NHH Brage: Recent submissions
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Økonomiske konsekvenser av økt drivstoffpris for utvalgte segmenter av norsk fiskeflåte
(Rapport;2019/1, Report, 2019-02)Rapporten undersøker hvilke økonomiske konsekvenser økte drivstoffpriser vil ha for fem utvalgte grupper av fiskeflåten; konvensjonelle kystfartøy i lukket gruppe, konvensjonelle havfartøy, trålere, kystnotfartøy i lukket ... -
Sysselsetting i petroleumsvirksomhet 2017 Omfang og lokalisering av ansatte i oljeselskap og den spesialiserte leverandørindustrien
(Rapport;2018/1, Report, 2018-04)Rapporten kartlegger antall fast ansatte i norsk petroleumsnæring (oljeselskap og den spesialiserte leverandørindustrien) per desember 2017. Antall ansatte er i utgangspunktet hentet fra Enhetsregisteret, men kvalitetssikret ... -
Ressursrentebeskatning i fiskeri: Kunnskapsstatus, samt erfaringer fra andre fiskerinasjoner
(Rapport;2019/2, Report, 2019-04)Denne rapporten går gjennom et forholdsvis bredt utvalg av utredninger som har prøvd å estimere ressursrenten i Norge og en del andre land og for noen utvalgte fiskerier. Den er hovedsakelig konsentrert om studier som tar ... -
Enhancing creativity in global virtual teams : the relationship between communication tools, conflict and creative output
(Report;2018/5, Report, 2018-10)This master thesis examines the relationship between the media richness and frequency of communication on the creative output in global virtual teams. Two thirds of international organisations utilise virtual teams, to ... -
Securing innovation through corporate spin-off : an exploratory case study
(Report;2018/6, Report, 2018-10)This thesis explores how a large established firm can secure and manage technology-based innovation through the use of a corporate spin-off. This study is performed in the setting of a large media firm and its four technology ... -
A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior
(DP SAM;09/2019, Working paper, 2019-04-29)The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete ... -
From Employment to Engagement? Stable Jobs, Temporary Jobs, and Cohabiting Relationships
(DP SAM;10/2019, Working paper, 2019-04)Family formation has been substantially delayed in recent decades, and birth rates have fallen below the replacement rates in many OECD countries. Research suggests that these trends are tightly linked to recent changes ... -
The Financial Instability Hypothesis and the Financial Crisis in Eastern European Emerging Economies
(DP SAM;08/2019, Working paper, 2019-04)The present paper applies the financial instability hypothesis in order to explain the financial crises of 2008-2010 in eleven emerging Eastern European economies Also, it seeks to map if institutional frameworks of these ... -
Paywalls and the demand for online news
(DP SAM;07/2019, Working paper, 2019-03)The digitisation of society has posed a challenge to news outlets. Seeking advertising revenues and facing competition for the attention of their readers, many news outlets entered the digital era with unrestricted access ... -
International Debt Shifting: The Value Maximizing Mix of Internal and External Debt
(Discussion paper;1/19, Working paper, 2019-03-29)We study the capital structure of multinationals and expand previous theory by incorporating international debt tax shield effects from both internal and external capital markets. We show that: (i) multinationals' firm ... -
The Boy Crisis: Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind
(DP SAM;06/2019, Working paper, 2019-03-01)The ‘boy crisis’ prompts the question of whether people interpret inequalities differently depending on whether males or females are lagging behind. We study this question in a novel large-scale distributive experiment ... -
Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?
(DP SAM;04/2019, Working paper, 2019-02)There are striking differences in inequality and redistribution between the United States and Scandinavia. To study whether there are corresponding differences in social preferences, we conducted a large-scale international ... -
Performance Measurement in Agency Models
(DP SAM;05/2019, Working paper, 2019-02-25)This note explores how to evaluate an agent’s performance in standard incentive contracts. We show that the MPS criterion proposed by Kim (1995) becomes a tight condition for one performance measurement system to be more ... -
Styrets rolle, ansvar og involvering i norske nettselskap : en kartlegging av nettselskapenes styre, og deres syn på energilovens krav om selskapsmessig og funksjonelt skille
(Master thesis, 2018)Avhandlingen tar for seg styrene i den norske nettsektoren, som på grunn av monopolsituasjonen i bransjen er strengt regulert med hjemmel i energiloven. Formålet er å kartlegge styrets rolle og funksjon i nettselskapene, ... -
Competitive balance i eliteserien : trender og effekter : en empirisk analyse av competitive balance, uncertainty-of-outcome og økonomiske drivere i eliteserien
(Master thesis, 2018)Masterutredningen tar utgangspunkt i Eliteserien, den øverste divisjonen i norsk herrefotball. Formålet til studien er å belyse tre sentrale økonomiske og sportslige forhold i ligaen. Først belyses trenden for styrkeforholdene ... -
Integration of electricity markets : an analysis of TSO-owned and non-TSO-owned cross-border interconnectors
(Master thesis, 2018)The European electricity market is gradually becoming more integrated due to increased crossborder transmission capacity. Integrated electricity markets are expected to improve social welfare through security of supply ... -
Properties of the gold price : an investigation using fractional Brownian motion and supervised machine learning techniqes
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis investigates properties of the gold price. Two different aspects have been analyzed using two different methods. The concept of fractional Brownian motion has been utilized in the search for evidence of long ... -
An empirical analysis of the effect of key policy rate changes on the unbiasedness hypothesis
(Master thesis, 2018)Interest rate parity is one of the most important theory in international finance which determines the relationship between the exchange rate and interest rates of two countries. However, there are many empirical findings ... -
Konkurranseintensitet på internett : prissammenligningssider og deres påvirkning på konkurranseintensitet på internett
(Master thesis, 2018)Denne oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i internettmarkedet, og undersøker om konkurranseintensiteten har økt som følge av prissammenligningssider. Utviklingen av internett og prissammenligningssider har ført til lavere søkekostnader ... -
Initial public offerings : IPO performance and prospectus sentiment of biotechnology offerings
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis investigates initial public offerings (IPOs) at the Nasdaq exchange in the United States during the time period of 2003 – November 17th, 2017. The focus of the thesis will be on the performance, both in the ...