Blar i Master of Science på tittel

Norwegian business athletes : a qualitative study on motivational- and achievement factors among leaders who participate in the Birkebeiner Race

Lorenzen, Kristin Staff; Lier, Gunhild (Master thesis, 2014-02-19)

There exists extensive research regarding motivation to exercise in various sports and physical activities, no study however, has qualitatively examined the motivation for Norwegian business leaders to participate in ...

Norwegian Family Firms and Risk-Taking

Balog, Adam; Lundby, Eivind Berg (Master thesis, 2018)

This study examines the effect of family firms, CEO and ownership composition on financial and operational risk-taking for 11,157 Norwegian private firms between 2006 and 2015. First, this study finds clear indications ...

Norwegian firms investing in Africa : the roles of perception and government support

Pekarek, Ondrej (Master thesis, 2013-02-15)

Using the psychological perspective, this thesis has investigated why Norwegian firms are reluctant when it comes to investing in Africa and moreover how Norwegian firms view their investments in Africa and what their ...

Norwegian Global Mutual Funds : An Empirical Study of Active Management and Fund Performance

Hjelmen, Morten Graham; Haugen, Mikkel Tagge (Master thesis, 2018)

The following paper uses a dataset free of survivorship bias in the period of 2009 - 2017. The purpose of this research is to investigate the performance of open end Norwegian global mutual funds. We start by first ...

The Norwegian Housing Market: Do current housing prices in Norway, and its four major cities - Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, and Stavanger - reflect fundamental values?

Sørbø, Mathias Midtbust; Fosse, Emil Engvik (Master thesis, 2024)

This thesis investigates whether current housing prices in Norway, and its four major cities—Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, and Stavanger—reflect fundamental values. Using an error correction model, we analyze the short-term and ...

The Norwegian Municipality Reform & The Quality of Politicians

Eide, Asbjørn Korpberget; Riise, Martin Bergh (Master thesis, 2021)

This master thesis investigates how the local government reform affected the quality of local politicians in Norway. Quality is measured by education level and ability score measured by a regression on income, where we ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Norwegian Transparency Act: Motivation of Stakeholders in The Automobile Retail Industry

Josefsen, Hilde Johanne Boye; Haugum, Kaja Elisabeth Czeremuga (Master thesis, 2024)

Research Question: How do the motivations of key stakeholders influence the implementation and the reporting of the Transparency Act in organizations? Purpose: This paper aims to explore the motivation of key stakeholders ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nudging towards a healthier lifestyle: a study on how to use nudging as an intervention to steer consumers towards the healthier choices

Myrseth, Marita; Rasmussen, Elisabeth (Master thesis, 2018)

Obesity has become a major issue worldwide and has a strong impact at various economic and social levels. This calls for the need to find efficient ways to tackle this growing problem. Recently, there has been a increasing ...