Browsing Department of Business and Management Science by Title
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Essays on multinational firm behaviour: Profit shifting, secrecy jurisdictions and stock value
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ESSAYS ON MUTUAL FUNDS
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-01)This paper analyzes whether sustainable investors are sensitive to fees and whether investors in funds with a higher sustainability rating are more sensitive to fees than investors in nonsustainable funds. Using an ... -
Essays on portfolio choice
(Doctoral thesis, 2007)The four papers that make up my thesis take different approaches to portfolio choice. The first paper, Expertise Bias, is an empirical paper investigating individuals' portfolio choice. The main finding is that individual ... -
Essays on retail prices
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-04) -
Essays on Shareholder Engagement and Voting
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-05)Navigating through a PhD is like walking alone on a dark winter night. The kindness I have encountered along the way is the twinkling stars that accompany me and guide me in the darkness. For that, I am forever ... -
Essays on Staffing and Transportation
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-05) -
Essays on the European electricity markets
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-10) -
Estimating the additionality of R&D subsidies using proposal evaluation data to control for research intentions
(Discussion paper;18/14, Working paper, 2014-04)Empirical examination of whether R&D subsidies crowd out private investments has been hampered by selection problems. A particular worry is that project quality and research intentions may be correlated with the likelihood ... -
Estimating the cost of future global energy supply
(Discussion paper;14/14, Working paper, 2014-03)This study produces an attempt to estimate the cost of future global energy supplies. The approach chosen to address this concern relies on a comparative static exercise of estimating the cost of three energy scenarios ... -
Estimating the effect of corporate income tax reductions : a comparative case study on the capital structure of financial corporations
(Master thesis, 2016-09-05)This thesis aims to investigate the effects of a corporate income tax rate change on financial corporations’ capital structure. We perform two case studies on financial corporations located in Austria and the Netherlands ... -
Estimating the parameters of stochastic differential equations using a criterion function based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998)Estimation of parameters in the drift and diffusion terms of stochastic differential equations involves simulation and generally requires substantial data sets. We examine a method that can be applied when available time ... -
Estimation of biological and economic parameters of a bioeconomic fisheries model using dynamical data assimilation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-05)A new approach of model parameter estimation is used with simulated measurements to recover both biological and economic input parameters of a natural resource model. The procedure efficiently combines time series of ... -
Europe's climate goals and the electricity sector
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)EU's objective of attaining 20% reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 is analysed with a general equilibrium model detailing electricity generation technologies and capital vintaging. Consistent with theory and ... -
European market integration for gas? : volume flexibility and political risk
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-05)Is the European gas market integrated? Are there substantial price differences between gas from different export countries? Time series of Norwegian, Dutch and Russian gas export prices to Germany in 1990-1998 are examined. ... -
European option pricing and hedging with both fixed and proportional transaction costs
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-12)In this paper we extend the utility based option pricing and hedging approach, pioneered by Hodges and Neuberger (1989) and further developed by Davis, Panas, and Zariphopoulou (1993), for the market where each transaction ... -
Evaluating Norway’s electric vehicle incentives
(Discussion paper;19/23, Working paper, 2023-11-08)We use product-level data from 2000 to 2021 to evaluate Norway’s incentives for consumers to choose electric vehicles. These include taxes on fossil fuels, EV exemption from car purchase taxes, and other incentives, like ... -
Evaluation of the Norwegian R&D tax credit scheme
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)We find that the Norwegian R&D tax credit scheme introduced in 2002 mainly works as intended. The scheme is costeffective and it is used by a large number of firms. It stimulates these firms to invest more in R&D, and, ... -
Evidence on competitive advantage and superior stock market performance
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-10)This article analyzes the value-relevance of industry-based and resource-based competitive advantage in a large sample of firms listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. We measure competitive advantage by a single variable and ...