• Norwegian mutual fund performance based on Fama and French´s five-factor model 

      Mustafa, Daniel Amir; Ali, Mohammad Yousaf (Master thesis, 2016)
      The following paper uses a dataset free of survivorship bias for the period 2002-2011. We investigate whether Norwegian mutual funds possess enough skills to outperform a passive benchmark based on Fama and French’s ...
    • Norwegian mutual fund tournament 

      Onstad, Jon Berg; Dahlberg, Jonas (Master thesis, 2014-02-11)
      We analyze if Norwegian equity funds have a tendency to alter their risk based on their performance relative to competing equity funds, called mutual fund tournament. The incentive for this behavior is that fund managers ...
    • Norwegian Oil Market Concentration and its Effects on the Oil Service Companies 1993-2013 

      Bruno, Lars Christian; Steen, Riana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This paper explores the effect of market concentration of the Norwegian oil production sector (NPS) on Norway's second-largest industry, the oilfield services companies (OFS). To capture this effect, we use the system ...
    • The Norwegian Output Gap During Covid-19 

      Bøhn, Erik Alexander; Svare, Mari (Master thesis, 2023)
      This thesis focuses on different economic measures of the output gap and potential output in Norway during the pandemic years, where we utilize various univariate and multivariate methods for output gap estimation on real ...
    • Norwegian parliamentary elections, 1906-2013: Representation and turnout across four electoral systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Since gaining full independence in 1905, Norway has experienced more than a century of democratic elections, and has reformed its electoral system three times, most notably with the switch from a two-round runoff system ...
    • Norwegian parliamentary elections, 1906?2013: representation and turnout across four electoral systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Since gaining full independence in 1905, Norway has experienced more than a century of democratic elections, and has reformed its electoral system three times, most notably with the switch from a two-round runoff system ...
    • Norwegian salmon exporters and the changing structure of Japanese seafood distribution 

      Abrahamsen, Morten H. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      For many years Japan has been an important market for Norwegian salmon. At the same time Japan has been characterised by a complicated distribution structure with several layers of wholesalers and middlemen. Recently this ...
    • Norwegian students’ experiences of homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic 

      Mælan, Ellen Nesset; Gustavsen, Ann Margareth; Stranger-Johannessen, Espen; Nordahl, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Norwegian teachers and school leaders had to organise and provide homeschooling for their students from March to May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey conducted in May 2020 examined lower secondary school students’ ...
    • Not in transition: Inter-infrastructural governance and the politics of repair in the Norwegian oil and gas offshore industry 

      Stefania, Sardo; Parmiggiani, Elena; Hoholm, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      In the past three decades, there has been an increasing interest in transitions as crucial analytical moments of socio-technical change, with infrastructures being strategic loci from where to leverage these transformations. ...
    • Not just a Matter of Taste – Disgust in the Food Domain 

      Kubberød, Elin (Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2005)
      Higher competition in the market arena is forcing marketers and product developers to monitor and adjust the impact of their product in the marketplace more rapidly. Furthermore, in rapidly changing markets it is not ...
    • Not just seeing, but also feeling art: Mid-air haptic experiences integrated in a multisensory art exhibition 

      Vi, Che Tanh; Ablart, Damien; Gatti, Elia; Velasco, Carlos; Obrist, Marianna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The use of the senses of vision and audition as interactive means has dominated the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) for decades, even though nature has provided us with many more senses for perceiving and interacting ...
    • Not so tall, white, and skinny anymore? How the image-shift in social media advertising affects young women’s happiness. 

      Norville, Tamesha Yvonne; Viberg, Mia (Master thesis, 2022)
      This thesis was inspired by the observation of the imagery shift in social media advertising. Previously, the norm has been to epitomize a perfect image in line with Western beauty ideals. Recently, this perfect image ...
    • A note on the concept of risk 

      Houg, Kjetil (CME Working paper series;1/2008, Working paper, 2008)
      This paper is about risk and about a critical view of the risk concepts we normally apply. That said, my ambition is not to launch a formal criticism of theoretical aspects of risk in financial markets, nor to make you ...
    • Noteinformasjon om investeringseiendom 

      Øvland, Victoria Tonning (Master thesis, 2014-02-10)
      Utgangspunktet for oppgaven var å se om norske børsnoterte selskaper gir tilstrekkelig noteinformasjon til brukerne av regnskapet vedrørende investeringseiendommer som føres til virkelig verdi. Temaet er spesielt aktuelt ...
    • NOU 2022:2: God ytringskultur må bygges nedenfra hver dag - men hvordan gjør man det i praksis? 

      Undebakke, Kirsti Godal (Master thesis, 2022)
      Ytringsklima kan ses som en fasett av arbeidsmiljø og er derfor aktuelt å inkludere som tematikk i det arbeidsmiljøutviklingsverktøyet som brukes i universitets- og høyskolesektoren (UH). Prosjektet som beskrives i denne ...
    • Novel Approach to Satisfying Stakeholders in Megaprojects: Balancing Mutual Values 

      Bahadorestani, Amir; Karlsen, Jan Terje; Farimani, Nasser Motahari (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Stakeholder satisfaction in megaprojects has always been a critical concern in research and practice because of the dynamism, complexity, and uncertainty of the various relationships between the project and the stakeholder ...
    • A Novel Evolutionary Algorithm for Energy Efficient Scheduling in Flexible Job Shops 

      Ding, Junwen; Dauzère-Pérès, Stéphane; Shen, Liji; Lü, Zhipeng (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Improving productivity at the expense of heavy energy consumption is often no longer possible in modern manufacturing industries. Through efficient scheduling technologies, however, we are able to still maintain high ...
    • Nowcasting GDP in real time: a density combination approach 

      Aastveit, Knut Are; Gerdrup, Karsten R.; Jore, Anne Sofie; Thorsrud, Leif Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      In this paper, we use U.S. real-time data to produce combined density nowcasts of quarterly GDP growth, using a system of three commonly used model classes. We update the density nowcast for every new data release ...
    • Nowcasting GDP in Real-Time: A Density Combination Approach 

      Aastveit, Knut Are; Gerdrup, Karsten R.; Jore, Anne Sofie; Thorsrud, Leif Anders (CAMP Working Paper Series;1/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      In this paper we use U.S. real-time vintage data and produce combined density nowcasts for quarterly GDP growth from a system of three commonly used model classes. The density nowcasts are combined in two steps. First, ...
    • Nowcasting GDP with a pool of factor models and a fast estimation algorithm 

      Eraslan, Sercan; Schröder, Maximilian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We propose a novel mixed-frequency dynamic factor model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility for macroeconomic nowcasting and develop a fast estimation algorithm. This enables us to generate forecast ...