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Major Layoffs’ impact on venture capital activity : a study on how Ericsson and Nokia’s layoffs affected the Nordic venture capital activity
(Master thesis, 2015)This paper investigates the relationship between company-related shocks and the Nordic private equity and venture capital industry. We investigate the consequences from Ericsson and Nokia’s major layoffs in 2002 and 2012 ... -
Making Bank: Why High Bank Leverage is Optimal - for the Bank's Shareholders
(Discussion paper;33/15, Working paper, 2015-11-27)We create a structural credit model to calculate the optimal capital structure for a bank that provides asset backed loans, such as corporate loans and mortgages. The bank's assets are loans, which means that the bank's ... -
Making money selling “maybe” - the pricing of predictions : a literature review of pricing models of goods and services
(Master thesis, 2019)Advances in technology is a game changer for business. Today we can predict faster, cheaper and better than ever before (McKinsey, 2018), which enables humans to work smarter and faster. The technological development ... -
The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform
(SAM DP;14/2021, Working paper, 2021-08)Upon assuming power for the first time in 1935, the Norwegian Labour Party delivered on its promise for a major schooling reform. The reform raised minimum instruction time in less developed rural areas and boosted the ... -
Making prospect theory fit for finance
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-09)This paper gives a survey over a common aspect of prospect theory that occurred to be of importance in a series of recent papers developed by Enrico De Giorgi, Thorsten Hens, Janos Mayer, Haim Levy, Thierry Post, Marc ... -
Making sense of and reacting to organizational change : a descriptive study of how change recipients make sense of and react to an organizational change initiative
(Master thesis, 2016)The purpose of this study was to gain insight in how employees in an international energy company made sense of and reacted to an organizational change initiative. Furthermore how such responses to change might affect ... -
Making sense of market delineation with the aggregate diversion ratio
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-08)The US Merger Guidelines leave it an open question if the SSNIP test requires an increase in one, some or all prices in the candidate market. We argue that the characteristics of the candidate market in question should be ... -
Making the transition from a multi-domestic to a glocal strategy : The Initial Phase of Rieber & Søn’s Purchasing Transformation Project
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-06)The immediate purpose of this paper is to assess the progress Rieber & Søn had made with the initial phase of a project aimed at significantly integrating its international purchasing operations. This purchasing project ... -
Makroøkonomisk vekst i slutten av året som indikator for fremtidig aksjeavkastning : en empirisk studie av fjerde kvartals makroøkonomiske vekst som indikator for påfølgende års meravkastning i det norske aksjemarkedet
(Master thesis, 2017)Vi undersøker om realveksten i fjerde kvartal i en rekke klassiske konjunkturindikatorer har predikerende kraft på meravkastningen i OSEAX-indeksen det påfølgende året. Basert på Møller & Rangvid (2015) er hypotesen at ... -
Makroøkonomiske faktorer og det norske aksjemarkedet
(Master thesis, 2006)Denne masterutredningen tar for seg ulike makrofaktorers innvirkning på avkastningen til hovedindeksen på Oslo Børs. Analysene bygger på tidsseriedata fra perioden januar 1996 til desember 2005 som er hentet fra velkjente ... -
Malaysia : the lucky man of Asia?
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-12)Malaysia has been labelled the Lucky Man of Asia due to its wealth of natural resources, such as tin, rubber, palm oil, pepper, tropical timber, petroleum and a very fertile soil. There is no doubt that this richness has ... -
Male and female entrepreneurs’ employment growth ambitions: the contingent role of regulatory efficiency
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Entrepreneurs start and grow their ventures in a widely varying set of institutional contexts. One differentiator is a country’s regulatory efficiency which encompasses the freedom to start and to run a business without ... -
Malmquist Productivity Analysis based on StoNED
(Discussion paper;25/15, Working paper, 2015-09-24)We construct a Malmquist productivity index based on stochastic non-parametric envelopment of data (StoNED) method, and we study how the distributional assumptions in the second StoNED stage affect productivity change ... -
Man vs. Machine: An applied study comparing a man-made lexicon, a machine learned lexicon, and OpenAI's GPT for sentiment analysis.
(Master thesis, 2023)Sentiment analysis, at scale, has become an essential tool in the methodological toolbox of finance. In this thesis, we construct a sentiment lexicon using a supervised machine learning model by Taddy (2013) and compare ... -
Management Accounting Professionalization: the case of Russia
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Management accounting tools in large norwegian entities : a quantitative study of how management accounting tools are used and their effect on profitability
(Master thesis, 2019)In the last years, there has been a growing interest in the topic of management account tools. Although, research today is mainly argumentative, or focus on specific industries. Thereby, there is a need to conduct a ... -
The management control process in Sparebank 1 Ringerike
(Master thesis, 2006)The bank market has in recent years undergone several structural changes, and will most likely develop further in future years. Traditionally savings banks have been reluctant to carry out necessary actions to adapt ... -
Management control system change in buyouts : a multiple case study on management control system change in private equity performed buyout transactions
(Master thesis, 2012)This empirical study investigates how the control package change in private equity performed buyout transactions. The overall research question is: How does the control package change following a buyout transaction performed ... -
The management of complexity
(Report, Research report, 2000-12)The complex structure of many business environments, and indeed many corporations or organizations operating in them, implies great challenges for managers. What sources generate this complexity, and how can it be managed? ... -
The management of high seas fisheries : resources and the implementation of the U.N. Fish Stocks Agreement of 1995
(Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2002-02)From 1993 to 1995, the United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, addressed a worldwide fisheries management crisis, focussed on straddling and highly migratory fish stocks. The ...