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Arbeid-familie konflikt : en komparativ studie av fem europeiske land
(Master thesis, 2013)Arbeid-familie balansen er et fenomen som har fått økt interesse på grunn av økonomiske endringer og endringen i arbeidskraftstrukturen. Kvinners rolle i arbeidslivet og familieordninger avviker fra de tradisjonelle ... -
An arbitrary benchmark CAPM : one additional frontier portfolio is sufficient
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-10)The benchmark CAPM linearly relates the expected returns on an arbitrary asset, an arbitrary benchmark portfolio, and an arbitrary MV frontier portfolio. The benchmark is not required to be on the frontier and may be ... -
Are all of the good men fathers? The effect of having children on earnings
(Discussion paper;11/2014, Working paper, 2014-04)This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men’s earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian register data are used for brother and twin pairs who are followed over their life cycle from their ... -
Are pharmaceuticals still inexpensive in Norway? : a comparison of prescription drug prices in ten European countries
(Report, Research report, 2010-05)In this report we compare prices of pharmaceuticals between Norway and nine Western European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and United Kingdom). The purpose is to ... -
Area fee in the Norwegian salmon farming industry
(Master thesis, 2013)A discussion on a new tax, an area fee, for the Norwegian salmon industry has been on-going for several years. This thesis examines which tax benefits the industry and the host municipalities the most. To investigate this, ... -
An artificial walk down Wall Street : can intraday stock returns be predicted using artificial neural networks?
(Master thesis, 2009)Financial markets are complex evolved dynamic systems. Due to its irregularity, financial time series forecasting is regarded as a rather challenging task. In recent years, artificial neural network applications in ... -
Aspekter ved Bybanen i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2008)Vi starter utredningen med å gi en beskrivelse av bybaner generelt. Deretter gir vi en oversikt over kollektivtrafikken i Bergen før vi presenterer planene for Bybanen. Videre gjør vi rede for teori som er relevant for ... -
Assessing the economic effects of trade barriers
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-03)The objective of the paper is to build a simple model which will be easy to use in the assessment of the economic welfare effects due to trade barriers. Traditional partial trade models assume infinitely elastic world ... -
Asymmetrisk informasjon og rasjonering av kreditt : en teoretisk analyse
(Master thesis, 2009)Denne utredningen analyserer virkningene av asymmetrisk fordeling av informasjon mellom låntaker og långiver i kapitalmarkedet. En enkel modell viser hvordan kredittrasjonering kan oppstå både som følge av moralsk hasard ... -
Asymmetrisk informasjon – en driver av underprising? : en empirisk studie av norske børsintroduksjoner i perioden 2000-2008
(Master thesis, 2009)Denne utredningen studerer unormal startavkastning ved 117 børsintroduksjoner på Oslo Børs i årene 2000 til 2008. Vi undersøker hvorvidt den observerte underprisingen av børsintroduksjoner kan være drevet av en skjevhet i ... -
Atmospheric externalities and environmental taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-09)The paper reviews the theory of environmental taxation under first best and second best conditions. It argues that negative environmental externalities lead to reductions of the provision of public goods, while investment ... -
Attitudes towards income risk in the presence of quantity constraints
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Australia and the global financial crisis
(Master thesis, 2010)This paper targets the question of why the Australian economy dealt so well with the global financial crisis in the pe ... -
Austrian economics: application on Norwegian business cycles
(Master thesis, 2010)This paper reviews the key elements of Austrian macroeconomics and aims to find out whether the Austrian business cycle theory can explain causes to Norwegian business cycles between 1979 and 2009. The Austrian school ... -
Avkastning i skipsfartsnæringen : en analyse av den historiske lønnsomheten til rederier
(Master thesis, 2008)Det er gjort få undersøkelser av lønnsomheten i skipsfartsnæringen, og de undersøkelsene som er gjort finner generelt en relativt lav lønnsomhet sammenlignet med andre investeringsmuligheter. Rederiskatteutvalget finner i ... -
Baby booming inequality?: demographic change and inequality in Norway, 1967-2004
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-02)We demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are because of changes in the age structure. In particular, we explore the hypothesis that the substantial ... -
Bank bail outs: causes, implementation, pros and cons
(Master thesis, 2011)This master’s thesis has explored the topic of main causes that provoked recent financial crisis transformed into global one and addressed the issue of bank bailouts application in the US that is becoming increasingly ... -
Bankenes rolle i det internasjonale penge- og kapitalmarked
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Basel III - Konsekvenser for norsk bankvesen : en analyse av DnB NOR
(Master thesis, 2011)Basel III regelverket har blitt utarbeidet på bakgrunn av finanskrisen for å sikre finansiell stabilitet i banksektoren. Regelverket innarbeides i nasjonale lovverk i 2011, og vil i sin enkleste form gjøres gjeldene fra ...