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Credit ratings and stock markets: an event-study approach
(Master thesis, 2017)The impact of sovereign credit downgrades on financial markets was deeply scrutinized on the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, especially in Southern Europe. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the impact of ... -
Credit Risk Implications in Norwegian Banks: A Comparative Analysis of The Internal Rating Based and Standardised Approaches
(Master thesis, 2023)Objective: This study aims to evaluate the implications of the Internal Ratings-Based approach on credit risk in comparison to the Standardised Approach among Norwegian banks. The adoption of the IRB approach was initially ... -
Credit Spreads Predictability on Norwegian business cycles
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis examines the predictability of corporate bond credit spreads on Norwegian business cycles. We provide evidence that credit spreads between investment-grade corporate bonds contain significant predictive ... -
Crisis Management in cross-cultural teams: A qualitative study of leaders in Norwegian shipping
(Master thesis, 2022)Globalization in the business world has increased the need to understand how cultural differences affect leadership performance. An individual’s cultural frame affects how they perceive the world around them, influencing ... -
Crisis Predictability in the Cross-Section of Political Uncertainty and Stock Returns
(Master thesis, 2022)This paper replicates the global political risk factor discovered by Gala, Pagliardi, & Zenios (2020) and documents additional predictability between political uncertainty and international stock returns by utilizing crisis ... -
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS AND BARRIERS AFFECTING THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION: A multiple case study of three companies operating in the banking and insurance industry
(Master thesis, 2019)Purpose: This master thesis aims to identify the most important critical success factors (CSFs) and barriers when implementing the GDPR, as well as how these impacted the implementation in three companies within the ... -
Cross-Asset Analysis The Impact of Value and Momentum Strategies
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis performs a comprehensive analysis of momentum and value strategies across four asset classes, identifying a consistent decline in momentum returns relative to historical performance. The study demonstrates ... -
A Cross-Category Study: Should Moral Reasoning Strategies be Used to Mitigate Negative Effects from Athlete Transgressions on Brand Evaluation?
(Master thesis, 2021)This study emphasizes the extent to which moral reasoning strategies can be used to mitigate negative effects on brand evaluation in the aftermath of an athlete transgression. The current study used conjoint analysis to ... -
Cross-controversial athlete sponsorships: How controversiality of the brand or the athlete affect consumers’ attitudes toward the sponsorship and brand image.
(Master thesis, 2020)agreements have been a frequently used strategy employed by many companies as a marketing communication tactic for a long period of time. There exists an enormous amount of research on the topic, primarily focusing on ... -
Cross-gender Brand Extensions: How will gender of brand, gender of consumer and extension category influence the evaluation of a cross-gender brand extension?
(Master thesis, 2019)Cross-gender brand extension has become a valuable strategy in recent years and grown to be an important component of strategic marketing communication. Previous research has touched upon the topic, however, as far we ... -
The Cross-Industrial Carbon Risi! Premium
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the presence of a carbon risk premium in stock returns from 2003 to 2022 of 8,996 companies across 66 countries. We show that firms with higher carbon emissions earn higher returns while controlling ... -
Cross-sectional Momentum in the Norwegian Stock Market
(Master thesis, 2022)We document significant ”cross-sectional momentum” profitability in the Norwegian stock market from Q1 1995 to Q2 2022. The past winners portfolio is identified as the main driver of the cross-sectional momentum returns ... -
A Cross-sectional Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Work Events and Affective Reactions as Predictors of Loss of Productivity and Intention to Leave
(Master thesis, 2021)This study applied the Affective Events Theory in which the relationship between work events and affective reactions are examined and how this relationship influences job performance and organizational commitment. We aim ... -
CSP for climate adaptation of the built environment: A multiple case study of pilot projects within SFI Klima 2050
(Master thesis, 2021)The objective of this master thesis is to enhance pre-existing literature on crosssector partnership (CSP), by providing empirical evidence of CSP. Our goal is to explore the characteristics of CSP in an empirical context ... -
Cultural development in entrepreneurial firms
(Master thesis, 2022)New ventures are essential to innovation and economic growth still they remain short lived, and their growth poorly understood. Start-ups are characterised by a certain culture yet our understanding of the cultural development ... -
Cultural distance impact on subsidiary control : a study of foreign subsidiaries in Lithuania
(Master thesis, 2013-02-06)Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to study the relationship between use of different types of control mechanisms (output, process and social) and the cultural context (cultural distance between headquarters country ... -
Culture and luxury value perception
(Master thesis, 2015-08-07)The aim of this study is to investigate how culture influences the way consumers perceive luxury. The model used in this paper combines previously developed frameworks concerning luxury value dimensions with the famous ... -
Currency fundamentals, implied volatility, and FX investment strategies as NOK determinants
(Master thesis, 2019)We study which factors determine the Norwegian krone at the weekly frequency. We show the existence of a relation between the EURNOK depreciation rate and changes in oil prices, implied volatility indices, and the excess ... -
Currency Hedging in Emerging Markets
(Master thesis, 2019)We study the effectiveness of currency hedging in emerging markets, focusing on portfolio performance employing both a minimum variance and a unitary hedging strategy. The perception is that the currency in emerging ... -
Currency Risk and the Government Pension Fund Global
(Master thesis, 2018)The Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) in Norway is a sovereign wealth fund with an international portfolio only invested in foreign securities. This paper aims to evaluate the currency exposure of the fund and assess ...