Thursday 8th of January 13.30‐15.00 Energy Markets I AUD. 12 Chair: Endre Bjørndal Time Presenter Title Roar Amundsveen 13.30‐14.00 Norges vassdrags‐ og energidirektorat Regulation of Norwegian Distribution System Operators: Past – Present – Future Endre Bjørndal 14.00‐14.30 NHH StoNED versus Two‐stage DEA for Regulation of Electricity Networks Gudbrand Lien 14.30‐15.00 Høgskolen i Lillehammer Yardstick regulation of electricity distribution – Disentangling short‐run and long‐run inefficiency Discussant: Johannes Mauritzen Finance I AUD. 13 Chair: Trond Døskeland Time Presenter Title Synne Almaas 13.30‐13.50 NTNU Home Equity‐Based Refinancing and Household Financial Difficulties: The case of Norway Joachim Thøgersen 13.50‐14.10 Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus Population ageing and capital accumulation: A simple OLG model with PAYGO pensions Sjur Westgaard 14.10‐14.40 NTNU Commodity Value‐at‐Risk Modeling: Comparing RiskMetrics, Historic simulation and Quantile regression Discussant: Jonas Andersson Øivind André Aase 14.40‐15.00 Høgskolen Stord/Haugesund Privat forbruk i næring. 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Management control AUD. 14 Chair: Norvald Monsen John‐Erik Andreassen 13.30‐14.00 Høgskolen i Østfold A process approach to Balanced Scorecard in a co‐operation project between regional universities Discussant: Elena Dybtsyna Elena Panteleeva 14.00‐14.30 Høgskolen i Ålesund Complexity of budgetary control practices in Russia: a case of a subsidiary in a multinational company Discussant: Norvald Monsen Andrei Mineev 14.30‐15.00 Universitetet i Nordland Social capital at work: A case of adopting a Norwegian cooperation model in Russia Discussant: Elena Panteleeva Leadership AUD. 21 Chair: Berit Sund Gro Ladegård 13.30‐14.00 Høyskolen Campus Kristiania Managers in role transitions: Leader role and identity in interaction Discussant: Torstein Nesheim Torstein Nesheim 14.00‐14.30 SNF Ledelse i ulike kontekster: Utfordringer i "møtet" mellom matriseorganisering og distribuerte organisasjoner Dicussant: Therese Sverdrup Berit Sund 14.30‐15.00 NHH Mot et bedre bilde av ledelse på norsk Strategy AUD. 22 Char: Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen Nhien Nguyen 13.30‐14.00 NTNU How do failure sizes affect learning from failure? Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen 14.00‐14.30 NHH Hire, fire or train? Innovation and Human Capital Responses to Recessions Martin Gjelsvik IRIS (International Research Institute of 14.30‐15.00 Stavanger) Capabilities for innovation in a globalizing world: to be or not to be in clusters Discussant: Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen Management I AUD. 23 Chair: Carsten Martin Syvertsen Bandula Galhena 13.30‐14.00 Universitetet i Agder Organizational e‐HRM Adoption Behavior: Empirical Study in Sri Lanka Discussant: Torbjørn Årethun Jon Gunnar Nesse 14.00‐14.30 Høgskulen i Sogn og Fjordane Rekruttering av arbeidskraft til perifere strøk Carsten Martin Syvertsen Top management consulting in Scandinavia‐emphasis 14.30‐15.00 Forsvarets høgskole/Forsvarets stabsskole Discussant: Helge Hernes Marketing I AUD. 24 Chair: Ingeborg Astrid Kleppe Birgit Andrine Apenes Solem 13.30‐13.55 Høgskolen i Buskerud og Vestfold/NHH Why do people engage with brands on Facebook? Modes of use differences in friend and brand relationships Discussant: Magne Supphellen Daniela Lundesgaard 13.55‐14.20 Høgskolen i Hedmark Exploring (accumulated) customer experiences with value creation – a holistic approach Discussant: Ingeborg Kleppe Burak Tunca 14.20‐14.40 Universitetet i Agder Are consumer's self‐evaluations related to the "I like it, because I made it myself" effects? Helene Maristuen 14.40‐15.00 Høgskulen i Sogn og Fjordane An overall perspective of sustainable tourism in Fjord Norway Thursday 8th of January 15.30‐17.00 Finance II AUD. 13 Chair: Michail Chronopoulos Time Presenter Title Verena Hagspiel 15.30‐16.00 NTNU Sensitivity of Demand Function Choice in a Strategic Real Options Discussant: Michail Chronopoulos Yushu Li 16.00‐16.30 NHH A Likelihood Ratio and Markov Chain Based Method to Evaluate Density Forecasting Discussant: Sjur Westgaard Per Bjarte Solibakke 16.30‐17.00 Høgskolen i Molde Volatility Re‐Projection for European Carbon Markets: Implied Volatilities, Risk Premiums and Percentage Errors Discussant: Yushu Li Energy Markets II AUD. 12 Chair: Mette Bjørndal Time Presenter Title Ørjan Mydland 15.30‐16.00 Høgskolen i Lillehammer Economies of scale in Norwegian electricity distribution: A quantile input distance function approach Discussant: Endre Bjørndal Antti Saastamoinen 16.00‐16.30 Aalto University School of Business Merger gains in the Norwegian electricity distribution industry Igor Pipkin 16.30‐17.00 Høgskolen i Østfold Market power issues in the Russian North‐West free flow zone Discussant: Mette Bjørndal Energy Markets III AUD. 14 Chair: Johannes Mauritzen Time Presenter Title Johannes Mauritzen 15.30‐16.00 NHH Sun and Lemons: Getting over Information Asymmetries in the California Solar Market Parmita Saha 16.00‐16.30 Høgskulen i Sogn og Fjordane New Hydropower development in Norway: Municipalities’ attitude, involvement and perceived barriers. Stein W. Wallace 16.30‐17.00 NHH The impact of wind uncertainty on the strategic valuation of distributed electricity storage Management control in public sector AUD. 21 Chair: Kari Nyland Kari Nyland 15.30‐16.00 Handelshøyskolen i Trondheim Multi‐party service production and the challenges of transactional contracting in public sector. Karl Sæbjørn Kjøllesdal 16.00‐16.30 Oslo universitetssykehus HF Design and use of cost accounting models in Nordic university hospitals Discussants: Kari Nyland Per Ståle Knardal 16.30‐17.00 Handelshøyskolen i Trondheim Beethoven’s long arms. An analysis of principal agent relationships in the Norwegian arts sector Discussant: Karl Sæbjørn Kjøllesdal Business Economics I AUD. 22 Chair: Arnt Ove Hopland Øivind Anti Nilsen 15.30‐15.50 NHH Producer’s Price Adjustments: Structural Micro Evidence of the Menu Cost Function Jonas Andersson 15.50‐16.10 NHH Panel data model with mixed frequency ‐‐ an application to producers' pricing behaviour Iver Bragelien 16.10‐16.30 NHH Relationship‐Specificity, Bargaining Power, Growth, and Firm Performance Arnt Ove Hopland 16.30‐16.50 NHH Balanced budget regulations and local government efficiency Pedagogics I AUD. Agnar Sandmo Chair: Helge Sandvig Thorsen Kristin Dale 15.30‐16.00 Universitetet i Agder Revealed Study Behavior Carsten Martin Syvertsen Finanskrisen sett med et historisk filosofisk blikk ‐ et 16.00‐16.30 Forsvarets høgskole/Forsvarets stabsskole kunnskapsperspektiv Helge Sandvig Thorsen 16.30‐17.00 Oljedirektoratet/NHH School consolidation and student achievement Management II AUD. 23 Chair: Torstein Nesheim Victoria Konovalenko 15.30‐16.00 Høgskolen i Hedmark Knowledge coordination function of a corporate university in the light of strategic transformation of its parent corporation Torstein Nesheim 16.00‐16.30 SNF Enhancing knowledge articulation in communities of practices: The role of the community leader Discussant: Gro Ladegård Eva J.B. Jørgensen 16.30‐17.00 UiT Norges arktiske universitet Embeddedness in internationalizing SMEs Discussant: Kjell Grønhaug Marketing II AUD. 24 Chair: Tor Aase Johannessen Ove Oklevik 15.30‐15.50 Høgskulen i Sogn og Fjordane An Exploration of Nature‐based Tourists’ Motivation Xianwen Chen Norges miljø‐ og biovitenskapelige 15.50‐16.20 universitet Labeling Farmed Fish Discussant: Svein Ulset Chunyan Xie 16.20‐16.40 Høgskolen Stord/Haugesund The role of moral emotions and consumer values and traits in the decision to support non‐profits Tor Aase Johannessen 16.40‐17.00 NHH Die hard or be a Target: An analysis of post‐Gazelles' likelihood of being liquidated or acquired