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Why does the Allais paradox occur also among business students?
(Master thesis, 2017)The reasons for people making certain decisions has always been a question of interest among researchers. This paper presents a broad study in the field of Behavioral Finance on the topic of the Theory of Rational Choice ... -
Why does the Norwegian bond market issue so few green bonds? : a comparative study of the Norwegian and Swedish green bond markets
(Master thesis, 2019)To uncover the underlying reasons why the Norwegian bond market issues so few green bonds, the thesis contains two objectives. The first objective is to analyze the performance of green bonds in the primary and secondary ... -
Why don’t similar e-commerce companies choose similar logistics distribution system? : a case study of two e-commerce companies in China based on transaction cost theory
(Master thesis, 2016)During the last decade, the importance of “last mile delivery” has become increasingly prominent due to the booming development of e-commerce. Logistics services have become the bottleneck of the development of e-commerce ... -
Why Europe should love tax competition - and the U.S. even more so
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-04)Is global competition for mobile capital harmful (less public goods) or beneficial (less government waste)? This paper combines both aspects within a generalized version of the comparative public finance model (Persson, ... -
Why Firms Lay Off Workers Instead of Cutting Wages: Evidence From Linked Survey-Administrative Data
(DP SAM;04/2025, Working paper, 2024-02)We use a novel large-scale survey of firms, implemented in Denmark in 2021 and linked to administrative data, to study why firms lay off workers instead of cutting wages. Our questions on layoffs, wage cuts, and the link ... -
Why is economic growth lagging behind in former Comecon republics?
(Master thesis, 2019)Since 1990, former Comecon countries have been poorer than their neighbors in Western Europe and, over the past 30 years, convergence has been weak. Economic theory and previous research suggest that the region should ... -
Why is on-net traffic cheaper than off-net traffic?
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-04)Received literature have shown that if competing Telecom networks are restricted to linear pricing and are unable to discriminate between on- and off-net calls, high access charges can be a device for facilitating collusion. ... -
Why is the adoption rate of real options valuation low among practitioners? : a multiple case study
(Master thesis, 2018)Real options valuation has been advocated as an appropriate valuation method for high-risk projects. Despite its popularity in literature, adoption among practitioners continues to be low. This paper researches why the ... -
Why is the Chinese Saving Profile Upside-Down? : a LCH study of Chinese household savings
(Master thesis, 2011)This master thesis estimates the saving profiles of Chinese households in 1995 and 2002 and discusses possible explanations for the high and increasing saving rates among the young and old generation in China. The high ... -
Why local loop unbundling fails?
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)The paper examines why local loop unbundling (LLU) mostly fails. Unbundling, in principle, makes the local loop (subscriber line) available to competing operators and enables the development of complementary network devices ... -
Why potential entry may increase platform sponsors’ profit
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-09)In this paper we analyze the incentives for platform sponsors to open up their networks for independent rivals. We show that open access may increase the platform sponsors’ profit levels and enhance quality improving investments. -
Why the apple doesn't fall far: Understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. Why is this? There are a number of possible explanations. One is a pure selection story: the type of parent who has more education and earns ... -
Why the apple doesn’t fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005)Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, ... -
Why the apple doesn’t fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education ... -
Why there? a decomposition of the choice of target industry
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008)This paper provides a quantitative quantitative characterization of how diversifying firms chose target industry, with an emphasis on target market and resource-/capability characteristics. We seek to improve on the ... -
Why there? Decomposing the choice of target industry
(Working papers;34/13, Working paper, 2013-12)How do diversifying firms chose their target industries? We explore target-industry choice empirically by focusing on the relative importance of target-market characteristics and the focal firm’s resources and capabilities. ... -
Why volunteer? : a case study of volunteers in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championship 2011 Oslo, Holmenkollen
(Master thesis, 2011)This thesis is a case study conducted on the volunteers in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championship 2011 in Oslo, Holmenkollen. The focus has been to study why the volunteers are motivated. I have investigated this through ... -
Why was the Great Depression not so great in the Nordic countries? : economic policy and unemployment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-08)The present paper seeks to examine why the Nordic countries performed better than most other Western countries during the 1930s, when they at the same time experienced high unemployment levels. The conclusions drawn here ... -
Why women still can’t have it all : a causal analysis of the reduction in the paternity quota on mothers’ labor participation and career prospects
(Master thesis, 2017)The Norwegian paternity quota was reduced from 14 to 10 weeks in 2014. This resulted in an immediate fall in the average length of fathers’ parental leave. In this paper, we investigate what effect this has had on mothers’ ... -
Will a factor-based Markowitz implementation beat the market?
(Master thesis, 2017)In this thesis, we look at whether a factor-based implementation of the Markowitz (1952) framework beats the market. Different sets of factors are used in the framework, to see whether this choice affects the results. ...