Norges Handelshøyskole: Recent submissions
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Organizational Design with Portable Skills
(DP SAM;02, Working paper, 2017-02)Workers can move across firms and take with them portable skills. This has an impact on how firms are organized and allocate tasks across workers. To reduce mobility, a profit maximizing firm may inefficiently allocate ... -
High Yield Bonds or Junk Bonds?
(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 ... -
Regnskapsboka : dokumentasjon og kvalitetssikring av SNFs og NHHs database med regnskaps- og foretaksinformasjon for norske selskaper
(Arbeidsnotat;2016:10, Working paper, 2016-12)Arbeidsnotatet beskriver databasen med norske regnskapstall og selskapsinformasjon som brukes i forskning og utredninger ved Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning AS (SNF) og Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH). Formålet med notatet ... -
Norwegian corporate accounts : documentation and quality assurance of SNF’s and NHH’s database of accounting and company information for Norwegian companies
(Working paper;2016:11, Working paper, 2016-12)This working paper describes the database used by the Institute for Research in Economics (SNF) and the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in research based on companies' accounts. The purpose of this working paper and ... -
Entreprenørens dilemmaer : gode idéer uten finansiering
(Rapport;2015:20, Research report, 2015-12)Equity crowdfunding har raskt etablert seg som en stadig viktigere del av det internasjonale markedet for finansiering av oppstartselskaper. I Norge er imidlertid fenomenet i svært liten grad utbredt. Det foreligger begrenset ... -
Predators in the market : implications of market interaction on optimal resource management
(Working paper;2016:8, Working paper, 2016-11)A two-species bioeconomic model is analyzed, but in contrast to most similar models, there is no biological interaction between the species, only economic. The interaction takes place in the market where the quantity of ... -
The Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna : fast crash and swift recovery for the Ferrari of the ocean?
(Working paper;2016:7, Working paper, 2016-11)The Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Bluefin tuna tastes delicious. Naturally, the Japanese sashimi market fights over this high value fish. Unfortunately, this moneymaking resource has been overfished since the 1970s ... -
Concerns among local government facility managers
(Working paper;2016:9, Working paper, 2016-12)Purpose: To investigate which concerns are most important for local government facility managers in Norway. Design: We analyze a survey dataset covering about 2/3 of all Norwegian local governments, using descriptive ... -
Effektive team - kognitiv motivasjon og maksimerings betydning for hvordan team arbeider og presterer
(Rapport;2016:4, Research report, 2016-08)I denne masterutredningen utforskes betydningen individers vilje til å ikke gi seg og til å bruke sin kognitive kapasitet har for teams prosesser og prestasjoner. Omtrent halvparten av alle team mislykkes, og de står i ... -
Samfunnsøkonomisk analyse av Veterinærinstituttets innsats innen fiskehelse
(Rapport;2016:5, Research report, 2016-09)Denne rapporten dokumenterer SNFs arbeid med gjennomføringen av en samfunnsøkonomisk analyse av Veterinærinstituttets arbeid opp mot fiskehelse i oppdrettsnæringen. Prosjektet har gjort anslag på den samfunnsøkonomiske ... -
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 ... -
Grundlegendes zur zweisprachigen Fachlexikographie aus der Sicht des Fachübersetzers
(Journal article, 2010)This paper discusses some fundamentals of bilingual LSP lexicography in modern time. All examples are taken from legal dictionaries in Norwegian-English, Norwegian-German and German-English language pairs published between ... -
Conditions for effective risk sharing against marine pollution: the case of the Ría de Vigo
(Discussion paper;1/17, Working paper, 2017-01-31)The question of how effective protection against environmental impairment can be provided has spawned much literature. One instrument that is often invoked to provide compensation for environmental damage is insurance. ... -
Should the marginal tax rate be negative? Ragnar Frisch on the socially optimal amount of work.
(DP SAM;1/2017, Working paper, 2017-01-26)In the late 1940s, Ragnar Frisch published two articles in Norwegian that constitute a pioneering attempt to apply welfare economics to a problem of economic policy. The main contention of the articles is that there exists ... -
Er korrupsjon lønnsomt selv om man blir tatt? : en analyse av hvordan selskaper som er tatt for korrupsjon presterer sammenlignet med markedet.
(Master thesis, 2016)Denne masteroppgaven sammenligner prestasjonen til selskaper som er tatt for korrupsjon, med prestasjonen til selskaper inkludert i markedsindeksen S&P 500, som ikke er tatt for korrupsjon. Gjennom en deskriptiv og ... -
Cooperative game theory in location-routing
(Master thesis, 2016)Horizontal collaboration in transportation is attracting increased interest from academics and practitioners. This approach can bring significant savings to the companies and help reduce their carbon footprints. Game ... -
Intermittent Price Changes in Production Plants: Empirical Evidence using Monthly Data.
(DP SAM;22, Working paper, 2016-12)The price-setting behaviour of manufacturing plants is examined using a large panel of monthly surveyed plant- and product-specific prices. The sample shows a high frequency of zero changes, relatively small price changes, ... -
Price Changes - Stickiness and Internal Coordination in Multiproduct Firms.
(DP SAM;21, Working paper, 2016-12)We assess empirically the micro-foundations of producers’ sticky pricing behaviour. We account for various functional forms of menu costs. The focus is on the analysis of multiproduct plants, and the menu costs therefore ... -
Households’ responses to price changes of formal childcare.
(DP SAM; 20, Working paper, 2016-12)The current understanding about how households respond to price changes in formal childcare is not extensive. This study examines this response through a 1998 reform in Norway that introduced a money transfer to families ... -
Determinants of long-term economic growth redux: A Measurement Error Model Averaging (MEMA) approach.
(DP SAM: 19, Working paper, 2016-12)This paper estimates determinants of long-run growth rates of GDP per capita in a cross section of countries. We propose a novel Measurement Error Model Averaging (MEMA) approach that accounts for measurement error in ...