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Finnes det tegn på earnings management i selskaper notert på Oslo Børs?
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Finnes det tendenser til politiske konjunktursykler i Norge i perioden 1948-2005?
(Master thesis, 2006)I denne siviløkonomutredningen utføres en empirisk analyse av politiske konjunktursykler i etterkrigstidens Norge innenfor et rammeverk fra makroøkonomisk teori. Modellene som presenteres og anvendes i denne utredningen ... -
FinTech in Norway : the effect of FinTech on the traditional Norwegian banking sector
(Master thesis, 2017)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the effect of FinTech on the Norwegian banking industry. We investigate the drivers of FinTech, the current and potential Norwegian FinTech market, and the international ... -
Firm exit, vintage effect and the business cycle in Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-12)In spite of the large and growing literature on producer heterogeneity and firm exit behavior, little attention has been paid to the vintage capital theory of firm exits as an alternative hypothesis to learning/selection. ... -
Firm performance and business environment : how important and predicative are municipality rankings for firms´ performance in Norway?
(Master thesis, 2017)A number of empirical papers have concluded that there is a significant correlation between a firm’s business environment - encompassing factors such as education, labour, demographics and health – and its financial ... -
Firm size and the gains from divestitures
(Master thesis, 2015)Recent academic studies indicate that corporate divestitures generate considerable shareholder wealth. The field is emerging as an important topic in the finance, strategy and organizational literature, but the understanding ... -
Firm size and the quality of entrepreneurs
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-06)A theory is proposed where the pay policy and size of established firms are determined together with individual workers' entrepreneurship decision. The main results are twofold. First, taking the firm size as given, larger ... -
First movers, late shakers : between innovation, uncertainty and skepticism in Norway’s market
(Master thesis, 2011)This analysis discusses and applies the skepticism discourse as a methodology for amplifying risk and uncertainty so that researchers can understand in another fashion why consumers and institutions make decisions -
First-best optimality in capital income taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-10)In case of risk, especially aggregate risk which cannot be insured, the literature states that for achieving first-best optimality state-dependent lumpsum taxes are absolutely necessary. However, we show in a two-asset ... -
First-time acquisition of Sustainability-linked Debt in Shipping : Effects on Shareholder Distribution and Investor Appetite
(Master thesis, 2022)The allocation of capital to green projects has increased in recent years, as companies across industries increase their commitments to become more sustainable. In a regulatory environment where sustainability and an ... -
Fiscal corruption : a vice or a virtue?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-07)Recent literature on tax administration in poor countries suggests there are virtues of allowing fiscal corruption. By strengthening the bargaining power of corrupt tax officers, it is argued that tax evasion may be ... -
Fish farm ecology : a conceptual framework and empirical investigation of the CSR performance of Marine Harvest ASA and Cermaq ASA
(Master thesis, 2012)The purpose of this master thesis is to give business participants, regulatory authorities, researchers and the broader community awareness of priority areas within the fish farming industry. In this sense, we have developed ... -
Fish processing in Portugal : an industry in expansion
(Working paper;2016:4, Working paper, 2016-05)This paper analyses developments in the Portuguese fish processing industry from the 1960s to the present as well prospects for future expansion. Fish processing has expanded in recent decades gaining market share in the ... -
Fish wars on the high seas : a straddling stock competition model
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-04)The post World War II era saw the development of powerful self-contained fishing fleets, so-called distant-water fleets (DWFs), which roamed the worlds oceans, seeking out rich harvesting targets wherever they might be ... -
Fish wars on the high seas : a straddling stock competition model
(Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2001-04)The post World War II era saw the development of powerful self-contained fishing fleets, so-called distant-water fleets (DWFs), which roamed the world’s oceans, seeking out rich harvesting targets wherever they might be ... -
Fish wars on the high seas : erecting economic barriers to entry
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-10)The 1993 U.N. Straddling Stock Agreement prescribes a multi-national organizational structure for management of an exploited marine fish stock, one whose range straddles both “Extended Economic Zones” (EEZs) and high seas ... -
Fisheries management under irreversible investment : does stochasticity matter?
(Discussion paper;2011:20, Working paper, 2011-11)We present a continuous, nonlinear, stochastic and dynamic model for capital investment in the exploitation of a renewable resource. Both the resource stock and capital stock are treated as state variables. The resource ... -
Fishermen facing headwinds : a quantitative approach to evaluating fishing grounds and measuring the impact of offshore wind on the commercial fishing industry
(Master thesis, 2020)In this thesis, we investigate the impact of developing offshore wind farms in Træna on the local community and the fleet operating in the respective areas. In particular, we evaluate the catch value within each offshore ... -
Fishermen’s compliance : a dynamic model
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-11)In this paper, a dynamic model of fishermen's compliance is developed and used to analyse several issues. There are two parties involved in the fishery; the regulator and the fishermen. The regulator takes on a long term ...