Norges Handelshøyskole: Recent submissions
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Integration and coordination of supply chain: Case studies in the forestry and petroleum industries
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Determinants of Capital Structure in Listed Norwegian Firms
(Master thesis, 2014)The main goal for most firms is to maximise firm value and the wealth of shareholders. In order to achieve this goal, firms should use an optimal combination of equity and debt that will result in a low weighted average ... -
Passiv forvaltning av Statens pensjonsfond Norge : En simulering av passiv forvaltning for Statens Pensjonsfond Norge fra 2005 - 2014
(Master thesis, 2014)Denne utredningen beskriveren simulering av en passiv forvaltningsstrategi for Statens Pensjonsfond Norges norske aksjeportefølje i perioden 2005-2014. Med utgangspunkt i tidligere rapporter undersøkes det i hvilken ... -
Sharing Mare Nostrum: An analysis of Mediterranean maritime history articles in English-language journals
(Discussion paper;07/15, Working paper, 2015-04)This discussion paper is a follow-up to a previous bibliometric analysis of articles published in The International Journal of Maritime History and maritime-themed articles published in other economic and business history ... -
Empire, War, and Hollywood : The Economics of the English Language
(Master thesis, 2014-12)English is a pervasive language in today’s world, a nd empire, war, and Hollywood are sociocultural ways in which English has asserted its influence. No matter what country you live in you are bound to be exposed to ... -
Bank Supervision after the Financial Crisis: Signals from the Market for Liquidity
(Discussion paper;14/15, Working paper, 2015-04-10)The financial turmoil that we have been living with since August 2007 has left central banks, regulators, politicians, and economists with two big, overriding questions: How do we best get out of the crisis and how should ... -
Shapley-Based Stackelberg Leadership Formation in Networks
(Discussion paper;16/15, Working paper, 2015-04-10)In the given research we study a leadership formation of the most influential nodes in networks. Specifically, we analyze the competition between a leader and a follower based on the Stackelberg leadership model. Applying ... -
Creating a National Champion: International Competition and Unbundling in Rail Transportation
(Discussion paper;18/15, Working paper, 2015-04-10)This article investigates the incentives to unbundle operations and infrastructure in the railway industry in a two-country model with international network effects from the viewpoint of national governments. The analysis ... -
Future world market prices of milk and feed looking into the crystal ball
(Discussion paper;17/15, Working paper, 2015-04-10)Both the world milk price and the world feed price have become more volatile during the last 7-8 years. The ability of dairy farmers to adapt quickly to these changing circumstances will be a key driver for future success, ... -
Essays on Behavioural Game Theory
(Doctoral thesis, 2011)Game theory is the standard method in economics used to analyse situations where people or firms interact, for example, auctions, bargaining, cooperation, markets with a small number of firms, and many other social ... -
The equity premium in a production economy; A new perspective involving recursive utility
(Discussion paper;15/15, Working paper, 2015-04-10)We study a rational expectations' competitive equilibrium in a production economy, i.e., a system of prices at which firms' profit maximizing production decisions and individuals' preferred affordable consumption choices ... -
Are social preferences reference dependent? a study of reference dependent social preferences among students at the Norwegian School of Economics
(Master thesis, 2013)This thesis explores whether social preferences are reference dependent. More specifically it examines whether reference points, defined by expectations, regarding income inequality affect our willingness to redistribute ... -
Entrepreneurship in Development: Four Essays on Microfinance and Business Training
(Doctoral thesis, 2011)Which is the most binding constraint to microenterprise development, human capital or financial capital? To answer this question, we present the first field experiment that jointly investigates these two constraints for ... -
Variations in the price and quality of English grain, 1750-1914: quantitative evidence and empirical implications.
(Discussion paper;06/15, Working paper, 2015-03)Interpretation of historic grain price data may be hazardous owing to systematic grain quality variation – both cross sectionally and over varying time horizons (intra-year, inter-year, long run). We use the English wheat ... -
Licensing and Innovation with Imperfect Contract Enforcement
(Discussion paper;05/15, Working paper, 2015-03)Licensing promotes technology transfer and innovation, but enforcement of licensing contracts is often imperfect. We explore the implications of weak enforcement of contractual commitments on the licensing conduct of ... -
Reference pricing with endogenous generic entry
(Discussion paper;04/15, Working paper, 2015-03)In this paper we study the effect of reference pricing on pharmaceutical prices and expenditures when generic entry is endogenously determined. We develop a Salop-type model where a brand-name producer competes with generic ... -
Teaching through television: Experimental evidence on entrepreneurship education in Tanzania
(Discussion paper;03/15, Working paper, 2015-02)Can television be used to teach and foster entrepreneurship among youth in developing countries? We report from a randomized control field experiment of an edutainment show on entrepreneurship broadcasted over almost ... -
Das multilinguale fachsprachliche Korpus TK-NHH - Eine korpus basierte Fallstudie über die explicitation hypothesis anhand von ins Deutsche und Englische übersetzten Rechtstexten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The present study is a case study about the explicitation hypothesis in legal transla-tions into German and English by means of a corpus-based approach and will present preliminary findings. After the introduction, I first ... -
Strategizing for environmentally sustainable praxis : the case of "green operations"
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)The paper investigates how a strategic idea to operate offshore service vessels in an environmentally sustainable way was transformed into practical realities. The research case was a campaign to reduce the consumption of ... -
An Analysis of Social Seed Network and Its Contribution to On-Farm Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity in Nepal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Social seed systems are important for the maintenance of crop genetic diversity on farm. This is governed by local and informal system in the community through a farmers’ network. This paper analyses these local seed ...