• Asexuality is inversely associated with positive body image in British adults 

      Swami, Viren; Laughton, Ryan; Grover, Simmy; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Research on positive body image has infrequently considered sexual minority orientations beyond lesbians, gay men, and bisexual persons. Indeed, there is no existing research on the relationships between body image and ...
    • Assessing Different Levels of Time Retention for Business Interruption Coverage on Cyber Insurance 

      Lambech, Mats; Høglo, Kristoffer Sjur (Master thesis, 2020)
      As a consequence of the digitalization in companies, cyber-related risk has increased substantially. Cyber insurance has, therefore, emerged as a tool to mitigate cyber risk. Cyber risk behaves differently compared to ...
    • Assessing implicit and explicit attitudes in green consumerism : the implicit association test, the theory of planned behavior and the influence of socially desirable responding 

      Wickmann, Ina Kyrkjebø; Brente, Jenny (Master thesis, 2013-02-08)
      The market for green products and services has expanded along with the increased public attention to environmental issues. Consumer research has relied mostly on direct measures of self-report. Despite the growth in consumers ...
    • Assessing mechanisms behind crossmodal associations between visual textures and temperature concepts 

      Escobar Barbosa, Francisco; Velasco, Carlos; Byrne, Derek V.; Wang, Qian J (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      In the last decades, there has been a growing interest in crossmodal correspondences, including those involving temperature. However, only a few studies have explicitly examined the underlying mechanisms behind temperature-related ...
    • Assessing microfinance: The Bosnia and Herzegovina case 

      Welle-Strand, Anne; Sitter, Nick; Kjøllesdal, Kristian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Microfinance is often hailed both as a tool for fighting poverty and as a tool for post-conflict reconciliation. This paper explores the use of microfinance in post-civil war Bosnia and Herzegovina, assessing its results ...
    • Assessing predictability of the tendencies in economic activity using the yield curve 

      Fedorenko, Ulyana; Molodyk, Diana (Master thesis, 2017)
      We study the power of the yield curve to predict changes in economic activity in countries at different stages of economic development. Using the yield spread, we assess the relationship between the slope of the yield ...
    • Assessing Resilience Of Medicine Supply Chain Networks To Disruptions: A Proposed Hybrid Simulation Modeling Framework 

      Viana, Joe; van Oorschot, Kimball Elizabeth; Årdal, Christine Oline (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The objective of the proposed hybrid simulation modeling framework is to improve the understanding and operation of medicine supply chains, to strengthen their resilience to ensure the availability of medicines. The framework ...
    • Assessing the influence of colour and glass type on beer expectations 

      Casales-Garcia, Vicente; Gonzalez-Abril, Luis; Veflen, Nina; Velasco, Carlos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We evaluated how beer colour and glass type interact when it comes to forming beer expectations. Following previous research, we predicted that, given that colour is a dominant feature in food and beverage expectations, ...
    • Assessing the influence of packaging design symmetry, curvature, and mark on the perception of brand premiumness 

      Romeo, Elena; Jensen, Henrik; Hunneman, Auke; Velasco, Carlos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Packaging and label design are crucial in facilitating the perception of brand premiumness. However, we know relatively little about how common design characteristics used in a product’ packaging affect consumers' perception ...
    • Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity and Innovation: Building on Mathisen and Einarsen’s Review (2004) 

      Isaksen, Scott G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This article was stimulated by a review of instruments assessing creative and innovative social environments seventeen years ago. This stands alone as the only published, comprehensive, comparative review of multiple ...
    • Asset Allocation in European Equity Markets: A comparison of sector, factor and country investing 

      Myrvoll, Fredrik Skjevdal; Vedvik, Rune (Master thesis, 2022)
      With the evolution of index-based investing in the past decades, we investigate three investment universes consisting of sector, factor, and country indices in the European equity market. We employ several asset allocation ...
    • Asset allocation of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global with programming in Python 

      Thorp, Ida Christine Korme; Yttervik, Martine Hauahei (Master thesis, 2018)
      This thesis aims to assess if the optimal asset allocation for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global could be improved. We were curious to see if we were able to optimize the portfolio by only looking at the ...
    • Asset Growth, Profitability, and Investment Opportunities 

      Cooper, Ilan; Maio, Paulo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We show that recent prominent equity factor models are to a large degreecompatible with the Intertemporal CAPM (ICAPM) framework. Factors associated withalternative profitability measures forecast the equity premium in a ...
    • Asset management and investment banking 

      Berzins, Janis; Liu, Crocker H.; Trzcinka, Charles (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      We find evidence that conflicts of interest are pervasive in the asset management business owned by investment banks. Using data from 1990 to 2008, we compare the alphas of mutual funds, hedge funds, and institutional funds ...
    • Asset Prices and Portfolio Choice With Learning from Experience 

      Ehling, Paul; Graniero, Alessandro; Heyerdahl-Larsen, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We study asset prices and portfolio choice with overlapping generations, where the young disregard history to learn from own experience. Disregarding history implies less precise estimates of output growth, which in ...
    • Asset pricing models in the Nordic Stock Market 

      Lind, Stian Nygaard; Dahl, Martinius Steensland (Master thesis, 2022)
      This thesis investigates the Fama and French asset pricing models on a sample of all firms, green firms, and half-green firms in the Nordic stock market. We find that when fitted to the full sample, the factor models of ...
    • Asset pricing with multiple assets and goods 

      Heyerdahl-Larsen, Christian (Series of Dissertations;5/2009, Doctoral thesis, 2009)
      This dissertation consists of three papers; 'Asset Prices and Real Exchange Rates with Deep Habits', 'Financial Market Completeness in Multi-Good Economies' and 'Correlations'. The rest of the section is organized as ...
    • Asset returns, news topics and media effects 

      Høghaug Larsen, Vegard; Thorsrud, Leif Anders (CAMP;5, Working paper, 2017-09-19)
      We decompose the textual data in a daily Norwegian business newspaper into news topics and investigate their predictive and causal role for asset prices. Our three main findings are: (1) a one unit innovation in the news ...
    • Asset Returns, News Topics, and Media Effects 

      Larsen, Vegard Høghaug; Thorsrud, Leif Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We decompose the textual data in a daily Norwegian business newspaper into news topics and investigate their predictive and causal role for asset prices. Our findings suggest that news published through the mass media has ...
    • Asset-Price Redistribution 

      Fagereng, Andreas; Gomez, Matthieu; Gouin-Bonenfant, Emilien; Holm, Martin; Moll, Benjamin; Natvik, Gisle (HOFIMAR Working Paper Series;2/2023, Working paper, 2023)
      Over the last several decades, there has been a large increase in asset valuations across many asset classes. These rising valuations had important effects on the distribution of wealth. However, little is known regarding ...