I am a tenure-track associate professor in the Department of Finance at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).
My current research lies at the intersection of household and behavioral finance, with a particular focus on investor behavior, capital gains taxation, shareholder preferences, and climate finance.
Contact details:
Email: oleandreas.naess@gmail.com
Mobile phone +4741348731
Publications and Working Papers: Household Finance and Investor Behavior
Shareholder Preference Structure and Voting Rules, Reject and Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies.
Misperceived Returns to Active Investing (with Ingar Haaland), Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Finance.
Owner Support for Green Shareholder Voting and Divestment, Management Science, 2025, 72(5):3629-3649.
Beating Expectations: Turning Polarized Beliefs into Support for Sustainable Initiatives, Management Science, 2026.
Never-Realized Capital Gains (with Lucy Msall).
Shareholder Power under Political Retaliation, Revise and Resubmit, Management Science.
Borrowing as tax-avoidance: Evidence from a Norwegian Reform (with Lucy Msall).
Other Publications and Working Papers
Polarization and Cultural Divergence, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2025 .
Investigative Journalism: Market Failures and Government Intervention Through Public Broadcasters , Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025.
Increasing Turnout with a Text Message: Evidence from a Large Campaign from the Government, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 2024, 34(2):212-230.
Inefficient Voting with Identical Voters, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2022, 34(2):175-190.
Publications in Norwegian
Hva vi snakker om når vi snakker om skatt Praktisk økonomi & ledelse, 2026 .
Eierbeskatning: to forslag for å redusere politisk risiko (with Kristoffer Berg, Espen Henriksen and Ola Vestad), Accepted, Samfunnsøkonomen .
A list of op-eds and other newspaper writing (in Norwegian) is found here