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The ensemble Kalman filter in bioeconomics
(Discussion paper;2012:5, Working paper, 2012-05)We demonstrate the power of the Ensemble Kalman Filter in specifying ecosystem models ideal for bioeconomic analysis. Bioeconomic analysis requires models to be relatively simple, but models must still capture the nature ... -
The European financial transaction tax : a stabilizing force or a one-dimensional solution to the problem of excessive risk taking?
(Master thesis, 2012)In the wake of the financial crisis, the movement advocating for a financial transaction tax gained considerable support, culminating in the presentation of a proposal for such a tax by the European Commission on September ... -
The European Union's common fisheries policy : historical challenges and future outlook
(Master thesis, 2011)My thesis aims to create an overview of the history of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in the European Union (EU), pointing out important challenges with regards to accession of new member states, an oversized fishing ... -
The exercise of covenant defeasace options : a study of the removal of restictive covenants in US corporate bonds, by means of big-data analysis
(Master thesis, 2014)This thesis aims to examine the exercise of covenant defeasance options. To find what bonds are defeased, we build a SEC crawler to analyze more than 1.4m SEC filings. Our methods of analysis are descriptive statistics and ... -
The expansion of the Panama canal : a study of consequences in the container shipping industry
(Master thesis, 2014)The Panama Canal has become a constraining factor on trade across the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, and the expansion of the Canal is expected to have a positive influence on world trade. Our research investigates the ... -
The feasibility and challenges of introducing futures exchange to the shrimp markets
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The impact of credit rating announcements on Norwegian equities : an event study on Oslo stock exchange
(Master thesis, 2011)This paper studies the effect of credit rating announcements on daily stock returns for Norwegian equities listed on Oslo Stock Exchange. The empirical study is conducted using an event study, defining an event as a rating ... -
The impact of higher capital requirements on cost of capital for DNB Bank ASA : will increased capital requirements for Norway’s largest bank increase interest rates charged to consumers?
(Master thesis, 2013)The financial crisis of 2007-2008 affected the financial sector worldwide. After the crisis, regulatory bodies and governments implemented stricter capital requirements for banks and financial institutions in order to ... -
The impact of natural gas exports from the U.S. to Europe
(Master thesis, 2012)This thesis analyses the quantitative impact of potential liquid natural gas exports from the U.S. to the European market. I establish a simple, analytically transparent and tractable framework for supply and demand. In ... -
The importance of consistency in service interactions across multiple channels : an investigation of online and offline service channels
(Master thesis, 2013)This thesis investigates the importance of offering consistent services between service channels. In particular, one offline and more traditional channel, a call centre, is compared to one online and more modern channel, ... -
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 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 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 ... -
The Norwegian petroleum tax act : is the Norwegian petroleum tax act neutral to investment decisions and treatment of companies with respect to tax position?
(Master thesis, 2012)This thesis evaluates the neutrality of the Norwegian Petroleum Tax Act (PTA) in light of theories on neutral taxation by Boadway & Bruce (1984), Fane (1987) and Sandmo (1989). More specific, we investigate if there is ... -
The profitability of pumped hydro storage in Norway : a study of six pumped hydro storage plants
(Master thesis, 2014)With increasing investments and focus on renewable energy in Europe there has arisen a demand for balancing services due to the intermittency of renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. This thesis examines the ... -
The quality of earnings
(Master thesis, 2011)Det er allment kjent at aksjepriser kan forklares ut i fra en rekke faktorer som oljepris, rentenivå og regnskapsinformasjon. Den statistiske graden av sammenheng mellom regnskapsinformasjon og aksjepriser betegnes i den ... -
The road to successfully eluding organizational borders : a case study of a multi-agency project
(Report;2014:7, Research report, 2014-10)This master thesis has explored a multi-agency project and issues related to this new way of organizing the work in public agencies. The thesis is based on a case study of a project collaboration between three Norwegian ... -
The tenuous relationship between effort and performance pay
(Discussion paper;2012:8, Working paper, 2012-06)When a worker is offered performance related pay, the incentive effect is not only determined by the shape of the incentive contract, but also by the probability of contract enforcement. We show that weaker enforcement ... -
The Troms line : an economic analysis
(Master thesis, 2014)The aim of this thesis is to bring the old assessments regarding the Troms Line back to life again, and examine whether it would be a good idea, from an economic point of view, to revive the project. When examining the ...