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Companies Ethical Commitment: an analysis of the rhetoric in CSR reports
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)This paper investigates rhetoric applied in 80 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports in 2005. A taxonomy of five distinct rhetorical strategies for describing the purpose of CSR is applied; Agency (profit), Benefit ... -
Companies’ ethical commitment: an analysis of the rhetoric in CSR reports
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)This paper investigates rhetoric applied in 80 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports in 2005. A taxonomy of five distinct rhetorical strategies for describing the purpose of CSR is applied; Agency (profit), Benefit ... -
A comparatiue study of machine learning models in stock price prediction
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis predicts one-day ahead adjusted closing price estimates of four different stocks listed at the Oslo Stock Exchange. The prediction uses a rolling window approach, utilizing 60 days of historical adjusted ... -
Comparative Advantages of a Master's Degree in Business: Wage Disparities and Overeducation among Norwegian Graduates
(Master thesis, 2023)This research aims to investigate the comparative advantages of pursuing a master's degree in business ("Siviløkonom") over a bachelor's degree in terms of businessrelated proficiencies and professional outcomes among ... -
A Comparative Study in Binary Classification for Loan Eligibility Prediction
(Master thesis, 2021)In this thesis, loan eligibility prediction is explored and analyzed by investigating five different prediction models. The goal for the prediction models is to accurately predict whether a bank loan is approved ... -
A Comparative Study of Active Management in Norway and the US: Analysing Mutual Fund Performance and Fees
(Master thesis, 2023)We investigated whether the fees charged by active Norwegian global equity mutual funds can be justified, and compared it to those of US global equity mutual funds, over the period from 2012 to 2022. We aimed to explore ... -
Comparative Study of Factor-Based Strategies in the Nordic Countries
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis examines whether an investor could generate net returns above the Morgan Stanley Country Index by applying momentum and value strategies in the Nordic countries between 1990 and 2019. We first investigate ... -
Comparative study of short-run IPO performance in a selection of Euronext countries
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis investigates the relevance of prevalent underpricing theories on 175 IPOs occurring between 2014-2021 in the Euronext countries of Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Across all Euronext IPOs, we observe an ... -
Comparing internal and alliance-based new product development processes: case studies in the food industry
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Companies may simultaneously pursue different new product development (NPD) strategies. This article reports a comparative two case design study of in-house NPD projects as well as alliance based NPD projects in a food ... -
Comparing mental health literacy and physical health literacy: an exploratory study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: This study compared mental health and physical health literacy using five health problems from each area. Aims: The aim was to determine whether the same group had better physical than mental health literacy ... -
Comparing shift work tolerance across occupations, work arrangements, and gender
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: There are individual differences in shift work tolerance; however, we lack knowledge about how this is experienced across different occupations, sex and shift types. Aims: The aim was to describe and investigate ... -
Comparing the effect of cross-group friendship on generalized trust to its effect on prejudice: The mediating role of threat perceptions and negative affect
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Intergroup relations theory posits that cross-group friendship reduces threat perceptions and negative emotions about outgroups. This has been argued to mitigate the negative effects of ethnic diversity on generalized ... -
Comparing the efficiency of pricing mechanisms in Norwegian ipos
(Master thesis, 2017)On Oslo Stock Exchange, there are mainly two pricing mechanisms that are being used when pricing an IPO, these being book-building and fixed-price. As there do not exist much research on which of these two are the more ... -
Comparing the Forecasting Performances of Linear Models for Electricity Prices with High RES Penetration
(CAMP Working Paper Series;2, Working paper, 2018-01)This paper compares alternative univariate versus multivariate models, probabilistic versus Bayesian autoregressive and vector autoregressive specifications for hourly day-ahead electricity prices, with and without ... -
Comparing the forecasting performances of linear models for electricity prices with high RES penetration
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)We compare alternative univariate versus multivariate models and frequentist versus Bayesian autoregressive and vector autoregressive specifications for hourly day-ahead electricity prices, both with and without renewable ... -
Comparison between the brief seven-item and full eating disorder examination-questionnaire (EDE-Q) in clinical and non-clinical female Norwegian samples
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background The Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q) is among the most widely used self-report measures of eating disorder (ED) psychopathology. There is a need for brief versions of the EDE-Q that can be used ... -
Comparison of classical RFM models and Machine learning models in CLV prediction
(Master thesis, 2020)This study analyzes the difference between classical RFM models and Machine Leaning (ML) models when calculating CLV with transactional data. In this paper we run different programs to analyze the CLV value by using ... -
A Comparison of Norwegian Business Cycle Indicators
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis investigates how different economic indicators can classify economic recession and forecast GDP in Norway. The study focuses particularly on the Financial News Index (FNI) and the financial crisis. In-sample ... -
Compartmental market models in the digital economy—extension of the Bass model to complex economic systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Compartmental models are widely used in epidemiology, engineering, and physics to describe the temporal behavior of complex systems. This paper presents how compartmental models may be applied to the digital economy—more ... -
The competing influence of psychological job control on family-to-work conflict
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Psychological job control has typically been negatively related to work-to-family and family-to-work conflict. Based on the job demand-resource model and boundary theory, we argue that psychological job control may indirectly ...