• Going Against a Pandemic: Persuasive Messages on Benefits for the Common Good or Individuals to Encourage Data Disclosure to Disease Spread Apps 

  Mørch, Camila Sneli (Master thesis, 2021)

  Currently, the world is experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic. The widespread virus has motivated the development of monitoring systems that identify those infected by COVID-19 to warn whoever has been in contact with ...

• HR analytics and Organizational Performance 

  Henriksen, Kristin Gorseth; Johansson, Sara Heidi Helene (Master thesis, 2021)

  This master thesis explores the utilization of HR analytics in organizations. As research has presented distinct and partly opposing results regarding HR analytics, our aim was to study whether previous research aligns ...

• False positive reduction endeavors with automated feature engineering 

  Thorsen, Fabian; Kopperud, Adrian (Master thesis, 2021)

  Credit card fraud has been a problem for decades, and with the booming trend of online shopping fraud losses expected to rise for every year to come. Fraud detection systems often generate more false positives than true ...

• Selective Startups: The importance of partnering experience on new ventures’ learning outcomes from collaboration with established ventures 

  Gaarder, Maren; Løkås, Kristin Amanda (Master thesis, 2021)

  The blue economy has been recognized for its potential to meet future requirements and represent immense opportunities for economic growth, employment and sustainable development. Emerging ocean industries are particularly ...

• Can Protection Motivation Theory and Moral Licensing Explain Consumer Behaviour During the Covid-19 Pandemic? 

  Gjørv, Malin Albertsen; Andersen, Thea-Elise Stensrød (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 ...

• The Norwegian Municipality Reform & The Quality of Politicians 

  Eide, Asbjørn Korpberget; Riise, Martin Bergh (Master thesis, 2021)

  This master thesis investigates how the local government reform affected the quality of local politicians in Norway. Quality is measured by education level and ability score measured by a regression on income, where we ...

• Extracting Sentiment of Selected Twitter Accounts and Considering Its Relationship with the S&P 500 Index 

  Sveen, Henrik; Cyrusian, Sepehr (Master thesis, 2021)

  Twitter is a source of streaming data. In this thesis, we examine whether and to what extent we can find a relationship between the sentiment of selected Twitter accounts and the S&P 500 index. This thesis uses data from ...

• ERM usage and value premium for Norwegian firms 

  Hauge, Petter Ankervold; Haug, Ole Fredrik Leganger (Master thesis, 2021)

  This thesis examines the effect of risk management on firm value. We test our main hypothesis that the implementation of ERM provides a value premium relative to TRM usage. By identifying ERM and TRM usage in Norwegian ...

• Liquidity Frictions in Convertible Bond Arbitrage: Evidence from the US 

  Bartok, Mads Arnø; Haugen, Erik Tesli (Master thesis, 2021)

  We study Over-The-Counter (OTC) market frictions in the convertible bond arbitrage strategy. using noise and intermediary risk factors, in the US. We analyze two hedge fund indices, the convertible arbitrage indices of ...

• How does ESG affect the financial performance of oil and gas companies relative to traditional firm characteristics? - An empirical examination of oil and gas companies in Europe 

  Danielsen, Atle Alexander; Lilland, Jesper Fedde (Master thesis, 2021)

  This thesis investigates potential indicators of financial performance on European oil and gas companies. With the use of panel data regressions, it seeks to detect potential significant effects of traditional firm ...

• Excise Duties and Cross-border Trade 

  Løchen, Hanna (Master thesis, 2021)

  In this thesis I study the influence Norwegian excise have on the Norwegian/Swedish cross-border trade. I highlight relevant literatue and construct models to explain the consumer behavior mechanisms. I then run an OLS ...

• Grunnrentebeskatning av Havbruksnæringen 

  Syvertsen, Johan August; Shinwary, Amir (Master thesis, 2021)

  Den norske havbruksnæringen har i løpet av de siste tiårene utviklet seg fra å være en liten og lokal forankret næring, til å bli en betydelig kommersiell næring for norsk næringsliv. En av grunnene til dette er Norge ...

• Buyer Power and Price Formation in Intermediate Goods Markets: a Dynamic Perspective 

  Alm, Erik Skifjeld; Riis, Jan Erik (Master thesis, 2021)

  This thesis studies how buyer power affects input prices in intermediate goods markets. The aim is to investigate how a buyer can invest to increase buyer power, and we use Inderst and Wey (2007) as a baseline for our ...

• A study of long-term stock performance and firm age-at-IPO in the Nordic countries 

  Schjoldager, Jonas Omdal; Sandberg, Jonas Seglem (Master thesis, 2021)

  We study 117 IPOs in the Nordic countries from 2000 to 2015, investigating whether there is an age-effect on firm performance, and the relationship between long-term stock performance and firm age-at-IPO. We define ...

• Overcoming the Sustainability Liability: Can Stating Product Strength Increase Preference for Sustainable Products? 

  Olsen, Emilia Henrietta Helander; Ougland, Sissel Kristine (Master thesis, 2021)

  Consumer demand for sustainable products is rising, but there is still a valueaction gap between consumers’ pro-green attitudes and purchase behavior. This might partly be attributed to consumers associating sustainable ...

• In the Shadow of a Product With a Sustainability Label:Will the introduction of a product with a sustainability label spill over on the perceptions of the mainstream product line,general attitude towards the company & perceived CSR image? 

  Granerud, Andrea Skjellet; Ramic, Amela (Master thesis, 2021)

  Consumers and society are increasingly emphasizing the importance of new, green products. In response, companies are investing in developing more environmentally sustainable options. However, there is still a lack of ...

• Consumer Debt: Predicting default with machine learning methods 

  Rismyhr, Ingrid; Farestveit, Inger Nikoline (Master thesis, 2021)

  The aim of this thesis is to explore if a machine learning model can create value by predicting default at the time of credit application. In extension of this, the thesis will evaluate whether a predictive model can be ...

• Digitalization of processes in the construction production phase: A case study from the Norwegian construction industry Navn: 

  Finsrud, Johanne; Kristing, Emilie Myrdal (Master thesis, 2021)

  The construction industry represents the building blocks of society, crucial for driving economic growth and long term development (Foulkes & Ruddock, 2007; Ofori, 2015). The industry is, however, characterized as being ...

• Statistical Arbitrage Trading using an unsupervised machine learning approach: is liquidity a predictor of profitability? 

  Høeg, Anders; Aares, Even Kristoffer (Master thesis, 2021)

  We test a statistical arbitrage trading strategy, pairs trading, using daily closing prices covering the period 2000 – 2019. Stocks are clustered using an unsupervised machine learning approach and cointegrated stocks ...

• Overgangen fra prospektdirektiv til prospektforordning 

  Bjerke, Katerina; Kvaløyseter, Trude Simonsen (Master thesis, 2021)

  Denne avhandlingen handler om prospektforordningen som ble gjennomført i EU og EØS området den 21. juli i 2019. Avhandlingen analyserer hvordan prospektreglene avveier hensynet til investorvern opp imot utsteders byrder ...

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