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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 ... -
Personaliseringens kraft: TikToks innflytelse på forbrukernes kjøpsatferd
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Vi har i denne bacheloroppgaven valgt å undersøke hvordan personalisering på TikTok påvirker forbrukeres kjøpsatferd, med følgende problemstilling: «Hvordan påvirker personalisering på TikTok forbrukernes kjøpsatferd?». ... -
Personality & Job Performance in the Sales Occupation: Exploring the Mediating Roles of Affective Commitment & Service Quality Orientation
(Master thesis, 2019)The purpose of this study was to gain deeper knowledge of how personality affects job performance in the sales occupation in a Norwegian context. Existing research has established evidence of a relationship between ... -
Personality and demographic correlates of political ideology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper was concerned with “bright” and “dark-side” personality trait correlates of political beliefs. In a series of three studies we asked people to rate their political beliefs on a simple, single, left-right, ... -
Personality and performance ratings in a military training context : a study of personality predictions of interview ratings of leader potential, and military performance in a longitudinal perspective
(Master thesis, 2017)The use of personality assessments is increasing in popularity. However, personality assessments are relatively seldom used as a selection method in the Norwegian Armed Forces. The purpose of this study was to investigate ... -
Personality and political orientation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This study examined the incremental validity of the Big-Five personality traits over primarily demographic factors in predicting Left-Right political orientation (PO) in a large British adult sample. Gender and trait ... -
Personality and wealth
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)To what extent do personality traits predict wealth in adulthood over and above standard demographic factors? In all 3240 adults in the UK completed a Big Five personality test and reported on their property wealth, savings ... -
Personality at home vs. work: Does framing for work increase predictive validity of the Dark Triad on work outcomes?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In a between subject design 903 people completed a robust Dark Triad and a Big Five trait measure and each group was asked to report their behaviour in two situations: at work or in general. Those individuals that were ... -
Personality correlates of passive-aggressiveness: a NEO-PI-R domain and facet analysis of the HDS Leisurely scale
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: This study looked at the relationship between “bright-side” and “dark-side” personality variables by focusing on the controversial trait of Passive-Aggressiveness. Around 4800 British adults completed the ... -
Personality Facets and Intelligence: Compensation and Investment
(Journal article, 2023)This paper revisits the issue of the relationship between personality (the Big Five traits), measured at domain and facet level, and intelligence using two general measures of intelligence. The samples under investigation ... -
Personality traits and achievement motives: Theoretical and empirical relations between the NEO Personality Inventory-revised and the Achievment Motives Scale
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)Theoretical and empirical relations between personality traits and motive dispositions were investigated by comparing scores of 3 15 undergraduate psychology students on the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised and the ... -
Personality Traits and Socio-Demographic Variables as Predictors of Political Interest and Voting Behavior in a British Cohort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study examines the associations between socio-demographic variables, the Big Five personality traits, and the extent of political interest as well as voting behavior, in a large, nationally representative sample in ...