Research
Entrepreneurship and Finance
New Technology and Business Dynamics (2023). With Tom Meling.
Broadband Internet and the Stock Market Investments of Individual Investors (2022). Forthcoming, Journal of Finance. With Tom Meling, Magne Mogstad, and Ola Vestad.
Do Temporary Demand Shocks have Long-Term Effects for Startups? (2023). Review of Financial Studies, 36, 317-50. With Tom Meling.
Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship (2023). With Paul Oyer. Revise and resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics.
Flying Below the Radar: Insider Trading by Executives Below the Top (2022). With Kasper Meisner Nielsen.
Easy Money, Cheap Talk, or Spuds (2021). With Jae Ho Lee and Terrance Odean.
Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance (2022). Review of Finance, 26, 163-85. With Sascha Becker.
Innovation by University Employees (2018). American Economic Review, 108, 1860-88. With Ben Jones.
Social Interaction at Work (2015). Journal of Financial Economics, 117, 628-652. With Per Østberg.
Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship (2014). Journal of Financial Economics, 111, 200-223. With George Panos.
Management of Knowledge Workers (2012). Journal of Law and Economics, 55, 815-38. With Eirik G. Kristiansen.
Do Individual Investors have Asymmetric Information Based on Work Experience? (2011). Journal of Finance, 66, 1011-41. With Trond Døskeland.
Lean and Hungry or Fat and Content? Entrepreneur Wealth and Startup Performance (2010). Management Science, 56, 1242-58. With Jarle Møen.
Optimal Debt Contracts under Costly Enforcement (2010). Economic Theory, 44, 149-162. With Tore Leite.
The Quality of Entrepreneurs (2009). Economic Journal, 119, 1010-35.
Other Topics
COVID-19 and Mental Health: a Longitudinal Population Study from Norway (2022). European Journal of Epidemiology, 37, 167-72. With Julian Johnsen.
Parental Age and Birth Defects: a Sibling Study (2021). European Journal of Epidemiology, 36, 849-60. With Julian Johnsen and Kjell Salvanes.
Too Big to Succeed? Overstaffing in Firms (2021). Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 30, 784-98. With Yanren Zhang.
Samfunnsøkonomer i Arbeidsmarkedet (2020). Norwegian Journal of Economics, 5, 24-35. With Sunniva Hillesund (In Norwegian).
Cultural Diversity, Status Concerns, and the Organization of Work (2005). Research in Labor Economics. With Chaim Fershtman and Yoram Weiss.
Education and the Allocation of Talent (2003). Journal of Labor Economics, 21, 945-97.
Risk Taking in Selection Contests (2003). Games and Economic Behavior, 42, 172-181. With Eirik G. Kristiansen.
A Behavioral Explanation for the Relative Performance Evaluation Puzzle (2003). Annales d’Economie et Statistique, 71-72, 349-361. With Chaim Fershtman and Yoram Weiss.
Tournament Rewards and Risk Taking (2002). Journal of Labor Economics, 20, 877-98.
Pragmatic Beliefs and Overconfidence (2002). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 48, 15-29.
Bounds to Memory Loss (1999). Theory and Decision, 46, 1-21.
Startup Financing: Outside Equity (2008). With Aksel Mjøs.
Delegated Job Design (2007). With Todd Kaplan.
Projects
Cryptofinance: valuation and returns. With Jens Brunstad and others.
M&As. With Hedda Rytter Tveten and Kasper Meisner Nielsen.
Parental age and children later outcomes. With Julian Johnsen.
Text as data. With Anant Divakaruni and Steve Tadelis.