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Candidate Personality Traits Associated with Ratings in a Military Officer Selection Setting
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While studies of the relationship between applicant personality and selection assessment ratings are widespread within personnel psychology, studies on military samples are scarcer. The current study aimed to investigate ... -
The Capability to Commercialize Network Products in Telecommunication
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2007)When we consider buying food, clothes or furniture we normally appraise the goods based upon our personal needs independent of the number of other people who have bought or use the same type of item. Some types of goods, ... -
Cape vs the fed model: comparative analysis of the out-of-sample performance in predicting future stock returns
(Master thesis, 2017)The goal of this thesis is to compare the out-of-sample performance in predicting future stock returns of the Fed model and Shiller's cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio (CAPE). The two models are also augmented with ... -
Capital market liberalization and auditors’accounting adjustments: Evidence from aquasi-experiment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Using a shock to the Chinese capital market and unique and detailed audit-adjustment data, this paper investigates the effect of a capital market liberalization program on auditors’ adjustments to their clients’ financial ... -
Capital structure and agency costs for Norwegian private firms
(Master thesis, 2014-02-12)This paper is motivated by the developments of capital structure theory, and the fact that private firms have been modestly researched in this field. The paper examines whether agency costs influence the capital structure ... -
Capital structure and ipo market timing in the U.S. high-tech industry
(Master thesis, 2017)The scope of this master thesis is to understand what drives the decision by American firms to raise capital through initial public offerings. In particular we assess whether American technology firms try to time the IPO ... -
Capital Structure of Foreign Direct Investments: A Transaction Cost Analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Transaction cost theory (TCT) plays a major role in theorizing about the boundaries of the multinational enterprise (MNE), and is increasingly being applied to intra-MNE governance. We apply TCT to capital structure decisions ... -
The Car Cushion Hypothesis: Bigger Cars Lead to More Risk Taking—Evidence from Behavioural Data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Car traffic and accidents involving cars create an enormous societal cost, particularly in terms of negative consequences for public health. Mitigating these effects is a daily concern for public and private institutions ... -
Carbon capture – from waste to energy: a stylized case from a pioneering initiative at Klemetsrud, Oslo. Report to the CLIMIT – demo project 618215: Potential for financing and pricing Carbon Capture in Waste-to Energy Installations in cities
(Research report, 2019)Oslo has recently been given the European Environmental Capital award for 2019, following its adoption of an ambitious green strategy of reducing CO2 emissions by 50% by 2022, and by 95% by 2030. A core premise for Oslo ... -
Carbon capture – from waste to energy: a stylized case from a pioneering initiative at Klemetsrud, Oslo. Report to the CLIMIT – demo project 618215: Potential for financing and pricing Carbon Capture in Waste-to Energy Installations in cities
(Research report, 2019)Oslo has recently been given the European Environmental Capital award for 2019, following its adoption of an ambitious green strategy of reducing CO2 emissions by 50% by 2022, and by 95% by 2030. A core premise for Oslo ... -
Carbon Emission and Corporate Financial Performance: an empirical study of the US Energy and Technology Sectors Navn:
(Master thesis, 2020)Corporate transparency and socially responsible actions, for the past decade, have become fundamental values as well as strong variables in nowadays business operations. Today, firms have to disclose more about their ESG ... -
Carbon forestry and trading : a case study of Green Resources in Uganda
(Master thesis, 2014-02-10)This study was conducted in Norway and Uganda. The objective was to investigate the carbon forestry markets using Green Resources AS as an example. Green Resources is an interesting case because it is one of the largest ... -
Carbon Risk and Expected Return
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis examines whether climate risk and carbon emissions can be identified as separate risk factors in European listed equities. We build and extend on the methods of Bolton and Kacperczyk, by applying those methods ... -
Career challenges in smart cities: A sociotechnical systems view on sustainable careers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Smart cities are a modern reality in an increasingly digitized and fast changing world; and, as multidimensional, multilayered and interconnected career ecosystems they bring a number of challenges for the development of ... -
Career challenges in smart cities: A sociotechnical systems view on sustainable careers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Smart cities are a modern reality in an increasingly digitized and fast changing world; and, as multidimensional, multilayered and interconnected career ecosystems they bring a number of challenges for the development of ... -
Career success across the globe: Insights from the 5C project
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Career transitions and career success from a lifespan developmental perspective: A 15 year longitudinal study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We draw on the conservation of resources theory to examine how upward and horizontal career transitions contribute to both objective and subjective career success among a longitudinal sample, covering the first 10 to 15 ... -
Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career‐related human potential and proactive career behaviour
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Careers exist in a societal context that offers both constraints and opportunities for career actors. Whereas most studies focus on proximal individual and/or organisational‐level variables, we provide insights into how ... -
Carry trades, order flow, and the forward bias puzzle
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)We investigate the relation between foreign exchange (FX) order ow and the forward bias. We outline a decomposition of the forward bias according to which a negative correlation between interest rate di erentials and ...