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The price impact and timing of actual share repurchases in Norway
(Master thesis, 2015)Little is known about the price impact and timing of actual share repurchases. Data unavailability has hindered research in most countries, including the United States. Using unique data on actual share repurchase ... -
The Price of Ethical Investing: Evaluating the performance of socially responsible indices
(Master thesis, 2015)We use a Fama-French based approach to investigate the risk-adjusted performance of five regionally diverse sets of SRI indices and their conventional benchmarks from 1997 to 2014. In accordance with most previous research, ... -
'The Prime Minister said...' Voices in translated political texts
(Journal article, 2008)A variety of texts are translated to fulfil functions for political communication across languages, cultures, and ideologies. For example, newspapers regularly provide quotes of statements by foreign politicians, ... -
The principal problem in political economy : income distribution in the history of economic thought
(Discussion Papers;15/2013, Working paper, 2013-09)The paper considers the history of theories of income distribution, from the time of Adam Smith until the 1970s. It is divided into two main parts. Part I considers the positive theory of income distribution, beginning ... -
The Problem of Scientific Uncertainty
(Journal article, 2010)In a certain sense uncertainty and ignorance have been recognized in science and philosophy from the time of the Greeks. However, the mathematical sciences have been dominated by the pursuit of certainty. Therefore, experiments ... -
The process of customer brand engagement in interactive contexts: Prerequisites, conceptual foundations, antecedents, and outcomes
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-11)The purpose of this thesis is to develop a conceptual and theoretical understanding of customer brand engagement (CBE) that is useful for practitioners, particularly for service firms utilizing interactive platforms in ... -
The profitability of Norwegian salmon farming companies : a study of profitability variation
(Master thesis, 2015)The conditions in the Norwegian salmon farming industry are constantly changing. Locally and globally, regulations, consolidation and technological advancements are some of the factors having a deep impact on the current ... -
The Profitability of Norwegian Salmon Farming Companies: a study of profitability variation
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The profitability of pre-commercial floating offshore wind projects : a study of four funding mechanisms
(Master thesis, 2016)This thesis analyses the economic impact of different governmental support mechanisms on the investment in a pre-commercial floating offshore wind farm. An important contribution of this study is its investigation of ... -
The profitability of pumped hydro storage in Norway : a study of six pumped hydro storage plants
(Master thesis, 2014)With increasing investments and focus on renewable energy in Europe there has arisen a demand for balancing services due to the intermittency of renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. This thesis examines the ... -
The profitability of value and momentum strategies on the Nordic stock market
(Master thesis, 2017)In this paper, we examine the profitability of value and momentum strategies on the Nordic stock market for the period January 1989 to June 2016. We find evidence of both a value and momentum premium, reflected by positive ... -
The profitability premium : the effect of arbitrage activity on abnormal trading profits
(Master thesis, 2019)Inspired by the Novy-Marx (2013) paper, the purpose of this thesis is to investigate the profitability premium and the effect of arbitrage activity on its abnormal trading profits over the period from June 1964 to December ... -
The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism the Haugian way
(Discussion paper;1/2012, Working paper, 2012-02)On the basis of availabale sources the present paper seeks to map entrepreneural industrial activities the Norwegian puritan revivalist Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771- 1824) was involved in and quantify his financial activities. ... -
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Entrepreneurship of the Norwegian Puritan Leader Hans Nielsen Hauge.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)The present paper deals with Max Webers hypothesis on the linkage between protestant ethics and the development of capitalism and entreprenaurship. It does so by study industrial entrepreneurship the great Norwegian puritan ... -
The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network
(Journal article, 2019)Concerns about the veracity of psychological research have been growing. Many findings in psychological science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be ... -
The Public Economics of Climate Change
(SAM;27/2015, Working paper, 2015-11-19)This paper considers the challenges to the field of public economics that arise from the issue of global warming. It outlines the argument for viewing the global climate as a public good and describes the problems that ... -
The public procurement of information systems: dialectics in requirements specification
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)When acquiring information systems, public entities face a dilemma. On the one hand, they want to procure the system that best suits their needs, which often requires lengthy dialogues with vendors. At the same time, they ... -
The Q theory model of housing : a macroeconomic analysis of the dynamics in the Norwegian housing market
(Master thesis, 2012)This thesis develops a q theory model of housing, where the value of Norwegian housing, q, is defined as the ratio of housing prices to the construction costs of new housing and housing is defined as the aggregate housing ... -
The quality of earnings
(Master thesis, 2011)Det er allment kjent at aksjepriser kan forklares ut i fra en rekke faktorer som oljepris, rentenivå og regnskapsinformasjon. Den statistiske graden av sammenheng mellom regnskapsinformasjon og aksjepriser betegnes i den ... -
The reality gap : en studie av prisingspraksis i et neoklassisk og institusjonelt perspektiv
(Master thesis, 2017)Gapet mellom den neoklassiske teorien om bedriften og praksis, the reality gap, har blant mange innenfor økonomistyringsfeltet blitt akseptert og rasjonalisert. Samtidig som samfunnsøkonomer mener det ikke er noe gap. ...