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A new Keynesian framework and wage and price dynamics in the USA
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper investigates theoretical implications from a new Keynesian model focusing on the labor market, by imposing them as testable restrictions in an estimated vector error correction model on US data from 1982Q3 to ... -
Repositioning Lorelei’s ‘Education’: Mind, Body, and Sex(uality) in Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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Exploring the use of agent-based modelling (ABM) in mixed methods research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Agent-based modeling (ABM) is in many ways an outsider in social research methods, but I will here argue that it has an important role to play in combination with other methods and approaches. ABM can be used in ways that ... -
Do Mutual Funds Remain Persitent? Evidence from Pakistan
(Journal article, 2017)This study investigates the performance persistence of 78 mutual funds of Pakistan for the period 2009-2015. The sample period is divided into two sub-periods, based on movement of KSE 100 index closing value. A skilled ... -
Violence et sacré dans La Jongleuse de Rachilde
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article proposes to decipher the motifs of violence, death and blood in Rachilde’s novel La Jongleuse (The Juggler) (1900) aiming to discern how they may be related to love, the sacred and art. In our reading, the two ... -
Enfranchised Minors: Women as People in the Middle East after the 2011 Arab Uprisings
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-03)The civic status of female citizens in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is conceptualized as “enfranchised minorhood” which reflects the confined position of adult women as legal minors under the trusteeship ... -
Concepts of Work in Marx, Durkheim, and Weber
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-06)The extremely dramatic social transformation – called ‘the great transformation’ by Polanyi (1985) – that the full emergence of capitalism and industrialism meant in Europe led to the birth of modern social theory. The ... -
Reel Life Methodology: Developing intercultural competence through film fragments and dialogue in South Africa.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-07)South Africa is a multicultural country; however, the politics of the past have resulted in teachers from diverse cultures being ignorant of the mores of others with whom they interact. Teachers thus risk transferring ... -
Mortgage Supply, LTV and Risk Pricing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-26)This paper focuses on mortgage supply and its contribution to the loan-to-value (LTV)-ratio. The paper starts by finding the optimal LTV-ratio for a profit-maximising mortgagee that supply mortgages using housing as ... -
Understanding the Psychological Reading Process: Preparing Pre-Service ESL Teachers to Become Reading Teachers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article addresses the metacognitive skills of pre-service ESL teachers in terms of their future role as reading teachers for intermediate and advanced pupils. Reading is a basic skill in all subjects in the Norwegian ... -
Å lese film
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Mange lærere ønsker å bruke film i engelskundervisningen, men ser kanskje ikke umiddelbart hvordan dette kan forankres i læreplanmål eller hvilke arbeidsmåter man kan velge. Denne artikkelen ser på hvordan Kunnskapsløftet ... -
Metacognition and Reader Response: the use of reading logs in the envisionment-building classroom
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)My article discusses the advantages of reading logs in teacher training programmes, and more specifically in connection with teaching literature and the Reader Response theory. This is an effective pedagogical method for ... -
Entrepreneurship and ageing: Exploring an economic geography perspective : CRED Research Paper No. 22
(Research report, 2018)The traditional understanding of entrepreneurship is biased towards certain population groups and specific locations. Yet the literature points to a much more diverse perspective on entrepreneurship and regional development. ... -
Commercial Real Estate at the ZLB: Investment Demand and CAPM-WACC Invariance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper analyzes the implications of a low interest rate environment (the zero lower bound – ZLB) for the demand for commercial real estate. Investment demand is conventionally assessed by return and risk adjusted return, ... -
Chaos theory and butterfly effects in times of corruption and a bank crash in 1886: the case of Arendal (Norway) illustrated through a regional-globalized model
(Chapter, 2018-03-28)The chapter focuses at corruption practices in the bank crash in the town of Arendal in Southern Norway in 1886 using insights from chaos theory and butterfly effects as theoretical frameworks. Using secondary sources from ... -
Exploring Communication Strategy Use and Metacognitive Awareness in the EFL Classroom
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-14)This study explores the impact of communication strategy (CS) teaching on students' qualitative and quantitative use of such strategies in the context of learning English as a foreign language in Norway. In addition, it ... -
Science as a Vocation in the Era of Big Data: the Philosophy of Science behind Big Data and humanity’s Continued Part in Science
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-05)We now live in the era of big data, and according to its proponents, big data is poised to change science as we know it. Claims of having no theory and no ideology are made, and there is an assumption that the results of ... -
The Ghost in the Machine: Being Human in the Age of AI and Machine Learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-19)Human beings have used technology to improve their efficiency throughout history. We continue to do so today, but we are no longer only using technology to perform physical tasks. Today, we make computers that are smart ... -
Tidligere språkstart: et springbrett for en helhetstenking rundt språk og læring
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-25)Camilla Bjørke & Berit Grønn analyserer i deres artikel "Tidligere språkstart – et springbrett for en helhetstenking rundt språk og læring" kvalitative data fra en interviewundersøgelse, som de har foretaget i skoleåret ... -
The case of the football club Rosenborg in the Norwegian region Trøndelag: Insights from a regional – global organizational model emphasizing how improvisation can lead to outstanding results using insights from “total football” and “flow theory”
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11)The Norwegian football club Rosenborg is used as the empirical setting in the article. Improvisation and good routines are the foundations for success in the soccer field is a finding in this piece of research. We link ...