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Is cash king or dead money? : an empirical study of Norwegian firms and the effect of cash on firm performance
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis explores the relationship between cash and rm performance. Additionally, the thesis provides insight into how this relationship varies across di erent time periods and industries. Using instrumental variable ... -
Is customer profitability related to solvency of customers?
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-12)Firms have to consider various ways to analyse their business. However, by many firms it is often asserted that the customers are most important. The sales to customers are generating the cash flows that make the firms ... -
Is Digital Transformation Tightening SMEs' Access to Debt?
(Master thesis, 2023)Is the constantly increasing technology always a blessing, or does it worsen existing challenges? This thesis analyzes how digital transformation in the financial sector affects Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) debt. ... -
Is dry bulk shipping a rational market? : historical analysis from an intrinsic value perspective
(Master thesis, 2015-09-17)Dry bulk shipping is unique due to its near “perfect-competition” market characteristics. To complicate matters further, there is a significant supply side delivery delay in case of unexpected demand changes. Both of these ... -
Is gender equality valued by investors? : an event study of companies included in the Bloomberg gender equality index
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis investigates whether global markets value firm commitment to gender equality in the workplace by using event study methodology. We examine whether inclusion in Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI) yields ... -
Is greenwashing relevant information for investors? An event study of corporate greenwashing and stock market reactions
(Master thesis, 2022)The understandings and frequencies of climate change adversities have increased dramatically in the last decades. As a result, firms are under pressure from stakeholders to improve their environmental performance. However, ... -
Is labor mobility a channel for spillovers from multinationals? : evidence from Norwegian manufacturing
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-07)This paper documents labor mobility flows from multinationals (MNEs) to non-MNEs in Norwegian manufacturing during the 1990s. 14,400 workers in MNEs move to non-MNEs during this period. By the year 2000, 28 percent of the ... -
Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime
(Discussion paper;05/15, Working paper, 2015-01-19)We examine the effect of medical marijuana laws (MML) on crime treating the introduc- tion of MML as a quasi-experiment and using three different data sources. First, using data from the Uniform Crime Reports, we find ... -
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 ...