I am a tenure-track Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Bergen.
My current research lies at the intersection of household and behavioral finance, with a particular focus on investor behavior, capital gains taxation and realization decisions, shareholder preferences, and climate finance.
Contact details:
Email: oleandreas.naess@gmail.com
Mobile phone +4741348731
Publications and Working Papers: Household Finance and Investor Behavior
Owner Support for Green Shareholder Voting and Divestment, Forthcoming, Management Science.
Beating Expectations: Turning Polarized Beliefs into Support for Sustainable Initiatives, Accepted, Management Science.
Misperceived Returns to Active Investing (with Ingar Haaland), Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Finance.
Never-Realized Capital Gains (with Lucy Msall)
Shareholder Democracy Works: Preference Structure and Efficient Aggregation, Reject and Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies.
Shareholder Power under Political Retaliation. Proposal accepted for invited full-paper submission to a Management Science Special Issue.
Taxing Shareholder Loans and the Liquidity of Business Owners: Evidence from a Credit Channel 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, 23(2):212-230.
Inefficient Voting with Identical Voters. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2022, 34(2):175-190.
Targeted Redistribution and Voting (with Ingar Haaland)
A list of op-eds and other newspaper writing (in Norwegian) is found here