Multiple studies on the performance of machine-learning stock portfolios have shown the efficacy of machine-learning portfolios on large stock exchanges, especially the American- and Chinese market. Fewer studies have been conducted on smaller cap markets, which consists of smaller, less-liquid investment options. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to explore the possibilities to beat the ...

In this paper, I have investigated the relationship between the change in yield and stock returns for 27 firms for 47 consecutive business days. Firstly, I have found that there is an inverse relationship between the rating of firms and the degree of correlation between the stock return and the change in yield for bonds issued by the same firm. Secondly, I have not successfully managed to demonstrate ...

The urgent need for radical changes towards sustainability provides an opportunity to reconsider the epistemology and methodology of tourism research. The present study discusses this opportunity by adopting the concept of deep leverage points for sustainable transformations and an ethic of care perspective. The discussion highlights the vital role that a deep form of reflexivity plays in care-based ...

This article examines the preparation of the much-debated War Criminals Decree (WCD) of 4 May 1945 by the Norwegian exile government in London and the courts’ later use of the law as the legal foundation for the reckoning with German war criminals. More specifically, we show how two central clauses in the Norwegian Constitution of 1814 were challenged by this decree, which combined national and ...

Experimental economics has in later decades evolved to become a part of the economics science and is now steadily reported in economics journals. But there are still debates going on in this field; these debates regard for example whether theory should be revised due to findings from experiments, whether experiments should be conducted in the laboratory or in the field in addition to debates regarding ...

The purpose of this paper is to explore how middle managers respond when an existing institutional logic is reinforced through radical organisational change. We analyse documents and interviews with middle managers in three public sector contexts (hospitals, upper secondary schools, municipal agencies) in which the power balance between the managerial and professional logics changed through mergers. ...

The intergenerational mobility in education length is well-documented. However, the number of people having a master’s degree in Norway has increased in the past years. An innovative study is instead to investigate the mobility for the educational fields between generations. This thesis is investigating the parents’ influence on their children’s choice of educational fields for higher education. The ...

This research note reports on whale interactions in northern Norway and asks: How are close encounters not in line with good practices of whale watching represented and discussed in the online sources accessible by tourists and recreationists? Based on an exploratory qualitative investigation of critical episodes of close encounters with cetaceans, this article identifies some main aspects ...

The teaching-learning relationship has been subject to discussion within higher education (HE), as has the traditional lecture. Teaching and lectures cannot be understood without including students as part of the setting, particularly so within a cross-cultural classroom where various hermeneutics are involved. International students have different ways of understanding and interpreting data, and ...

In this thesis, hourly wage rate data spanning 1978-2018 has been collected to investigate if the wage levels in the construction and wholesale sectors follow the wage levels in the industry, public, and private sectors. Against the backdrop of the EU expansion in 2004 and the 2001 implementation of inflation targeting monetary policy, there has been an interest in studying the stability of the ...