Browsing Series of Dissertations by Issue Date
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Innovation in Public Services: Wicked Problems and Multi-layered Solutions
(Series of Dissertation;6/2018, Doctoral thesis, 2018)During the last decade, innovation in public services has been addressed as a universal tool for improving existing public services and solving grand social challenges. The problem is that a range of promising concepts ... -
On entrepreneurial teams and their formation in science-based industries
(Series of Dissertation;10/2018, Doctoral thesis, 2018)This thesis focuses on entrepreneurial teams and is positioned in the literature that conceptualize entrepreneurship as a collective action. Writing this PhD thesis could also be explained in the same way. Although it ... -
Essays in Macro-Finance
(Series of Dissertation; 11/2018, Doctoral thesis, 2018)This thesis is motivated by the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008. The financial crises posed a challenge for economics - both in terms of understanding the events that were unfolding and in terms of understanding the ... -
Essays on Market Microstructure
(Series of Dissertation;2/2019, Doctoral thesis, 2019)This dissertation consists of four paper: “Fixing the fix? Assessing the Effectiveness of the 4PM Fix Benchmark”, “Trading strategies and information flow around price benchmarks”, “A note on optimal trade times for financial ... -
All you need is love? Investigating leadership from leaders’ attachment experiences in close relationships
(Series of Dissertation;1/2019, Doctoral thesis, 2019)The influence of Bowlby’s attachment theory on leadership research is growing. Most studies support the view that leaders’ attachment style, mirroring their experiences with significant others (e.g., parents) early in life, ... -
Three essays on family firms
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Family businesses are important in many economies worldwide. One reason family firms pique many researchers' interest is the interplay of family and business. Decisions made within family firms often reflect business as ... -
Some Consequences of Vulnerability in Consumers' Life
(Series of Dissertations;07/2021, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Under the label of consumer vulnerability, researchers have included a variety of studies that focus on consumers who face challenging situations in the marketplace because of consumers’ individual characteristics (e.g., ... -
Institutions, Policy Risk, and Firms Behavior. Foreign Investments in High-Risk Countries.
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This dissertation investigates the relationship between host country institution-related (policy) risks and firms' international investment strategies. The dissertation consists of four essays. Essay 1 contributes to a ... -
Reconnecting Leader-Member Exchange and Social Exchange Theory
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Leader–member exchange (LMX) theory originally has strong theoretical ties with social exchange theory (SET) (Liden, Sparrowe, & Wayne, 1997). Still, several scholars have argued that the connection to SET has been lacking ... -
The Macroeconomic Consequences of the Green Transition
(Series of Dissertations;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Chapter 1: Climate Risk and Commodity Currencies – by Felix Kapfhammer, Vegard H. Larsen and Leif Anders Thorsrud Abstract: Climate change increases the likelihood of extreme climate- and weather-related events, but also ... -
Essays in prediction, expectation, formation, and labor economics
(Series of Dissertations;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)News media versus FRED-MD for macroeconomic forecasting (Jon Ellingsen, Vegard Larsen, Leif Anders Thorsrud) Abstract: Using a unique dataset of 22.5 million news articles from the Dow Jones Newswires Archive, we perform ... -
Essay on the determinants of oil, and the post-oil era and democracy
(Series of Dissertations;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Quantifying supply-side climate policies (by: Lassi Ahlvik, Jørgen Juel Andersen, Jonas Hveding Hamang, Torfinn Harding) Abstract: What are the effects of supply-side climate policies? We use global company-level data ...