Blar i Thesis på emneord "economics"
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Equality before the welfare state : the Norwegian income distribution 1892-1929
(Master thesis, 2017)We estimate the complete income distribution in Norway for 1892, 1906, 1913 and 1929. Compared to previous research, we benefit from better data and more advanced estimation techniques. Our thesis identifies several data ... -
Evaluating the effects of industrial robots on the European labour market : employment and wage effects
(Master thesis, 2017)While the nature of work and skill demand has changed multiple times, the pace of the change has accelerated significantly in a way never seen before. An amount of literature explains this by the technological advances ... -
Explaining election outcomes using web search data : evidence from the U.S. presidential elections 2008 - 2016
(Master thesis, 2017)Can Google Trends data be used to proxy socially sensitive sentiments, and can such proxies explain election outcomes? This thesis analyzes the effects of different social sentiments, proxied by Google search data, on ... -
Fleksibilitet i arbeidslivet : kan deler av lønnsgapet i Norge forklares med preferanser knyttet til fleksibilitet?
(Master thesis, 2017)Kvinner og menn har i dag omtrent lik humankapital. Likevel er det fortsatt store lønnsforskjeller i mange bransjer, særlig i den øvre delen av inntektsfordelingen. Formålet med denne oppgaven er å se nærmere på hvilke ... -
Forecasting Norwegian inflation with deep neural networks : the application and comparison of different feedforward architectures
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis investigates the feasibility of applying deep neural networks to macroeconomic forecastingintheNorwegianeconomy. Thethesisisintendedformacroforecasterscuriousaboutthe possibility of utilizing these approaches ... -
Fra sparekonto til aktiva : En empirisk analyse av sammenhengen mellom norske husholdningers spareformer og aktivainflasjon i perioden 1945-2020
(Master thesis, 2021)I denne oppgaven analyserer vi sammenhengen mellom norske husholdningers sparing og aktivainflasjon i perioden 1945-2020. Vi bruker beholdningstall for spareformene aksjer, fond, bankinnskudd og realkapital som mål på ... -
Gender differences in the labour market : explaining the gender wage gap : empirical evidence from Norway
(Master thesis, 2020)This master´s thesis aims to investigate potential sources of the gender wage gap using Norwegian register data on the full population. First, I seek to understand to what extent traditional human capital factors and ... -
Gender Diversity in the Norwegian Energy Sector and its Development : A descriptive and explanatory study
(Master thesis, 2022)Using Norwegian register data accessed through microdata.no, this thesis seeks to provide a description of gender diversity in the Norwegian energy sector, and renewables specifically. Existing research on gender diversity ... -
Gender Gaps in Leadership: The Case of Savings Groups in Uganda: How can gender gaps in leadership positions be measured and explained? Are there gender differences in the perceptions of which leaders are influential?– A Literature Review and Investigation of Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) in Uganda
(Master thesis, 2022)Village saving and loans associations (VSLAs) play critical roles in many countries, including Uganda, towards financial inclusion overall. VSLAs are critical in working towards two key components to financial inclusion: ... -
Geoeconomic determinants for foreign investments: A quantitative study of potential national strategic objectives of Chinese investments to Europe using firm-level data
(Master thesis, 2021)In this thesis, I examine potential geoeconomic determinants for the location choice of non European investments to the EU28 and EFTA-countries. Over the past decade, Chinese outward FDI has tripled. With that comes ... -
Girls’ economic empowerment - the best contraceptive? : results from a long-term pilot survey with focus on entrepreneurial behavior
(Master thesis, 2014)This paper is written as the final thesis of our master degree in Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics, NHH. The thesis is a contribution to the Girl Empowerment Project – a research project launched by the ... -
Goggles on Google : the effect of observational cues on stigmatizing Google search behaviour
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis uses Google Trends data to examine search behaviour for stigmatized Google search terms in the United States and the United Kingdom. The study aims to test the evolutionary legacy hypothesis, that suggests ... -
Historical price indices and price shocks : Norway 1736–1766 : a macroeconomic and historical approach
(Master thesis, 2018)In this paper, we use the Laspeyres index to construct a cost of living index (CLI), a wholesale price index (WPI), and a producer price index (PPI) for Norway for the period 1736–1766. We use the newly published database ... -
How public bodies deal with technological uncertainty over time : An exploratory analysis through dynamic capabilities lenses
(Master thesis, 2021)The public actors are not exempt by the technological uncertainty, which increasingly affects both the private and public sector. Public organizations, and private actors, handle such uncertainty by deploying dynamic ... -
I don’t believe it: Correcting students’ misperceptions about peers’ time spent on homework
(Master thesis, 2021)In this master thesis we investigate the effect of providing students with accurate information about their peers’ time spent on homework. We use experimental data collected from two surveys carried out on 10th grade ... -
The Impact of Expansionary Monetary Policy on Norwegian Stock Prices: A Structural Vector Autoregressive Analysis of the Past Three Decades
(Master thesis, 2022)This paper aims to evaluate the impact of domestic monetary policy shocks on Norwegian stock prices, as well as the impact in a historically low interest rate environment. Consequently, the analysis is comprised of ( l ... -
The impact of providing business training to microfinance clients: empirical evidence from Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2010)This master thesis studies the impact of providing business training to microfinance clients in Tanzania. Based on data collected six months after the programme ended, we cannot confirm positive treatment effects from ... -
The impact of the 2014 oil price shock on corporate sustainability and performance
(Master thesis, 2020)Our thesis aims to study whether high sustainability companies in Europe outperform low sustainability companies in terms of stock performance following the oil price shock in 2014. To conduct this analysis, we employ a ... -
Initial Public offerings in Scandinavia : an empirical assessment of underpricing and aftermarket performance in the scandinavian market : are scandinavian initial public offerings good investments?
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis contributes to the existing academic literature on the initial public offering anomalies by providing findings on underpricing and aftermarket performance in the Scandinavian market between 2007 and 2016. ...