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Should Developing Countries Establish Petroleum Funds?
(CAMP Working Paper Series;3/2017, Working paper, 2017)Many natural-resource-abundant countries have established petroleum funds as part of their strategy to manage their resource wealth. This paper examines reasons that such funds may be established, discusses how these funds ... -
Sigma Point Filters For Dynamic Nonlinear Regime Switching Models
(CAMP Working Papers Series;4/2015, Working paper, 2015)In this paper we take three well known Sigma Point Filters, namely the Unscented Kalman Filter, the Divided Difference Filter, and the Cubature Kalman Filter, and extend them to allow for a very general class of dynamic ... -
A Simulation Study of the Model Evaluation Criterion MMRE
(Discussion Paper, Working paper, 2002)The Mean Magnitude of Relative Error, MMRE, is probably the most widely used evaluation criterion for assessing the performance of competing software prediction models. It seems obvious that the purpose of MMRE is to assist ... -
Social Capital and the Viability of Stakeholder-Oriented Firms: Evidence from Savings Banks
(CCGR Working Paper;1/2015, Working paper, 2015)We show that social capital improves the viability of stakeholder-oriented firms operating in competitive markets. Studying exits from the population of Norwegian savings banks after deregulations, we find that banks located ... -
Sovereign wealth funds for macroeconomic purposes
(CME Working Papers;4/2012, Working paper, 2012)Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have become more numerous after the turn of the century, but the largest ones have been set up by non-democratic countries in the Middle East and Asia. Norway´s large SWF is an exception. ... -
Stabilt eller robust?
(CME Working Papers;6/2013, Working paper, 2013)Dette arbeidsnotatet består av Månedsbrevet fra årets seks første måneder og Vinterbrevet. (Med Ivar Strompdal som medforfatter): Stabilt eller robust? Elementært, min kjære Watson København i januar Noe må ... -
Standardiserte lederutviklingsmetoder og verktøy
(Discussion Paper, Working paper, 2000)Organisasjoner synes i økende grad å innføre standardiserte ledelsesverktøy utenfra for å møte utfordringer knyttet til økt kompleksitet og endringstakt i omgivelsene. Dette synes å være et paradoks, da økt kompleksitet ... -
Sterk krone - fordi vi fortjener det?
(CME Working paper series;9/2002, Working paper, 2003) -
Stiglitz om globalisering
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The Stochastic Parameter Approach to Residual Income Valuation
(Discussion Paper, Working paper, 2001)In residual income valuation the information dynamics (ID) provides a connection between current observable information and unobservable forecasts of future residual income (RI). Traditionally the ID is formulated as ... -
Stockholder Conflicts and Dividend Payout
(CCGR Working Paper;5/2011, Working paper, 2011)This paper examines how dividend policy influences conflicts of interest between majority and minority stockholders in a large sample of private firms with controlling blockholders. We find that a higher potential for ... -
Strategic Acting as Stagesetting: The Case of Industrial Design
(Discussion Paper, Working paper, 2002)Recent research in strategy, organization theory and industrial marketing is emphasizing the new complexities of gaining a dynamic resource-advantage that can reinvent and differentiate the industrial firm's offerings. ... -
Supply Flexibility in the Shale Patch: Evidence from North Dakota
(CAMP Working Paper Series;2/2017, Working paper, 2017)We analyse if output exibility in oil production depends on the extraction technology. In particular, we ask to what extent shale oil producers respond to price incentives by changing completion of new wells as well as oil ... -
Supply flexibility in the shale patch: Facts, no fiction
(CAMP Working Paper Series;08/2019, Working paper, 2019-11-18)In two recent papers, Kilian and Zhou (2019) and Kilian (2019) have criticized Bjørnland, Nordvik, and Rohrer (2017), arguing that our finding of a large price elasticity of output for shale producers is not credible. We ... -
SW Cost Estimation: Measuring Model Performance of Arbitrary Function Approximators
(Discussion Paper, Working paper, 2002)Estimating software development cost with high accuracy is still a largely unsolved problem. Consequently, there is ongoing, high activity in this research field; a large number of different estimation models ranging from ... -
Tax concerns and agency concerns in dividend policy: Holding companies as a separating device
(CCGR Working Paper;2/2013, Working paper, 2013)Higher dividends may create value by reducing agency costs, but may also destroy value by increasing tax payments. This paper shows empirically how stockholders use holding companies to establish indirect ownership through ... -
Taylor Rules with Endogenous Regimes
(CAMP Working Paper Series;04/2024, Working paper, 2024-05-07)The Fed’s policy rule switches during the different phases of the business cycle. This finding is established using a dynamic mixture model to estimate regime-dependent Taylor-type rules on US quarterly data from 1960 to ... -
The Commission’s internal conditions for social re-regulation: Market efficiency and wider social goals in setting the rules of financial services in Europe
(CEAS Reports;4/2011, Working paper, 2011)With its scarce budgetary resources and institutional logics favouring market-based problemsolving, the European Union (EU) has been considered a prime example of the regulatory state. When and how can we expect the ... -
The Design of the European Central Bank
(CME Working paper series;1/1998, Working paper, 1998)In this article we analyse issues relating to the design of the future European Central Bank. This design is very much influenced by the differences in incentives to join EMU by its prospective members. We. therefore, start ... -
The Dual-Agency Problem Reconsidered: A Strategic Deviance Perspective on the Franchise Form of Organizing
(CCGR Working Paper;1/2010, Working paper, 2010)Drawing on various theoretical streams, including organizational deviance, we propose that a franchisor cannot assess and control opportunism without comparative information from plural form contractual arrangements provided ...