• 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 ...
    • Assignment of project team members to projects: Project managers’ influence strategies in practice 

      Sankaran, Shankar; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Bekker, Michiel C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how project managers, influence the assignment of project team members by directly assigning or specifying who they want or by indirectly using lateral influence strategies ...
    • Association between culture and the preference for, and perceptions of, 11 routes of medicine administration: A survey in 21 countries and regions 

      Murdan, Sudaxshina; Wei, Li; van Riet-Nales, Diana A.; Gurmu, Abyot Endale; Usifoh, Stella Folajole; Tăerel, Adriana-Elena; Yıldız-Peköz, Ayca; Krajnović, Dušanka; Azzopardi, Lilian M.; Brock, Tina; Fernandes, Ana I.; dos Santos, André Luis Souza; Anto, Berko Panyin; Vallet, Thibault; Lee, Eunkyung Euni; Jeong, Kyeong Hye; Akel, Marwan; Tam, Eliza; Volmer, Daisy; Douss, Tawfik; Shukla, Sharvari; Yamamura, Shigeo; Lou, Xiaoe; van Riet, Bauke H.G.; Usifoh, Cyril O.; Duwiejua, Mahama; Ruiz, Fabrice; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Medicines can be taken by various routes of administration. These can impact the effects and perceptions of medicines. The literature about individuals' preferences for and perceptions of the different routes of administration ...
    • The association between non-audit services and accrual quality in EEA countries (2015-2017) 

      Lien, Nguyen Thi Hai; Bhattarai, Nisha (Master thesis, 2020)
      The main purpose of this study is to examine whether there is a relationship between accrual quality and non-audit services for medium and large listed companies in EEA countries from 2015 to 2017. The further tests ...
    • Association membership and generalized trust: are connections between associations losing their value? 

      Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Research linking civic engagement to citizens’ democratic values, generalized trust, cooperative norms, and so on often implicitly assumes such connections are stable over time. This article argues that, due to changes in ...
    • Association of excessive daytime sleepiness with migraine and headache frequency in the general population 

      Stavem, Knut; Kristiansen, Håvard; Kristoffersen, Espen Saxhaug; Kværner, Kari Jorunn; Russell, Michael Bjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Background: Some previous studies have postulated an association between migraine and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). This study evaluated the association of EDS with migraine and headache frequency in a general ...
    • Associations between body image, social physique anxiety, and dating anxiety in heterosexual emerging adults 

      Swami, Viren; Robinson, Charlotte; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Studies have suggested that body image is associated with dating anxiety, but are limited by small sample sizes, singular operationalisations of body image, and a lack of consideration of the concurrent effects of social ...
    • Associations between childhood biomedical factors, maternal smoking, personality traits, Body and Mass Index and the prevalence of asthma in adulthood 

      Cheng, Helen; Montgomery, Scott; Treglown, Luke; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Objective: The study set out to investigate socio-economic, biomedical, health and behavioural and psychological factors in childhood and adulthood associated with the prevalence of asthma in adulthood, drawing data from ...
    • Associations between Schizotypal Facets and Symptoms of Disordered Eating in Women 

      Swami, Viren; Barron, David; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Research has suggested that schizotypy—a personality organisation representing latent vulnerability for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders—may be elevated in women with symptoms of disordered eating. However, studies have ...
    • Asymmetric effects of monetary policy in regional housing markets 

      Aastveit, Knut Are; Anundsen, André K. (CAMP Working Paper Series;7, Working paper, 2017-12)
      The responsiveness of house prices to monetary policy shocks depends both on the nature of the shock – expansionary versus contractionary – and on city-specific housing supply elasticities. We test and find supporting ...
    • Asymmetric effects of monetary policy in regional housing markets 

      Aastveit, Knut Are; Anundsen, André Kallåk (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The responsiveness of house prices to monetary policy shocks depends on the nature of the shock—expansionary versus contractionary—and on local housing supply elasticities. These findings are established using a panel of ...
    • Attention, Politics or Performance? Competing Influences on Oversight by Analytical Bureaucracies in the Regulatory State 

      Workman, Samuel; Wolfe, Michelle (Ceas Reports; 3/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      In this paper, we examine and evaluate competing explanations for congressional attention to the federal bureaucracy in the United States. What we label “analytical bureaucracy” is a key, but severely understudied, tool ...