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The EarlyBIRD Catches the Bug: On Exploiting Early Layers of Encoder Models for More Efficient Code Classification
(Chapter, 2023)The use of modern Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques has shown to be beneficial for software engineering tasks, such as vulnerability detection and type inference. However, training deep NLP models requires ... -
The economic impacts of compatibility standards: The case of Office Open XML
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The Economics of Hypergamy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. We use the term hypergamy to describe a phenomenon whereby there is a tendency for husbands to be ... -
The economics of minority freezeouts: evidence from the courtroom
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)We analyze minority freezeout offers in a legal environment where minority stockholders can reject the offer and ask the court to value their nontendered stock. This regulatory setting allows us to observe the disciplining ... -
The effect of background music and noise on the cognitive test performance of Chinese introverts and extraverts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Previous research has shown that background auditory distractors (music and sound/noise) have a more severe impact on introverts’ performances on complex cognitive tasks than extraverts (Dobbs, Furnham, & McClelland, 2011). ... -
The effect of background music on the cognitive performance of musicians: A pilot study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This study aimed to investigate how background music with different instruments affects trained musicians’ performance on cognitive tasks. Participants completed three sets of cognitively demanding intelligence tasks in a ... -
The Effect of Benchmarking on Public School Performance
(Master thesis, 2018)Theory on public policy processes together with a range of private sector evidence suggest that implementing benchmarking improves efficiency, and thereby may work to improve public policy outcomes. A similar prediction ... -
The effect of CEO-specific heterogeneity on firm’s policies: Empirical evidence from Norwegian companies
(Master thesis, 2018)This study aims to investigate whether CEO heterogeneous characteristics influence a company’s performance and shape its corporate behavior. The focus is on non-listed Norwegian firms and such observable characteristics ... -
The effect of corporate social responsibility announcements on a company's stock returns and market efficiency
(Master thesis, 2014-01-28)In this thesis we study the effects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) announcements on a company’s stock returns. We focus on announcements among American corporations from 2005-2012. We perform an event study where ... -
The effect of corporate tax avoidance on investments, and its relationship to firm liquidity
(Master thesis, 2017)Despite decades of tax and investment research, little is known about the relationship between a firm's ability to avoid income taxes and its level of investments. For instance, several researchers conclude that firms’ ... -
The effect of customer information during new product development on profits from goods and services
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Purpose – This study aims to investigate how customer information obtained at different phases of a new product development (NPD) process influences profits from new offerings. Design/methodology/approach – ... -
The effect of fear‐inducing content on memory for advertisements and on retroactive and proactive interference of programme information
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The current study focused on whether fear‐inducing content in television advertisements leads to better memory for the advertisement but also impairs memory for programme information that either precedes the advertisements ... -
The effect of internet usage on voter turnout in the European Union
(Master thesis, 2018)This master thesis investigates the effect of internet usage on voter turnout in the European Union over the sample period from 1990 to 2016. The methodology applies is both ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation and ... -
The effect of investor sentiment on stock returns in Norway and Vietnam
(Master thesis, 2014-02-10)This study investigates the effects of investor sentiment on stock returns in the Norwegian and Vietnamese stock markets. The model introduced by Baker and Wurgler (2006) has been utilized in which a composite sentiment ... -
The effect of music tempo on perceived crowding in retailing
(Master thesis, 2016)In the marketing field the influence of in-store atmospherics on consumers’ shopping behavior is widely accepted. We seek to understand the effects of instore music tempo on perceived crowding and how music tempo can ... -
The Effect of Nudging on Source Separation Behaviour
(Master thesis, 2019)This research aimed to study whether nudges through general visuals prompt and social norms through framing would increase the amount of source separated waste in kilos. Also, we included the element of time to see ... -
The effect of oil prices on field production: evidence from the Norwegian continental shelf
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)I use detailed field‐level data on Norwegian offshore oil production and a semi‐parametric additive model to control for the production profile of fields to estimate the effect of oil prices on production. I find no ... -
The effect of oil prices on field production: Evidence from the Norwegian Continental Shelf
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)I use detailed field-level data on Norwegian offshore oil production and a semi-parametric additive model to control for the production profile of fields to estimate the effect of oil prices on production. I find no ... -
The effect of political stability and confidence in economic policy on cross-border fixed income portfolio allocation
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis investigates the extent of home bias in bond portfolios in 20 countries, in the time period 2001 to 2016. In additional to traditional drivers of portfolio optimization, we consider the impact of the financial ... -
The effect of problem solving approaches on creativity, fixation, and enacted task complexity.
(Master thesis, 2019)The purpose of this experimental study was to investigate the effect of problem solving approaches on the creative process and the creative outcome. Particularly, we explored the effect of action-oriented problem ...