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Do LGBTQ-supportive corporate policies affect consumer behavior? Evidence from the video game industry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper empirically examines how consumers react when a company marks a product with a gay label. The company under scrutiny is one of the largest video game developers in the world, and the labeled product is a popular ... -
Do Listed Real-Estate Companies Trade at a Discount to Their Net Asset Value?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Listed real estate companies trading at a discount or premium to their net asset value has been an interesting field of study for financial analysts. Previous studies have found several company-specific variables that could ... -
Do local authorities set local fiscal variables to influence population flows?
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:16, Research report, 2006)The paper presents an empirical test of local fiscal competition in Norway based on the observation that interregional migration during the business cycle creates very different incentives for rural and urban municipalities ... -
Do Norwegian equity funds manage to create excess returns beyond the market? An emperical study of the Norwegian equity fund market
(Master thesis, 2021)Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i hvorvidt norske aksjefond klarer å skape meravkastning utover markedet. Analysen inneholder 26 aktive aksjefond med innenlandske investeringer i perioden 28.02.2016-28.02.2021. Hensikten er å ... -
Do political risks harm development of oil fields?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We examine the impact of political risks and financial development on investments in the petroleum industry utilizing a unique dataset of investments in individual oil and gas fields around the world. We find that the ... -
Do poverty traps delay economic growth?
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Oppgaven ser på sammenhengene mellom fattigdomsfeller og økonomisk utvikling og om dette fungerer som en stopper på utviklingen. Fattigdomsfeller defineres som mekanismer i økonomien som forsterker fattigdom, som resulterer ... -
Do Smaller Classes Always Improve Students' Long-run Outcomes?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)We exploit the strict class size rule in Norway and matched individual and school register information for 1982–2011 to estimate long-run causal effects on income and educational attainment. Contrary to recent evidence ... -
Do Sustainable Companies Generate Higher Returns When Investors are Concerned? - Evidence from VIX, Google Searches and Twitter
(Master thesis, 2021)Vi undersøker om bærekraftige selskaper genererer høyere aksjeavkastning når investorer er bekymret for 1) aksjemarkedet generelt, 2) individuelle selskaper og 3) miljømessige forhold, sosiale forhold og virksomhetsstyring ... -
Do they make a difference? Professional team sports clubs’ effects on migration and local growth: Evidence from Denmark
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)It is a common argument in Denmark that municipal involvement in professional team sports can be justified on the grounds of local impact. The use of public funds to directly or indirectly subsidise local professional team ... -
Do unions care about low-paid workers? Evidence from Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)One of the core objectives of unions is to raise the wages of the lowest paid. Utilizing a panel of individual-matched employee–employer data covering the Norwegian private sector in the period 2000–2014, I investigate how ... -
Do we have a green bubble in the Norwegian stock market?
(Master thesis, 2021)De siste årene har grønne investeringer fått spesielt stor interesse fra politikere og deltakere i aksjemarkedet. Grønne aksjer er nye i markedet, og mange av disse selskapene har enda ikke en positiv kontantstrøm, Prisene ... -
DO YOU CARE? -en kvalitativ studie av samfunnsansvar som meningsskaping
(Master thesis, 2016-09-26)Tema for denne oppgaven er ”samfunnsansvar som meningsskaping.” Formålet er å forstå hvordan meningsskaping rundt oppgaver knyttet til samfunnsansvar foregår i praksis gjennom å besvare problemstillingen ”hvordan skapes ... -
Doble forretningsmodeller i en omstillingsfase og deres påvirkning på leverandørnettverket
(Master thesis, 2023)Olje- og gassbransjen har stått sentralt i den norske verdiskapningen i flere tiår, og den har lagt grunnlaget for den norske leverandørindustrien. Klimakrisen, og samfunnets økte fokus på bærekraftige løsninger, legger ... -
Does an action-based entrepreneurship education mean action heroes? - Impact assessing an action-based entrepreneurial venture creation program
(Master thesis, 2015)Entrepreneurial venture creation programs (VCP) stand out from traditional entrepreneurial education programs with its high focus on action-based activity and learning through venture creation. The high demand for resources ... -
Does brand building matter? A study of the bacalhau brand Dybvik
(Chapter, 2017)Brand building results in brand equity creation based on intellectual efforts. Thus brand equity is perceived as intellectual capital of the brand builder. Building strong brands has become a priority for many organizations, ... -
Does country-of-origin image and ethnocentrism positively influence the home market brand equity for the brand Dybvik?
(Chapter, 2018)The study analyses the effects of consumers’ country-of-origin image perception (COOI) and ethnocentrism on brand equity for the bachalau brand Dybvik. A survey of 333 respondents is analysed by using PLS-SEM in order to ... -
Does culture matter? The influences of organizational culture on engaged and satisfied workforce.
(Master thesis, 2021)Organisasjonskultur er viktig på grunn av kulturenes inntrykk på enkeltpersoner, spesielt ledere og interessenter som danner forretningsbeslutninger, og til slutt påvirker mange aspekter i organisasjonen. Denne studien tar ... -
Does economic growth eat up environmental improvements? Electricity production and fossil fuel emission in OECD countries 1980-2014
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We analyze to what extent electricity production by non-fossil fuel replaces fossil fueled electricity production in 27 OECD-countries 1980–2014. Depending on model specification, the long run replacement coefficient is ... -
Does geographical clustering pay? Analysis of the Norwegian salted and dried cod industry
(Chapter, 2017)The structure of the Norwegian salted and dried cod industry is manifold, with differences both regarding plant size and type of organisation. The cluster of manufacturers and exporters of this industry in the North-Western ... -
Does green bond issuance increase firm value in Norway?
(Master thesis, 2023)Denne masteroppgaven har hatt som mål å undersøke om annonseringen av grønne obligasjoner har en positiv effekt på verdien av norske selskaper. En hendelsesstudie har blitt gjennomført for å undersøke om det finnes en ...