Browsing Master Thesis by Title
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Underwriters put : evidence from the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish market
(Master thesis, 2011)Rights issues are a common way to raise equity in the Scandinavian market (Norway, Sweden and Denmark). We have investigated underwritten rights issues in the Scandinavian countries for the period 2002-2010. Our full sample ... -
Unitech Wireless : verdiødeleggende for Telenors aksjonærer?
(Master thesis, 2009)Hovedformålet med denne masterutredningen er å vurdere om Telenors nylige kjøp av Unitech Wireless er verdiødeleggende for selskapets ex ante aksjonærer. Det indiske mobilselskapet har i dag ingen kundemasse, men ... -
United in the fight against a-krim : a case study of an interorganizational collaboration between Norwegian public entities
(Master thesis, 2018)In this master’s thesis we study the interorganizational collaboration (IoC) between Norwegian public entities in the fight against labor crime, or arbeidslivskriminalitet in Norwegian, further referred to as a-krim. The ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Utbredelse og virkninger av IFRS i Norge : en empirisk studie om utbredelsen av IFRS i Norge, og konsekvensen standarden har på rapporterte nøkkeltall
(Master thesis, 2013)Med utgangspunkt i regnskaps- og foretaksinformasjon koblet med informasjon om bruk av regnskapsstandard, har vi utført en deskriptiv og empirisk analyse om bruk av internasjonale regnskapsregler (IFRS) i Norge. Vi ... -
Utbygging og omorganisering på sykehuset i Vestfold : en prosess med bismak : redegjørelser, rykter, holdninger og rettferdighetsoppfatninger
(Master thesis, 2006)Utredningen omhandler en endringsprosess ved Sykehuset i Vestfold med store omorganiseringer, utbygginger og budsjettoverskridelser. Formålet med denne oppgaven er å se på ansattes holdninger til endringene og om disse ... -
Utdanning, demografi og pensjonssystemer : en analyse med en numerisk overlappende generasjonsmodell
(Master thesis, 2009)Formålet med denne utredningen er å studere interaksjonen mellom demografi og utdanningsnivå, og den samlede effekten disse har på den langsiktige finansieringen av pensjonssystemet i Norge. Dette er et sentralt tema i ...