Blar i NHH Brage på forfatter "Harding, Torfinn"
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Performance, persistence and business cycle asymmetries in Norwegian mutual fund returns: do mutual funds perform when it matters the most?
Utseth, Lars Petter; Sandvik, Kristoffer Bergquist (Master thesis, 2015)This paper investigates the performance, persistence, and business cycle asymmetries in active Norwegian mutual funds using a dataset free of survivorship bias between 1983 and 2014. Fund performance is evaluated using ... -
Poverty alleviation and deforestation in Brazil: empirical evidence from the Bolsa Escola/familia program : a difference-in-difference analysis of how increased income affects deforestation in brazilian municipalities
Rønningstad, Sara Helene; Jelsness, Tone Sylvia (Master thesis, 2020)In this thesis we estimate the effect of poverty alleviation on local deforestation in Brazil. We identify impacts of increased income among low-income families by studying the world’s largest conditional cash transfer ... -
Predicting housing prices with machine learning : a macroeconomic analysis of the Norwegian housing market
Dimoski, Matej; Pettersen, Markus (Master thesis, 2020)This thesis explores the applicability of machine learning in macroeconomic housing price predictions in Norway. We apply three machine learning models Elastic Net, Random Forest and Neural Network on historical time-time ...