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The evolution of the gender wage gap
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-01)In this paper we investigate when the male-female wage differential arises: Does it evolve over the early career or does it exist right from entry into first employment? For the analysis we use new administrative ... -
Evolutionary stable investment in stock markets
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)This paper studies the performance of portfolio rules in incomplete markets for long-lived assets with endogenous prices. The dynamics of wealth shares in the process of repeated reinvestment of wealth is modelled as a ... -
Evolving monetary policy effects and financial turmoil In Norway : a factor-augmented VAR approach
(Master thesis, 2015)In this paper we have analyzed how the e ects of monetary policy in Norway might have been changing over time. In particular, we have paid special attention to how the impact of policy shocks on key economic variables ... -
EVRY : strategisk regnskapsanalyse og verdivurdering
(Master thesis, 2018)Hensikten med utredningen var å finne et verdiestimat på egenkapitalen til EVRY pr. 31.12.17, samt tilhørende aksjekurs. Til dette formål ble fundamental verdivurdering benyttet som foretrukket teknikk, supplert med ... -
Ex post analyse av fusjonen mellom Sats og Elixia
(Master thesis, 2015)Denne masterutredningen er en ex post analyse av fusjonen mellom Sats og Elixia. Denne fusjonen ble godkjent på strukturelt vilkår om at 11 treningssentre skulle selges ut. Utredningen forsøker å gi en indikasjon på om det ... -
Ex post fusjonsanalyse : en deskriptiv analyse av markedet for konsumegg etter fusjonen mellom Prior og Norgården
(Master thesis, 2010)I min masterutredning vil jeg foreta en deskriptiv analyse av utviklingen i engrosmarkedet for konsumegg etter fusjonen mellom Prior og Norgården i 2006 frem til 2009. Konkurransetilsynet nedla forbud mot fusjonen i 2005, ... -
Examining Customer Relationship Management from a management fashion perspective
(Journal article, 2016)Despite mixed performance reviews and experiences, customer relationship management (CRM) is among the most widely used and discussed management ideas by managers around the world. Commentators have noted that CRM has ... -
Excessive Pricing of Pharmaceuticals : What are the drivers leading to excessive pricing in the Norwegian pharmaceutical market?
(Master thesis, 2021)Millions of people depend on drugs in their everyday life to improve their life quality or even survive. Recently there has been an increase in the number of cases where prices of patented and generic pharmaceuticals ... -
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 Horizons in Norwegian High-Yield Bond Spread Estimation : A Comparative Analysis of Structural Bond Pricing Models in the Period 2015 to 2023
(Master thesis, 2023)Investigating the complex dynamics of credit risk pricing in corporate bonds has been a significant area of interest in financial research for many years. This thesis examines the effectiveness of various structural bond ... -
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 ...