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Facilitating & inhibiting effects of comparative & non-comparative advertising on recall of competing brands

Nick, Alexander; Johnson, Frederic (Master thesis, 2010)

This research examines the role played by comparative and non comparative advertising formats on recall inhibition of competing brands in a product category. Category characteristics of open (awareness of multiple brands) ...

Facilitating innovation in an ecosystem :an exploratory case study

Ismail, Kahni; Åsdahl, Lina (Master thesis, 2019)

This study has examined the research question; In what way can the establishment of an ecosystem facilitate innovation in the construction and real estate industry? by conducting an exploratory case study of a recently ...

Facing the crowd : an assessment of credit quality in crowdlending platform portfolios

Gjesvik, Jørund Thomassen; Hestmann, Olav (Master thesis, 2018)

Crowdlending is a new form of lending, where platforms act as intermediaries between borrowers and lenders. The industry is gaining traction across Europe and the US. However, there has been little research into this ...

Factor Momentum in the U.S. and Norwegian Markets : An emprical study investigating momentum in factor returns using stock data of the U.S. and Norwegian markets

Tran, Dung Nguyen Thuy (Master thesis, 2023)

Factors exhibit momentum as strong as that in individual stocks. Importantly, momentum in factor returns has strong and robust predictive power for future performance of factors. This thesis finds that the impact of ...

Factors affecting the probability of bankruptcy: a panel data approach

Sundal, Håkon Kambestad; Hatlestad, Karoline (Master thesis, 2015)

This paper investigates the importance of firm-specific factors in determining or explaining bankruptcy. By studying Norwegian firms from the period 2005-2012, we are able to examine this using binary regression models. ...

Factors influencing the adoption of self-service technologies : a study of the benefits and risks of self-service technologies and trust beliefs of service providers

Zeng, Liying (Master thesis, 2016)

Self-service technologies (SSTs) are largely introduced and promoted to replace traditional service encounters and researchers have been investigating the influencers of SST adoption. This paper incorporates the fresh ...

Factors influencing the willingness to pay for insurance in Norway : An empirical study of the willingness to pay for small insurance contracts

Markgren, Marcus; Ribe, Ole Christoffer (Master thesis, 2023)

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the choice of deductible, degree of risk aversion and the level of income influence the willingness to pay for small insurance contracts in Norway. We use data from a ...

Fagbokforlaget : an offshoring case study

Skår, Birte (Master thesis, 2011)

This thesis is written as part of Master’s degree of Science in Economics and Business Administration at the Norwegian School of Economics. Inspiration for this thesis came when attending a course in Outsourcing and ...

Fair shares among children : experimental evidence from Norway and Shanghai exploring adults behaviour in a distributive conflict of inequality

Jordan, Iselin; Øyberg, Lena (Master thesis, 2019)

This paper is written as the final thesis of our master’s degree at Norwegian School of Economics, NHH, and as a contribution to “Development of Fairness Preferences” – a large scale experimental project launched by Centre ...

Fair value measuring in the private equity industry

Wist, Kristoffer Heimland (Master thesis, 2010)

The objective of this thesis is to address the question of how fair value reporting is implemented in the private equity industry, and how good fair value estimates (FV) are compared to the intrinsic value of the ...

Faktoreksponering i det norske fondsmarkedet : en empirisk studie av aktive aksjefond og systematiske risikofaktorer

Johansen, Mads Haug; Strømberg, Fredrik (Master thesis, 2016-03-29)

Denne utredningen analyserer aktivt forvaltede norske aksjefond i perioden 1983-2014. Formålet med oppgaven er å se om faktorer fra utvalgte flerfaktormodeller kan forklare avkastningen til fondene. Herunder om noen ...

Faktorer bak bankers suksess basert på kundenes perspektiv : empirisk undersøkelse av privatbankkunder i en filialbank og en internettbank

Johansen, Veronica; Zaman, Shadabi (Master thesis, 2010)

Formålet med denne utredningen har vært å undersøke de kausale sammenhengene mellom ulike faktorer som anses å ha en innvirkning på bankers suksess. Vi har valgt å fokusere på privatbankmarkedet, og har sett på bakenforliggende ...

Faktorer som kan forklare netto tegning i norske aksjefond

Selvaag, Kenneth (Master thesis, 2007)

Denne utredningen er en empirisk analyse av hvilke faktorer som kan spille inn i investorenes valg av norske aksjefond, med vekt på avkastning og kostnader. To forskjellige datamaterialer ble satt sammen til en ny database ...

Faktorer som påvirker kontinuerlig forbedring : hva påvirker kontinuerlig forbedring i en bedrift som har innført Lean? Hvilke faktorer hemmer? Hvilke faktorer fremmer?

Bergene, Marianne Walestrand (Master thesis, 2009)

En organisasjon som har innført Lean skal i teorien oppnå en tilstand der den kontinuerlig forbedrer seg. Det er imidlertid noen organisasjoner som ved innføring av Lean oppnår økt ytelse, men som etter en tid faller tilbake ...