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M&A on Scandinavian market : evidence of factors for shareholder value creation from acquirer's perspective
(Master thesis, 2017)The purpose of this study is comprehensive analysis of drivers of M&A performance by bidders executing acquisitions in Nordic region. Considering mixed results on acquiring companies’ value creation for shareholders in ... -
Maarud Prosjektgull
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Fører 80 års erfaring med prosjektarbeid automatisk til en høy grad av prosjektmodenhet? Vi har gjennom vår prosjektoppgave forsket på prosjektmodenheten i Maarud. Dette har vi gjort ved hjelp av vår hovedmodell «Project ... -
Machine Learning for prediction of grade
(Master thesis, 2023)BI Norwegian Business School (BI), one of Europe’s largest business schools, currently has an estimated budget of 125million NOK on expenses related to exams and grading in 2023. BI has set down a task force with a mission ... -
Machine Learning: Superior to Traditional Statistical Models in Forecasting Macroeconomic Time-Series?
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis investigates machine learning's potential to forecast the Norwegian GDP, unemployment rate, and in ation on monthly or quarterly, and annual terms. We compare machine learning techniques such as penalised ... -
The Macroeconomic Consequences of the Green Transition
(Series of Dissertations;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Chapter 1: Climate Risk and Commodity Currencies – by Felix Kapfhammer, Vegard H. Larsen and Leif Anders Thorsrud Abstract: Climate change increases the likelihood of extreme climate- and weather-related events, but also ... -
Macroeconomic Drivers for M&A Activity: Evidence from Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)This paper investigates whether certain quantitative macroeconomic factors are drivers for takeover activity in Norway, and if so, what effects these variables have on the number of takeovers. Three macroeconomic variables ... -
Macroeconomic effects on Private Equity funds’ exit determinations
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis studies the external and internal exit determinants of European, Canadian and American private equity funds, using a data set of 32.881 investments completed between 1990 and 2021. The most common exits are ... -
Macroeconomic Forecasting with Large Stochastic Volatility in Mean VARs
(CAMP Working Paper Series;04/2021, Working paper, 2021-06-15)Vector autoregressions with stochastic volatility in both the conditional mean and variance are commonly used to estimate the macroeconomic effects of uncertainty shocks. Despite their popularity, intensive computational ... -
Macroeconomic Fundamentals' Predictability of Currency Returns
(Master thesis, 2022)We study the relationship between macroeconomic fundamentals and currency returns from the perspective of a British investor. To investigate the relationship more closely, we replicate the methodologies presented by Dahlquist ... -
Macroeconomic risk and stock market anomalies in Norway
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Macroeconomic uncertainty and bank lending
(CAMP Working Paper Series;05/2022, Working paper, 2022-11)We investigate the impact of macro-related uncertainty on bank lending in Norway. We show that an increase in general macroeconomic uncertainty reduces bank lending. Importantly, however, we show that this effect is largely ... -
Macroeconomic variables and their association to stock market returns in sub-Saharan Africa
(Master thesis, 2017)The thesis examines the relationship between stock market returns and macroeconomic variables in seventeen countries that are included in the IMF’s definition of Sub-Saharan Africa. The study is conducted using a ... -
Macroeconomics in the time of the Corona
(CAMP Working Paper Series;04/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)For a developed market economies, the corona crisis is a new type of crisis, but this crisis has parallels to economies at other times, and to crises at other places. We discuss some mechanisms from the traditional macro ... -
“Make it or break it during a pandemic”. The role of Transformational Leadership, employee Growth Mindset, Change Readiness and Stress during rapid changes such as a pandemic (COVID-19).
(Master thesis, 2020)This study seeks to explore the relationship between transformational leadership and employee’s readiness towards change, and the moderating effect of employee growth mindset. Furthermore, this study aims to look at the ... -
“Make it possible for more people to work at home!” representations of employee motivation and job satisfaction in Danish and Norwegian newspapers during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)During the COVID-19 pandemic, many employees with task-based jobs were forced to work from home, while others were furloughed or laid off. The current study aims to investigate how Norwegian and Danish newspapers represent ... -
Making Knowledge Management Research more Scientific, Relevant, and Engaged: A Comparative Study of Academic ECKM Papers.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The purpose is to analyse and compare all the academic papers in the proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) in 2017 (Barcelona), 2018 (Padua), 2019 (Lisbon), and the digital conference in ... -
Making Knowledge Management Research more Scientific, Relevant, and Engaged: A Comparative Study of Academic ECKM Papers.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The purpose is to analyse and compare all the academic papers in the proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) in 2017 (Barcelona), 2018 (Padua), 2019 (Lisbon), and the digital conference in ... -
Making Managers in Latin America: The Emergence of Executive Education in Central America, Peru, and Colombia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Executive education programs offered by business schools became a global phenomenon for developing top managers in the 1960s. These programs were established in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin ... -
Making managers: a fresh look
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The idea that institutions at university level should engage in offering courses and programs to prepare people for administrative and managerial positions in commerce and business originally emerged in parallel in several ... -
Making sense of algorithmic profiling: User perceptions on Facebook
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Algorithmic profiling has become increasingly prevalent in many social fields and practices, including finance, marketing, law, cultural consumption and production, and social engagement. Although researchers have begun ...