Blar i Department of Economics and Finance på tittel
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Performance and international investments in microfinance institutions
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Performance and international investments in microfinance institutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Using data from 319 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 68 developing countries, we study the degree to which international debt investments are related to the financial and social performances of MFIs. We find that ... -
Performance and trade-offs in microfinance organisations--does ownership matter?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)Policy advocates argue for the transformation of non-government Microfinance Organisations (MFOs) into shareholder owned firms (SHFs). This paper investigates whether the proposed superiority of shareholder owned MFOs is ... -
Performance evaluation of behavioral finance mutual funds : a comparison between behavioral finance mutual funds and conventional funds in the Norwegian fund market.
(Master thesis, 2011)Behavioral finance has been gathering more and more attention in the last decade, and both academia and practitioners have slowly starting to accept that psychology influence financial markets. Even though markets are ... -
Performance evaluation of norwegian equity funds 1998-2008
(Master thesis, 2008)The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the performance of Norwegian equity funds during the period from 1998 to 2008. We have identified the best and the worst performing funds during the period based on five performance ... -
A Performance Evaluation of Norwegian Mutual Funds: Luck versus Skill
(Master thesis, 2021)In this master’s thesis, we examine the performance of Norwegian mutual fund man-agers. Through a dataset of 107 Norwegian mutual funds’ monthly returns from 1987-2019, we estimate fund managers’ abnormal performance using ... -
Performance of Technical Trading Rules in the US and Swedish Stock Markets
(Master thesis, 2015)In this thesis I am testing the performance of two of the most popular market-timing strategies, the simple-moving average and time-series momentum, compared to the performance of the passive buy-and-hold strategy using ... -
The Performance of the Volatility-Targeting Strategy : The Impact of the Volatility Forecasting Methodology and Trading Frequency on the Performance of the Volatility-Targeting Strategy
(Master thesis, 2021)Many researchers analyzed the performance of the volatility-targeting strategy (see, e.g., Moreira and Muir (2017) or Harvey, Hoyle, Korgaonkar, Rattray, Sargaison, and Hemert (2018)). It is a very tempting strategy as it ... -
Performance-based bonuses in the public educational sector : A viable management control instrument for school management?
(Master thesis, 2019)Konfidensiell til / confidential until 01.07.2024 -
Perspectives of Norwegian Crowd Investors
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis studies the reasoning of crowdinvestors when they invest in equity crowdfunding campaigns. The focus is placed on the Norwegian crowd investors who invest through a Norwegian equity crowdfunding platform, ... -
Planlagt foreldelse : hvilke faktorer påvirker produktlevetid?
(Master thesis, 2014)Masterutredningen har som formål å utforske hvilke faktorer som påvirker produsentens praktisering av planlagt foreldelse og valg av produktlevetid. Utredelsen undersøker i hovedsak varige goder. Den overordnende ... -
Portfolio performance evaluation of South African mutual funds 2001-2006
(Master thesis, 2008)Generating strong alpha returns is the primary objectives of fund managers in the South African mutual fund industry. Given the spectacular growth experienced in the South Africa mutual fund industry in the recent past, ... -
Positive and negative word of mouth (WOM) are not necessarily opposites: A reappraisal using the dual factor theory
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Prior research has not systematically investigated the enablers and inhibitors in conjunction to measure consumer behavior toward mobile wallets (m-wallets), focusing either on the adoption or the resistance perspective ... -
Predicting Bitcoin Returns Using Artificial Neural Networks - An Application of Large Datasets to Convolutional Neural Networks and Long Short-Term Memory Based Artificial Neural Networks in Finance.
(Master thesis, 2022)Time series forecasting is one of the foremost challenges studied in finance. In this thesis various Convolutional Neural Network and Long Short Term Memory Artificial Neural Network models are used to predict Bitcoin ... -
Predicting women purchase intention for green food products in Indonesia
(Master thesis, 2009)This study investigated the applicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior in predicting women consumers on their intention towards purchasing green food products among 406 participants. Using linear regression, five ... -
Predictors of applying for and winning an ERC Proof-of-Concept grant: An automated machine learning model
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Predictors of Cultural Intelligence : What are the predictors of Cultural Intelligence and how do they range in importance?
(Master thesis, 2021)Knowledge about which factors, like personality traits, experiences and demography, and how these relate to cultural intelligence (CQ) is important in today’s business world as we see trends of increasing globalization and ... -
Predikering av aksjeavkastning med yield på langsiktige statsobligasjoner : en univariat regresjonsanalyse av hvorvidt yielden på langsiktige statsobligasjoner påvirker fremtidig aksjeavkastning på kort sikt
(Master thesis, 2013)Den effektive markedshypotesen står for et perspektiv som betrakter aksjemarkedet for å være riktig priset til enhver tid. Etterslepene i prisene skal være så korte eller fraværende, avhengig av hvilken form av hypotesen ... -
Predikering av aksjemarkedet med rentedifferansen mellom lange- og korte renter
(Master thesis, 2012)Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i en artikkel skrevet av Svein Svalestad (2011) i Econas tidsskrift, hvor han brukte rentedifferansen mellom lange- og korte renter i markedet som en ledende indikator til å predikere realøkonomisk ... -
Prestasjonsanalyse av norsk aksjefond : vurdering av prestasjon og persistens ved bruk av flerfaktormodeller i perioden 1986-2009
(Master thesis, 2010)Jeg undersoker om norske aksjefond klarer a skape meravkastning utover markedet og hvorvidt det er persistens i prestasjonene til norske aksjefond, det vil si om positiv avkastning i en periode vil gjenta seg i etterfolgende ...