Blar i Department of Finance på tittel
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Innovasjon og innovasjonskonkurranser
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Bedrifter og offentlige virksomheter bruker i økende grad innovasjonskonkurranser til å løse teknologiske utfordringer og fremme nye produkter og tjenester. Gjennom en innovasjonskonkurranse inviterer oppdragsgiver uavhengige ... -
Innovation, competition, and investment timing
(Working paper;2013:3, Working paper, 2013)In our model multiple innovators compete against each other by submitting investment proposals to an investor. The investor chooses the least expensive proposal and when to invest in it. Innovators have to provide costly ... -
Learning by Failing, or Failing to Learn?
(Master thesis, 2016)This thesis investigates the effects on company performance of employing a CEO with bankruptcy experience. Bankruptcy experience refers to that the incumbent CEO has previously filed for bankruptcy as CEO in another ... -
Liquidity in covered bond markets : How liquid is the Norwegian secondary market?
(Master thesis, 2014)In this paper, we study the liquidity in the Norwegian secondary covered bond market, in comparison to other Scandinavian covered and government bond markets. We have gathered data on trades and bonds in the markets ... -
Nedtrapping : en fornuftig løsning for pensjonssparere?
(Master thesis, 2017)I masterutredningen har vi sett nærmere på innskuddspensjon og hvilke produkter som tilbys i dette markedet. Selv om innskuddspensjon er et relativt nytt produkt i norsk sammenheng, har det allerede vært flere ulike ... -
Partial Adjustment to Public Information in the Pricing of IPOs
(Working paper, 2016-01)Extant literature shows that IPO first-day returns are correlated with market returns preceding the issue. We propose a new explanation for this puzzling predictability by adding a public signal to Benveniste and Spindt ... -
Passiv forvaltning av obligasjoner i det norske markedet : en simulering av passiv indeksforvaltning basert på Nordic Bond Pricing sin «Regular Market Index» for 2015-2016
(Master thesis, 2017)Passiv forvaltning har til nå vært lite benyttet i det norske obligasjonsmarkedet. I utlandet, og særlig i det amerikanske markedet, er det derimot en økende andel obligasjoner som blir forvaltet passivt. I USA forventes ... -
Pensjon i privat sektor : er innskuddsordningen god nok?
(Master thesis, 2014)Utredningen undersøker hvorvidt dagens kombinasjon av alderspensjon fra folketrygden og tjenestepensjon i form av innskuddspensjon er i stand til å gi god nok pensjon, beregnet både med og uten avtalefestet pensjon (AFP). ... -
Post IPO performance of private equity backed entities: empirical evidence of the Nordic market
(Master thesis, 2012)Initial public offering of private equity backed entities has been a remarkably popular topic among financial scholars. The allure of growth potential and sophisticated corporate structures has gain private equity backed ... -
Predicting default in the Norwegian High Yield bond market : a study of defaults in the years 2006-2013
(Master thesis, 2013)This thesis studies determinants of defaults experienced in the Norwegian High Yield bond market from 2006 to 2013. This is done by finding defaulted issuers from the bonds registered in the Norwegian Trustees database ... -
Private equity buyouts in Norway : inferring company valuations from public financial statements, and an analysis of the Norwegan buyout market
(Master thesis, 2013)This thesis presents a framework to infer prices paid for companies from public financial statements. It shows that prices and valuations can be estimated accurately, as long as the buyout is done using common stock and ... -
Private Equity Zombie Funds : performance and fund characteristics : An empirical analysis of the global private equity market
(Master thesis, 2015)This thesis investigates performance and other characteristics of zombie funds in the global private equity market using a dataset from Preqin. Our sample comprises a total of 4 204 private equity funds with vintage years ... -
Private equity-backed firms' performance post IPO : an empirical study of private equity- and venture capital funds' ability to facilitate abnormal returns at the Norwegian stock market
(Master thesis, 2013)We assess whether underpricing and long-long performance of Norwegian IPOs differs across private equity-backed and non-backed firms. Our sample consists of 67 backed firms and 298 non-backed firms, floated in the period ... -
The effect of covered bonds : high encumbrance in banks : a game changer for senior unsecured debt investors?
(Master thesis, 2013)This study examines the effect covered bonds have on the senior bondholders. We discuss how this new funding method is affecting the banks' balances and to which extent the senior bonds credit spread is influenced by ... -
The Specialization Effect in Private Equity : an empirical analysis
(Master thesis, 2014)The objective of this thesis is primarily to document the effects of specialization on the success of private equity(PE) funds through an empirical approach. We ex- amine the relationship between a PE-fund's degree of ... -
Three essays in Empirical Finance
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Timing blant investorer i norske aksjefond : en kvantitativ analyse av investorer i norske aksjefond
(Master thesis, 2014)Denne oppgaven omhandler en analyse av investorers timingevne i norske aksjefond for perioden juni 1999 til desember 2013. Vi har benyttet oss av månedlige data for netto tegning og forvaltningskapital, mottatt fra ... -
Ulike kredittratingers innvirkning på aksjeavkastning : En empirisk vurdering av to sektorer på MSCI World indeksen
(Master thesis, 2014)I denne oppgaven undersøker vi hvorvidt ulike kredittratinger har en innvirkning på aksjeavkastning. Vi bruker kredittratinger tildelt av kredittratingbyråene S&P og Moody’s og historiske aksjeavkastningstall. Analysen ... -
Understanding private equity performance : a review of dynamics driving fund performance
(Master thesis, 2015)In recent years, more papers on private equity performance have emerged, casting light over a market that earlier was characterised by privacy and secrecy. Early studies mostly use VentureXpert as a data provider, however, ... -
Von Neumann–Gale dynamics and capital growth in financial markets with frictions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)