Browsing Master Thesis by Title
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The Effect of Earnings Growth on Acquirer Returns: Evidence from the Norwegian Stock Market: A Study of the Relationship Between Acquirers’ Earnings Growth and Market Reactions to M&A Announcements with Empirical Evidence from the Oslo Stock Exchange in the Period 1997 - 2019
(Master thesis, 2022)Earnings numbers are one of the single most important measures of firm performance and is positively associated with stock returns. While M&A announcements have mixed short-term impact on acquirer stock returns, Liu and ... -
The Effect of Electricity Prices on Low-Carbon Energy Technologies : A panel data analysis of EPO patents
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis, we investigate whether electricity prices affect innovation within low-carbon energy technologies (LCE) in the period from 1978 to 2018. 2022 has brought up one of the worst energy crises the world has ... -
Effect of environmental food labeling on customers food purchase
(Master thesis, 2016-09-05)The scientific community agrees that emission levels from food production and consumption have to decrease in order for the world to reach climate targets. Environmental food labeling is becoming a policy tool to motivate ... -
The effect of explanations on perceived credibility of sustainability claims : how brands can position themselves as sustainable without being suspected of greenwashing.
(Master thesis, 2021)As businesses are increasingly focusing on positioning themselves along sustainability dimensions, the occurrence of perceived greenwashing is threatening the perceived credibility of brands with genuine intentions. ... -
The Effect of Investment in Elderly Care on Hospitalization: Evidence from Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)In this paper we look at how investment in long-term care for elderly affects their hospital use. We use an action plan – the HPE – which increased the number of long-term care units in Norway by almost 60 percent. With ... -
The effect of local labour demand on disability insurance uptake
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis explores the relationship between local labour demand and the uptake of disability insurance (DI) in Norway. We employ a Bartik shift-share instrumental variable approach to perform an empirical analysis into ... -
The Effect of M&A on Employee Performance : An empirical study on post-MBA employee performance in private Norwegian target companies
(Master thesis, 2023)This paper analyses post-M&A employee performance for private Norwegian target companies using accounting data between 2007 and 2016. We have created an algorithm which identifies ownership changes in firms from accounting ... -
The effect of market structure on banks’ interest rate spreads : an empirical analysis of the Norwegian bank market
(Master thesis, 2010)In this study we investigate how market structure affect the interest rate spread of banks that provide lending for commercial entities in Norway. We delineate the Norwegian bank market into local commuter belts, and define ... -
The Effect of Moderators in Green Marketing: Stakeholder Evaluation and the Effect on Green Brand Equity and Perceived Greenwasing
(Master thesis, 2022)While transparency is widely accepted as one of the key practices to gain stakeholders' trust, prior research has surprisingly found that transparency does not always pay off. Given a company with a high perceived ... -
The effect of ownership structure on firm performance : a study of Norwegian listed firms
(Master thesis, 2009)This paper empirically investigates the relationship between ownership structure and firm performance, treating ownership concentration and owner identity as separate, but dependent dimensions of ownership structure. We ... -
The effect of patents on financial constraints : an empirical analysis of Norwegian companies 2009-2018
(Master thesis, 2021)In this thesis, we investigate the relationship between patenting activity and financial constraints for a broad panel of Norwegian companies between 2009-2018. The research is inspired by Hottenrott, Hall and Czaranitzki ... -
The Effect of Sustainability on Bond Pricing : An empirical study of bonds issued by Norwegian savings and commercial banks
(Master thesis, 2021)We find that Norwegian banks pay lower bond coupon rates for displaying sustainabilityrelated characteristics or for issuing green bonds. Using data on bonds issued by 29 Norwegian banks in the primary market, we estimate ... -
The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women’s Labor Market Outcomes : Initial Emperical Evidence on the Gender Gap in Employment and Actual Hours Worked in Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)The aim of this master thesis is to estimate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in employment and hours worked in the Norwegian labor market. First, we illuminate attributes of the Nordic model and trends ... -
The effect of Time of Use in Norway : an empirical analysis of the effect of Time of Use tariff in combination with four different communication strategies on electricity consumption from a field experiment in Eastern Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Norway has the world's second highest electricity consumption per capita (International Energy Agency, n.d.). Increased electrification of society services is expected to push peak consumption to higher levels than its ... -
The Effect of Uncertainty on Investment Empirical evidence from listed Norwegian firms 2005-2018
(Master thesis, 2022)The relationship between uncertainty and investment is an extensively explored topic in economic and financial literature. Regardless, the dramatic events of recent years have reinvigorated the need to garner a greater ... -
The Effect of Volunteering on Social Recognition : Evidence From a Distribution Game
(Master thesis, 2021)Volunteering is essential for developed economies. While previous research about volunteering has focused on the volunteers themselves, our study investigates how volunteers are viewed by society. We conducted a randomized ... -
The Effect of Volunteering on Social Recognition: Evidence From a Distribution Game
(Master thesis, 2021)Volunteering is essential for developed economies. While previous research about volunteering has focused on the volunteers themselves, our study investigates how volunteers are viewed by society. We conducted a randomized ... -
The Effects of a Local Subsidy on the Heat Pump Market : A Study Examining how a Subsidy for Heat Pumps in Bergen Municipality has Affected Price, Demand and Energy Consumption
(Master thesis, 2023)In this thesis, we investigate a municipal heat pump subsidy. We examine the subsidy in two ways: how demand and price is affected, and whether the subsidy achieves its goal of reduced energy consumption. Through interviews ... -
The effects of changes in EU emission trading scheme on the value of a gas fired power plant in Norway
(Master thesis, 2011)The purpose of this thesis was to study how changes in the carbon market influences the present value of the gas fired power plant operated by Naturkraft AS. The changes in focus here are the ones introduced in EU’s Emission ... -
The effects of corporate taxation on innovation : an empirical analysis on the effects of corporate taxation on innovation in Europe
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis aims at analyzing the relationship between corporate income taxation and innovation in Europe to further the discussion about which policy tool is optimal to encourage innovation. This was done using a fixed ...