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Active Currency Management at the Swedish National Debt Office - A Case Study
(Master thesis, 2019)Swedish National Debt Office (SNDO) is responsible for managing Sweden’s central government debt. Since the mid-1970s, SNDO has issued bonds in foreign currency in addition to Swedish Krona (SEK) debt, thereby incurring ... -
Active Share and Performance of Norwegian Equity Funds
(Master thesis, 2019)We measure the degree of active management in Norwegian equity mutual funds and investigate how it relates to fund performance in the period 2007-2018. Our measures of active management are active share and tracking ... -
Active vs Passive Portfolio Management in Norway - a study Management in Norway - a study
(Master thesis, 2018)This paper investigates whether money managers in Norway outperform their respective benchmarks and create value for their investors. To get a better understanding of this, an aggregated portfolio of Norwegian mutual ... -
ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE MUTUAL FUND PERFORMANCE IN THE NORWEGIAN MARKET
(Master thesis, 2023)This master thesis examines the performance of active mutual funds in Norway and explores whether actively managed funds consistently outperform passive index funds net of fees. By analyzing a survivorship bias free dataset ... -
Adaptation to Sustainability in Norwegian Shipping Companies
(Master thesis, 2022)The most challenging issue that shipping companies are confronted with in the coming years is the need to become more sustainable. Accordingly, exploring critical factors in the implementation process is necessary. Whereas ... -
Adapting to Post-Pandemic Changes: Meeting Students' Educational Needs and Preparing Organizations
(Master thesis, 2024)Two years have passed since the world gradually began to reopen after the pandemic. During the pandemic, digital learning platforms became the norm, and a hybrid working model became prominent for several organizations. ... -
Adaptive Leadership in Hybrid Work Models - An investigation of how adaptive leadership relates to information sharing and team performance in hybrid work
(Master thesis, 2022)Previous research on adaptive leadership indicates that this leadership style is becoming more crucial for managers and administrators as the pace of change affecting organizations increases (e.g., Burke & Cooper, 2004; ... -
Adjusted price-dividend ratio and stock returns predictability
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Adoption of social media technology: the effect of always logged-in, return on time and fear of missing out
(Master thesis, 2017)Adoption of new technologies have been of importance for researchers for a long time, and constructs are continuously being analyzed to better understand what makes consumers more likely to adopt. The use of social media ... -
AF gruppen - valuation and case study on economic moats
(Master thesis, 2017)Economic moats represent sustainable competitive advantages that allow companies to protect their value and lead to excess returns over a long-term horizon (Morningstar, 2016). This sentence lays the fundament for this ... -
Affective Empathy and Emotional Contagion - A look into theory and critique of measurement scales
(Master thesis, 2018)Positive, negative and neutral emotional expressions transfer information about feelings, and attitudes towards other people. In organizations with high interaction among humans, emotion research is becoming increasingly ... -
Affective event theory and work stress: A nationally representative survey study among Norwegian leaders
(Master thesis, 2024)This study explores the intricate dynamics between workplace stressors and their impact on Norwegian leaders' affectivity, job satisfaction, and job commitment through Affective Events Theory (AET). The research used ... -
Agency Problems In Special Purpose Acquisition Companies
(Master thesis, 2022)Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are publicly held shell companies with no operations, formed with the sole purpose of acquiring a single private company. With a sample of 342 SPAC mergers between July 2016 ... -
Agent og prinsipal - Fra IAS 18 til IFRS 15
(Master thesis, 2018)IFRS 15 medførte en mer omfattende og helhetlig regulering av agent- og prinsipalvurderinger. Tilsvarende bestemmelser i IAS 18 var kortfattede og overordnede, uten detaljregulering. Reguleringen i IFRS 15 er ekstensiv ... -
Agile Contract Templates’ Management of Asset Specificity, Uncertainty and Performance Ambiguity
(Master thesis, 2018)The majority of today’s firms must take a stand to Industry 4.0, and how they can digitalize their business. Large investments in ICT projects are therefore made by customers of technological solutions, but reports find ... -
- Agile Methodology in Startups -Towards a defined Agile Practice for Startups
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis examines the potential for adoption of an Agile methodology in startups outside of software development. These startups face similar challenges to those addressed by Agile principles, practices and tools, ... -
Agility, Empowerment, and Innovative Work Behaviors
(Master thesis, 2020)Digital market disruption, changing consumer preferences, and the current COVID- 19 crisis require organizations to transform their business models and offerings. Especially large corporations face challenges in creating ... -
AI in Job Search: An Exploratory Study of job seeker’s adoption of AI and its Implications for HR and Recruitment
(Master thesis, 2024)Rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is transforming how we apply for jobs. This study aims to explore the adoption of AI technologies among job seekers and identify factors influencing their use. ... -
Aksjesparekonto: En juridisk og økonomisk analyse av skatteloven § 10-21
(Master thesis, 2018)Temaet for denne avhandlingen er den nylig innførte ordningen med aksjesparekonto, regulert i skatteloven § 10-21 av lov 26. mars 1999 nr. 14. Vi analyserer de juridiske og økonomiske aspektene knyttet til denne nye ... -
Al and traditional forecasting of currency return using Diebold Li factors from commodities
(Master thesis, 2023)This research paper investigates out of sample forecasting AI compared to traditional models. The data used are oil crude futures prices and the currency pair NOK/USD. The crude oil futures prices is transformed to the ...