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    • Corporate governance in private equity : do boards really matter? : an empirical study of Norwegian private equity 

      Farran, Hadi; Lam, Kim-Alexander (Master thesis, 2015)
      We examine how private equity funds a↵ect corporate governance in Norwegian portfolio companies. We find that general partners do not prioritize the board as long as everything is going according to plan. We also find ...

    • Corporate restructuring 

      Thorburn, Karin S.; Eckbo, B. Espen (Working paper;2013:3, Working paper, 2013)
      We survey the empirical literature on corporate nancial restructuring, including breakup transactions (divestitures, spin-o s, equity carveouts, tracking stocks), leveraged recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts (LBOs). ...

    • Does tradeoff theory explain high-frequency debt issuers? 

      Eckbo, Espen B.; Kisser, Michael (Working paper, 2015-07)
      Over the past forty years, one-third of the publicly listed industrial firms in the U.S. raised two- thirds of all public and private debts (net of debt rollovers). We use these high-frequency debt issuers (HFIs) - large ...

    • Dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs and state-dependent drift 

      Palczewski, Jan; Poulsen, Rolf; Schenk-Hoppé, Klaus Reiner; Wang, Huamao (Working paper;2014:1, Working paper, 2014)
      We present an efficient numerical method to determine optimal portfolio strategies under time- and state-dependent drift and proportional transaction costs. This scenario arises when investors have behavioral biases or ...

    • Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance 

      Lithell, Markus (Doctoral thesis, 2023-09)

    • Essays in Household Finance 

      Lot, Andre (Doctoral thesis, 2023-09)

    • Essays on Asset Pricing 

      Lundeby, Stig Roar Haukø (Doctoral thesis, 2021-05-10)

    • Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance 

      Loreta, Rapushi (Doctoral thesis, 2020-06)

    • Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance 

      Zhang, Xiaoyu (Doctoral thesis, 2019-06)
      This dissertation consists of three independent papers about the effect of going public on loan contracting and how institutional investors affect investments in corporate social responsibility. The first paper studies ...

    • Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance 

      Maggi, Damiano (Doctoral thesis, 2021-10)

    • Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance 

      P. Johan, E. Mellberg (Doctoral thesis, 2020-06)

    • Essays on empirical corporate finance 

      Lan, Jing (Doctoral thesis, 2022-09)
      This dissertation consists of three essays on empirical corporate finance. It is submitted to the Department of Finance at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the ...

    • Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance 

      Verma, Varun (Doctoral thesis, 2018-08)
      This dissertation consists of three essays and is submitted to the Department of Finance at Norwegian School of Economics in partial fulfillment of requirements for the completion of Doctor of Philosophy degree in ...

    • Essays on Optionality and Risk 

      Bruno, Giovanni (Doctoral thesis, 2019-08)

    • Et marked for G? : en undersøkelse av grunnbeløpets markedspotensial 

      Lid, Irene; Ulsten, Kine (Master thesis, 2015)
      Grunnbeløpet i Folketrygden er i dag en beregningsfaktor som påvirker oss alle gjennom forskjellige trygde-, pensjons- og forsikringsordninger. Når grunnbeløpet hvert år endres er det enorme beløp som påvirkes. Det eksisterer ...

    • For mye eller for lite lån? : Betydningen av banker og kreditt i oppgangs- og nedgangstider 

      Mjøs, Aksel; Hetland, Ove Rein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Betydningen av bankenes rolle som formidler av kreditt til næringslivet fikk spesielt fokus i finanskrisen. Fra et forskningsperspektiv gir virkningene av krisen også en nyttig mulighet til å analysere bankers rolle og ...

    • Fragmentation and stability of markets 

      Ladley, Daniel; Lensberg, Terje; Palczewski, Jan; Schenk-Hoppé, Klaus Reiner (Working paper;2013:7, Working paper, 2013-07)
      Trading skills are highly rewarded in practice but largely ignored in theoretical models of financial markets. This paper demonstrates the importance of skills by exploring their interaction with market fragmentation and ...

    • Fripoliser : er det fornuftig å gi fra seg rentegarantien? 

      Andersen, Mads Eikeland; Knudsen, Morten Hartvedt (Master thesis, 2016)
      Masteroppgaven er skrevet i forbindelse med fordypningen i finansiell økonomi ved Norges Handelshøyskole. Temaet for oppgaven har vært forvaltning av fripoliser, og følgende problemstilling er besvart: For hvilke ...

    • Garantikonto : lavrisiko sparing i bank eller forsikring 

      Tokheim, Vegard Rødseth (Master thesis, 2013)
      Utredningen har forsøkt å finne et optimalt sparealternativ for spareaktører innen lavrisikosegmentet. En sammenligning av kapitalforsikringsproduktet Garantikonto mot høyrentekonto har gitt funn som kan ha betydning for ...

    • Governance in financial distress and bankruptcy 

      Thorburn, Karin S.; Ayotte, Kenneth M.; Hotchkiss, Edith S. (Working paper;2013:1, Working paper, 2013)
      This chapter provides a survey of law, economics, and finance scholarship at the intersection of corporate governance and financial distress. In financial distress, both inside and outside of bankruptcy court, formal and ...