Browsing Fakultet for økonomi (ØK) by Title
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Executive Incentives and Capital Structure
(Master thesis, 2011)Through a dynamic panel data analysis of a sample of Nordic firms we investigate how executives stock and option incentives influence the choice of capital structure. In addition, we look at how equity ownership by a large ... -
Executive Incentives, Capital Structure, and Risk
(Master thesis, 2021)Formålet med denne masteroppgaven er å studere relasjonen mellom lederinsentiver, kapitalstruktur og risiko. Selv om en betydelig mengde tidligere forskning har blitt gjort på disse områdene er det gjort relativt få studier ... -
Executive Stock Option Plans - The Effects of a Change to Nontraditional Options
(Master thesis, 2015)In order to study the value and incentive effects of indexed, Asian and indexed Asian options in practice I use hand-collected compensation and assumption data to give a realistic representation of how the nontraditional ... -
Existence value and the extermination race
(Chapter, 2019)The term existence value is supposed to capture the value of a certain species or a scenic landscape when there is no intention of current use involved. The term and concept are usually thought to create incentives to ... -
Expanding Access to COVID-19 Tests through US Postal Service Facilities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Widespread, convenient access to COVID-19 testing has been challenging in the United States. We make a case for provisioning COVID-19 tests through the United States Postal Service (USPS) facilities and demonstrate a simple ... -
Expanding the concept of simulator fidelity: the use of technology and collaborative activities in training maritime officers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The theoretical contribution of this paper lies in introducing the concept of social fidelity to bridge the gap between computer technology and collaborative learning activities in simulator-based training. The concept has ... -
Expanding the International Tourist Season at Sunnmøre - A Case Study of 62Nord
(Master thesis, 2018)This study examines the phenomenon of seasonality in tourism at Sunnmøre in detail. Previous research regarding seasonality found that this is a major problem which needs to be overcome, thereby increasing the relevance ... -
Expanding the notions of local electricity markets: A study on trading among and within energy communities
(Master thesis, 2022)Lokale elektrisitetsmarkeder (LEM) er et voksende forskningsområde som bidrar til det grønne skiftet innen energisystemer. Med nye fremskritt innen informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi, kan disse markedene nå være med ... -
Expected long-term rates of return when short-term returns are serially correlated
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)When short-term returns are serially uncorrelated, expected long-term and short-term returns are equal. However, we show that negative serial correlation among the short-term returns make the expected long-term returns ... -
Expected rates of return for assets Norske Skog owns or considers acquiring
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Experience matters: The role of academic scientist mobility for industrial innovation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Research Summary: A learning‐by‐hiring approach is used to scrutinize scientists' mobility in relation to the recruiting firms' subsequent innovation output. Our starting point is that among firm hires, individuals with ... -
Experience offerings with a purpose? Aesthetic innovation and organizing with duality.
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:369, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Organizations and communities pay for lectures and facilitation processes where a well-paid lecturer talks to people who are paid to listen. This practice finds little support in organizational theory. Hence, it may make ... -
Experiential-driven engagement as strategic resource for multi-sided platforms - A managerial perspective
(Master thesis, 2018)Digital technologies help create an environment where the boundaries of the firm become more blurry, leading to customers suddenly playing a more important role in the value-creation process. Digital Multi-sided Platforms ... -
Experimental Setup Simulating Hoarfrost Formation on Roadways
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Hoarfrost on roadways and bridges can cause slippery and dangerous conditions for motorists. To reduce the costs and environmental impact of countermeasures, road authorities wish to optimize their winter maintenance ... -
An expert system for systematic international market selection
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We tested and examined the use of systematic international market selection (IMS) in the case of a library software/automation provider in a Nordic country. The purpose of our study was to investigate how the case company ... -
Explainable AI for Credit Assessment in Banks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Banks’ credit scoring models are required by financial authorities to be explainable. This paper proposes an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) model for predicting credit default on a unique dataset of unsecured ... -
Explainable AI for Credit Scoring in Banks
(Master thesis, 2022)Finansmyndighetene stiller strenge krav til bankers kredittmodeller. De må være nøyaktige, men også tilstrekkelig forklarlige. Logistisk regresjon (LR) har lenge vært industristandarden innen banksektoren, men i løpet av ... -
Explainable Machine Learning for Customer Churn Prediction
(Master thesis, 2023)Denne avhandlingen er avgrenset til finansielle data om kunder fra en samarbeidende bank, og eksterne og makroøkonomiske data. Avhandlingen undersøker hvilke \\egenskaper hos lånekunder som kan påvirke sannsynligheten for ... -
Explaining Bitcoin’s price fluctuations
(Master thesis, 2017)The purpose of this study is to uncover factors that may help explain Bitcoin’s price fluctuations. The price of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is volatile and has increased from zero in 2009 to an all-time high of 1287USD ... -
Explaining Deep Learning Models for Credit Scoring with SHAP: A Case Study Using Open Banking Data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Predicting creditworthiness is an important task in the banking industry, as it allows banks to make informed lending decisions and manage risk. In this paper, we investigate the performance of two different deep learning ...