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Exchange rate risk compensation in international ETFs
(Master thesis, 2018)We study exchange rate risk compensation in international ETFs from the perspective of a U.S. investor by using the Dollar and Carry currency risk factors. We find that U.S. investors are compensated for taking currency ... -
Exclusionary contracts and incentives to innovate
(DP SAM;05/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)The article considers a situation where several firms have the opportunity to sell an identical product to a set of buyers, and where each seller can invest in R&D to develop a higher quality version of the product in ... -
The exclusionary effect on the cost of equity : an empirical study of the direct exclusion effect on tobacco companies’ and fossil fuel companies’ cost of equity
(Master thesis, 2019)The purpose of this paper is to examine the exclusion effect on excluded stocks’ cost of equity capital. We study the effect by examining European and US tobacco stocks before and after 2010, relative to chosen comparable ... -
Exclusive content on audio and media streaming services : an empirical study in the Italian market.
(Master thesis, 2023)The following treatise aims to make an illustration of exclusive content and how it could be included in the offerings of music streaming platforms (DSPs). After providing a general overview of the music industry, secondary ... -
Exercise Improves Academic Performance.
(DP SAM;8/2017, Working paper, 2017-08)We report the results of a randomized controlled trial testing whether incentivizing physical exercise improves the academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The ... -
Existence And Uniqueness Of Equilibrium In a Reinsurance Syndicate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)In this paper we consider a reinsurance syndicate, assuming that Pareto optimal allocations exist. Under a continuity assumption on preferences, we show that a competitive equilibrium exists and is unique. Our conditions ... -
Existence and uniqueness of equilibrium in a reinsurance syndicate
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-07)In this paper we consider a reinsurance syndicate, assuming that Pareto optimal allocations exist. Under a continuity assumption on preferences, we show that a competitive equilibrium exists and is unique. Our conditions ... -
Existence of sunspot equilibria and uniqueness of spot market equilibria : the case of intrinsically complete markets
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004)We consider economies with additively separable utility functions and give conditions for the two-agents case under which the existence of sunspot equilibria is equivalent to the occurrence of the transfer paradox. This ... -
Exit strategies by private equity firms in the nordic region : An empirical assessment of IPO performance across private equity-backed- and non-backed firms and a qualitative assessment of exit strategies by private equity firms
(Master thesis, 2016-03-29)This study investigates underpricing of private equity (PE)- backed IPOs and the various exit routes available to PE firms. First, we examine whether IPO underpricing differ across PEbacked- and non-backed (NB) firms ... -
Expanding the Role of Trust in Organizational Change
(Chapter, 2005)Trust has a great potential for furtheri ng our understanding of organizational change and learning. This potential however remains largely untapped. It is argued that two reasons as for why this potential remains ... -
Expansions in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers’ Economic Progress
(SAM DP;13/2022, Working paper, 2022-10)We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century ... -
Expaters endring i kompetanse som følge av utstasjonering : en komparativ studie av expater og beslutningstakere i rekruttering av medarbeidere sin persepsjon og vektlegging
(Master thesis, 2016)I denne masterutredningen utforskes expater og beslutningstakere i rekruttering av medarbeidere sin persepsjon og vektlegging av expaters endring i kompetanse som følge av utstasjonering. Med bakgrunn i at mange expater ... -
Expected seasoned equity offerings : a study of the difference in abnormal return between expected and unexpected SEOs
(Master thesis, 2015)In this thesis, the focus is on expected seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) completed by firms listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange or the Oslo Axess in the period between January 2011 and August 2015. We test a prediction ... -
Experience and repetition as antecedents of organizational routines and capabilities : a critique of behaviorist and empiricist approaches
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-11)We discuss the behaviorist and empiricist foundations of the organizational routines and capabilities literature, specifically the extant emphasis placed on experience, repetition and observation as the key inputs and ... -
Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind
(SAM DP;13/2023, Working paper, 2023)In recent decades, an increasing share of males struggle in the labor market and education. We show in a set of large-scale experimental studies involving more than 30,000 Americans that people are more accepting of males ... -
Experimenting with sustainable business models in fast moving consumer goods
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The transition to more sustainable business requires comprehensive transformations of business models, and such innovation can benefit from business experimentation for sustainability (BES). In this paper, we investigate ... -
EXPERIMENTS IN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
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Explaining communication effects on donation behavior: the roles of contractual relations and social information
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06)Nonprofits play a pivotal role in society, and individual donations are the backbone of these organizations. The fight for donors, however, is more intense than ever, and charities face decreasing support from governments ... -
Explaining economic growth : the role of cultural variables
(Master thesis, 2009)Current economic growth theories have unexplained parts, and do not take into account cultural variables at national levels. Since economic life happens in a social context, this paper investigates further how the norms ... -
Explaining election outcomes using web search data : evidence from the U.S. presidential elections 2008 - 2016
(Master thesis, 2017)Can Google Trends data be used to proxy socially sensitive sentiments, and can such proxies explain election outcomes? This thesis analyzes the effects of different social sentiments, proxied by Google search data, on ...