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Is Materiality Key to Profit on Sustainability? An empirical analysis of material sustainability and its effect on stock performance on Oslo Stock Exchange
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis, we examine whether the companies’ focus and prioritization of material sustainability issues have value implications for companies listed in Norway. Material sustainability issues are those issues that ... -
Is mobility of labour a channel for spillovers from multinationals to local domestic firms?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-08)This paper documents the extent of labour mobility from multinationals (MNEs) to non-MNEs in Norwegian manufacturing during the 1990s. On average, each year around one percent of workers in MNEs move to non-MNEs. By the ... -
Is mobility of technical personnel a source of R&D spillovers?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-03)Labor mobility is often considered to be an important source of knowledge externalities, making it difficult for firms to appropriate returns to R&D investments. In this paper, I argue that inter-firm transfers of knowledge ... -
Is Publicity Always Better than Advertising? The Role of Brand Reputation in Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Previous studies on corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication suggest that firms’ social initiatives should be communicated through third-party, non-corporate sources because they are perceived as unbiased and ... -
Is recipiency of disability pension hereditary?
(Discussion paper;10/2012, Working paper, 2012-04)This paper addresses whether children’s exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability of receiving such benefits themselves. Most OECD countries experience an increasing proportion of the ... -
Is sinning winning? : an empirical analysis of sin stock returns in the Western world from 2000 to 2019
(Master thesis, 2020)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether sin stocks outperform the market and comparable utility stocks. We focus on three categories of sin stocks: tobacco, alcohol and gambling. The constructed sin and ... -
Is tax transparency associated with a better ESG score? An empiric look into the state of Tax transparency and ESG for OBX25
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis, our primary goal is to examine the state of tax transparency, then identify the relationship between ESG score and tax transparency performance for the Norwegian companies that make up the OBX25 index. ... -
Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(Discussion Papers;12/2011, Working paper, 2011-07)There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, are likely to be important. We estimate the impact ... -
Is the Baltic Capesize Index a good proxy for actual Capesize earnings? : a simulation approach
(Master thesis, 2013)The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate if the Baltic Capesize Index is a good proxy for actual Capesize earnings and why they deviate. The results may implicate if forward freight agreements are suitable for ... -
Is the Baltic Dry Index System ready for an upgrade? : a study of freight market indices
(Master thesis, 2019)We examine the shipping industry’s need and interest in changing the way that freight market indices are made. Our research is conducted due to recent changes in the shipping industry, with more competition entering the ... -
Is the cannibalization effect of intermittent renewables important for the German wholesale electricity market?
(Discussion paper;5/22, Working paper, 2022-02-02)Employing a quantile regression model, we investigate the impact of renewable sources on their unit revenues (absolute cannibalization) and value factors (relative cannibalization), as well as the cross-effect between ... -
Is the Chinese currency, the Renminbi, correctly valued?
(Master thesis, 2008)China has since the beginning of this decade been accused of artificially keeping its currency the RMB low in order to increase its exports. This have triggered protectionist acts from the US and demands of a RMB revaluation. ... -
Is the current management system at Statoil sufficient to prevent potential major accidents from happening at the Snorre A platform?
(Master thesis, 2013)Only small margins prevented the gas-blow out at one of Statoil's platforms, Snorre A, to develop into a major accident in 2004. The underlying reasons of the accident showed extensive improvement areas, including Statoil's ... -
Is the household a constraint for female entrepreneurs in poor countries? : a field experiment in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2012)This master’s thesis analyzes whether the household is a constraint on married female entrepreneurs, relative to male entrepreneurs. The research is based on an experiment conducted in Tanzania by NHH using PRIDE microfinance ... -
Is the U.S subprime credit crisis a predictable surprise?
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Is there a consensus trap in earnings forecasts? : an empirical study
(Master thesis, 2018)This paper revisits Grüner (2009) and seeks to establish whether there is a consensus trap in earnings forecasts. There is a consensus trap if analysts’ forecasts are more likely to be wrong when forecasts are homogeneous, ... -
Is there a demand response by patients in primary care?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-11)We test whether a demand response by patients exists in the Norwegian primary care sector. In Norway, physicians are remunerated either by salary or by incentive contract, and we have access to a large data survey that ... -
Is there a development gap in rationality?
(Discussion paper;8/2014, Working paper, 2014-03)We report an experimental test of the four touchstones of rationality in choice under risk – utility maximization, stochastic dominance, expected-utility maximization and small-stakes risk neutrality – with students from ... -
Is there a distress risk puzzle in the Norwegian market? : a hazard model approach
(Master thesis, 2018)A fundamental principle in the financial literature is that assets with exposure to systematic risk should be compensated with a risk premium in returns. Thus, assuming financial distress risk is systematic, rational ... -
Is there a flight to quality? : a study on flight to quality within the equity markets
(Master thesis, 2021)Much of the research on flight to quality use different definitions of "flight" and "quality", making the findings difficult to compare. The coherent story behind this phenomenon is that investors become risk-averse ...