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Do advertisers or viewers decide TV channels’ programming choice?
(2010:43, Working paper, 2010-11)Ad-financed TV channels are two-sided platforms where media houses provide communication from advertisers to viewers. Most media houses air several channels, some of which are particularly valuable to advertisers. At first ... -
Do agency costs of free cash flow impact private equity acquisitions : an empirical analysis of the free cash flow hypothesis’ impact on US private equity transactions
(Master thesis, 2019)The bidders in the acquisition market can be divided into two groups, strategic and financial acquirers, where the majority of the latter group consists of private equity firms. The two groups have different purposes for ... -
Do all stocks fail to outperform treasury bills? : an inquiry into the return distributions of individual stocks in United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and Sweden
(Master thesis, 2018)Inthispaper, weinvestigatethedistributionofindividualstockreturnsinUnited Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and Sweden from 1986 to 2017. Specifically, our results highlight the strong presence of positive skewness ... -
Do all-equity firms destroy value by holding cash?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-12)Empirical evidence shows that as of 2006, nearly every fifth large U.S. public corporation was all-equity financed and that the corresponding average cash holding were nearly twice as high as of the average U.S. firm. ... -
Do Borrowers Benefit from Sustainability-Linked Loans? An analysis of explicit ESG information in loan contracts and borrowers’ incentives to enter sustainability-linked loans
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis examines the explicit use of ESG information in loan contracts and borrowers' incentives to enter sustainability-linked loans (SLLs). We explore whether shareholders respond to announcements of sustainability-linked ... -
Do bottlenecks generate market power? : an empirical study of the Norwegian electricity market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-12)The present study analyses the potential non-competitive effects of capacity restrictions – socalled bottlenecks - in the Norwegian electricity market. We specify a structural model, and econometrically identifies market ... -
Do consumers buy less of a taxed good?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-01)This paper shows that consumers may buy more of a taxed good if it is sold by a two-sided platform firm. Two-sided platform industries serve distinct customer groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and ... -
Do consumers really trust their doctors’ suggestions and drugs they prescribe? : the relationship between perceived risk and trust in consumer buying decisions on prescription drugs, and how pharmaceutical companies can improve consumer’s trust through marketing activities in China
(Master thesis, 2016)This thesis examines how perceived risk and trust affect consumer’s buying decisions during the process of buying and consuming prescription drugs, and investigates how pharmaceutical companies can improve consumer’s trust ... -
Do cross-border stock exchange consolidations affect cross-border M&A? : a study of cross-border stock exchange consolidations’ effect on merger volumes and payment methods
(Master thesis, 2020)Since the early 2000s, there has been a trend of stock exchanges consolidating across borders with Euronext and Nasdaq being the most prominent examples. We analyse the effect crossborder stock exchange consolidation has ... -
Do Earnouts Sweeten the SPAC Deal? An empirical study on the effect earnouts have on SPAC deals
(Master thesis, 2021)The purpose of this research is to explore contractual agreements related to Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs). Even though this backdoor to the public market has been around for decades, the SPAC market has ... -
Do firms really share rents with their workers?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-05)We use matched firm - worker panel data from France and Norway to consider observationally equivalent alternatives to the hypothesis that firms share product market rents with their workers in the form of higher wages. ... -
Do foreign investors have an edge? : a study of Norwegian equity mutual funds
(Master thesis, 2013)This paper examines the performance and investor behavior of Norwegian equity mutual funds in the time periods 1990-2012 and 2006-2012, respectively. The behavioral part try to reveal differences between local (Norwegian) ... -
Do fossil fuel divestments from large capitalization fossil fuel firms lead to a change in emissions and returns?
(Master thesis, 2023)How should asset managers deal with the issue of divesting or engaging with fossil fuel companies? By looking at the effect divesting has on variables that are important to the fund and its owners. In this debate, we ... -
Do Fossil fuel Taxes Promote Innovation in Renewable Electricity Generation?
(DP SAM;16/2016, Working paper, 2016-11-29)We evaluate the role of a fossil fuel tax and research subsidy in directing innovation from fossil fuel toward renewable energy technologies in the electricity sector. Using a global firm-level electricity patent database ... -
Do Fraudulent Companies Employ Different Linguistic Features in Their Annual Reports? An Empirical Study Using Logistic Regression and Random Forest Methodologies
(Master thesis, 2022)The use of textual analysis to uncover fraudulent actions in 10-K filings is widespread. The previous studies have looked at the Management Disclosure and Analysis (MD&A) section of annual reports to predict illicit ... -
Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?
(DP SAM;07/2020, Working paper, 2020-05)Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? ... -
Do household withdraw home equity for cosumption?
(Master thesis, 2017)Home equity refinancing played a key role in laying the groundwork for the 2007-2008 financial crisis (Mian and Sufi (2011)). How homeowners spend the money that they withdraw influences how vulnerable they are to financial ... -
Do incumbents have incentives to degrade interconnection quality in the internet?
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Do interest rates really respond to financial stability concerns? : an analysis of monetary policy in Norway 1999-2018
(Master thesis, 2018)This master thesis estimates monetary policy reaction functions for the Norwegian economy from 1999 to 2018 using a Taylor rule. In a Taylor rule the interest rate is typically set dependent on inflation and the output ... -
Do internet incumbents choose low interconnection quality?
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-06)In this paper we analyze the interconnection incentives for two networks that differ with respect to size of their installed based. In the first part we prove that the smaller firm may be harmed in competition for new ...