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    • The Financial Cost of Sustainable Investing in the Nordic Region 

      Nguyen, Hoang-Dung; Smaamo, Joachim (Master thesis, 2019)
      This master thesis investigates whether there are financial costs associated with sustainable investing with a focus on the Nordic stock market. We apply two different models to test our hypotheses. Firstly, inspired by ...

    • The Financial Value Added from Petroleum-Fund Mechanism 

      Dahle, Heidi; Granheim, Gine Andrea (Master thesis, 2018)
      In this thesis, we quantify the financial value added by reallocating petroleum revenues from oil reserves to the Government Pension Fund Global. By making a comparable scenario of a hypothetical oil reserve with ...

    • The Fiscal Incentive of GHG Cap and Trade: Permits May Be Too Cheap and Developed Countries May Abate Too Little 

      Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Greaker, Mads (CAMP Working Papers Series;9/2014, Working paper, 2014)
      The theoretical justification for a greenhouse gas (GHG) cap and trade system is that participants will trade emission permits until their marginal cost of abatement equals the equilibrium price of emission permits. However, ...

    • The fiscal incentive of GHG cap and trade: Permits may be too cheap and developed countries may abate too little 

      Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Greaker, Mads (Working paper, 2014)
      The theoretical justification for a greenhouse gas (GHG) cap and trade system is that participants will trade emission permits until their marginal cost of abatement equals the equilibrium price of emission permits. ...

    • The Five-Factor Asset Pricing Model: A Corporate Finance Point of View 

      Priganica, Dino; Rashid, Ikram Ul-Haq (Master thesis, 2018)
      Derivations of the ‘Terminal Value of Free Cash Flow’-formula (Koller & Goedhart, 2015) show that the return on investment capital is a key driver of firm value. This implies that the investment factors from well-established ...

    • The flipped classroom and cooperative learning: Evidence from a randomised experiment 

      Foldnes, Njål (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This article describes a study which compares the effectiveness of the flipped classroom relative to the traditional lecturebased classroom.We investigated two implementations of the flipped classroom. The first implementation ...

    • The Flow of Digital Labor 

      Bucher, Eliane; Fieseler, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Digital microwork is a type of labor that many—typically poorly paid—workers engage in. In our research, we focus on an experience-based model of digital labor and the nonmonetary benefits derived from such activities. ...

    • The foreign exchange market : can order flow improve a currency carry trade? 

      Aasvestad, Cecilie; Larsen, Unni (Master thesis, 2013-02-05)
      The objective of this master thesis is to examine if a currency carry trade can be improved by accounting for order flow. We construct a carry trade strategy by pairing the three highest interest rate currencies to the ...

    • The form of government and fiscal dynamics 

      Andersen, Jørgen Juel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Using a combination of time-series variation in oil prices and cross-section variation in the oil intensity of countries, this paper investigates whether exogenous shifts in the government revenues a¤ect the government ...

    • The four horsemen of terrorism: it’s not waves, it’s strains 

      Parker, Tom; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      David Rapoport’s concept of four waves of terrorism, from anarchist terrorism in the 1880s, through nationalist and Marxist waves in the early and mid-Twentieth Century, to the present religious wave, is one of the most ...

    • The function of managers’ job crafting in their subordinates’ role overload and role ambiguity. 

      Pulkownik, Nina (Master thesis, 2019)
      This study builds on the literature from the research area of job crafting and job demands-resources perspective. It advances the current knowledge of the topic of job crafting with its possible disadvantages by taking ...

    • The fundamental-derived equity premium 

      Mellingen, Vegard; Kleiven, Agnethe (Master thesis, 2013-02-13)
      We investigate Fama and French’s (2002) fundamental-derived dividend growth model in 13 markets for the 1970-2011 period. We find that in most of the markets the dividend growth model produces both lower and more precise ...

    • The Future of the Regulatory State: Adaptation, Transformation or Demise? 

      Lodge, Martin; Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;1/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      This short paper is meant to provide for some background ideas to motivate discussions during our workshop. It therefore seeks to make a few short (and hopefully somewhat provocative) points. The idea of the ‘regulatory ...

    • The Future Role of Forest-Based Biofuels: Industrial Impacts in the Nordic Countries 

      Jåstad, Eirik Ogner; Bolkesjø, Torjus Folsland; Rørstad, Per Kr.; Midttun, Atle; Sandquist, Judit; Trømborg, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This study applies a partial equilibrium forest sector model to analyse the impacts of biofuel deployment for road transport in the Nordic countries, when alternative use of the biomass resources and transport sector ...

    • The Generalized Burnside Theorem in Noncommutative Deformation Theory 

      Eriksen, Eivind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Let A be an associative algebra over a field k, and let be a finite family of right A-modules. A study of the noncommutative deformation functor Def of the family leads to the construction of the algebra A() of observables ...

    • The global value chain and internalization theory 

      Benito, Gabriel R G; Petersen, Bent; Welch, Lawrence S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In a research note in this issue, Strange and Humphrey discuss how a global value chain (GVC) approach serves to usefully move internalization theory towards a better understanding of the increasingly important ‘middle ...

    • The Governance and Finance of Norwegian Family Firms: Main Characteristics of the Population 

      Berzins, Janis; Bøhren, Øyvind; Stacescu, Bogdan (CCGR Research Report;01/2018, Working paper, 2018-06)

    • The governance of horizontal leadership in projects 

      Pilkienė, Margarita; Alonderienė, Raimonda; Chmieliauskas, Alfredas; Šimkonis, Saulius; Müller, Ralf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Using the framework of balanced leadership in projects, we explore how horizontal leadership is governed. Previous research in project governance has focused on control and trust as the main mechanisms of governance. We ...

    • The governance of knowledge in project-based organizations 

      Pemsel, Sofia; Müller, Ralf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This research investigates patterns of knowledge governance practices in project-based organizations (PBOs). Five propositions about knowledge governance in PBOs were deductively and empirically tested using qualitative ...

    • The Government pension fund global : an analysis of the climate change strategy in the period 2006 to 2012 

      Myhrvold, Nayen Bacci (Master thesis, 2013-02-15)
      This thesis in Political Economy is a case study of the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) and the climate change strategy in the period 2006 to 2012. Climate change is a topic of growing interest among investors, and ...