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Factors Impact on Profitability for Norwegian Private Firms
(Master thesis, 2018)This paper investigates what factors have an impact on the profitability of Norwegian private firms divided by size. Profitability is measured using Return on Assets (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE). The factors tested ... -
Factors influencing advertising effectiveness and purchase intention on Instagram
(Master thesis, 2017)Instagram has emerged as an important social media and advertising platform, but little or no research has been done to investigate how the users perceive various Instagram advertisement. The current research relies on ... -
Factors that influence Tech IPO underpricing and their applicability in pricing decision
(Master thesis, 2018)The aim of this thesis was to identify the main factors impacting underpricing in the Tech industry and analyse their applicability in IPO pricing decisions. The main factors that were examined: Number of Underwriters, ... -
Failing to succeed : How can an accelerator facilitate learning from failure?
(Master thesis, 2018)This master thesis aims at exploring how accelerator programs can facilitate learning from failure. Failure, defined as deviance from desired results, has seen a shift in its surrounding literature. Instead of perceiving ... -
A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work? The Mediating Role of Justice Perceptions in Compensation and Exchange Relationships
(Master thesis, 2021)This study explores the dynamic between compensation and employee-organization relationships amongst hairdressing professionals. We investigate the relationships between the pay administration (fixed or variable) and the ... -
Falling Between The Silos: Fragmentation in Roles and Responsibilities Create Barriers to Climate Adaptation : A Case Study of Stormwater Management in the Municipality of Oslo
(Master thesis, 2018)The aim of this master thesis is to contribute to the literature on institutional change for climate adaptation by investigating the identified gap in literature of how, why, and where changes need to happen for more ... -
False positive reduction endeavors with automated feature engineering
(Master thesis, 2021)Credit card fraud has been a problem for decades, and with the booming trend of online shopping fraud losses expected to rise for every year to come. Fraud detection systems often generate more false positives than true ... -
A Fama-French Replication and Extension including Momentum: Evidence from the US and the UK Stock Market
(Master thesis, 2022)This paper examines the effects of size, value, profitability, investments, and momentum on the cross-sectional and time-series relation between expected returns and risk in the US and the UK markets, from July 1990 to ... -
Family Firms & Diversification Through M&A: Evidence From Norway
(Master thesis, 2019)This study examines the behavior of family firms on whether they are more inclined to engage in diversifying M&As than non-family firms due to their high value of control. To analyse this theory, data has been manually ... -
Family firms, do they grow slower than non-family firms?
(Master thesis, 2017)This study seeks to answer whether family firms grow slower than non-family firms in Norway, and if family firm’s inherent characteristics explains differing growth. Our research analyses four different measurements of ... -
Family Ownership and Cash Holdings : Empirical Evidence from Norway
(Master thesis, 2016)This master thesis examines the level of cash holdings in Norwegian private firms in the period 2004 to 2014. We compare family firms to non-family firms and explore whether there are differences in their cash holding ... -
Fastsetting av diskonteringsrenten etter IFRS 16
(Master thesis, 2018)Når IFRS 16 erstatter dagens IAS 17, vil et betydelig antall selskaper forventer å se vesentlige endringer i presentasjonen av finansregnskapet som følge av at operasjonelle leieavtaler fra og med 1.1.2019 skal balanseføres ... -
Feels like home the effect of a sensory experiential set on purchase intention in a retail environment.
(Master thesis, 2019)This research is focused on the sensory dimension of experiential marketing. We argue that a brand that sells in a retail setting can improve its marketing key performance indicators by exposing its store visitors to ... -
Female ceos : why so few?
(Master thesis, 2017)There has been much debate on CEO gender and its effects on firm performance and characteristics. In this paper, we tried to explain the reasons for female chief executive officers (CEOs) fewness, while examining the ... -
Final Thesis - Licensing effect on consumers in the ecofriendly fashion industry
(Master thesis, 2020)This paper studies moral licensing in ecofriendly fashion. The results show that ecofriendly fashion is fulfilling more than basic human needs: it fulfills psychological and moral needs as well. Some customers are therefore ... -
Financial advisors influence on private investors’ financial decisions
(Master thesis, 2019)Most individual retail investors today rely on recommendations from financial advice when investing in stocks or bonds. Understanding the impact of financial advice on individual investors portfolio decision is thus of ... -
Financial Distress Risi! of LBOs - Euidence from Nordic Countries
(Master thesis, 2022)In this master thesis, we study the financial distress risk and bankruptcy rate of leveraged buyout companies in the Nordic market between 2000 and 2020. Furthermore, we examine industry effects on financial distress ... -
Financial evaluation of the Airbus A380Neo program
(Master thesis, 2016)Executive summary Topic Financial evaluation of the Airbus A380Neo program Abstracta (Executive summary in Portuguese, requirement by Católica Lisbon) Num futuro próximo, a fabricante de aviões Airbus terá que tomar ... -
Financial Shocks and Economic Fluctuations: Evidence form Norway
(Master thesis, 2020)In this paper, we evaluate the importance of shocks originating in the financial sector on the Norwegian macroeconomic variables. We estimate demand, supply, monetary policy, investment, and financial shocks in a Bayesian ... -
Financial valuation of Norway Royal Salmon
(Master thesis, 2017)Initiating coverage Share price: NOK 131 Recommendation: Buy Target price: 170 Key facts Number of shares (millions) 43.57 Market cap NOK (millions) 5708 Share price NOK 131 Ticker NRS Stock exchange Oslo ...