Norges Handelshøyskole: Recent submissions
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Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment.
(DP SAM;14/2018, Working paper, 2018-06)Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the ... -
Public R&D Support and Firms’ Performance A Panel Data Study.
(DP SAM;13/2018, Working paper, 2018-06)We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies in Norway in the period 2002-2013 and compare their effects on individual firms’ performance. Firms that received support are matched with a control ... -
Time-Dependency in Producers’ Price Adjustments: Evidence from Micro Panel Data.
(DP SAM;12/2018, Working paper, 2018-06)Existing micro evidence of firms’ price changes tends to show a downward sloping hazard rate – the longer the price of a product has remained the same, the less likely it is that the price will change. Using a panel of ... -
Konfliktforståelse og konflikters konsekvenser i norske kunnskapsbedrifter
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Artikkelen bygger på en studie av konflikthåndtering og konfliktforståelse i et utvalg norske kunnskapsbedrifter. Det fremgår av studien at det er stor grad av begrepsuklarhet knyttet til konflikter, og at det er vanskelig ... -
Effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background: Adolescent pregnancies pose a risk to the young mothers and their babies. In Zambia, 35% of young girls in rural areas have given birth by the age of 18 years. Pregnancy rates are particularly high among ... -
Incitements for transportation collaboration by cost allocation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)In this paper, we focus on how cost allocation can be used as a means to create incentives for collaboration among companies, with the aim of reducing the total transportation cost. The collaboration is assumed to be ... -
Explaining women's presence on corporate boards: The institutionalization of progressive gender-related policies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We draw on a phenomenological model of institutional theory to explore how sub-national policies shape corporate board gender diversity of publicly traded firms. Using a sample of S&P 1500 firms in 49 U.S. states from 2003 ... -
9 - Breakfast Cereal
(Working paper, 2007-10-10)Topic: Cluster analysis and alternatives Context: The following data (units omitted) on the content of 23 different brands of breakfast cereal were read from the packages found in two food stores in Bergen in the ... -
6 - Fish Farming
(Others, 2007-10-07)Topic: Distribution, mean and variation over time Context: The business of fish farming offers many challenging problems where you have to combine economics and bioscience. This also offers lots of opportunities for ... -
13 - Response Times
(Others, 2007-10-14)Topics: One-sample and two-sample estimation and testing, analysis of variance and regression Context: The users of a data base system, e.g. in a bank, will emphasize short response times when searching the data ... -
Økonomisk-demografiske rammebetingelser for Frelsesarmeens gjennombrudd i Norge
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The paper investigates a possible relationship between the rapid growth of The Salvation Army and economic-demographic trends around its establishment period in Norway during the late nineteenth and early twentieth ... -
The economic impact of multiple sclerosis to the patients and their families in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) imposes high economic costs on society, but the patients and their families have to bear some of these costs. Objective We aimed to estimate the magnitude of these economic costs in ... -
18 - Union Card
(Others, 2007-10-19)Topic: T-tests, analysis of variance, regression Context: The labour union UNI has doubled its membership during the last year, due to desertion from another union. Some new offers to the membership are under ... -
7 - Car Insurance
(Others, 2007-10-08)Topic: Categorical variables, covariation and explanation Context: The insurance company CI specializes in car insurance, and wants to get some preliminary views from the market about added features to the comprehensive ... -
10 - Hotel Tourism
(Working paper, 2007-10-11)Topic: Factor analysis and Discriminant analysis Context: This case is based on answers of questionnaires given to tourists at hotels in three different regions of Norway, here named Valleyland, Fjordland and ... -
11 - Takeover
(Others, 2007-10-12)Topic: Estimation with error limits Context: An industry group has for some years owned a company in the building trade with branches in several cities. Now they have decided to sell the company to a foreign company. ... -
17 - Tax Audit
(Others, 2007-10-18)Topic: Comparisons, regression and outliers Context: The establishment ”Nels” has live music every Friday and Saturday. The guests have to pay a cover charge of 50 NOK kr, and if the cloakroom is used, a wardrobe fee ... -
3 - Sold Out
(Others, 2007-10-04)Topic: Binomial counts in a time context Context: The food chain SO has four stores in the same region getting supplies from the same inventory. They consider introducing a new data based ordering system in all four ... -
16 - Lost Sales
(Others, 2007-10-17)Topic: Two-sample comparisons Context: Our firm started a certain business service in the early 1990’s. The concept was a success, and several other firms were established in the mid 1990’s offering similar services. ... -
Preface
(Others, 2007-10-01)This is a case collection in data analysis containing cases mostly relevant for business studies. The first part of ten cases are mini-cases, that is, with a limited issue and a small dataset. The second part contains wider ...