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 com…

2019

Master's thesis Business Administration BE501 - University of Agder 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 a big impact on the Norwegian business sector. It is therefore a huge motivation for us to investigate this marketand the purpose of this master thesis is to examine whetherifthere existsa relationship between a portfolio consisting of salmon farming companies listed at Oslo Stock Exchange and thespot price offresh farmed salmon.We thereforewant toanalyze this relationshipand see if we can find any evi…