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Can fundamental factors justify the Norwegian house price development in recent years?
(Master thesis, 2023)This master thesis investigates if the recent run-up in Norwegian house prices can be justified by the development in fundamental factors. By estimating a model of house prices from 1990Q2 until 2022Q4, we find that lending ... -
Can fundamental factors justify the Norwegian house price development in recent years?
(Master thesis, 2023)This master thesis investigates if the recent run-up in Norwegian house prices can be justified by the development in fundamental factors. By estimating a model of house prices from 1990Q2 until 2022Q4, we find that lending ... -
Can investment strategies with ESG integration explain enhanced financial performance?
(Master thesis, 2018)There has been a remarkable growth in the alternative investment segment “responsible investing”. Responsible investing can sometimes be described by the acronym ESG, Environmental, Social, and Governance. In spite of ... -
Can Norway become a net-zero economy under scenarios of tourism growth?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The Paris Agreement suggests that all countries engage in significant emission reductions. To stay within safe guardrails, usually defined as a maximum warming of 1.5 °C compared to pre-industrial times, this will mean ... -
Can Paying Politicians Well Reduce Corruption? The Effects of Wages and Uncertainty on Electoral Competition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We investigate the effects of wages and uncertainty on political corruption as measured by rent-taking. First, our laboratory data show that contrary to standard theory, rent-taking is not independent of, but decreases ... -
Can project managers signature strengths enhance project team resilience, and if so, how?
(Master thesis, 2016)Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between signature strengths and the development and strengthening of resilience in teams within a project setting. More specifically, this thesis ... -
Can Protection Motivation Theory and Moral Licensing Explain Consumer Behaviour During the Covid-19 Pandemic?
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis addresses how protection motivation theory and moral licensing can explain consumer behaviour in times of crisis, using the Covid-19 pandemic as a context for the research. The results of 53 in-depth interviews ... -
Can sponsorships connected to transgender cause be beneficial? The Impact a Controversial Statement made by a Sponsored Athlete has on a Sponsor’s Brand Judgments
(Master thesis, 2020)This study examines the effect of a sponsored athlete's controversial statement about M-W transgenders competing in women’s sports has on a sponsor’s brand judgment. A conjoint analysis was executed to investigate the ... -
Can sustainability criteria enhance returns and reduce risk on stocks?
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis investigates whether sustainability criteria can be used to enhance return and reduce risk on stocks. This is done through conducting an empirical analysis on European stocks from 2007-2016, with the purpose ... -
Can Taylor rule fundamentals predict the usd/nok exchange rate?
(Master thesis, 2017)The objective of this paper is to offer new insight to the exchange rate literature by examining the predictability of the USD/NOK exchange rate. Using Taylor rule fundamentals as a predictor, we examine exchange ... -
Can transparency strengthen the legitimacy of international institutions? Evidence from the UN Security Council
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Can transparency enhance the legitimacy of international institutions? As transparency has become a widely applied procedural standard in international politics, a range of institutions have implemented transparency reforms ... -
Can Western interorganizational governance mechanisms be applied to a guanxi-based market?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Purpose — The emergence of “interorganizational marketing” as a hot topic leads to one key question: can interorganizational governance mechanisms (socialization, incentives, and monitoring) offered by marketing theory be ... -
Can you feel their pain? Examining the relationship between the mental simulation of visceral states and the willingness to donate to a charitable organization
(Master thesis, 2018)People's behavior is heavily influenced by the visceral state they are experiencing. Previous research has found that mental simulation can act as substitute for real experiences. This study combines these two concepts ... -
Can you tell from my grades that I am a blogger?
(Chapter, 2020)From 2009 to 2013 writing blog posts, and commenting on each other’s blog posts, was a mandatory course requirement for the students of the subject ØMF101 Administrative Informasjonssystemer (Management Information Systems) ... -
Can you use oil and natural gas prices to forecast the norwegian krone?
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis studies if we can use a commodity prices, namely oil and gas to forecast the NOK/USD exchange using data at a monthly frequency. We analyze the commodities predictive ability through two main models. The first ... -
Canada Goose
(CME Working paper series;3/2006, Working paper, 2006)Reisebrev fra Kina, desember 2005 av Arne Jon Isachsen. Først i Shanghai hvor undervisning av kinesiske studenter og samtaler med kinesisk LO stod på tapetet. Deretter til Beijing hvor drøftelser med økonomer i Kinas ... -
Cancel Culture vs Offentliga personer
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats är att undersöka fenomenets inverkan på “cancel culture” och offentliga personer och dess bransch rädsla för att bli “cancelled ”. Vi gör denna forskning genom att använda en kvalitativ ... -
Candidate Personality Traits Associated with Ratings in a Military Officer Selection Setting
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While studies of the relationship between applicant personality and selection assessment ratings are widespread within personnel psychology, studies on military samples are scarcer. The current study aimed to investigate ... -
The Capability to Commercialize Network Products in Telecommunication
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2007)When we consider buying food, clothes or furniture we normally appraise the goods based upon our personal needs independent of the number of other people who have bought or use the same type of item. Some types of goods, ... -
Cape vs the fed model: comparative analysis of the out-of-sample performance in predicting future stock returns
(Master thesis, 2017)The goal of this thesis is to compare the out-of-sample performance in predicting future stock returns of the Fed model and Shiller's cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio (CAPE). The two models are also augmented with ...