• A quantitative analysis on the effect of firm and project characteristics in FHF funded R&D projects 

      Nakken, Elisabeth; Gjerstad, Jon (Master thesis, 2018-08-15)
      Spending more than 200 million NOK annually on innovative research and development projects, FHF is a primary provider of funds for projects in the seafood industry. Being entirely financed through a tax levied on all ...
    • Academic Burnout : Causes and Consequences 

      Jensen, Maria Therese; Olsen, Espen (Chapter, 2023)
      The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, as means of peace and prosperity for people and the planet. Several of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are also ...
    • Advancing the treatment of human agency in the analysis of regional economic development: Illustrated with three Norwegian cases 

      Grillitsch, Markus; Asheim, Bjørn Terje; Isaksen, Arne; Nielsen, Hjalti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)
      Human agency has become a core topic in economic geography complementing traditional, structural approaches to explain regional development. This paper contributes firstly with a discussion of the theoretical and conceptual ...
    • Aquaculture subsidies in the European Union: Evolution, impact and future potential for growth 

      Guillen, Jordi; Asche, Frank; Carvalho, Natacha; Fernandez Polanco, Jose M; Llorente, Ignacio Martín; Nielsen, Rasmus; Nielsen, Max; Villasante, Sebastian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06)
      Through its structural funds the European Union (EU) has invested €1.17 billion in the aquaculture sector over the period 2000–2014. In addition, the EU plans to spend a further €1.72 billion on the sector over the period ...
    • Attention to oil prices and its impact on the oil, gold and stock markets and their covariance 

      Fiszeder, Piotr; Fałdziński, Marcin; Molnar, Peter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This paper studies the impact of investor attention to oil prices on returns, volatility, and covariances of three exchange traded funds representing oil, gold, and the stock market. For this purpose, we suggest a new ...
    • Beating the Casino: Conceptualizing an Anchoring-based Third Route to Regional Development 

      Gong, Huiwen; Yu, Zhen; Binz, Christian; Truffer, Bernhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The development of new industries in peripheral regions has gained renewed attention recently. Yet, the processes through which peripheral regions can mobilize external resources and capabilities, and turn them into locally ...
    • Capacity utilization under credit constraints: A firm-level study of Latin American manufacturing 

      Zhang, Dengjun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08)
      In developing countries, the credit market usually is underdeveloped. Low access to credit affects firms' production decisions and restrains them from optimizing inputs to achieve the maximum output. This article examines ...
    • Certify or not? The effect of the MSC certification on the ex-vessel prices for Atlantic cod in Norway 

      Bronnmann, Julia; Asche, Frank; Pettersen, Ingrid Kristine; Sogn-Grundvåg, Geir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      There is strong evidence that ecolabeled seafood commands a price premium in the retail market in Northern European countries. At the same time, there is significant uncertainty as to whether these markups are passed on ...
    • Commodity prices and robust environmental regulation: Evidence from deforestation in Brazil 

      Harding, Torfinn; Herzberg, Julika; Kuralbayeva, Karlygash (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)
      Increasing international agricultural commodity prices create pressure on tropical forests. We study the effectiveness of three regulatory policies implemented by Brazil in reducing this pressure: blacklisting of municipalities, ...
    • Comparative analysis of textual-content in corporate financial disclosures and implications on future stock return 

      Jakobsen Latipov, Bogdan; Gjessing, Lars (Masteroppgave/UIS-HH/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-07-19)
      The objective of this thesis is to investigate the extent to which year-over-year changes in textual-content and structure in quarterly and annual financial disclosures across companies listed at Norwegian Stock Exchange ...
    • Consumer attention and company performance: Evidence from luxury companies 

      Cheraghali, Hamid; Høydal, Hannah; Lysebo, Caroline; Molnar, Peter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-08)
      Previous research has shown that investor attention, measured by Google searches for company tickers, can predict companies’ returns. However, for companies offering luxury goods in consumer-driven industries, consumer ...
    • Cryptic bubbles by behavioural biases? 

      Hare, Martin (Masteroppgave/UIS-HH/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06)
      The subject for this is elaborates around the new economic phenomenon of cryptocurrencies. The main objective will be to shed light on whether the market of cryptocurrencies is in fact an economic market bubble or not. The ...
    • Delivering the Goods: The Determinants of Norwegian Seafood Exports 

      Straume, Hans-Martin; Anderson, James L.; Asche, Frank; Gaasland, Ivar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)
      Seafood is the world’s most traded food product. In recent years, aquaculture has become an increasingly important part of seafood production, facilitating increased trade. However, despite evidence that fish farmers have ...
    • Den norske befolkningens holdninger og preferanser tilknyttet kriminalitet 

      Kirubamoorthy, Sharanga (Masteroppgave/UIS-HH/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-07-15)
      Hensikten med denne oppgaven er å undersøke og analysere holdninger og preferanser knyttet til kriminalitet i Norge, ved å se på fire ulike politiske partier som representerer norsk politikk, og derav den norske ...
    • Diagnosing Insensitivity to Scope in Contingent Valuation 

      Faria Lopes, Ana; Kipperberg, Gorm (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08)
      Sensitivity to scope is considered a desirable property of contingent valuation studies and often treated as a necessary condition for validity. We first provide an overview of scope insensitivity explanations put forth ...
    • Do President Trump's tweets affect financial markets? 

      Gjerstad, Peder; Meyn, Peter Filip; Molnar, Peter; Næss, Thomas Dowling (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)
      Frequent tweets of the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, provide a unique opportunity to study how financial markets respond to his statements. To do this, we utilize a precise timestamp of each tweet ...
    • Does enterprise social media use promote employee creativity and well-being? 

      Luqman, Adeel; Talwar, Shalini; Masood, Ayesha; Dhir, Amandeep (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)
      Despite the increased use of Enterprise Social Media (ESM) worldwide, its adverse impact on firms’ employees, such as exhaustion, has not been researched sufficiently. This is a critical gap in the literature since employees’ ...
    • Does Norges Bank's trading in the foreign exchange market on behalf of the government affect the NOK exchange rate? 

      Løberg, Oddbjørn Larsen (Masteroppgave/UIS-HH/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06-15)
      This thesis attempts to find a connection between the Central Bank of Norway’s trading in the foreign exchange market and the NOK-EUR exchange rate. The central bank is designated to handle currency transactions related ...
    • Economics of Education: Peer Effects and Mindset 

      Auestad, May Linn (PhD thesis UiS;539, Doctoral thesis, 2020-09)
      In a world where technology is becoming ever more important, children’s best chance to thrive in school, and later, succeed in the labor market is by striving towards exploiting their full potential and acquire an applicable ...
    • Effort Provision in a Game of Luck 

      Arnestad, Mads Nordmo; Eriksen, Kristoffer Wigestrand; Kvaløy, Ola; Laurila, Bjørnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)
      In some jobs, the correlation between effort and output is almost zero. For instance, money managers are primarily paid for luck. Using a controlled lab experiment, we examined under which conditions workers are willing ...