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How did the oil price influence the freight rates for VLCC crude oil tankers between 2005 and 2015?
(Master thesis, 2016)The subject of this thesis is “How did the oil price influence the freight rates for VLCC crude oil tankers between 2005 and 2015?” The oil price is important for the development of world economic activity, as oil is a ... -
How dividends influence valuation : do investors appreciate cash dividends?
(Master thesis, 2012)This paper explores the relationship between cash dividends and value for American firms. It follows Fama and French “Taxes, Financing Decisions and Firm Value” (1998). Fama and French found that dividends convey information ... -
How do Alternative Asset Classes Affect Performance of Traditional Stock & Bond Portfolios? An Empirical Analysis of Strategic Asset Allocation and Risk Management through Business Cycles
(Master thesis, 2021)The main scope of this thesis is to examine how alternative asset classes affect performance of traditional stock and bond portfolios. We will employ financial engineering and quantitative analytics to construct the most ... -
How do different evaluation methods affect outcomes in procurement?
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis uses simulation and regression analysis to investigate how different evaluation methods affect outcomes in procurement. In order to simulate the data, we have made our own algorithm in R Studio to answer our ... -
How Do Firms Respond to Unions?
(DP SAM;25/2023, Working paper, 2023-12-22)This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the margins along which firms in Norway respond to increased union density, using legislative changes in the tax deductibility of union dues as a quasi-exogenous shock to ... -
How do host–migrant proximities shape attitudes toward internal climate migrants?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Climate change is predicted to cause voluntary and forced internal migration on an unprecedented scale in the coming decades. Yet, research on host communities that will be on the front lines in receiving the climate migrants ... -
How do microeconomic determinants constitute the freight rate of individual contracts in the VLCC spot market?
(Master thesis, 2020)In this paper, we build a hedonic price model to explain the variation in freight rates in individual contracts using microeconomic data of the VLCC market. Using XGBoost and SHAP values to investigate the importance and ... -
How do Norwegian shipping companies benefit from joining the Chinese maritime cluster? : a case study of a Norwegian shipping company’s operations in China from a cluster perspective
(Master thesis, 2008)Norwegian shipping occupies considerable market shares internationally and has achieved dominating positions within many segments. Thus, Norway appears as one of the leading maritime nations with one of the most complete ... -
How Do People Trade Off Resources Between Quick and Slow Learners?
(DP SAM;05/2021, Working paper, 2021-02)How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from the first experiment designed to elicit people’s preferences for how to prioritize educational resources, ... -
How do political and economic institutions affect each other?
(Discussion paper;19/2014, Working paper, 2014-05)This paper provides evidence for the mutually reinforcing relation of political and economic institutions. To overcome problems of endogeneity I utilize lag instruments within a GMM framework for dynamic panel data. ... -
How Do the EU’s Climate and Energy Policies Affect Norwegian Electricity Prices and the Outlook for Profitable Wind Power Development in 2030? : A grid parity analysis of onshore wind in Norway under different scenarios for the future power market in Northwestern Europe
(Master thesis, 2017)In this study, I conduct a scenario analysis of the power market in Northwestern Europe in 2030 to assess how different trajectories towards achieving the EU’s energy and climate objective affect the Norwegian electricity ... -
How Does a Firm’s Focus on ESG Factors Affect its Cost of Debt? Investigating Regional and Industry level ESG Materiality Factors and their Effect on Firm Cost of Debt.
(Master thesis, 2022)As ESG risk and ESG materiality concepts become increasingly important to firm and lender-level decision making, our paper aims to investigate the dynamic factors affecting industry and regional-level materiality. Our ... -
How does external technology sourcing affect internal R&D investments?
(Master thesis, 2011)This thesis examines the relationship between internal R&D and external R&D contracting, as well as internal R&D and R&D collaboration for a comprehensive panel of Norwegian firms. Special emphasis is put on multinational ... -
How does monetary policy respond to exchange rate movements? : new international evidence
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-10)This paper analyzes how monetary policy responds to exchange rate movements in open economies, paying particular attention to the interaction between monetary policy and exchange rate movements. We address this issue ... -
“How does the degree of sustainability improvements affect consumers’ perception of the company’s trustworthiness, and does it depend on the company’s reputation for sustainability?” : a moderated mediation of the degree of perceived sustainability improments, percieved innovativeness and perceived trustworthiness.
(Master thesis, 2020)In this research, we investigate how the degree of sustainability improvements implemented by companies, affect whether they are perceived as trustworthy by consumers, and if this effect depends on the company’s reputation ... -
How does the type of remuneration affect physician behaviour? Fixed salary versus fee-for-service
(Working paper, 2018-09)We analyse the effects of fee-for-service versus fixed salary on the treatment decisions of general practitioners (GPs) and on patients’ health outcomes. Using rich Norwegian register data during 2009-2013, we find that ... -
How does the value of corporate cash holdings depend on corporate governance? : a cross-country analysis
(Master thesis, 2013)The objective of this thesis is to quantitatively test how corporate governance influences the value of corporate cash holdings. More specifically, we examine whether valuation of corporate cash holdings is consistent with ... -
How efficient is Vinmonopolet’s pricing policy? : a structural estimation of the Norwegian wine auctions
(Master thesis, 2019)This paper uses an empirical approach to investigate how Vinmonopolet’s current pricing policy affects their electronic wine auctions by looking at how the binding reserve price affects the auction outcomes and how the ... -
How electricity price spikes can help overcome the energy efficiency gap
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Using data on Google searches, I suggest that the spiky nature of electricity markets has a strong effect on searching for information on energy efficiency goods. I identify the informational effect by decomposing prices ...