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    • Fair value measuring in the private equity industry 

      Wist, Kristoffer Heimland (Master thesis, 2010)
      The objective of this thesis is to address the question of how fair value reporting is implemented in the private equity industry, and how good fair value estimates (FV) are compared to the intrinsic value of the ...
    • Fairness Across the World 

      Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (SAM DP;03/2023, Working paper, 2023-03)
    • Fairness and family background 

      Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper;25/15, Working paper, 2015-10)
      Fairness preferences fundamentally affect individual behavior and play an important role in shaping social and political institutions. However, people differ both with respect to what they view as fair and with respect ...
    • Fairness and inequality : measuring fairness preferences and identifying the unfair income inequality in Germany 

      Stavem, Frøya Plahte; Støren, Bendik Nagel (Master thesis, 2016)
      The standard measures of economic inequality seem not to be in accordance with the way people tend to think about inequality. Rather than considering all economic inequality unfair, people seem to accept inequalities arising ...
    • Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats? 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Haan, Thomas de; Tungodden, Bertil (SAM DP;07/2022, Working paper, 2022-05)
      Meritocracy is a prominent fairness view in many societies, but often difficult to apply because there is limited information about the source of inequality. This paper studies theoretically and empirically how limited ...
    • Fairness and the Development of Inequality Acceptance 

      Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people’s fairness preferences is limited. The dictator game has been the standard experimental design for ...
    • Fairness and the Development of Inequality Acceptance 

      Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper;18/15, Working paper, 2015-08)
      Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people’s fairness preferences is limited. The dictator game has been the standard experimental design for ...
    • Fairness and Willingness to Compete 

      Buser, Thomas; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil (DP SAM;08/2021, Working paper, 2021-03)
      The large experimental literature on competitiveness has typically ignored a key feature of many competitive settings in society: competition is not always fair. The playing field may be uneven and competitors of unequal ...
    • Fairness Beliefs Affect Perceived Economic Inequality 

      Støstad, Morten Nyborg (DP SAM;22/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)
      This paper establishes a causal link from fairness beliefs to perceived economic inequality. I conduct an experiment where participants are asked to estimate various income inequality measures of hypothetical societies. ...
    • Fairness in bankruptcy situations: an experimental study 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Luttens, Roland I.; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper;17/15, Working paper, 2015-08)
      The pari passu principle is the most prominent principle in the law of insolvency. We report from a lab experiment designed to study whether people find this principle a fair solution to the bankruptcy problem. The ...
    • Fairness in Winner-Take-All Markets 

      Bartling, Björn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Ekström, Mathias; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (DP SAM;8/2018, Working paper, 2018-04)
      The paper reports the first experimental study on people’s fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income ...
    • Fairness is intuitive 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Nielsen, Ulrik H.; Tungodden, Bertil; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik (Discussion paper;9/2014, Working paper, 2014-04)
      In this paper we provide new evidence showing that fair behavior is intuitive to most people. We find a strong association between a short response time and fair behavior in the dictator game. This association is robust ...
    • Fairness motivation in bargaining 

      Birkeland, Sigbjørn (Discussion Papers;14/2011, Working paper, 2011-07)
      In this paper, we develop a model that captures the potential conflict between two individuals who follow different fairness principles in bargaining. This model is used to analyse the infl uence of fairness motivation on ...
    • Faithful accounting in MMP-elections 

      Stensholt, Eivind (Discussion paper;7/21, Working paper, 2021-07-14)
      In MMP-elections for legislatures, political parties compete for a voter’s support in two ways: for a first vote to the party’s candidate in a single-seat constituency and for a second vote to the party’s list of candidates. ...
    • Faktoreksponering i det norske fondsmarkedet : en empirisk studie av aktive aksjefond og systematiske risikofaktorer 

      Johansen, Mads Haug; Strømberg, Fredrik (Master thesis, 2016-03-29)
      Denne utredningen analyserer aktivt forvaltede norske aksjefond i perioden 1983-2014. Formålet med oppgaven er å se om faktorer fra utvalgte flerfaktormodeller kan forklare avkastningen til fondene. Herunder om noen ...
    • Faktorer bak bankers suksess basert på kundenes perspektiv : empirisk undersøkelse av privatbankkunder i en filialbank og en internettbank 

      Johansen, Veronica; Zaman, Shadabi (Master thesis, 2010)
      Formålet med denne utredningen har vært å undersøke de kausale sammenhengene mellom ulike faktorer som anses å ha en innvirkning på bankers suksess. Vi har valgt å fokusere på privatbankmarkedet, og har sett på bakenforliggende ...
    • Faktorer som kan forklare netto tegning i norske aksjefond 

      Selvaag, Kenneth (Master thesis, 2007)
      Denne utredningen er en empirisk analyse av hvilke faktorer som kan spille inn i investorenes valg av norske aksjefond, med vekt på avkastning og kostnader. To forskjellige datamaterialer ble satt sammen til en ny database ...
    • Faktorer som påvirker kontinuerlig forbedring : hva påvirker kontinuerlig forbedring i en bedrift som har innført Lean? Hvilke faktorer hemmer? Hvilke faktorer fremmer? 

      Bergene, Marianne Walestrand (Master thesis, 2009)
      En organisasjon som har innført Lean skal i teorien oppnå en tilstand der den kontinuerlig forbedrer seg. Det er imidlertid noen organisasjoner som ved innføring av Lean oppnår økt ytelse, men som etter en tid faller tilbake ...
    • Faller påstanden om at «lakseskatten» er nøytral i fisk? En analyse av nøytralitet i grunnrenteskatten på havbruk 

      Frostad, Pernille; Moldskred, Håvard (Master thesis, 2023)
      For å i minst mulig grad forstyrre samfunnsøkonomisk optimal ressursallokering, er det ønskelig at skatter i størst mulig grad utformes som nøytrale. Grunnrente, som er en type renprofitt som stammer fra utnyttelsen av ...
    • Family stability and labor market gender convergence 

      Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Hunnes, Arngrim (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-05)
      The present paper examines the historical development in the structure of the family in terms of marriage, divorce, fertility and labor 1886/2007 in order to map quantitative changes. The paper draws new information from ...