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Does nature have a value? : a qualitative study to pinpoint incentives for implementing valuation of ecosystem services
(Master thesis, 2014)There is a growing consensus worldwide that human economies and human well-being rely on ecosystem services. The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity [TEEB], a global initiative launched in 2007 as a response ... -
Does population growth affect housing bubbles? : a study on population growth’s influence on the U.S. housing market during the 2000’s
(Master thesis, 2012)The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between population growth and house prices. It analyses whether housing bubbles existed in American cities during the recent financial crisis by comparing ... -
Does Private Ownership in the Kindergarten Sector Benefit the Children? Empirical Evidence from Norway Does the kindergarten's ownership form impact the quality?
(Master thesis, 2022)This paper investigates whether private ownership in the Norwegian childcare sector benefits children. The paper seeks to do so by investigating whether there are differences in quality between public and private kindergartens, ... -
Does prospect theory explain the disposition effect?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-09)The disposition effect is the observation that investors hold winning stocks too long and sell losing stocks too early. A standard explanation of the disposition effect refers to prospect theory and in particular to the ... -
Does quality pay? : relationships between antecedents of customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and costomer profitability at the individual level
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-12)Superior quality is supposed to be positively related to superior business performances. This conception forms the cornerstone of Total Quality Management (TQM). At the individual customer level superior quality is supposed ... -
Does recent rolatility in the housing market challenge traditional models of saving? : a study on the importance of housing wealth for explaining household saving in the United States during the crisis
(Master thesis, 2012)The purpose of this thesis is to study the importance of housing wealth for explaining household saving in the United States during the recent crisis. We present two fundamentally different models of saving – the Keynesian ... -
Does Reference Pricing Drive Out Generic Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets? Evidence from a Policy Reform
(Discussion paper;11/15, Working paper, 2015-06)In this paper we study the impact of reference pricing (RP) on entry of generic firms in the pharmaceutical market. For given prices, RP increases generic firms' expected profit, but since RP also stimulates price ... -
Does scale efficiency tell us anything about optimal scale?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005-04)In DEA, scale efficiency is routinely calculated. This measure may, however, tell us very little about whether a production unit is over- or undersized. An empirical case is used to illustrate that, under some circumstances, ... -
Does self-attention influence sustainable choices? : an experimental study on how self-attention affects sustainable product preference and the false consensus effect
(Master thesis, 2019)The purpose of this research is to investigate how consumers can be influenced to act more frequently on their ‘green’ values and attitudes. We test whether increased self-attention has an effect on preference for the ... -
Does size really matter? : a study of banking sector size as it relates to money laundering and anti-money laundering enforcement
(Master thesis, 2019)Money laundering has been a problem for governments ever since it began 4000 years ago in China. In recent years though, the problem seems to be spiraling out of control. When HSBC was sanctioned for money laundering in ... -
Does stochasticity matter? : dynamic pigouvian taxation in an uncertain environment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-04)The effects of discounting, stochasticity, non-linearities and maximum decay upon an optimal corrective tax are analyzed using stochastic dynamic optimization. Optimal corrective taxes are derived as explicit feedback ... -
Does the choice of performance measure shape the appraisal of private equity funds?
(Master thesis, 2009)Conducting an empirical study on cash flows of 71 private equity funds, spanning the vintages 1990 to 2008, we compare the two most common performance measures, IRR and TVPI, to four proposed alternatives. We also document ... -
Does the e-retailing of luxury brands really damage their brand image?
(Master thesis, 2014)With an increasing focus on e-commerce and the lack of research in the respected area within the luxury industry the underlying thesis assumes particular relevance. The main concern was to contribute to existing theory ... -
Does the Market Emphasize Violation of Green Commitment? A comparison of stock price response to negative ESG incidents between companies that have issued a green vs. conventional bond
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis examines the difference in stock price response to ESG incidents between green and conventional bond issuers. By using exact and nearest-neighbor matching on a sample of 86 green bond issuers and 177 conventional ... -
Does the market reward exceptional environmental performance? : an event study of the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis studies if the market rewards exceptional environmental performance. To do this, we examine whether inclusion in the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index (NEX) yields positive abnormal returns and ... -
Does the ownership of CEOs affect their compensation? : a study of the link between ownership structures and CEO pay in unlisted Norwegian shipping and sea transport companies.
(Master thesis, 2019)This master’s thesis studies the link between ownership structures and CEO compensation in unlisted Norwegian shipping and sea transport firms. The objective is to examine differences in total pay and pay-performance ... -
Does the tax system encourage too much education?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-07)The Nordic countries have dual income taxation, with a proportional tax on capital income and a progressive tax on labour income. Nielsen and Sørensen (1997) argue that this asymmetric treatment of the two types of income ... -
Does the wealth tax discourage individual savings? Evidences from Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Wealth taxation is a widely debated topic, especially in the context of rising inequality. Empirical research covering the behavioural effects of this tax is relatively new, and the results in a Norwegian context are ... -
Does tradeoff theory explain high-frequency debt issuers?
(Working paper, 2015-07)Over the past forty years, one-third of the publicly listed industrial firms in the U.S. raised two- thirds of all public and private debts (net of debt rollovers). We use these high-frequency debt issuers (HFIs) - large ... -
Does transparency impact market liquidity? : evidence from the European Union and United States equity markets
(Master thesis, 2021)We find evidence for increased market transparency to have a positive effect on equity market liquidity. Using data from EU and US equity markets, we estimate the effect of the implementation of the Markets in Financial ...