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Karl Ove Moene

Karl Ove Moene

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
37
Citations
11192
World Ranking
2607
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Karl Ove Moene is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences, with detailed subfield interests in Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their scholarly output includes 14 publications categorized under Economics, Econometrics and Finance and 12 publications related to Social Sciences. Subfields breakdown shows 10 publications in Economics and Econometrics, followed by Sociology and Political Science with 4, Gender Studies with 3, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance with 3, and Political Science and International Relations with 2.

Main topics addressed in their work encompass Merger and Competition Analysis, Taxation and Compliance Studies, Social Policy and Reform Studies, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Global Trade and Economics, and Firm Innovation and Growth. Each of these topics corresponds to 4 to 6 publications, indicating a broad research interest.

Frequent collaborators in research include Anders Kjelsrud, Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Manudeep Bhuller, and Magne Mogstad, with the closest co-author being Anders Kjelsrud, who contributed to five publications alongside Moene.

The venues where Moene's work is commonly published feature a notable range with the most frequent being the SSRN Electronic Journal (8 publications), followed by Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2 publications). Other publication outlets include The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Review of Social Economy, and Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) each with one publication.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Moene include:

  • "Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining," 2022, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • "Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Egalitarian Redistribution in the Era of Hyper-globalization," 2020, Review of Social Economy
  • "The Political Competition Over Life and Death: Evidence from Infant Mortality in India," 2024, Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
  • "Wheels of Power: Can Free Bicycles for Schoolgirls Free Their Mothers?," 2022, Economic Development and Cultural Change

Karl Ove Moene was awarded membership in the Academia Europaea in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Institutions and the Resource Curse

    Halvor Mehlum;Kalle Moene;Ragnar Torvik

  • How corruption may corrupt

    Jens Chr. Andvig;Karl Ove Moene

  • Governance and Development

    Jean-Marie Baland;Karl Ove Moene;James A. Robinson

  • Cursed by Resources or Institutions

    Halvor Mehlum;Halvor Mehlum;Karl Ove Moene;Karl Ove Moene;Ragnar Torvik

  • Earnings Inequality and Welfare Spending: A Disaggregated Analysis

    Karl Ove Moene;Michael Wallerstein

  • The Scandinavian model—An interpretation

    Erling Barth;Karl Ove Moene;Fredrik Willumsen

  • The tyranny of international index rankings

    Bjørn Høyland;Karl Moene;Fredrik Willumsen

  • Predator or prey? Parasitic enterprises in economic development

    Halvor Mehlum;Karl Moene;Ragnar Torvik

  • NEEDS VERSUS ENTITLEMENTS—AN INTERNATIONAL FAIRNESS EXPERIMENT

    Alexander W. Cappelen;Karl O. Moene;Erik Ø. Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden

  • Controlling Fiscal Corruption

    Sheetal K Chand;Karl O Moene

  • Enforcement in informal saving groups

    Siwan Anderson;Jean-Marie Baland;Karl Ove Moene

  • Bargaining Structure and Economic Performance

    K. O. Moene;M. Wallerstein;M. Hoel

  • Pay Inequality

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  • The Preference for Belief Consonance

    Russell Golman;George Loewenstein;Karl Ove Moene;Luca Zarri

  • Plunder & Protection Inc.

    Halvor Mehlum;Karl Ove Moene;Ragnar Torvik

  • Crime induced poverty traps

    Halvor Mehlum;Karl Moene;Ragnar Torvik

  • Union's Threats and Wage Determination

    Karl O. Moene

  • How Social Democracy Worked: Labor-Market Institutions:

    Karl Ove Moene;Michael Wallerstein

  • Political Reinforcement: How Rising Inequality Curbs Manifested Welfare Generosity

    Erling Barth;Henning Finseraas;Karl Ove Moene

  • Types of bureaucratic interaction

    Karl Ove Moene

  • Alternatives to Capitalism

    Jon Elster;Karl Ove Moene

Frequent Co-Authors

Ragnar Torvik
Ragnar Torvik Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Bertil Tungodden
Bertil Tungodden Norwegian School of Economics
Michael Hoel
Michael Hoel University of Oslo
Jean-Marie Baland
Jean-Marie Baland University of Namur
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Jon Elster
Jon Elster Columbia University
Dilip Mookherjee
Dilip Mookherjee Boston University
Peter Birch Sørensen
Peter Birch Sørensen University of Copenhagen
Vijayendra Rao
Vijayendra Rao World Bank
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Francisco H. G. Ferreira London School of Economics and Political Science

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