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CO2 Emissions and its effect on Economic Growth
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis examines the economic impact of fossil fuel dependency, measured by CO2 emissions per capita, and analyzes it during different periods ranging from 1800 to 2018. We begin with a univariate model and add time ... -
Code of ethics and moral awareness ; A study about the relationship between code of ethics and moral awareness and the moderating impact of locus of control
(Master thesis, 2016)The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of code of ethics on moral sensitivity of individuals and evaluate whether individual differences such as locus of control have any effect on this relationship. ... -
Collaboration between Banks and FinTech Companies : An Assessment of Emerging Organizational Designs within
(Master thesis, 2018)By studying how incumbent banks and FinTechs prepare for PSD2 we have assessed what organizational designs that will emerge from collaboration between banks and FinTechs in Norway. We have studied organizational design ... -
Collaboration in a Best Value Project - A case study of Best Value Approach (BVA) in the Norwegian Construction Industry
(Master thesis, 2019)The procurement of construction services is a large part of the investments in the public sector, and therefore affects both the society and project participants within the construction industry. Despite that, construction ... -
Collective organisational engagement in times of change
(Master thesis, 2017)Collective organisational engagement concerns the common perception among organisational members that members of the organisation are mentally, physically, and emotionally invested in their work (Barrick, Thurgood, Smith ... -
COMMODITIES & HEDGING IN THE PRESENCE OF GEOPOLITICAL TENSION
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis extends on the work of Triki & Maatoug, (2021) and investigates the relationship between selected commodities and indices, in the presence of geopolitical tension, represented by the index of Caldara & ... -
Commodity Derivative Usage in U.S. Non-Financial Firms
(Master thesis, 2019)Financial derivatives have been studied and scrutinized in depth since the financial crises in 2007-2009. Derivatives’ effect on firms, in particular firm value, have been studied prior to, during, and post global ... -
common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB)
(Master thesis, 2017)I denne utredningen har vi sett på hvordan norske selskap som inngår i et konsern med aktivitet i EU vil bli påvirket dersom EU-kommisjonens forslag til skattereform implementeres i 2021. Forslaget blir kalt Common ... -
Communicating for success: A quantitative analysis of the mediating effect of enacted complexity on the relationship between communication and team performance
(Master thesis, 2018)Building on recent theoretical and methodological developments in organizational studies focusing on organizational routines (Hærem, Pentland and Miller, 2015; Hansson, 2018), this thesis aim to explore how three aspects ... -
The communication process between a project owner and a project manager: a multiple case study of three projects in the construction industry
(Master thesis, 2020)Purpose - The purpose of this thesis is to investigate potential communication challenges that might occur between a project owner and a project manager during a construction project. As well as how the communication ... -
Comovement in the Norwegian Stock Market
(Master thesis, 2019)We present the first comprehensive study of excess comovement in the Norwegian stock market, and find that stocks on the OBX index in Norway comove more than their fundamentals would suggest. The comovement is increasing ... -
A comparatiue study of machine learning models in stock price prediction
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis predicts one-day ahead adjusted closing price estimates of four different stocks listed at the Oslo Stock Exchange. The prediction uses a rolling window approach, utilizing 60 days of historical adjusted ... -
Comparative Advantages of a Master's Degree in Business: Wage Disparities and Overeducation among Norwegian Graduates
(Master thesis, 2023)This research aims to investigate the comparative advantages of pursuing a master's degree in business ("Siviløkonom") over a bachelor's degree in terms of businessrelated proficiencies and professional outcomes among ... -
A Comparative Study in Binary Classification for Loan Eligibility Prediction
(Master thesis, 2021)In this thesis, loan eligibility prediction is explored and analyzed by investigating five different prediction models. The goal for the prediction models is to accurately predict whether a bank loan is approved ... -
A Comparative Study of Active Management in Norway and the US: Analysing Mutual Fund Performance and Fees
(Master thesis, 2023)We investigated whether the fees charged by active Norwegian global equity mutual funds can be justified, and compared it to those of US global equity mutual funds, over the period from 2012 to 2022. We aimed to explore ... -
Comparative Study of Factor-Based Strategies in the Nordic Countries
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis examines whether an investor could generate net returns above the Morgan Stanley Country Index by applying momentum and value strategies in the Nordic countries between 1990 and 2019. We first investigate ... -
Comparative study of short-run IPO performance in a selection of Euronext countries
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis investigates the relevance of prevalent underpricing theories on 175 IPOs occurring between 2014-2021 in the Euronext countries of Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Across all Euronext IPOs, we observe an ... -
Comparing the efficiency of pricing mechanisms in Norwegian ipos
(Master thesis, 2017)On Oslo Stock Exchange, there are mainly two pricing mechanisms that are being used when pricing an IPO, these being book-building and fixed-price. As there do not exist much research on which of these two are the more ... -
Comparison of classical RFM models and Machine learning models in CLV prediction
(Master thesis, 2020)This study analyzes the difference between classical RFM models and Machine Leaning (ML) models when calculating CLV with transactional data. In this paper we run different programs to analyze the CLV value by using ... -
A Comparison of Norwegian Business Cycle Indicators
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis investigates how different economic indicators can classify economic recession and forecast GDP in Norway. The study focuses particularly on the Financial News Index (FNI) and the financial crisis. In-sample ...