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Highlighted Publications

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Torvik, Ragnar.
Why do voters dismantle checks and balances? Review of Economic Studies, 2013; Volume 80(3) p. 845-875
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdt007

Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzynski, Michal; Elsner, Benjamin; Machado, Joël.
Taking the skill bias out of global migration. Journal of Development Economics, 2019.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.12.006

Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Siddique, Zahra.
The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization. Journal of Labor Economics, 2017; Volume 35(4) p. 1089-1116
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/692531

Bjørnland, Hilde C; Thorsrud, Leif Anders; Torvik, Ragnar.
Dutch disease dynamics reconsidered. European Economic Review, 2019; Volume 119 p. 411-433
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.07.016

Borge, Lars-Erik; Parmer, Pernille; Torvik, Ragnar.
Local natural resource curse? Journal of Public Economics 2015; Volume 131 p. 101-114
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.09.002

Bracco, Emanuele; De Paola, Maria; Green, Colin; Scoppa, Vincenzo.
The effect of far right parties on the location choice of immigrants: Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors. Journal of Public Economics, 2018; Volume 166 p. 12-26
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.07.012

Bårdsen, Gunnar; Fanelli, Luca.
Frequentist Evaluation of Small DSGE Models. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2015; Volume 33(3) p. 307-322
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2014.948724

Falch, Torberg.
Teacher Mobility Responses to Wage Changes: Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment. The American Economic Review 2011; Volum 101(3) p. 460-465

Green, Colin; Homroy, Swarnodeep.
Female directors, board committees and firm performance. European Economic Review, 2017; Volume 102 p. 19-38
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.12.003

Matsen, Egil; Natvik, Gisle James; Torvik, Ragnar.
Petro populism. Journal of Development Economics, 2016; Volume 118 p. 1-12
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.08.010

Mehlum, Halvor; Torvik, Ragnar; Valente, Simone.
The Savings Multiplier. Journal of Monetary Economics, 2016; Volume 83 p. 90-105
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2016.08.009

Nævdal, Eric; Skonhoft, Anders.
New insights from the canonical fisheries model - Optimal management when stocks are low. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018; Volume 92 p. 125-133
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2018.09.003

Robinson, James A.; Torvik, Ragnar
The Real Swing Voter's Curse. American Economic Review, 2009; Volume 99(2)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.99.2.310

Robinson, James A.; Torvik, Ragnar.
Endogenous presidentialism. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2016; Volume 14(4) p. 907-942
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeea.12162
                      
Robinson, James A.; Torvik, Ragnar; Verdier, Thierry.
The political economy of public income volatility: With an application to the resource curse. Journal of Public Economics, 2017; Volume 145 p. 243-252
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.11.014