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Do financial synergies explain corporate spin-offs?
(Master thesis, 2017)This paper investigates the role of financial synergies as precursors of spin-offs. Our sample includes 106 parent firms that spun-off a subsidiary during the period 1983-2015. The results highlight that negative financial ... -
Do following celebrity investors earn abnormal returns? : A study from Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE)
(Master thesis, 2017)The main purpose of this thesis is to study the possibility of earning abnormal returns by following celebrity investor transactions. It could appear through the media that there is a general consensus that financial ... -
Do Green Forerunners Perform Better? An Empirical Investigation of the Global Shipping Stock Market
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis studies the relationship between the financial and environmental performance of global tanker and dry bulk shipping stocks between 2016 and 2022. We construct two different green stock portfolios consisting ... -
Do hidden liabilities unravel the credit spread puzzle?
(Master thesis, 2017)This work is based on the so-called “Credit Spread Puzzle” phenomenon. It suggests a new way to deal with the phenomenon, namely, the consideration of hidden debt in specific firms’ balance sheets. This information serves ... -
Do Insiders know best? : A study of reported insider trades in the Norwegian and Swedish Stock Market.
(Master thesis, 2018)In this thesis we investigate insider trading on Oslo and Stockholm stock market. We analyze 2515 insider trades in Norway from 21.09.2010 - 20.12.2017 and 3825 trades in Sweden from 01.01.2014 - 09.02.2017. To observe ... -
Do Institutions Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are? Empirical evidence from analysts' stock recommendations, their firms' ex-ante holding and ex-post trading
(Master thesis, 2023)I empirically study the relationship between analysts' stock recommendations and their affiliated institutions' ex-ante holding and ex-post trading. I use data of 1,014,720 stock recommendations issued by analysts from 80 ... -
Do loan-to-value requirements matter for local house prices in Norway?
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis we look at the effect of loan-to-value (LTV) requirements on the Norwegian housing market during 2010-2013. We test how and to what extend this macroprudential policy would affect local areas with typically ... -
Do macroeconomic factors affect U.S. stock market returns?
(Master thesis, 2018)Macroeconomic factors and their influence on stock returns is a widely discussed topic in both previous and recent academic literature. In this paper, we examine whether macroeconomic factors affect U.S. stock market ... -
Do managerial incentives prevent value-destroying acquisitions?
(Master thesis, 2019)This paper examines how managerial incentives affect certain deal characteristics in acquisitions and how these characteristics are related to announcement returns and shareholder wealth. Based on our own results and ... -
Do Marketing Professionals Care about the Pareto Principle?
(Master thesis, 2021)The purpose of this thesis is to explore whether and how marketing practitioners use the Pareto Principle by studying the thesis statement: “The Pareto Principle: The opportunities and consequences for FMCG brands of ... -
Do Norwegian start-ups and smaller business benefit from being located in an area serviced by a local savings bank?
(Master thesis, 2017)We examine the effect of the Norwegian bank industry consolidation, and consequent decrease in local savings banks, on the survival and growth of small businesses. The analysis uses year-by-year financial information for ... -
Do serial acquirers perform better than first-time acquirers? – A study in the perspective of Norwegian acquirers
(Master thesis, 2019)Using a sample of 26 Norwegian merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, we empirically investigate if serial acquirers perform better than first-time acquirers, focusing on learning and post-merger integration (PMI) ... -
Do sports facilities increases activity in sports clubs?
(Master thesis, 2020)Sports and sports activity have been an essential factor in my childhood, and as a grownup, I see the importance of sports activity. In this master thesis, I have investigated how the number of sports facilities affects ... -
Do stocks outperform Treasury bills?
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis highlights the important role of positively skewed short horizon stock returns, and the effect of compounding on the long-term return distribution. I show that the majority of individual common stocks deliver ... -
Do Sustainable Mutual Funds Offer Protection in Times of Market Instability?
(Master thesis, 2021)Our thesis examines the nancial performance of open-ended mutual funds with a Morningstar Sustainability rating from January 2015 to December 2020. We use four di erent factor models to investigate whether the hypothesis ... -
Do US Managers Cater to Investor Demand for Dividends?
(Master thesis, 2023)We investigate whether managers cater to investor preferences when demand for dividend-paying stocks is high, implementing a simple model developed by Baker and Wurgler (2004a). Expanding upon their work, we extend the ... -
Do values, attitudes, and social norms play a role in younger Norwegian consumers’ intention towards fish consumption?
(Master thesis, 2021)Generation Z and millennials, have listed environmental consciousness as their top personal concerns. However, the theory shows that there is a gap between consumers' attitude and behavior related to behaving environmentally ... -
Do we have a problem: The effects of individual- and team level problem construction on team creativity
(Master thesis, 2018)In this experimental study, we examined the effects of problem construction – one of the creative problem-solving processes held to influence creativity – in teams and the resulting creativity of team output. Fifty-six ... -
Does a master’s degree at BI generate added value for a bachelor’s graduate?
(Master thesis, 2021)The aim of our master thesis is to investigate whether taking a master’s degree at BI Norwegian Business School generates added value in terms of lifetime salary earnings for a bachelor graduate. In addition, we plan to ... -
Does Africa grow differently?
(Master thesis, 2014-01-28)