Research

Papers in Political Economy

Why Do Committees Work?
Reject and Resubmit at Experimental Economics, with Yves Breitmoser

Strategic Communication in Committees with Mixed Motives (2024)   
RAND Journal of Economics, with Yves Breitmoser

When voters like to be right: An analysis of the Condorcet Jury Theorem with mixed motives (2021)
Journal of Economic Theory with Rune Midjord and Tomás Rodríguez Barraquer

Optimal Decision Rules in Multilateral Aid Funds (2021)
Review of International Organizations with Axel Dreher and Jenny Simon

Social Polarization and Political Selection in Representative Democracies (2019)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization with Dominik Duell

Voting in Large Committees with Disesteem Payoffs: A ‘state of the art’ model (2017)
Games and Economic Behavior with Rune Midjord and Tomás Rodríguez Barraquer
[Supplementary Appendix]

Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions (2017)
Economica with Jenny Simon

Get Out The Vote: How Policies That Encourage Voting Change Political Outcomes (2012)

Economics and Politics

Papers in Institutional and Behavioral Economics

Underrepresentation, Quotas and Stigma
Under Review with Malin Arve

Fair (P)redistribution
Reject and Resubmit at the Journal of Public Economics. Joint with Krishna Srinivasan and Weijia Wang

Defaults or Fairness Norms? Explaining Differences in Redistributive Preferences (2025)
Under Review. Joint with Pauline Vorjohann and Weijia Wang

The Impact of Forced Migration on In-Group and Out-Group Social Capital
Working Paper with Anselm Hager

Dynamic Reform of Public Institutions: A Model of Motivated Agents and Collective Reputation (2018)
Journal of Public Economics

A Note on Empathy in Games (2015)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization with Jan Grohn and Steffen Huck

Notes and commentary:

Ansatte på innstegsvilkår har ikke råd til å bli syke. Khrono, 2023 [English translation]

Innsteg i riktig retning. Khrono, 2025 [English translation]

Institutionalizing Eurozone Exit: A modified NEWNEY approach (2012)
     (Joint with Steffen Huck)
We argue that the Eurozone needs an institutional exit mechanism to enhance Eurozone stability, and propose modifications to the Dobbs’ NEWNEY mechanism.

The Connection Between Turnout and Policy (2010)

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