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Seasonal Social Preferences.
(DP SAM;4/2017, Working paper, 2017-03)Christmas is when people are expected to act selflessly for the well-being of others, but are people actually more altruistic at this time of the year? Responding to this question poses a challenge because of the confounding ... -
Seasonality in natural gas prices : an empirical study of Henry Hub Natural Gas Futures Prices
(Master thesis, 2013)In this thesis we investigate whether seasonality is a significant factor in natural gas futures prices. We test for seasonality by estimating the two-factor model of Schwartz & Smith (2000), using Kalman filtering techniques ... -
Seasonality matters: a multi-season, multi-state dynamic optimization in fishery
(Discussion paper;2/18, Working paper, 2018-02-12)Many biological and economic processes in fishery happen seasonally. Most of the extant literature tends to neglect this fact. This work is an initial attempt to treat seasonality in a systematic and proper way. We apply ... -
Seasoned equity offerings in regulated industries : empirical evidence from Europe
(Master thesis, 2017)We study 4,953 European SEO announcements over the period January 1997 to December 2016. Our results demonstrate that the announcement of equity offerings on average reduce stock prices. Cross-sectional analysis on the ... -
Seasoned public offerings: Resolution of the "new issues puzzle"
(Discussion paper;09/98, Working paper, 1998)The `new issues puzzle' is that stocks of common stock issuers subsequently underperform non- issuers matched on size and book-to-market ratio. With 7,000+ seasoned equity and debt issues, we document that issuer ... -
A Seat at the Table : The Norwegian Board Gender Quota: A Study on Indirect Effects
(Master thesis, 2022)Twenty years ago, Norway led the way with the first board gender quota on ASA1 and is now considering extending the legislation to AS. This paper examines if the existing board gender quota has fulfilled one of its main ... -
A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
(DP SAM;14/2020, Working paper, 2020-08)Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register ... -
Second-best fairness under limited information: The trade-off between false positives and false negatives
(DP SAM;18/2018, Working paper, 2018-08)In many important economic settings, limited information makes it impossible for decision makers to ensure that each individual gets what he or she deserves. Decision makers are then faced with the trade-off between giving ... -
Second-hand vessel valuation : a generalized additive model and extreme gradient boosting approach
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis investigates the applicability of extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) compared to the generalized additive model (GAM) approach to create a desktop valuation model of second-hand Handysize bulkers. The data ... -
Second-period pricing in a duopoly with switching costs : the effect of size and composition of customer bases
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)Switching costs may facilitate monopoly pricing in a market with price competition between two suppliers of a homogenous good, provided the switching cost is above some critical level. It is also well known that asymmetric ... -
Secrecy Jurisdictions
(Discussion paper;12/15, Working paper, 2015-03-10)This paper surveys tax haven legislation and links the literature on tax havens to the literature on asymmetric information. I argue that the core aim of tax haven legislation is to create private information (secrecy) ... -
Sector betting in the gross profitability anomaly : a performance analysis and sector betting effects in the U.S equity market
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis presents an analysis of quality investing; more specifically how gross profitability scaled by book assets can generate abnormal returns in the U.S market, as previously illustrated by Novy-Marx (2012). Our ... -
Sector performance in the private equity industry : an empirical study on private equity in the Nordics between 2004 and 2013
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis examines performance of PE-backed companies on a sector-by-sector basis in the Nordics. In addition, this thesis provides a holistic overview of the performance of PE-backed companies across three dimensions: ... -
Secularity, abortion, assisted dying and the future of conscientious objection: modelling the relationship between attitudes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background Controversies arise over abortion, assisted dying and conscientious objection (CO) in healthcare. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between attitudes towards these bioethical dilemmas, and ... -
Securing innovation through corporate spin-off : an exploratory case study
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis explores how a large established firm can secure and manage technology-based innovation through the use of a corporate spin-off. This study is performed in the setting of a large media firm and its four ... -
Securing innovation through corporate spin-off : an exploratory case study
(Report;2018/6, Report, 2018-10)This thesis explores how a large established firm can secure and manage technology-based innovation through the use of a corporate spin-off. This study is performed in the setting of a large media firm and its four technology ... -
Security of supply in competitive electricity markets : the Nordic power market
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004)It is well known that in the absence of a complete set of markets or under conditions of monopoly and imperfect competition, optimal provision of quality can not be taken for granted. Market set in the restructured electricity ... -
Seeing Grocery in a New Light: Investigating Oda Norway's firm specific advantages in the Finnish grocerymarket.
(Master thesis, 2022)With Oda having experienced a rapid growth ever since its debut in 2013, the increased online interest following the pandemic further accelerated the company’s upwards trajectory. With its 70 percent market share of the ... -
Segmentation and pricing behavior in a market for certification
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-11)The paper offers a simple theory of pricing behavior in certification markets. The basis for the theory is that certifiers offer differentiated tests; for an object of given quality it may be more difficult to pass the ... -
Segmentering av medlemmer ved treningssenter: en studie på hvordan Nr1 Fitness segmenterer medlemmene sine
(Master thesis, 2017)Formålet med utredningen har vært og sett på segmenteringen Nr1 Fitness gjør av sine medlemmer. Deretter se på om det finnes andre segmenteringer de kan benytte, men som de ikke gjør i dag. Formålet med å benytte seg av ...