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The VIX Puzzle
(Master thesis, 2018)The CBOE volatility index, VIX, represents the market’s expected volatility over the next 30 days, and is supposed to increase when uncertainty rises. Over the last years, this index has remained at historically low levels, ... -
Three Essays on the Economics of Education in Upper Secondary Schooling
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:162, Doctoral thesis, 2017)The thesis is a collection of three papers on the economics of education. All three use administrative data from Norwegian upper secondary education. The papers all take advantage of quasi-experimental variation to assess ... -
Three essays on the impact of “rule based” trading activity
(Doctoral thesis at NTNU;NTNU, 2015:114, Doctoral thesis, 2015)The thesis “Three essays on the impact of “rule-based” trading activity" consists of three papers analyzing the impacts of “rule-based” trading on market prices of stocks. Many large investors (i.e., institutions and mutual ... -
Three Essays on Transport Economics and Policy
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:57, Doctoral thesis, 2021)SUMMARY Transport choices represent a classic example of individual decisions being made without fully accounting for wider effects on society. This disparity between the costs carried by individuals and by society, namely ... -
Three essays on Transportation and Environmental Economics; With a focus on Machine Learning Applications
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:250, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis uses machine learning and traditional statistical approaches to explore air pollution, mortality, and different aspects of transportation to draw forth policy recommendations regarding climate change and ... -
Three perspectives on real investments in the manufacturing industry An empirical approach
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:104, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This Ph.D. thesis discusses the real investment in the manufacturing industry in Norway and the firms’ decision-making-process from three different perspectives. I show, using a novel approach, that firms, and particularly ... -
Time Diversification - Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
(Master thesis, 2023)Kontroversen rundt tidsdiversifisering er en langvarig debatt om hvorvidt lengre investeringshorisont reduserer risiko(tidsdiversifisering), og påfølgende bør allokeringen øke med tidshorisont, eller som Samuelson (1969) ... -
Timing av investeringer i småkraftverk
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To alternativer til Black-Scholes-modellen : prising av S&P 500 indeksopsjoner
(Master thesis, 2016)I denne oppgaven tar vi for oss to utvidelser av Black-Scholes-modellen og evaluerer modellenes prestasjoner basert på prising av indeksopsjoner og delta-sikring. Modellene er Practitioners-Black-Scholes og Heston stokastiske ... -
To what extent do sell recommendations impact stock prices? An event study on DNB’s weekly portfolio and how their recommendations can be exploited with shorting strategies.
(Master thesis, 2019)En salgsanbefaling på en aksje er en analytikers oppfatning av allerede tilgjengelig offentlig informasjon. Teori om anbefalinger sier at hvis det er ingen ny og relevant informasjon om en aksje, bør ikke aksjekursen bevege ... -
To what extent do sell recommendations impact stock prices? An event study on DNB’s weekly portfolio and how their recommendations can be exploited with shorting strategies.
(Master thesis, 2019)En salgsanbefaling på en aksje er en analytikers oppfatning av allerede tilgjengelig offentlig informasjon. Teori om anbefalinger sier at hvis det er ingen ny og relevant informasjon om en aksje, bør ikke aksjekursen bevege ... -
Tobin's q and Financial Constraints
(Master thesis, 2022)Ved å ta i bruk kvartalsvis data fra amerikanske selskaper fra 2003-2009 viser vi at det er sterk korrelasjon mellom realinvesteringer og Tobin’s q. Dette er motsigende med mye av tidligere empirisk forskning som er gjort ... -
Tobin's q and Financial Constraints
(Master thesis, 2022)Ved å ta i bruk kvartalsvis data fra amerikanske selskaper fra 2003-2009 viser vi at det er sterk korrelasjon mellom realinvesteringer og Tobin’s q. Dette er motsigende med mye av tidligere empirisk forskning som er gjort ... -
Tourism, Poaching and Wildlife Conservation: What can Integrated Conservation and Development Projects accomplish?
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2004:10, Research report, 2004)Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) have frequently been established in Africa to improve wildlife conservation and the welfare of local communities. However, their effectiveness so far has been hampered ... -
Trade Unions and Gender Equality
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)Through this bachelor thesis it has been shown that a high degree of trade unionisation in a country does not lead to gender equality in wage. This result was found through regression analysis and hypothesis testing. The ... -
Trade Unions and Productivity. Empirical Analyses of the Norwegian Labor Market
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:406, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis is concerned with the question of how trade unions influence the productivity of firms and workers. To answer this question, I utilize rich administrative register data from Norway to investigate how unions ... -
Trade unions and the well-being of workers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Using data on nearly 2 million respondents from the United States and Europe, we show the partial correlation between union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs ... -
Trade-Off Theory for Dual Holders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)A dual holder simultaneously owns (private) debt and equity in the same firm. Private debt has a tax advantage, a positive cashflow, which incentivizes its use. This cashflow leads to a lower net cost of debt, which again ... -
Transparency in Financial Markets: Are the Effects Visible?
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2024:122, Doctoral thesis, 2024)This thesis includes three papers providing empirical evidence of the impacts of transparency on financial markets. The findings unfold the short and long-term effects of transparency announcements on the stock market, as ... -
Trend Inflation and Monetary Policy Trade-offs in a Small Open Economy
(Master thesis, 2023)I den første perioden siden finanskrisen i 2008 med høy inflasjon er det tydelig at avveininger i pengepolitikken gjør det vanskelig å finne en god balanse mellom å stabilisere prisnivået og å opprettholde så høy økonomisk ...