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HEDGING WITH ELECTRICITY FUTURES Hedge Performance and Market Development in the Nordic Electricity Market
(Master thesis, 2020)This Master Thesis estimates and applies three various futures hedging strategies for the spot exposures at the Nordic electricity market. We compare the variance and hedging effectiveness of the traditional naïve hedge, ... -
Hedging, exposure and rm value: A study of European and U.S. Airlines
(Master thesis, 2019)For several reasons, the airline industry is a reasonable industry to analyze the relation between corporate risk exposure, hedging policy, and rm value. We ex- plore the relationship between hedging, exposure, and rm ... -
Hierarchical levels of social and economic leader-member exchange and their relationship with knowledge sharing
(Master thesis, 2019)The aim of this master thesis is to first, explore the relationship between perceived social- and economic leader-member exchange relationships and knowledge sharing, and second, to explore if the trickle-down effect ... -
High frequency arbitrage in foreign exchange markets
(Master thesis, 2014-02-11)In this thesis we investigate the efficiency of the FX market by searching for triangular and multi-currency arbitrage opportunities from 1997 to 2007. We show that both triangular and multi-currency arbitrage opportunities ... -
High Household Debt and the Transmission of Monetary Policy: A Canadian Case Study
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis investigates whether the transmission of monetary policy in Canada is affected by the level of household indebtedness. The answer to this has remained distinctly unclear in the literature across countries. ... -
High-level bureaucrat compensation in the United Nations
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis studies agency problems in the United Nations and how these agency problems are characterised. Two models of agency problems are studied; career concerns, and pay-for-performance. This thesis finds that ... -
High-quality connections in retail stores
(Master thesis, 2018)Reflecting upon the gap in the literature regarding how high-quality connections between employees and customers in retail stores may look like, and how these potentially may affect organizational performance outcomes, ... -
High-quality leader-member exchange and attitudes toward change : the mediating role of mindset
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(Historical) Income inequality and social capital.
(Master thesis, 2017)This master thesis examines whether – and, if so, how – income inequality has an impact on social capital looking from a historical and present perspective. After a brief literature review and a detailed theoretical ... -
Hjemmehørendebegrepet i skatteloven : Hva vil være virkningen av endringen av skatteloven § 2-2 første ledd, med særlig vekt på unntaksbestemmelsen i tredje punktum?
(Master thesis, 2018)Denne oppgaven omhandler hjemmehørendebegrepet i skatteloven, og inneholder en analyse av Finansdepartementets forslag til endring av skatteloven § 2-2, med spesielt fokus på den foreslåtte unntaksbestemmelsen i tredje ... -
Home bias in international equity and debt holdings: A study of cross-border portfolio allocation
(Master thesis, 2018)We investigate home bias and the determinants of cross-border portfolio allocation on total, equity and debt portfolios across the 30 largest economies in the world based on GDP and economic openness. The thesis is based ... -
House Price Dynamics : Analysis of the Oslo Market
(Master thesis, 2016)In this paper we empirically examine the house price dynamics in the Oslo market. Housing prices in Oslo have been a searing topic in the last couple of years, thus, we believe this will be an important contribution to ... -
House prices following Covid-19: A possible shift in demand?
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis, we study the house price growth in 2020 for different dwelling types and municipalities and compare it with its growth in 2015. The two years had one thing in common: both experienced a drop in the policy ... -
Housing Price Analysis on Station Proximity and the Development of New Commuter Rails in the Suburbs of Oslo
(Master thesis, 2022)This master thesis investigates the underpricing of 172 initial public offerings (IPO) listed on the Norwegian stock market from January 2010 to December 2021. The sample is distributed among 123 non-sponsored IPOs (NS), ... -
How a great customer experience can drive your prices : a cross-country study
(Master thesis, 2012-09-25)Over the past couple of years, practitioners and marketing researchers have begun to discuss the concept ―customer experience. Pine and Gilmore (1999) state that there has been a shift in the marketing literature and that ... -
How big are multipliers related to public and private oil investments in Norway?
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis, we estimate Keynesian investment multipliers related to public and private oil investment in Norway, employing a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) approach. Our baseline SVAR model is composed of four ... -
How board dynamics affect a firm’s performance: Evidence from Norway
(Master thesis, 2022)This paper examines whether there is a connection between board dynamics, board characteristics and a firm’s performance. The sample is made up of companies with specific qualities. We have examined private companies in ... -
How bond risk affects risk parity portfolios
(Master thesis, 2020)We document the performance of risk parity portfolios (RPP) of U.S. equities and government bonds over more than fty years of daily and monthly data. RPP's strong outperformance compared to 60/40 portfolios has to some ... -
How can an Auditor Prevent and Detect White-Collar Crime? A Convenience Theory Approach
(Master thesis, 2022)White-collar crime has risen dramatically over the last decades and is only expected to become more frequent. Not until recently has white-collar crime become a recognized and widely discussed problem. With the emergence ... -
How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Prevent Online Sexual Abuse?
(Master thesis, 2022)Due to the increasing problem of Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (OCSEA) over the past years, finding a way to prevent it has become more important. There has never been easier for perpetrators to contact ...