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Working Papers

2023

1. Relational incentive contracts for teams of multitasking agents
   Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science

2021

2. Balanced Scorecards: A Relational Contract Approach
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
   Also in Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science (2020)

2020

3. Relational Contracting, Negotiation, and External Enforcement
   University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (4)
   Also in Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science (2018) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Relational Contracting, Negotiation, and External Enforcement, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2020) View citations (4) (2020)

2018

4. Relational Incentive Contracts and Performance Measurement
   Discussion Paper Series in Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics View citations (3)
   Also in Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science (2018) View citations (3)

2016

5. Teams in Relational Contracts
   Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science View citations (1)

2014

6. Teams and Tournaments in Relational Contracts
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (2)
   Also in Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science (2013)

2013

7. Crime and punishment: When tougher antitrust enforcement leads to higher overcharge
   Discussion Paper Series in Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics
   Also in Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science (2013)
   UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance, University of Stavanger (2013)

2012

8. Incentive provision when contracting is costly
   UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance, University of Stavanger View citations (8)
   Also in Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science (2010)
   See also Journal Article Incentive Provision when Contracting is Costly, Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science (2016) (2016)
9. The Tenuous Relationship between Effort and Performance Pay
   Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science
   Also in UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance, University of Stavanger (2012) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The tenuous relationship between effort and performance pay, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2015) View citations (1) (2015)

2010

10. Multinationals, tax competition and outside options
    Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science
    Also in UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance, University of Stavanger (2009) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Multinationals, tax competition and outside options, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2011) View citations (13) (2011)

2008

11. The rise of individual performance pay
    UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance, University of Stavanger
    Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2007) View citations (2)
    Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science (2006)
    See also Journal Article The Rise of Individual Performance Pay, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell (2012) View citations (7) (2012)
12. Tournaments with price-setting agents
    UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance, University of Stavanger
    Also in Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science (2008)
    See also Journal Article Tournaments with Prize‐setting Agents, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell (2011) View citations (9) (2011)

2007

13. Cooperation in knowledge-intensive firms
    Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science
    See also Journal Article Cooperation in Knowledge-Intensive Firms, Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press (2008) View citations (2) (2008)
14. Relative Performance Evaluation, Agent Hold-Up and Firm Organization
    Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science
    See also Journal Article Relative performance evaluation, agent hold-up and firm organization, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier (2008) View citations (1) (2008)
    Chapter Relative Performance Evaluation, Agent Hold-up and Firm Organization, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008) (2008)

2006

15. Cross border mergers and strategic trade policy with two-part taxation: is international policy coordination beneficial?
    (Grenzüberschreitende Fusionen und strategische Handelspolitik mit zweiseitiger Besteuerung: Ist eine internationale Koordination sinnvoll?)
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Market Processes and Governance, WZB Berlin Social Science Center View citations (1)
16. Distorted Performance Measures and Dynamic Incentives
    Working Papers in Economics, University of Bergen, Department of Economics
    Also in Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science (2004)
    See also Journal Article Distorted Performance Measures and Dynamic Incentives, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell (2008) View citations (5) (2008)

2005

17. Access regulation and cross-border mergers: Is international coordination beneficial?
    Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science View citations (1)
    Also in Working Papers in Economics, University of Bergen, Department of Economics (2005) View citations (1)
18. Team Incentives in Relational Employment Contracts
    Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Team Incentives in Relational Employment Contracts, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (2006) View citations (45) (2006)

2004

19. Endogenous Verifiability in Relational Contracting
    Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Endogenous Verifiability and Relational Contracting, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2009) View citations (52) (2009)

2003

20. Regulatory Competition and Multi-national Banking
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (17)

2000

21. International Competition for R&D Investment
    Norway; Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Department of Economics, University of Bergen
22. International Competition for R&D Investments (new title: Spillovers and international competition for investments)
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
23. Strategic Tax Competition; Implications of National Ownership
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (3)
    Also in Working Papers, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration- (1998) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Strategic tax competition; implications of national ownership, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2001) View citations (51) (2001)

1999

24. Common Agency with Outside Options; the Case of International Taxation of an MNE
    Norway; Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Department of Economics, University of Bergen View citations (6)
25. Information, Incentives and Organizations; some Intertemporal Aspects
    Norway; Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Department of Economics, University of Bergen

1998

26. Collusion and Renegotiation in Hierarchies: A Case of Beneficial Corruption
    Norway; Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Department of Economics, University of Bergen View citations (26)
    See also Journal Article Collusion and Renegotiation in Hierarchies: A Case of Beneficial Corruption, International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association (1998) View citations (22) (1998)

1995

27. Limited Intertemporal Commitment and Job Design
    Economics Papers, Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
    Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (1994)
    See also Journal Article Limited intertemporal commitment and job design, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (1996) View citations (21) (1996)

1993

28. Intertemporal Common Agency and Organizational Design: How much Decentralization?
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Intertemporal common agency and organizational design: How much decentralization?, European Economic Review, Elsevier (1995) View citations (20) (1995)

1992

29. Irreversible Investments, Uncertainty, and the Ramsey Policy
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo

1984

30. Anticipated Automation: A Rational Expectations Model of Technological Diffusion
    CEPR Publications, Stanford University, Center for Economic Policy Research View citations (12)

Journal Articles

2020

1. Relational Contracting, Negotiation, and External Enforcement
   American Economic Review, 2020, 110, (7), 2153-97 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper Relational Contracting, Negotiation, and External Enforcement, University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series (2020) View citations (4) (2020)

2017

2. A trust game in loss domain
   Experimental Economics, 2017, 20, (4), 860-877 View citations (3)

2016

3. Incentive Provision when Contracting is Costly
   Economica, 2016, 83, (332), 741-767
   See also Working Paper Incentive provision when contracting is costly, UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance (2012) View citations (8) (2012)

2015

4. The tenuous relationship between effort and performance pay
   Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 121, (C), 32-39 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper The Tenuous Relationship between Effort and Performance Pay, Discussion Papers (2012) (2012)

2012

5. The Rise of Individual Performance Pay
   Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2012, 21, (2), 493-518 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper The rise of individual performance pay, UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance (2008) (2008)

2011

6. Multinationals, tax competition and outside options
   Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95, (11), 1579-1588 View citations (13)
   See also Working Paper Multinationals, tax competition and outside options, Discussion Papers (2010) (2010)
7. Tournaments with Prize‐setting Agents
   Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113, (3), 729-753 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper Tournaments with price-setting agents, UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance (2008) (2008)

2010

8. Company Taxation and Merger Incentives in International Oligopoly: on International Policy Coordination with Strategic Trade
   Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 2010, 10, (2), 161-186

2009

9. Endogenous Verifiability and Relational Contracting
   American Economic Review, 2009, 99, (5), 2193-2208 View citations (52)
   See also Working Paper Endogenous Verifiability in Relational Contracting, Discussion Papers (2004) View citations (2) (2004)

2008

10. Cooperation in Knowledge-Intensive Firms
    Journal of Human Capital, 2008, 2, (4), 410-440 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Cooperation in knowledge-intensive firms, Discussion Papers (2007) (2007)
11. Distorted Performance Measures and Dynamic Incentives
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2008, 17, (1), 149-183 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Distorted Performance Measures and Dynamic Incentives, Working Papers in Economics (2006) (2006)
12. Relative performance evaluation, agent hold-up and firm organization
    Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2008, 22, (2), 229-241 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Relative Performance Evaluation, Agent Hold-Up and Firm Organization, Discussion Papers (2007) (2007)
    Chapter Relative Performance Evaluation, Agent Hold-up and Firm Organization, NBER Chapters, 2008, 229-241 (2008) (2008)

2006

13. Career Concerns, Monetary Incentives and Job Design*
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006, 108, (2), 299-316 View citations (13)
14. Team Incentives in Relational Employment Contracts
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24, (1), 139-170 View citations (45)
    See also Working Paper Team Incentives in Relational Employment Contracts, Discussion Papers (2005) View citations (6) (2005)

2005

15. Sharing of endogenous risk in construction
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005, 58, (4), 511-526 View citations (10)

2003

16. Spillovers and international competition for investments
    Journal of International Economics, 2003, 59, (1), 211-238 View citations (37)

2001

17. Strategic tax competition; implications of national ownership
    Journal of Public Economics, 2001, 81, (2), 253-277 View citations (51)
    See also Working Paper Strategic Tax Competition; Implications of National Ownership, CESifo Working Paper Series (2000) View citations (3) (2000)

2000

18. Discretion and Incentives in Organizations
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2000, 18, (3), 377-404 View citations (20)

1998

19. Collusion and Renegotiation in Hierarchies: A Case of Beneficial Corruption
    International Economic Review, 1998, 39, (2), 413-38 View citations (22)
    See also Working Paper Collusion and Renegotiation in Hierarchies: A Case of Beneficial Corruption, Norway; Department of Economics, University of Bergen (1998) View citations (26) (1998)

1996

20. Agency Costs and the Limits of Integration
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1996, 27, (3), 479-501 View citations (20)
21. Limited intertemporal commitment and job design
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1996, 31, (3), 401-417 View citations (21)
    See also Working Paper Limited Intertemporal Commitment and Job Design, Economics Papers (1995) (1995)
22. On optimal control of income generating activities, and the value of flexible production design
    International Review of Economics & Finance, 1996, 5, (4), 349-361

1995

23. Intertemporal common agency and organizational design: How much decentralization?
    European Economic Review, 1995, 39, (7), 1405-1428 View citations (20)
    See also Working Paper Intertemporal Common Agency and Organizational Design: How much Decentralization?, CESifo Working Paper Series (1993) View citations (1) (1993)

1994

24. Resource Extraction and the Threat of Possible Expropriation: The Role of Swiss Bank Accounts
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1994, 26, (2), 149-162 View citations (32)

1993

25. Perfect equilibrium timing of a backstop technology Limit pricing induced by trigger zones
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1993, 17, (1-2), 123-151 View citations (5)
26. Regulation of Multiagent Research and Development
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1993, 24, (4), 529-541 View citations (13)
27. The Ratchet Effect in Common Agency: Implications for Regulation and Privatization
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1993, 9, (1), 136-58 View citations (31)

1992

28. Durable goods monopoly, learning by doing and the Coase conjecture
    European Economic Review, 1992, 36, (1), 157-177 View citations (14)
29. On optimal timing of investment when cost components are additive and follow geometric diffusions
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1992, 16, (1), 39-51 View citations (17)
30. Technological diffusion in primary health care
    Journal of Health Economics, 1992, 11, (4), 439-452 View citations (5)
31. Technology adoption, learning spillovers, and the optimal duration of patent-based monopolies
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1992, 10, (4), 517-543 View citations (14)

1991

32. Simple rules to order irreversible income alternatives sequentially
    Economics Letters, 1991, 35, (2), 193-199

1990

33. Resource extraction and investments in production capital under non-stationary interest rates
    Resources and Energy, 1990, 11, (4), 357-369

1989

34. Capital investments and resource extraction from non-identical deposits
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1989, 17, (2), 127-139 View citations (7)
35. Optimal sequencing of resource pools under uncertainty
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1989, 17, (1), 83-92 View citations (2)

1988

36. Optimal shutdown decisions in resource extraction
    Economics Letters, 1988, 26, (3), 215-218 View citations (6)
37. Strategic Considerations in Invention and Innovation; The Case of Natural Resources Revisited
    Econometrica, 1988, 56, (4), 841-49 View citations (4)

1987

38. Resource extraction and capital investments under uncertainty
    Resources and Energy, 1987, 9, (3), 209-222 View citations (2)

1985

39. Scheduling and Taxation of Resource Deposits
    The Energy Journal, 1985, Volume 6, (Special Issue)

Chapters

2008

1. Relative Performance Evaluation, Agent Hold-up and Firm Organization
   A chapter in Organizational Innovation and Firm Performance, 2008, pp 229-241
   See also Journal Article Relative performance evaluation, agent hold-up and firm organization, Elsevier (2008) View citations (1) (2008)
   Working Paper Relative Performance Evaluation, Agent Hold-Up and Firm Organization, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science (2007) (2007)

Editor

1. Discussion Papers
   Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science