Browsing Master Thesis by Title
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Are social preferences reference dependent? a study of reference dependent social preferences among students at the Norwegian School of Economics
(Master thesis, 2013)This thesis explores whether social preferences are reference dependent. More specifically it examines whether reference points, defined by expectations, regarding income inequality affect our willingness to redistribute ... -
Area fee in the Norwegian salmon farming industry
(Master thesis, 2013)A discussion on a new tax, an area fee, for the Norwegian salmon industry has been on-going for several years. This thesis examines which tax benefits the industry and the host municipalities the most. To investigate this, ... -
Argentina mellom frihandel og proteksjonisme : hva avgjorde utformingen av Argentinas utenrikshandel mellom 1930 og 1955?
(Master thesis, 2006)Utredningen tar utgangspunkt i historien til komponentene næringsutvikling, handelspolitikk og eksterne handelsvilkår for å beskrive utviklingen i argentinsk utenrikshandel mellom 1930 og 1955. Før 1930 var Argentina en ... -
Artificial Intelligence and Nord Pool’s intraday electricity market Elbas : a demonstration and pragmatic evaluation of employing deep learning for price prediction : using extensive market data and spatio-temporal weather forecasts
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis demonstrates the use of deep learning for automating hourly price forecasts in continuous intraday electricity markets, using various types of neural networks on comprehensive sequential market data and ... -
Artificial intelligence in financial services : an analysis of the AI technology and the potential applications, implications, and risks it may propagate in financial services
(Master thesis, 2019)It is hard to deny the fact that artificial intelligence and robotization have been the centre of research for the last decades. Moreover, during the past few years it has really boomed and is now widely utilized in many ... -
An artificial walk down Wall Street : can intraday stock returns be predicted using artificial neural networks?
(Master thesis, 2009)Financial markets are complex evolved dynamic systems. Due to its irregularity, financial time series forecasting is regarded as a rather challenging task. In recent years, artificial neural network applications in ... -
Asia-krisen : krisehåndtering og politikkdebatt
(Master thesis, 2006-05-12)Denne utredningen omhandler krisehåndteringen og politikkdebatten i forbindelse med Asia-krisen i 1997. Fokuset er lagt på de landene som ble hardest rammet, altså Thailand, Indonesia, Sør-Korea og Malaysia. Utredningen ... -
Aspekter ved Bybanen i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2008)Vi starter utredningen med å gi en beskrivelse av bybaner generelt. Deretter gir vi en oversikt over kollektivtrafikken i Bergen før vi presenterer planene for Bybanen. Videre gjør vi rede for teori som er relevant for ... -
Assessing the effect of moves in the key policy rate : a narrative approach for Norway
(Master thesis, 2016)This thesis estimates the effect of the key policy rate on inflation and output for the Norwegian economy. It applies the narrative identification strategy, pioneered by Romer and Romer, to identify monetary policy shocks ... -
Assessment of international equity investment connectedness : portfolio diversification with respect to institutional and non-institutional investors
(Master thesis, 2018)International equity flows increased approximately five times from 2001 to 2016. Therefore, stock market connectedness is increasing over time. It is necessary to assess international equity investment structure not only ... -
The assessment of socially responsible investment : green bonds case
(Master thesis, 2020)Based on the theoretical analysis of investment in green bonds to identify and assess differences in the pricing between Green bonds and conventional bonds. Part 1 of the research paper, the theoretical framework of green ... -
Asset Allocation, Security Selection And Market Timing in Mutual Funds
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Asset pricing theory and the LIBOR market model
(Master thesis, 2008)The first part of this thesis is a general presentation of no-arbitrage asset pricing theory in continuous time. The standard mathematical formulations of models with Brownian motion as random variables is presented, as ... -
Asset returns and financial intermediary leverage : an emprical analysis
(Master thesis, 2015)In this paper the result of Adrian, Etula, and Muir (2014) is reexamined. They propose a model with nancial intermediary leverage that is able to price a set of portfolios remarkably well. In this paper the model is ... -
Asset returns, wage rigidity and the business cycle : a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium approach
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis extends the standard New Keynesian framework to incorporate asset pricing capabilities. An economic model which includes CRRA utility, nominal price rigidity, due to Calvo (1983), capital adjustment costs due ... -
Asset-Backed Securities : en teoretisk og empirisk fremstilling av markedet for ABS
(Master thesis, 2012)Jeg har i denne oppgaven tatt for meg markedet for Asset-Backed Securities (ABS). Målet for utredningen var todelt; å gi en oversiktlig fremstilling av hvordan markedet fungerer, samt utføre en empirisk analyse av ... -
Asymmetric information in insurance : the impact of big data on low-ses individuals
(Master thesis, 2017)In this thesis, we analyze the effect of big data in insurance markets with heterogeneous insurance takers. Through a theoretical approach, we consider the effects of increased information flows on insurance contracts ... -
Asymmetrisk informasjon og rasjonering av kreditt : en teoretisk analyse
(Master thesis, 2009)Denne utredningen analyserer virkningene av asymmetrisk fordeling av informasjon mellom låntaker og långiver i kapitalmarkedet. En enkel modell viser hvordan kredittrasjonering kan oppstå både som følge av moralsk hasard ... -
Asymmetrisk informasjon – en driver av underprising? : en empirisk studie av norske børsintroduksjoner i perioden 2000-2008
(Master thesis, 2009)Denne utredningen studerer unormal startavkastning ved 117 børsintroduksjoner på Oslo Børs i årene 2000 til 2008. Vi undersøker hvorvidt den observerte underprisingen av børsintroduksjoner kan være drevet av en skjevhet i ... -
Asymmetriske innkjøpspriser i det norske dagligvaremarkedet :en kvantitativ analyse
(Master thesis, 2019)Det siste året har spekulasjoner rundt asymmetriske innkjøpspriser preget det norske dagligvaremarkedet og den dagsaktuelle debatten har skapt en kamp om sannheten blant aktørene i markedet. Foreløpig finner vi få ...