Helene Lie Røhr
Current position(s):
Vice Dean Research and Associate Professor at Kristiania University College
Research interests:
Applied microeconomics, in particular within the areas of
behavioral economics and consumer choice
big data and the economics of digitization
political economy
Contact information:
helene.roehr@gmail.com
Publications
"Nudging in Higher Eduation: Text Message Interventions and Study Habits in Mathematics" with Øyvind Aas and Lester Lasrado, NIKT 2023, University of Stavanger
"Distressing Testing: A Propensity Score Analysis of High Stakes Exams and Mental Health" with Kathryn Christine Beck, Bjørn-Atle Reme, and Martin Flatø. in Child Development, Published online: 11 August 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13985
"Inattention in Contract Markets: Evidence from a Consolidation of Options in Telecom" with Bjørn-Atle Reme and Morten Sæthre, in Management Science, Published Online: 20 May 2021, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.3975
"Privacy on smartphones - a cross national study", in Handbook of Mobile Communication, Culture, and Information (2020), Edited by Rich Ling, Leopoldina Fortunati, Gerard Goggin, Sun Sun Lim, and Yuling Liy, with B. Evjemo, G. Grønnevet, R. Ling, W. Nag and O. C. Wasenden
"Climbing the Ranks: Incumbency Effects in Party-list Systems", in European Economic Review (2018), 101, 142-156, [Online appendix], with Jon Fiva
"Essays on decision making dynamics in politics and consumer choice". PhD dissertation. BI Norwegian Business School. Series of Dissertation; 8/2018
Regulation of mobile termination rates - possible effects of a bill and keep regime with Bjørn Hansen, Bjørn and Ole Christian Wasenden, Telenor Scientific R&D Report (04/2009)
"A note on Economic depreciation", R&D Research Note 11/2006, with Bjørn Hansen
Working papers
"Leaving money on the table: Consumer Inattention in Mobile Subscription" with Bjørn-Atle Reme
Abstract: We study consumer inattention to changing market prices using detailed customer-level data from a mobile operator. The data cover an unanticipated introduction of new price plans, causing a sudden change in the choice set available to the customers. We demonstrate that this induces switching, but that the extent of switching is independent of the degree to which the new choice set would lower costs. The behavior is consistent with customers being inattentive, and that the launch triggered their attention, leading to reoptimization. We also document two empirical patterns relevant for policies aimed at increasing customer awareness and switching. First, that the most responsive customers are those who are better optimized prior to the change of price plans. Second, while switching on average decreases the customer monthly costs, this was not the case among customers who were triggered to switch by the change in market prices.
Dissemination
Nederlag i skolen går hardest ut over guttene, with Kate Beck, Bjørn-Atle Reme, Martin Flatø and Camilla Stoltenberg, Dagens Næringsliv, 06.10.2023
Høstens førsteårsstudenter trenger særskilte tiltak, with Per Lauås, Khorno, 03.04.2022
Hvilke økonomieksperter skal du lytte til? with Camilla Bakken Øvald, Dagens Perspektiv, 27.04.2021
Sovende mobilkunder våkner når de varsles om prisendringer, Dagens Perspektiv, 17.02.2021