• 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 ...
    • Hedging without sweat : a genetic programming approach 

      Lensberg, Terje; Schenk-Hoppé, Klaus Reiner (Working paper;2013:5, Working paper, 2013)
      Hedging in the presence of transaction costs leads to complex op- timization problems. These problems typically lack closed-form so- lutions, and their implementation relies on numerical methods that provide hedging ...
    • Hedging without sweat: a genetic programming approach 

      Lensberg, Terje; Schenk-Hoppé, Klaus Reiner (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-06-26)
      Hedging in the presence of transaction costs leads to complex optimization problems. These problems typically lack closed-form solutions, and their implementation relies on numerical methods that provide hedging strategies ...
    • Herding in Smart-Beta Investment Products 

      Krkoska, Eduard; Schenk-Hoppe, Klaus Reiner (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We highlight herding of investors as one major risk factor that is typically ignored in statistical approaches to portfolio modelling and risk management. Our survey focuses on smart-beta investing where such methods and ...
    • High Yield Bonds or Junk Bonds? 

      Brenden, Tord Gjørtz; Leikvang, Helge (Master thesis, 2016)
      The objective of this thesis is to calculate the returns in the Norwegian high yield bond market between 2005 and 2015. To further strengthen our results, we attempt to find and measure explanatory factors for the differences ...
    • Home Equity-Based Borrowing and Corporate Financing : Evidence from Norwegian Private Firms 

      Lan, Jing; Mjøs, Aksel; Su, Xunhua; Xia, Han (Working paper, 2023)
      Home equity-based borrowing has been blamed in the literature for causing financial instability (e.g., Mian and Sufi, 2011). In this study, we examine the bright side of home equity-based borrowing. Using Norwegian ...
    • Innovasjon og innovasjonskonkurranser 

      Mæland, Jøril (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 

      Koskinen, Yrjö; Mæland, Jøril (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? 

      Færevaag, Jørgen; Krosby, Lovise Sannes (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? 

      Oddenes, Lars Kristian; Fasseland, Chris (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? 

      Algrøy, Ole; Fagerthun, Tony (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 

      Bakke, Einar; Leite, Tore E.; Thorburn, Karin S. (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 ...