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Unleashing the potential in ambassador programs : identifying concrete measures to improve the efficiency of ambassador programs
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis aims to analyze how SafetyWing can improve the efficiency of its ambassadors and what the implications are for ambassador programs in general. Ambassador programs are an expanding part of digital marketing ... -
Unlisted assets in the government pension fund global : can private equity and infrastructure improve the fund’s profitability and stability?
(Master thesis, 2018)Is the stock market overpriced? Is it time to sell? Most of the asset pricing research has been directed towards stochastic discount factors, without definitive answer. We study the case of the Norwegian Government Pension ... -
Unlisted infrastructure as an asset class : from the perspective of private investors and governments in the developed world.
(Master thesis, 2018)Adam Smith put it quite brilliant several centuries ago in the midst of the industrial revolution across Western Europe and North America. Moving goods and people and distributing electricity and energy between countries ... -
Unlocking the power of the crowd : a case study analysis of the potential of green crowdfunding platforms to accelerate sustainability transitions
(Master thesis, 2019)In light of the ever-increasing urgency to successfully tackle environmental challenges that arise around the globe, growing attention is given to bottom-up approaches such as sustainable grass-root movements, to incubate ... -
Unraveling the Enigma of Black Swan Events: A Multidisciplinary Examination of Financial and Climatic Extremes : The factors contributing to Black Swan Events and their varying effects
(Master thesis, 2023)Black Swan events (BSE) are events that are highly improbable, unforeseen, and, many times, completely unpredictable and unknowable. The term itself was popularized by Nassim Taleb in his book, The Black Swan: The Impact ... -
Unsupervised machine learning for conference scheduling : a natural language processing approach based on latent dirichlet allocation
(Master thesis, 2020)Academic conference scheduling is the act of organizing large-scale conferences based upon the submission of academic papers in which the author will provide a talk. Traditionally each speaker is placed into a session ... -
Unsupervised machine learning on tax returns : investigating unsupervised and semisupervised machine learning methods to uncover anomalous faulty tax returns
(Master thesis, 2020)In this thesis we investigate whether unsupervised and semisupervised machine learning methods can be applied to detect undiscovered erroneous tax returns, and how the properties of the underlying data affect method ... -
Urban water shuttle : en konseptutredning om miljøvennlig sjøtransport
(Master thesis, 2014)Denne masteroppgaven fokuserer på hvordan fremtidige kollektivtransport- og miljøutfordringer kan løses. Maritime CleanTech har startet utviklingen av et konsept som heter Urban Water Shuttle. Næringsklyngen kaller konseptet ... -
Urban women, rural men : An investigation into the sex ratios in Norwegian municipalities and their determinants.
(Master thesis, 2012)This thesis investigates the causes of the relatively high numbers of women in urban areas in Norway compared to rural areas. Edlund (2005) explains this pattern for Swedish municipalities with a model predicting that ... -
US financial crisis impact on Asian economies : does “decoupling” theory hold : the case of Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam
(Master thesis, 2009)Until recently, many investors believed in decoupling theory which says that emerging countries can be resilient from the weakening of US economy and keep stable growths. In 2007, international investors observed a rise ... -
Usage Trend Analysis and Forecasting for Ride Sharing: A case of Bildeleringen : An empirical approach using the car-specific data
(Master thesis, 2022)Car-sharing is gaining a lot of popularity amongst users, as more people are finding various instances and benefits to use this service. With this development, there is increasing number of companies setting up car-sharing ... -
Use of business intelligence in management accounting : an application of the technology acceptance model on the use of dashboards with financial data in decision-making practices in management accounting
(Master thesis, 2019)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the acceptance and use of business intelligence (BI) solutions in decision making in management accounting (MA). To do so we have sought to answer the following research question: How ... -
Use of insurance loss data in Municipalities : a case study on the possibilities and challenges of implementing insurance loss data in the work on surface water measures
(Master thesis, 2020)Climate change has several consequences for modern societies. One example is increasing and more severe precipitation which can lead to an increase in surface water damage. In 2013, Norwegian insurance companies shared ... -
The use of textual data analysis and machine learning in bankruptcy prediction : evaluating the predictive power of sentiment scores and ratios from news articles for bankruptcy prediction in the Norwegian market using machine learning
(Master thesis, 2020)In this thesis, we investigate whether there is predictive power in sentiment scores and ratios derived from news articles with regards to bankruptcy prediction of Norwegian private limited companies. Our analysis is ... -
User adoption of mobile applications : extension of UTAUT2 model
(Master thesis, 2017)The purpose of the following research is to build the holistic model that predicts the consumer adoption mechanism for the third-party mobile applications. The research model for this study is based on the Unified Theory ... -
Using a laddering approach to understand consumers opinions on corporate CSR and sustainability activities
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis builds upon the emerging area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) research termed Materiality Analysis, and examines in-depth interviews, to determine if there is the possibility of a set of universal ... -
Using machine learning to improve hedging of power prices in the Nordic market : a study of how predictions of the Nordic system price can be used for Norwegian hydropower producer’s hedging strategies
(Master thesis, 2019)The prices in the Nordic power market are characterized by high volatility. This creates a demand for securing future power prices. Large hydropower producers use a variety of instruments to predict price changes, and ... -
Using Machine Learning to Predict Port Congestion : A study of the port of Paranaguá
(Master thesis, 2023)Being able to accurately predict future levels of port congestion is of great value to both port and ship operators. However, such a prediction tool is currently not available. In this thesis, a Long Short-Term Memory ... -
Utbredelse av budsjettstyring blant norske selskaper : en deskriptiv og empirisk analyse av holdning til og bruk av budsjett
(Master thesis, 2015)Formålet med denne utredningen har vært todelt. Det første formålet har vært å kartlegge utbredelse av budsjettstyring blant norske bedrifter sammenlignet med en tidligere studie fra 2010. Vi finner at budsjettstyring ... -
Utbredelse og bruk av balansert målstyring i store norske bedrifter : er det skjedd endringer de siste tre årene? : en deskriptiv analyse av bruken av balansert målstyring blant store norske bedrifter
(Master thesis, 2018)Målet med denne utredningen er å finne ut hvordan store norske virksomheter bruker Balansert Målstyring (BMS), hvor utbredt BMS er blant store norske virksomheter, hvordan dette har endret seg de siste tre årene, hvor ...