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Does heterogeneity in contract-type and employment sector matter? : an analysis of transitions of the temporarily employed in Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Over the past few decades, temporary contracts have become increasingly important in determining career trajectories of individuals. For some, it has worked as a bridge to permanent employment, while for others, it has led ... -
Does including more female board members help corporations to reduce non-compliance? A study on California’s mandatory gender quota
(Master thesis, 2023)California enacted the law of SB826 in 2018, which mandates corporate boards to include a minimum number of female directors. I study companies’ reactions to this gender quota from the perspective of board diversity as ... -
Does increased bilateral transparency affect offshore activity? Evidence from Offshore Leaks Database
(Master thesis, 2022)Tax havens, also known as secrecy jurisdictions, facilitate tax avoidance and other forms of behaviour that cause a challenge to societies. Offshore data leaks such as Panama Papers have intended to reveal the players ... -
Does increased creditworthiness lead to a reduced interest rate? : a study of external credit ratings' potential to influence a company's average interest rate
(Master thesis, 2014)The main objective is to explain whether increased creditworthiness leads to decreased average interest rates. The creditworthiness is represented by Bisnode’s credit rating codes. Involved in the study are Norwegian limited ... -
Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? Evidence from the lab
(DP SAM;02/2024, Working paper, 2024-03)We study the relationship between inequality and social instability. While the argument that inequality can be damaging for the cohesion of a society is well established, the empirical evidence is mixed. We use a novel ... -
Does Increasing Risk Widen Gender Gaps?
(SAM DP;20/2022, Working paper, 2022-12)We examine the response to an exogenous change in the risk profile of an important educational choice – requesting a regrade. We demonstrate how ostensibly gender-neutral policies can generate gaps across men and women ... -
Does Innovation Norway’s grants have an effect? : an empirical research paper examining the effects of the establishing grant and development grants
(Master thesis, 2016)This paper examines the possible effects of government financial support to firms through Innovation Norway (IN). We compare firms that received support from IN in the years 2006- 2010 with comparable firms that applied ... -
Does institutional quality matter for offshore supply rates? : an empirical analysis of the relationship between costs and institutional quality, as evidenced by day rates in the PSV market 1995-2013
(Master thesis, 2015)The role of institutions for long-run economic development is widely recognized as important. However, we have limited knowledge about how institutional quality systematically influence prices in a specific market. This ... -
Does nature have a value? : a qualitative study to pinpoint incentives for implementing valuation of ecosystem services
(Master thesis, 2014)There is a growing consensus worldwide that human economies and human well-being rely on ecosystem services. The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity [TEEB], a global initiative launched in 2007 as a response ... -
Does population growth affect housing bubbles? : a study on population growth’s influence on the U.S. housing market during the 2000’s
(Master thesis, 2012)The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between population growth and house prices. It analyses whether housing bubbles existed in American cities during the recent financial crisis by comparing ... -
Does Private Ownership in the Kindergarten Sector Benefit the Children? Empirical Evidence from Norway Does the kindergarten's ownership form impact the quality?
(Master thesis, 2022)This paper investigates whether private ownership in the Norwegian childcare sector benefits children. The paper seeks to do so by investigating whether there are differences in quality between public and private kindergartens, ... -
Does prospect theory explain the disposition effect?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-09)The disposition effect is the observation that investors hold winning stocks too long and sell losing stocks too early. A standard explanation of the disposition effect refers to prospect theory and in particular to the ... -
Does quality pay? : relationships between antecedents of customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and costomer profitability at the individual level
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-12)Superior quality is supposed to be positively related to superior business performances. This conception forms the cornerstone of Total Quality Management (TQM). At the individual customer level superior quality is supposed ... -
Does recent rolatility in the housing market challenge traditional models of saving? : a study on the importance of housing wealth for explaining household saving in the United States during the crisis
(Master thesis, 2012)The purpose of this thesis is to study the importance of housing wealth for explaining household saving in the United States during the recent crisis. We present two fundamentally different models of saving – the Keynesian ... -
Does Reference Pricing Drive Out Generic Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets? Evidence from a Policy Reform
(Discussion paper;11/15, Working paper, 2015-06)In this paper we study the impact of reference pricing (RP) on entry of generic firms in the pharmaceutical market. For given prices, RP increases generic firms' expected profit, but since RP also stimulates price ... -
Does scale efficiency tell us anything about optimal scale?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2005-04)In DEA, scale efficiency is routinely calculated. This measure may, however, tell us very little about whether a production unit is over- or undersized. An empirical case is used to illustrate that, under some circumstances, ... -
Does self-attention influence sustainable choices? : an experimental study on how self-attention affects sustainable product preference and the false consensus effect
(Master thesis, 2019)The purpose of this research is to investigate how consumers can be influenced to act more frequently on their ‘green’ values and attitudes. We test whether increased self-attention has an effect on preference for the ... -
Does size really matter? : a study of banking sector size as it relates to money laundering and anti-money laundering enforcement
(Master thesis, 2019)Money laundering has been a problem for governments ever since it began 4000 years ago in China. In recent years though, the problem seems to be spiraling out of control. When HSBC was sanctioned for money laundering in ... -
Does stochasticity matter? : dynamic pigouvian taxation in an uncertain environment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-04)The effects of discounting, stochasticity, non-linearities and maximum decay upon an optimal corrective tax are analyzed using stochastic dynamic optimization. Optimal corrective taxes are derived as explicit feedback ... -
Does the choice of performance measure shape the appraisal of private equity funds?
(Master thesis, 2009)Conducting an empirical study on cash flows of 71 private equity funds, spanning the vintages 1990 to 2008, we compare the two most common performance measures, IRR and TVPI, to four proposed alternatives. We also document ...