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Main factors behind the substantial increase of FDI in Bulgaria : 2003-2007
(Master thesis, 2009)Since 2003 FDI inflows to Bulgaria have been growing steadily. This paper addresses the question which the main factors determining this significant increase are. The analysis is based on a large amount of macroeconomic ... -
Main vs. junior IPO Markets : an empirical study of firm-specific characteristics that affect companies’ choice of IPO market in Sweden
(Master thesis, 2019)This study examines the initial listing decision of firms that are qualified to list on Nasdaq Stockholm main market but choose to list on Nasdaq First North junior market instead. While many of previous studies have ... -
Major Layoffs’ impact on venture capital activity : a study on how Ericsson and Nokia’s layoffs affected the Nordic venture capital activity
(Master thesis, 2015)This paper investigates the relationship between company-related shocks and the Nordic private equity and venture capital industry. We investigate the consequences from Ericsson and Nokia’s major layoffs in 2002 and 2012 ... -
Making money selling “maybe” - the pricing of predictions : a literature review of pricing models of goods and services
(Master thesis, 2019)Advances in technology is a game changer for business. Today we can predict faster, cheaper and better than ever before (McKinsey, 2018), which enables humans to work smarter and faster. The technological development ... -
Making sense of and reacting to organizational change : a descriptive study of how change recipients make sense of and react to an organizational change initiative
(Master thesis, 2016)The purpose of this study was to gain insight in how employees in an international energy company made sense of and reacted to an organizational change initiative. Furthermore how such responses to change might affect ... -
Making Sense of Human Rights in Business: A Qualitative Case Study on the Practical and Paradoxical Challenges of Implementing Human Rights Due Diligence following the Norwegian Transparency Act
(Master thesis, 2023)Corporations are increasingly assuming a pivotal role in the global governance of human rights. This responsibility is underscored by Norway’s recently implemented Transparency Act (TA), which mandates Human Rights Due ... -
Makroøkonomisk vekst i slutten av året som indikator for fremtidig aksjeavkastning : en empirisk studie av fjerde kvartals makroøkonomiske vekst som indikator for påfølgende års meravkastning i det norske aksjemarkedet
(Master thesis, 2017)Vi undersøker om realveksten i fjerde kvartal i en rekke klassiske konjunkturindikatorer har predikerende kraft på meravkastningen i OSEAX-indeksen det påfølgende året. Basert på Møller & Rangvid (2015) er hypotesen at ... -
Makroøkonomiske faktorer og det norske aksjemarkedet
(Master thesis, 2006)Denne masterutredningen tar for seg ulike makrofaktorers innvirkning på avkastningen til hovedindeksen på Oslo Børs. Analysene bygger på tidsseriedata fra perioden januar 1996 til desember 2005 som er hentet fra velkjente ... -
Man vs. Machine: An applied study comparing a man-made lexicon, a machine learned lexicon, and OpenAI's GPT for sentiment analysis.
(Master thesis, 2023)Sentiment analysis, at scale, has become an essential tool in the methodological toolbox of finance. In this thesis, we construct a sentiment lexicon using a supervised machine learning model by Taddy (2013) and compare ... -
Management accounting tools in large norwegian entities : a quantitative study of how management accounting tools are used and their effect on profitability
(Master thesis, 2019)In the last years, there has been a growing interest in the topic of management account tools. Although, research today is mainly argumentative, or focus on specific industries. Thereby, there is a need to conduct a ... -
The management control process in Sparebank 1 Ringerike
(Master thesis, 2006)The bank market has in recent years undergone several structural changes, and will most likely develop further in future years. Traditionally savings banks have been reluctant to carry out necessary actions to adapt ... -
Management control system change in buyouts : a multiple case study on management control system change in private equity performed buyout transactions
(Master thesis, 2012)This empirical study investigates how the control package change in private equity performed buyout transactions. The overall research question is: How does the control package change following a buyout transaction performed ... -
Managerial ability and tax avoidance evidence from Europe
(Master thesis, 2019)Prior studies model tax avoidance after firm characteristics without considering the effect of individual decision makers, or obtain contradictory results as to the effect of the ability of these individual decision makers ... -
Managing Cross-Functional Collaboration : An exploratory case study examining cross-functional collaboration between sustainability manager and marketing department
(Master thesis, 2023)Sustainability has become increasingly important in our society, with new regulations and trends emerging regularly. In response, several firms have hired sustainability managers to meet present and future needs regarding ... -
Managing knowledge transfer in a multinational acquisition : a study of the factors that enable acquiring firms to successfully obtain intellectual capital from their acquisitions
(Master thesis, 2008)Multinational Companies (MNCs) have gained an extremely important role in today’s business environment. Within these MNCs two major developments can be distinguished, namely the increasing importance of knowledge management ... -
Managing momentum crashes in real time : US stock market
(Master thesis, 2018)Though, profitable, momentum is punctuated with crashes which make the strategy risky and unfavourable for an investor who dislikes long tails. Volatility management is one approach that has been introduced to deal with ... -
Managing risk with freight futures from IMAREX : testing hedging effectiveness and the unbiasedness hypothesis
(Master thesis, 2007)This thesis investigates the hedging effectiveness and unbiasedness hypothesis of the IMAREX PM4TC freight futures contract. First, we present theory of dry bulk shipping and risk management. Then, we study hedging ... -
Managing the Antartic Krill Fisheries: An Empirical Analysis of Regulatory Regimes and its Effects on Krill and Predator Species for a Sustainable Industry
(Master thesis, 2022)Antarctica’s Southern Ocean hosts a large range of important species that have been the subject of marine exploitation for about two hundred of years. Historically, whales and seals have been overexploited and this has ... -
Managing the expatriation cycle : ideals and realities : a case study of the Norwegian mncs Jotun and Statoil
(Master thesis, 2010)Expatriation represents considerable costs for multinational companies (MNCs) today. But they also represent a source of multiple benefits. These benefits are, however, highly intangible and to measure to what extent they ... -
Managing volatility: an empirical analysis of the time-series relation between risk and return Norwegian evidence
(Master thesis, 2016)In this paper, we examine the time-series relation between risk and return. We replicate the methodology of Moreira and Muir (2016a) and construct volatility managed portfolios that decrease the risk exposure when ...