence of the impacts of transparency on financial markets. The findings unfold the short and long-term effects of transparency announcements on the stock market, as ... -
What do unions do? Evidence from Norway
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:158, Doctoral thesis, 2023)