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Breaking Barriers and Rising to the Top: An Exploration of the Factors and Strategies that Shape the Emergence of Female Leaders in Norway
(Master thesis, 2023)Norway is recognized as one of the leading countries in achieving gender parity. Still, women continue to be underrepresented in top leadership positions compared to male peers. Although several theories have been proposed ... -
Measuring price elasticities with a difference-in-difference design: Investigating the North-South electricity spot price gap in Norway
(Master thesis, 2023)This study uses spot price and municipality-level electricity consumption panel data spanning around three years to derive short run estimates of the price elasticity of electricity demand (PEED) for the Norwegian ... -
The Influence of Yield Curve Factors on the Conditional Distribution of Equity Risk Premia
(Master thesis, 2023)This paper examines the efficacy of how certain yield curve factors, namely the level, slope, and curvature, can predict the shape of cumulative return distributions in equity markets. We utilise the GAMLSS framework to ... -
Development of electricity price hedging with futures
(Master thesis, 2023)Given the recent volatility of electricity prices, this thesis aims to determine if the findings on electricity price hedging using futures are consistent with previous research. This paper will study the effectiveness ... -
Underestimated ABG in Sustainable Fashion: Recalling Brand Names Alters the Predictiue Power of Attitude on Purchase
(Master thesis, 2023)Whether attitude is a good predictor of purchase has been widely discussed in sustainable literature. With an aim to examine if the predictive power of attitude to behaviour is exaggerated in current sustainable fashion ... -
The effects on the financial statement of and adoption of IFRS from NGAAP
(Master thesis, 2023)Previous research has been done on the effects of the mandatory transition to International Financial Reporting Standard for listed companies in the EU/EEA in 2005. This thesis wants to provide an updated view of the ... -
Application of procurement methods in humanitarian supply chains
(Master thesis, 2023)The increasing number of crises in recent times has put tremendous pressure on humanitarian organizations and their procurement functions. While striving to streamline supplies for humanitarian operations, procurement ... -
The Power of Sentiment and Attention: Twitter and Google Trends as predictors of stock returns
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis examines the impact of Twitter sentiment and Google Trends-derived investor attention on stock returns of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla. Spanning from January 1, 2018, to February 1, 2023, we extracted ... -
Applying Salience Theory to Momentum Strategies: Euidence from The Norwegian Equity Market 1992-2022
(Master thesis, 2023)This study examines whether conventional momentum strategies can be improved when different percentages of stocks with the highest (lowest) salience theory values are removed from the top (bottom) decile portfolios in the ... -
Supply chain network design for carbon capture, transportation and storage
(Master thesis, 2023)Climate change, mainly caused by greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), has become one of the most significant challenges facing humanity. Meanwhile, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are recognized as the primary contributor to ... -
How were developing (low-income) countries economically affected by the covid-19 pandemic compared to industrial (high- income) countries?
(Master thesis, 2023)In this paper, I wish to investigate how developing, low-income, countries and industrial, high-income, countries have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. First, I will discuss the GDP growth per capita in both country ... -
Comparative Advantages of a Master's Degree in Business: Wage Disparities and Overeducation among Norwegian Graduates
(Master thesis, 2023)This research aims to investigate the comparative advantages of pursuing a master's degree in business ("Siviløkonom") over a bachelor's degree in terms of businessrelated proficiencies and professional outcomes among ... -
Exploring the Causal Link between Early Life Experiences and Risk-Taking Behavior: Evidence from Venture Capitalists
(Master thesis, 2023)This master thesis examines the causal relationship between early-life exposure to natural disasters and risk-taking behavior among venture capital investors. Drawing on a comprehensive literature review, we define specific ... -
An Analysis of the Financial Performance of Companies Rated Best Places to Work Compared to the Market Index: A Comparative Study Pre and Post Covid-19
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the performance of companies ranked on Glassdoor´s UK Best Places to Work list from 2017 to 2022, with a particular focus on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. By analysing this recent period, ... -
Effects of Emissions on Financial Performance in Global Energy Companies, Considering Firm-, Sector- and Country Characteristics
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the relationship between environmental performance measured by emissions and financial performance in the energy industry, focusing on the link between scope 1 and 2 emissions and financial indicators ... -
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 ... -
The Risk and Return Characteristics of the U.S. Treasury Basis Trade
(Master thesis, 2023)We conduct an analysis of the risk and return characteristics of the U.S. Treasury basis trade by regressing the strategy returns of the 2-year, 5-year and 10-year futures contracts on a variety of bond and equity market ... -
Kan brudd på utsatt offentliggjering innebære markedsmanipulasjon?
(Master thesis, 2023)denne masteroppgaven har vi ut ifra en rettsdogmatisk analyse tatt for oss problemstillingen om et brudd på utsatt offentliggjøring kan innebære markedsmanipulasjon. Problemstillingen tar utgangspunkt i to av de mest ... -
A Contribution to the Validation of TOP: Measuring the Dark Triad of Personality at Work
(Master thesis, 2023)This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of The Dark Triad of Personality at Work (TOP) and its associations with the Big Five, and relations to counterproductive academic behavior ... -
Navigating the Intricacies of Greenwashing Across Digital Formats: An Examination of Non-Greenwashing and Greenwashing Posts in Visual and Textual Contexts.
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis seeks to bridge a research gap concerning the credibility of greenwashing in digital channels. It does so by exploring lifelike scenarios in the form of visual content—represented through brand awareness posts—and ...