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The interplay of trustworthiness and perceived risk and their influence on consumer’s acceptance of self-service technology innovations: the case of Digipost by Posten Norge AS
(Master thesis, 2015)This paper looks at factors influencing consumer’s attitude formation in the light of adopting a new self-service technology (SST). Previous research has shed light on the importance of trustworthiness and risk, however, ... -
The issue of design in managerial decision making: Leadership and human resources perspectives.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)It is argued that the design of decisions is a process that in many ways is shaped by social factors such as identities, values, and influences. To be able to understand how these factors impact organizational decisions, ... -
The Kelly criterion : a closer look at how estimation errors affect portfolio performance
(Master thesis, 2012)The Kelly criterion are being used by many succesful investors and are often linked to their success in amassing great fortunes for both themselves and the funds they are running. This simple formula has made such a great ... -
The lay-up decision in practice : how offshore supply shipowners respond to lower demand
(Master thesis, 2016)The purpose of this thesis is to improve the understanding of how offshore supply shipowners adapt to lower demand by putting ships in lay-up. We have examined how day rates affect lay-up levels, and sought to explain ... -
The Life Cycle Model with Recursive Utility: New insights on optimal consumption
(Discussion papers;19/14, Working paper, 2014-05)We analyze optimal consumption, including pensions, during the life time of a consumer using the life cycle model, when the consumer has recursive utility. The model framework is that of continuous-time with diffusion ... -
The likely impact of Basel III on a bank's appetite for renewable energy financ
(Discussion paper;10/2013, Working paper, 2013-10)The new Basel III regulations are likely to make long-term financing more expensive, which will affect the financing of capital-intensive renewable energy technologies, because they typically rely on long-term financing. ... -
The link between default and recovery rates a global study
(Master thesis, 2014)A pplying the same methods and definitions as in Altman, Resti and Sironi (2005) t his thesis seeks to empirically explain the relationship between default and recovery rates in the global corporate bond market . ... -
The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment
(Discussion paper;09/15, Working paper, 2015-04)Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power deployment is not necessarily ... -
The long term impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Norway
(Master thesis, 2016)A growing literature show the negative effect of prenatal health shocks on childhood and adult outcomes. Several studies exploit disease outbreaks to find causal effects of in utero exposure on various outcomes. We build ... -
The market for consumption devices : on complementary products and seller-side revenue-extraction
(Working paper;40/12, Working paper, 2012-11)Some products and services are perfect complements to technological devices, such as video games to video game consoles. We analyze how competition between two firms selling such devices is affected by the fact that they ... -
The market in economics : behavioural assumptions and value judgments
(Discussion paper;12/2014, Working paper, 2014-04)This paper tries to convey the essence of the economic theory of behaviour of individuals and firms to an audience of non-economists. The hypotheses of utility and profit maximization and their use as building blocks in ... -
The material effects of CEO compensation : an empirical study of CEO compensation-effects and their relation to company fundamentals and turnover
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis suggests that CEOs take actions to increase the short-term share price to improve conditions for equity sales and maximize their payout upon vesting. Vesting equity, my measure of short-term incentive, seems ... -
The merit primacy effect
(DP SAM;6/2017, Working paper, 2017)Do people give primacy to merit when luck partly determines earnings? This paper reports from a novel experiment where third-party spectators have to decide whether to redistribute from a high-earner to a low-earner in ... -
The Method of Leader’s Overthrow in Networks
(Discussion paper;1/16, Working paper, 2016-01-21)Methods for leader’s detection and overthrow in networks are useful tools for decision-making in many real-life cases, such as criminal networks with hidden patterns or money laundering networks. In the given research, we ... -
The more the merrier? : a factor-augmented VAR analysis of the Norwegian monetary policy transmission mechanism
(Master thesis, 2017)How does an economy respond when policymakers change interest rates? In this thesis we seek to answer this question by examining the Norwegian monetary policy transmission mechanism. Further, we discuss the evolution in ... -
The motivation factors of non-ownership consumption
(Master thesis, 2012)There has been a rising trend that consumers choose to engage in consumption based on renting, swapping, sharing, bartering and gifting with the use of new technology and product-service systems, in the USA. We wanted ... -
The Multifactor Model of the Agent’s Power in Social Networks
(Discussion paper;11/2013, Working paper, 2013-10)The analysis of social reasoning is at the core of understanding how to manage social networks. Since interpersonal relations are composed of multiple factors with different nature (i.e., structural and social factors), ... -
The nature and causes of the Norwegian interbank offered rate
(Master thesis, 2015)The importance of interbank rates for unsecured funding has increased vastly the last decades with the expansion of nancial instruments. Today's interbank rates are arguably the most in uential benchmarks in pricing ... -
The Need to Amend IMO’s EEDI to Include a Threshold for Performance in Waves (Realistic Sea Conditions) to Achieve the Desired GHG Reductions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has established the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) as the most important policy measure to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shipping. A vessel’s EEDI is based ... -
The Norwegian and the German mobile telecommunication sectors : what explains the higher German end prices the last five years?
(Master thesis, 2013)The per-unit end prices in the German mobile telecommunication sector are now at Norwegian level, after being about twice as high as the Norwegian per-unit end prices in 2010. By analysing the mobile telecommunication ...