Browsing Master's theses in Business Administration (2014-) by Subject "BE501"
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A Behavioural Mean – Expected Shortfall Solution to the Asset Allocation Puzzle and the Time Diversification Puzzle
(Master thesis, 2018)Konfidensiell til / confidential until 01.01.2024 -
A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Portfolio Insurance Strategies
(Master thesis, 2018)Literature within the field of Portfolio Insurance (PI) provides no clear evidence for or against the usefulness of implementing PI strategies. The goal of this thesis is to investigate the real- life performance, using ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Micro Finances: An Economic Impact of Micro Finance upon Income Level of People in Kavrepalanchok District, Nepal
(Master thesis, 2016)Micro Finance, one of the essential banking services providing institution has a major contribution upon the economic development of people and nation. It targets mostly to low income generating people and assist them ... -
A Cost Analysis on Reablement in the Municipality of Kristiansand
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A Re-Examination of Performance of Optimized Portfolios
(Master thesis, 2017)DeMiguel, Garlappi, and Uppal (2009) conducted a study demonstrating that meanvariance optimized portfolios do not consistently outperform the naive diversi cation strategy in out-of-sample tests. This caused a heated ... -
A Reexamination of Time-Varying Stock Return Predictability
(Master thesis, 2019)In predicting stock market returns, academic research has had its primary focus onmacroeconomic variables, and less attention has been paid towards technical indicators.The evidence of the stock return predictability is ... -
A resource-based perspective on corporate environmental performance and profitability in the luxury fashion industry
(Master thesis, 2017)The purpose of this study is to analyse if there is a positive relationship between corporate environmental performance and profitability in the luxury fashion industry. Using a multiple regression analysis on data from ... -
A Strategic Analysis & Fundamental Valuation of SalMar ASA
(Master thesis, 2017)This master thesis, in the field of Management Accounting and Financial Economics, was written with the purpose of finding the intrinsic value of SalMar ASA’s equity at 31.12.2015. The price per share of SalMar was 155.00 ... -
A study of language effects on inward FDI flows in Southeast Asia
(Master thesis, 2019)This master thesis explores how language might affectthe yearly flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) towards five Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. This is aresearch ... -
A Study on Change Leadership : The Case of Non-Profit Volunteer Organizations
(Master thesis, 2018)Volunteer non-profit organizations face changes continually, as well as the private and public sector (Moran and Brightman 2000, p.66; Burnes, 2004). Leading change is an essential part of leadership for organizations ... -
A study on Norwegian companies in China: Challenges & successful strategies
(Master thesis, 2016)This paper examines what governmental and cultural challenges Norwegian companies face when entering and doing business in China. In addition, this paper also discusses what strategies to implement to overcome these ... -
A study on The Factors Affecting Merger and Acquisition Decision In Nepalese Banking Sector
(Master thesis, 2016)The main purpose of this study is to find out the factors that would lead to making decision regarding going for merger and acquisition among the banks in Nepalese banking sector. This thesis finds out various factors that ... -
A Study on The Factors affecting the Loan decision of the Customers of Capital City of Nepal
(Master thesis, 2018)The need of the customers has always been a significant concern for the banking and financial institutions regarding the loan requirement and the financing need because the actual lack of the financing is always backed up ... -
Abnormal Stock Market Returns around VIX Volatility Peaks : Is there evidence for abnormal return around volatility peaks?
(Master thesis, 2016)Is has been observed that the volatility index, VIX, often ends in a spike peak. The intention when introducing VIX was to measure the volatility related to S&P indices. Evidence in the literature argue that VIX is an ... -
Agile Project Management: The Degree of Agility in Projects : A quantitative study of factors that affect the degree of agility in projects
(Master thesis, 2019)Agile project management methods have become more prevalent in recent years, as a response to rapidly changing business requirements, technologies and market conditions. The traditional, plan-driven approach was unable to ... -
An Analysis of Bull and Bear Markets in the U.S. and Norway
(Master thesis, 2017)There is no previous research on the dating of bull and bear cycles in the Norwegian stock market. Even for the U.S., few researchers have conducted a thorough analysis of the bull and bear markets. The purpose of this ... -
An Econometric Analysis of Convergence : Econometric methods applied to the theory of macroeconomics and economic growth
(Master thesis, 2018)This master thesis explores the concept of convergence in a macroeconomic perspective and applies econometric methods to economic growth theory. Tests and analysis are performed using a dataset of national accounts from ... -
An Empirical Study Of Service Quality Dimensions On Customer Satisfaction And Customer Loyalty In Nepalese Commercial Banking Sector
(Master thesis, 2016)The main purpose behind of this study is to find out the major factors that have impact in customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in case of commercial banks of Nepal. The thesis tries to explore whether there exists ... -
An Empirical Study of the Salmon Market : Is there a relationship between the spot price of fresh farmed salmon and a portfolio of salmon farming companies listed on Oslo Stock Exchange?
(Master thesis, 2019)Salmon has become one of the most important export incomesfor Norway, and it is an industry that is still growing. Norway holds a big part of the salmon market, ifbig fluctuationsoccurin the salmon market, itmayalso have ... -
An exploratory study of Initial Coin Offerings : A better understanding of the ICO market and its fraudulent and unregulated nature
(Master thesis, 2018)Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) has become a new way for firms to raise capital, in 2017 and the first quarter of 2018 they raised approximately $12 billion. If a person managed to buy the top 10 performing ICOs in 2017, ...