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Scrapping determinants in the tanker market : a vessel based logit model
(Master thesis, 2018)Like many others, the crude oil tanker industry face the challenge of capital depreciation. Higher operational- and maintenance costs cause shipowners to scrap older vessels to ensure pro tability. However, in good ... -
Scrubber: a potentially overestimated compliance method for the Emission Control Areas - The importance of involving a ship's sailing pattern in the evaluation
(Discussion paper;13/17, Working paper, 2017-10-30)Different methods for sulphur emission reductions, available to satisfy the latest Emission Control Areas (ECA) regulations, may lead to different sailing patterns (route and speed choices of a vessel) and thus have ... -
Seadrill : valuation and financial statement analysis of Seadrill limited
(Master thesis, 2009)This paper takes on the valuation of the drilling operator Seadrill Limited. The valuation takes basis in strategic analysis and financial statement analysis. The paper has the perspective of a global well-diversified ... -
Seafood price indices
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-10)The new FAO seafood price indices have been constructed based on import statistics for USA and the European Union. The main objective of the FAO seafood import price indices is to indicate quarterly to annual price trends ... -
Searching for Inflation: An Empirical Study of Real-Time Micro Behaviour Data on InflationNowcasts
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis introduces the application of real-time micro behaviour data in inflationnowcasts. Our study analyses if ARIMA models extended with Google search dataimproves the prediction of divisions of inflation compared ... -
Searching for optimal integer solutions to set partitioning problems using column generation
(Discussion paper;20/07, Working paper, 2007-08)We describe a new approach to produce integer feasible columns to a set partitioning problem directly in solving the linear programming (LP) relaxation using column generation. Traditionally, column generation is aimed ... -
Searching for price parity in the European whitefish market
(Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2003-03)The purpose of this paper is to test for price parity across different species of whitefish in the European Union. Price parity is defined by a system of cointegrated prices and would be evidence of a single European market ... -
Searching for the DGP when forecasting : is it always meaningful for small samples?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)In this paper the problem of choosing a univariate forecasting model for small samples is investigated. It is shown that, a model with few parameters, frequently, is better than a model which coincides with the data ... -
Seasonal Social Preferences.
(DP SAM;4/2017, Working paper, 2017-03)Christmas is when people are expected to act selflessly for the well-being of others, but are people actually more altruistic at this time of the year? Responding to this question poses a challenge because of the confounding ... -
Seasonality in natural gas prices : an empirical study of Henry Hub Natural Gas Futures Prices
(Master thesis, 2013)In this thesis we investigate whether seasonality is a significant factor in natural gas futures prices. We test for seasonality by estimating the two-factor model of Schwartz & Smith (2000), using Kalman filtering techniques ... -
Seasonality matters: a multi-season, multi-state dynamic optimization in fishery
(Discussion paper;2/18, Working paper, 2018-02-12)Many biological and economic processes in fishery happen seasonally. Most of the extant literature tends to neglect this fact. This work is an initial attempt to treat seasonality in a systematic and proper way. We apply ... -
Seasoned equity offerings in regulated industries : empirical evidence from Europe
(Master thesis, 2017)We study 4,953 European SEO announcements over the period January 1997 to December 2016. Our results demonstrate that the announcement of equity offerings on average reduce stock prices. Cross-sectional analysis on the ... -
Seasoned Equity Offerings on the Oslo Stock Exchange : An Empirical Study of the Stock Performance Following Seasoned Equity Offerings from 2013 to 2022
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis explores the short-term impact of seasoned equity offering announcements on the Oslo Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2022. We employ the Carhart four-factor model to analyze the effect on abnormal returns around ... -
Seasoned public offerings: Resolution of the "new issues puzzle"
(Discussion paper;09/98, Working paper, 1998)The `new issues puzzle' is that stocks of common stock issuers subsequently underperform non- issuers matched on size and book-to-market ratio. With 7,000+ seasoned equity and debt issues, we document that issuer ... -
A Seat at the Table : The Norwegian Board Gender Quota: A Study on Indirect Effects
(Master thesis, 2022)Twenty years ago, Norway led the way with the first board gender quota on ASA1 and is now considering extending the legislation to AS. This paper examines if the existing board gender quota has fulfilled one of its main ... -
A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
(DP SAM;14/2020, Working paper, 2020-08)Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register ... -
Second-best fairness under limited information: The trade-off between false positives and false negatives
(DP SAM;18/2018, Working paper, 2018-08)In many important economic settings, limited information makes it impossible for decision makers to ensure that each individual gets what he or she deserves. Decision makers are then faced with the trade-off between giving ... -
Second-hand vessel valuation : a generalized additive model and extreme gradient boosting approach
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis investigates the applicability of extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) compared to the generalized additive model (GAM) approach to create a desktop valuation model of second-hand Handysize bulkers. The data ... -
Second-period pricing in a duopoly with switching costs : the effect of size and composition of customer bases
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)Switching costs may facilitate monopoly pricing in a market with price competition between two suppliers of a homogenous good, provided the switching cost is above some critical level. It is also well known that asymmetric ... -
Secrecy Jurisdictions
(Discussion paper;12/15, Working paper, 2015-03-10)This paper surveys tax haven legislation and links the literature on tax havens to the literature on asymmetric information. I argue that the core aim of tax haven legislation is to create private information (secrecy) ...