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Do industry-specific accounting standards matter for capital allocation decisions?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines whether the implementation of industry-specific accounting standards helps capital market participants in making decisions about providing capital to firms. We predict and find an, on average, increase ... -
Do Insiders know best? : A study of reported insider trades in the Norwegian and Swedish Stock Market.
(Master thesis, 2018)In this thesis we investigate insider trading on Oslo and Stockholm stock market. We analyze 2515 insider trades in Norway from 21.09.2010 - 20.12.2017 and 3825 trades in Sweden from 01.01.2014 - 09.02.2017. To observe ... -
Do Institutions Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are? Empirical evidence from analysts' stock recommendations, their firms' ex-ante holding and ex-post trading
(Master thesis, 2023)I empirically study the relationship between analysts' stock recommendations and their affiliated institutions' ex-ante holding and ex-post trading. I use data of 1,014,720 stock recommendations issued by analysts from 80 ... -
Do loan-to-value requirements matter for local house prices in Norway?
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis we look at the effect of loan-to-value (LTV) requirements on the Norwegian housing market during 2010-2013. We test how and to what extend this macroprudential policy would affect local areas with typically ... -
Do macroeconomic factors affect U.S. stock market returns?
(Master thesis, 2018)Macroeconomic factors and their influence on stock returns is a widely discussed topic in both previous and recent academic literature. In this paper, we examine whether macroeconomic factors affect U.S. stock market ... -
Do managerial incentives prevent value-destroying acquisitions?
(Master thesis, 2019)This paper examines how managerial incentives affect certain deal characteristics in acquisitions and how these characteristics are related to announcement returns and shareholder wealth. Based on our own results and ... -
Do Marketing Professionals Care about the Pareto Principle?
(Master thesis, 2021)The purpose of this thesis is to explore whether and how marketing practitioners use the Pareto Principle by studying the thesis statement: “The Pareto Principle: The opportunities and consequences for FMCG brands of ... -
Do Norwegian start-ups and smaller business benefit from being located in an area serviced by a local savings bank?
(Master thesis, 2017)We examine the effect of the Norwegian bank industry consolidation, and consequent decrease in local savings banks, on the survival and growth of small businesses. The analysis uses year-by-year financial information for ... -
Do Privacy Concerns about Social Robots Affect Use Intentions? Evidence from an Experimental Vignette Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While the privacy implications of social robots have been increasingly discussed and privacy-sensitive robotics is becoming a research field within human-robot interaction, little empirical research has investigated privacy ... -
Do re-election probabilities influence public investment?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)An insight from dynamic political economy is that elected officials may use state variables to affect the choices of their successors. We exploit the staggered timing of local and national elections in Norway to investigate ... -
Do serial acquirers perform better than first-time acquirers? – A study in the perspective of Norwegian acquirers
(Master thesis, 2019)Using a sample of 26 Norwegian merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, we empirically investigate if serial acquirers perform better than first-time acquirers, focusing on learning and post-merger integration (PMI) ... -
Do sports facilities increases activity in sports clubs?
(Master thesis, 2020)Sports and sports activity have been an essential factor in my childhood, and as a grownup, I see the importance of sports activity. In this master thesis, I have investigated how the number of sports facilities affects ... -
Do stakeholders matter for corporate governance? Behavior and performance of Norwegian banks 1985-2002
(CCGR Research Report;1/2007, Research report, 2007)The distribution of formal control rights among the firm’s stakeholders (such as stockholders, creditors, employees, politicians, and customers) attracts considerable public attention in many countries. For instance, a ... -
Do stocks outperform Treasury bills?
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis highlights the important role of positively skewed short horizon stock returns, and the effect of compounding on the long-term return distribution. I show that the majority of individual common stocks deliver ... -
Do Sustainable Mutual Funds Offer Protection in Times of Market Instability?
(Master thesis, 2021)Our thesis examines the nancial performance of open-ended mutual funds with a Morningstar Sustainability rating from January 2015 to December 2020. We use four di erent factor models to investigate whether the hypothesis ... -
Do US Managers Cater to Investor Demand for Dividends?
(Master thesis, 2023)We investigate whether managers cater to investor preferences when demand for dividend-paying stocks is high, implementing a simple model developed by Baker and Wurgler (2004a). Expanding upon their work, we extend the ... -
Do values, attitudes, and social norms play a role in younger Norwegian consumers’ intention towards fish consumption?
(Master thesis, 2021)Generation Z and millennials, have listed environmental consciousness as their top personal concerns. However, the theory shows that there is a gap between consumers' attitude and behavior related to behaving environmentally ... -
Do Voluntary Associations Show their Bright or Dark Side under Adverse Societal Shocks? Evidence from 9/11
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)In this article, we reassess the relation between association membership and individuals’ feelings about immigrants, thereby focusing on possible shifts in this relation in the wake of negative societal shocks (i.e., the ... -
Do we have a problem: The effects of individual- and team level problem construction on team creativity
(Master thesis, 2018)In this experimental study, we examined the effects of problem construction – one of the creative problem-solving processes held to influence creativity – in teams and the resulting creativity of team output. Fifty-six ... -
Do you get what you pay for? Sales incentives and implications for motivation and changes in turnover intention and work effort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This study investigated relations between pay-for-performance incentives designed to vary in instrumentality (annual pay-for-performance, quarterly pay-for-performance, and base pay level) and employee outcomes (self-reported ...