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power are installed. In this paper I use simple distributed lag models with data from Denmark and Norway. I find that … increased wind power in Denmark causes increased marginal exports to Norway and that this effect is larger during periods of net … southern Norway in the short run. Finally, I estimate that as much as 40 percent of wind power produced in Denmark is stored in …
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Failure to express minority views may distort the behavior of company boards, committees, juries, and other decision-making bodies. Devising a new experimental procedure to measure such conformity in a judgment task, we compare the degree of conformity in groups with varying gender composition....
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over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … single owner. -- Sweden ; spinoffs ; new firm formation ; entrepreneurship ; performance ; employment growth …
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based in Malmö raise exports to Denmark substantially, mostly by firms selecting into exporting, and the aggregate …
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Studies have shown that many consumers and businesses fail to invest in energy efficiency improvements despite seemingly ample financial incentives to do so - the so called energy & efficiency gap or paradox. Attempts to explain this gap often focus on searching costs, information frictions and...
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those states. This article applies the criteria of Snyder's concept of "state destruction" on the Nazi occupation of Norway … case. Norway meets eight of the eleven criteria. However, this does not include the complete destruction of its bureaucracy … Germany. Norway is thus an intermediate case on the spectrum of state destruction and constitutes one of the closest …
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The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in winner-take-all situations as fair, independent of...
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We report the results of a randomized controlled trial testing whether incentivizing physical exercise improves the academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The main result is that it generates a strong and significant improvement in...
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