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Perceptions of non-price criteria in pharmaceutical tenders: A case study on the Norwegian market for generic antibiotics
(Master thesis, 2022)Described as one of the cornerstones of modern society, the availability of antibiotics is crucial. A worrying trend is a drastic decrease in suppliers and producers (Roland Berger, 2018), and the increased frequency of ... -
Perceptions of Potential White-Collar Criminals in Romania: A Convenience Theory Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article presents survey research in Romania to identify support or lack of support for propositions in convenience theory as they relate to motive, opportunity, and willingness. The research is important, as ... -
Perfect bidder collusion through bribe and request
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)We study collusion in a second-price auction with two bidders in a dynamic environment. One bidder can make a take-it-or-leave-it collusion proposal, which consists of both an offer and a request of bribes, to the opponent. ... -
Performance and Conflict Minerals: A study on corporate due diligence and market effects from the Dodd-Frank Act Section 1502
(Master thesis, 2019)In July of 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law. December 15th of 2010, Section 1502 was announced to be amended in the legislation. The goal behind this particular ... -
Performance drivers of nordic private equity funds
(Master thesis, 2013-02-18)In his paper we investigate the performance determinants of Nordic private equity funds. In this study we look at the industry at the fund level as opposed to the portfolio company level. To proxy for performance, we use ... -
Performance evaluation of single and multi-class production systems using an approximating queuing network
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Performance evaluation, and in particular cycle time estimation, is critical to optimise production plans in high-tech manufacturing industries. This paper develops a new aggregation model based on queuing network, so-called ... -
Performance in Private Equity and Strategic Acquisitions: Evidence from the United Kingdom
(Master thesis, 2023)The global M&A market has grown remarkably from 2013 to 2017, with a 45% increase in the number of deals and a 320% growth in total value (Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances, 2023)[39]. The major industries ... -
Performance Management: Perceiving Goals as Invariable and Implications for Perceived Job Autonomy and Work Performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-12)In this study, we investigated whether perceiving goals as invariable is negatively related to work performance and whether this relationship is mediated by perceived job autonomy. Perceiving goals as invariable refers to ... -
Performance measurement in Lean Construction
(Master thesis, 2019)The construction industry accounted for approximately 16% of Norway's GDP in 2018, and a well-functioning and efficient industry is thus of great importance (Øye, 2019). However, it is commonly recognized that the ... -
Performance of mutual funds during the Covid-19 pandemic compared to the 2008 financial crisis
(Master thesis, 2021)Throughout this thesis we have investigated the American and Norwegian mutual funds’ performance by employing Jensen’s alpha (1968), Fama and French’s Threefactor model (1993), Carhart’s Four-factor model (1997), Fama ... -
The Performance of Nordic ESG Mutual Funds
(Master thesis, 2021)This paper seeks to answer if the Nordic investor pays the price of ethics when investing in Nordic ESG funds. Over the 2010-2020 period, we take the perspective of a Nordic investor and compare the risk and return of ... -
Performance of Nordic Sin Stocks
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the performance of Nordic sin stocks between 2005 and 2022. We study the risk adjusted returns of sin stocks and compare them against returns from comparable stocks. We apply various risk adjustment ... -
The Performance of Private Equity Funds - An empirical study on the performance of private equity funds with European managers, private equity firm expertise, and the impact of macroeconomic crise
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis studies the absolute and relative performance of European private equity funds, using a data set of 417 buyout funds raised between 1999 and 2016. The average European private equity fund provides annual ... -
Performance- vs. mastery-oriented digital feedback in simulation training: An experimental research approach
(Master thesis, 2019)This study inspects the potential relationships between performance-, and mastery-orientated digital feedback, and perceptions of fairness, and relevance of feedback received during simulation training. We also included ... -
Perinatal mortality in non-western migrants in Norway as compared to their countries of birth and to Norwegian women
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Background A large number of women from countries with a high perinatal mortality rate (PMR) settle in countries with a low PMR. We compared the PMRs for migrants in Norway with the PMRs in their countries of birth. We ... -
Perish or prosper: Trade patterns for highly perishable seafood products
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years trade with highly perishable agricultural products like fresh fish, berries, and cut flowers has increased substantially. The perishability of these products appears to challenge conventional wisdom when ... -
Permisjonsvenn
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)I denne bacheloroppgaven har vi utarbeidet en kampanjeplan på vegne av Røde Kors Akershus og prosjektet “permisjonsvenn for innsatte”. Bakgrunnen for kampanjen er at organisasjonen har hatt en lav oppslutning blant ... -
Pernicious Polychorics: The Impact and Detection of Underlying Non-normality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Ordinal data in social science statistics are often modeled as discretizations of a multivariate normal vector. In contrast to the continuous case, where SEM estimation is also consistent under non-normality, violation of ... -
Persistent rent extraction
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Representative democracy does not necessarily eliminate political corruption. Existing models explain the survival of rent-taking politicians by ideological divisions in the electorate and/or informational asymmetries. The ... -
Person-Organization Fit in a military selection context
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The goal of personnel selection is to find predictors that, together, maximize the explained variance in important job outcomes such as Task Performance or Work Engagement. Common predictors include Intelligence and Big ...