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Do Central Banks Respond to Exchange Rate Movements? A Markov-Switching Structural Investigation of Commodity Exporters and Importers
(CAMP Working Paper Series;12/2020, Working paper, 2021-01-25)We analyse whether central banks in small open commodity exporting and importing countries respond to exchange rate movements, taking into consideration that there may be structural changes in parameters and volatility ... -
Do central banks respond to exchange rate movements? A Markov-switching structural investigation of commodity exporters and importers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)We analyse whether central banks in small open commodity exporting and importing countries respond to exchange rate movements, taking into consideration that there may be structural changes in parameters and volatility. ... -
Do CEO dismissal improve financial performance?: An empirical study of companies in the S&P 1500 Index
(Master thesis, 2022)There has been a drastic increase in CEO dismissals in recent years. This paper studies the effects a CEO dismissal has on financial performance in light of a company’s corporate governance to see if the increase in ... -
Do Commodities Lead Stock Market Industries?
(Master thesis, 2022)This paper investigates whether the price changes in commodity futures can predict the stock price movements in US industries. Our estimated risk premia indicate that a large number of commodity futures do lead specific ... -
Do differences in perception exist between men and women in competition for higher- level job positions and does choice architecture in competition play a role in exacerbating or mitigating these differences?
(Master thesis, 2023)In recent years, the global workforce has undergone large transformations leading to an intensified focus on workplace competition and its interplay with gender dynamics. The aim of achieving harmonious and inclusive ... -
Do divestment rates of foreign and domestic acquisitions differ?
(Master thesis, 2016)This thesis investigates whether there is a difference in the divestment rates of cross-border and domestic acquisitions of Norwegian subsidiaries acquired in 2004. The sample consisted of 101 acquisitions traced over ... -
Do expert patients get better treatment than others? Agency discrimination and statistical discrimination in obstetrics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)We address models that can explain why expert patients (obstetricians, midwives and doctors) are treated better than non-experts (mainly non-medical training). Models of statistical discrimination show that benevolent ... -
Do Family-Owned Firms Perform Better than Non-Family-Owned Firms?
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis examines the performance of family-owned and non-family-owned firms in Norway from 2000-2015. The performance differences are compared using return on assets (ROA) as the indicator of firm performance. The ... -
Do financial celebrities affect stock prices?
(Master thesis, 2012-05-09)Through the media, there seems to be general consensus that financial celebrities affect stock prices. We investigate this issue by studying the mandatory notifications of trade and the corresponding stock returns on OSE ... -
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 Ideals Differ and Matter? An Investigation of Authentic Leadership Ideals Among Norwegian Military Officers Across Generations – and Its Impact on Leadership Practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The aim of the present study was to learn more about the content of leadership ideals among Norwegian military officers, and to what degree such ideals influence the officers’ actual leadership practice. We have also ... -
Do industry-specific accounting standards matter for capital allocation decisions?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines whether the implementation of industry-specific accounting standards helps capital market participants in making decisions about providing capital to firms. We predict and find an, on average, increase ... -
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 ...