Blar i UiS Business school på emneord "VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210"
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Empirical investigation of the relationship between Google search volume index and mutual fund performance and flows: evidence from Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HH/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06-15)We investigate the relationship between Google search volume index (SVI) and Norwegian mutual fund performance and flows. We use abnormal SVI (ASVI) and relative fund flows as measures of investor attention. The aim of ... -
Evaluering av auksjonsplikten for fryst torsk og sei. Delrapport 1
(Nofima rapportserie;, Research report, 2023)Denne rapporten gir en «løypemelding» halvveis i evalueringsprosjektet og er basert på data for hele 2022. Etter ønske fra næringen har FHF forlenget prosjektet med ett år slik at hele 2023 også vil bli inkludert i den ... -
Examining discrimination against Jews in Italy with three natural field experiments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-06)We use three natural field experiments to examine anti-Semitism in Italy by sending email inquiries to amateur football clubs, landlords, and employers and comparing the response rates to emails sent with Jewish- and ... -
Explaining the dynamics of relatedness: the role of co-location and complexity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08)Relatedness has become a key concept for studying the diversification of firms, regions and countries. However, studies tend to treat relatedness as being time‐invariant or, alternatively, consider its evolution as exogenously ... -
Exposure to diverse knowledge as driver of innovation and productivity
(PhD theses (HHUiS);472, Doctoral thesis, 2019-09)New and diverse knowledge is constantly being generated. How does this exposure to diverse knowledge affect us as economic actors? How does a firm’s exposure to diverse knowledge affect its innovation process? Is there any ... -
External shocks and enterprises' dynamic capabilities in a time of regional distress
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)We study if dynamic capabilities alleviate enterprises' revenue losses after an external shock. Contextually, we study Norwegian enterprises before and after the price decline of crude oil in 2014, which strongly affected ... -
Fair advice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Millions of investors place their trust in financial advisors who may have incentives to give them bad advice. This may indicate that advisors behave more fairly than economic theory predicts. In this paper, we present ... -
Fear of the coronavirus and the stock markets
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08)Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, stock markets around the world have experienced unprecedented declines amid high uncertainty. In this paper, we use Google search volume activity as a gauge of panic and fear. ... -
Food Sources and Expenditures for Seafood in the United States
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06)The aim of this study was to explore United States (U.S.) seafood consumption patterns, food sourcing, expenditures, and geography of consumption. We analyzed seafood intake and food sourcing using the National Health and ... -
Futures should matter (more): Toward a forward-looking perspective in economic geography
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Although the future is an increasingly important topic for regional economic development, our knowledge of the future as a research subject has been limited. Following futures studies, we develop a perspective on a specific ... -
The geography of innovation and technology news - An empirical study of the German news media
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)Variations in the frequency and tone of news media are the focus of a growing literature. However, to date, empirical investigations have primarily confirmed the existence of such differences at the country level. This ... -
Household Production in an Egalitarian Society
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Norwegian national policies strongly incentivize double-earner households and gender equality, but various gender gaps persist both at work and at home. In these seemingly contradictory situations, what are the mechanisms ... -
Hvordan endrer digitaliseringen samfunnet vårt?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HH/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-06)I denne oppgaven tar jeg for meg hvordan digitaliseringen vil endre samfunnet vårt, og hvordan arbeidsmarkedet kan se ut i fremtiden. Jeg analysere hvilke oppgaver som er egnet for automatisering. Norge er langt fremme når ... -
“I want to shake your hand before …”: The role of clients, knowledge exchange and market dynamics in southern Italian software firms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-02)This study aims to assess the importance of clients in multi-scalar networks leading to learning competence and knowledge exchange. Furthermore, the difficulties encountered by firms located in a peripheral and marginally ... -
The impact of parasitic sea lice on harvest quantities and sizes of farmed salmon
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07)Sea lice infections are recognized as a primary challenge for both salmon farming and adjacent stocks of wild salmon and sea trout, triggering strict regulations at farm sites and in larger coastal production areas. In ... -
Impact of wind and solar production on electricity prices: Quantile regression approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08)We study the impact of fuel prices, emission allowances, demand, past prices, wind and solar production on hourly day-ahead electricity prices in Germany over the period from January 2015 until June 2018. Working within a ... -
Import demand under price and exchange-rate uncertainties: The case of U.S. Atlantic salmon imports
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-05)This study investigates the impacts of price and exchange rate volatilities on Atlantic salmon imports in the U.S. market. We first derive an extended Rotterdam demand model, revealing how risk factors affect import demand ... -
Informed trading in hybrid bond markets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07)I study the impact of pretrade transparency on trading activity in an environment where dealers, informed and uninformed alike, can choose between an electronic limit order book (LOB) and an over-the-counter (OTC) market. ... -
Innovation in the Norwegian aquaculture industry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-11)Global aquaculture production has grown very rapidly in recent decades. This is largely due to a number of innovations that has increased the control with the production process and competitiveness. These innovations come ... -
An introspective essay on the virtues of teaching environmental economics to business students
(Chapter, 2023)The following is one of the stand-out memories from my early university life: It was the second semester of my undergraduate studies in the United States. I was sitting in the middle of a small classroom with about 15–20 ...