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New Technology-Based Firms’ search for smart investment ties
(Master thesis, 2021)Previous research has taught us a lot about professional investors, how they select investment objectives, how they add value to startups, and the risk factors associated with raising capital from different investors. ... -
New ways of working in high-tech consulting start-ups - How investing in employees returns with yield
(Master thesis, 2020)The consulting industry is gradually evolving, although it is still characterised by commission-based salaries, high levels of competition, and turnover. This paper documents an investigation into the three unconventional ... -
News Impact by Announcement Frequency on the Oslo Stock Exchange
(Master thesis, 2018)This study looks at company-filing return variation with respect to firms’ rate of market communication; the study spans all news-filings for every currently listed company on the Oslo Stock Exchange over the last twenty ... -
Noise and Cognitive Flexibility: Exploring the Moderating Roles of Eastern and Western Perspectives of Mindfulness, and the Mediating Mechanisms of Arousal and Cognitive Processing
(Master thesis, 2018)Using a between-subject experimental design, the current thesis takes an exploratory approach in examining the effects of open-office noise on cognitive flexibility. In attempts of gaining a holistic understanding of ... -
Norges sanksjonering av innsidehandel sammenlignet med Danmark
(Master thesis, 2023)Denne oppgaven tar for seg følgende problemstillinger: Hvordan sanksjoneres innsidehandel i Norge og Danmark, og hvilke likheter og forskjeller er det med hensyn til utmålingen av straff? Oppgaven har som formål å bidra ... -
Norske ikke-profesjonelle investorers oppfatninger og forventninger til revisor, deres oppfatninger og bruk av revisjonsberetningen ved investeringsbeslutninger, samt oppfatninger knyttet til den nye revisjonsberetningen og KAM
(Master thesis, 2018)The audit profession and the audit report have, as a result of several large accounting scandals and the financial crisis of 2007-2008, been subject to large amounts of criticism and the value of auditing has been ... -
Norwegian business athletes : a qualitative study on motivational- and achievement factors among leaders who participate in the Birkebeiner Race
(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
(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
(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
(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 Municipality Reform & The Quality of Politicians
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Not so tall, white, and skinny anymore? How the image-shift in social media advertising affects young women’s happiness.
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Nye forutsetninger for etablering av foretak i Norge
(Master thesis, 2013-02-15)I denne masteroppgaven rettes fokus mot attraktiviteten av selskapsetablering i Norge. Vi ser nærmere på advokat Gudmund Knudsens utredning; Forenkling og modernisering av aksjeloven, som han utarbeidet etter oppdrag ... -
OBX-VIX: The predictability of OBX returns and asymmetric relationship between implied volatility and returns
(Master thesis, 2022)In this paper, we have constructed an implied volatility index for the Norwegian equity market (OBX-VIX). We have tested its properties and have used it to look at the asymmetric relationship between implied volatility and ... -
Oil and Government Expenditures: The Short Run Versus the Long Run Effect
(Master thesis, 2018)Dependency on oil rents (the difference between oil revenue and production cost) may not be sustainable over the short or the long run for oil dependent countries. Oil rents fluctuate with the oil price which is known ...