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Has financial attitude impacted the trading activity of retail investors during the COVID-19 pandemic?
2020
Financial attitude influences the financial behavior of retail investors. Although the extant research has acknowledged and examined this relationship, the measures of financial attitude and behavior still vary widely and are generally posed as a series of questions rather than statements. In addition to this, there is insufficient knowledge regarding retail investors' behavior in the face of a health crisis, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. This study addresses these gaps in the prior literature by examining the relative influence of six dimensions of financial attitude, namely, financial anxiety, optimism, financial security, deliberative thinking, interest in financial issues, and …
Nordic penal exceptionalism: A comparative, empirical analysis
2022
Abstract Based on a survey administered in 13 prisons in England & Wales and Norway, as part of a research programme with explicitly comparative aims, this article seeks to address both the relative and absolute dimensions of the Nordic penal exceptionalism thesis. It outlines the consistently more positive results in Norway compared to England & Wales, explaining them primarily with reference to the former’s much higher quality and use of open prisons. At the same time, it emphasizes that, even in an unusually humane prison system, prisoners report considerable pain and frustration. The article also makes the case that comparative analysis should strive to be systematic, but that s…
An Urban Governance Framework for Including Environmental Migrants in Sustainable Cities
2022
This article proposes an urban governance framework for including environmental migrants in sustainable cities. It outlines the links among environmental migration, vulnerability, and sustainability, showing how vulnerability and sustainability are not about the environment or the human condition as snapshots in space and time, but rather are long-term, multi-scalar, ever-evolving processes. This theoretical baseline is followed by a description of some practical approaches already applied for including environmental migrants in sustainable cities. The wide variety and lack of cohesion justifies the need for a framework, leading to three principal characteristics of a governance framework s…
Protectionism through legislative layering: Implications for auditors and investors
2021
AbstractProtectionism is on the rise. Although it tends to be associated with tariffs on imports, governments are increasingly applying other mechanisms to influence international business. Import substitution initiatives have been used to replace purchases from foreign producers with local alternatives. Russia implemented import substitution through legislative layering where layers of regulation created requirements targeting different industries and companies. Following sanctions imposed in 2014 on Russia, the government responded with additional import substitution efforts. We are interested in effects of such measures on the Big 4, global professional service firms, and the choice of a…
Work rhythm, flow and success in a project : a case study research
2013
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2013 Organisations and individuals are shaped and influenced by their environment and interaction with others in a conscious or unconscious manner. Due to increased competitiveness, organisations need to be aware of elements in their environment and how these can affect operations and outcomes. Rhythms in organisations and the employee’s work rhythms are considered to influence flow and the achieved level of success in organisations. This thesis aims to investigate factors setting the work rhythms for organisations and individuals, and to study whether work rhythms influence flow and level of success. Our research question wa…
A study of active ownership through board representation by norwegian private equity actors in the norwegian population of portfolio company investme…
2013
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2013 This thesis focuses on the indirect drivers of value creation in private equity, through a study of corporate governance mechanisms employed by the major Norwegian PE actors in a population of Norwegian portfolio company investments. More specifically, it focuses on board representation by PE actors in the venture capital and buyout portfolio company investments. For this study, data pertaining to debt/equity, return on assets and portfolio company size has been collected for the current active population of portfolio company investments for the period (t-1) (one year before PE investment) as well as for (t+1) (one year …
Bybanens påvirkning på boligpriser i Bergen
2013
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2013 Denne masteroppgaven tar sikte på å undersøke hvilken betydning bybanen i Bergen har hatt på boligprisutviklingen i de nærliggende områdene rundt banens første trasé, Byparken – Nesttun. Innledningsvis presenteres bakgrunnsinformasjon om Bergen, dens bosetningsmønster og arbeidsplasser, samt transportsystemet generelt og bybanen spesielt. Videre følger et kapittel hvor det gis en grunnleggende innføring i økonomisk teori og begreper som benyttes videre i oppgaven. Først presenteres modellen for det urbane tomtemarkedet av Alonso–Muth–Mills og deretter utledes den hedonistiske prisfunksjonen, som beskriver sammenhengen me…
The effects of IMF lending arrangements : a study of the intentions of thInternational Monetary Fund, and the macroeconomic effects of their lending …
2013
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2013 The International Monetary Fund (IMF or the Fund) has been acting as an international lender of last resort, mainly supporting emerging and developing countries the last decades. After various crises hit the world economy in the second half of the 1990s, intensive criticism against the IMF has emerged, related to the macroeconomic effects of their lending arrangements. This thesis contributes to the debate on how the IMF’s lending arrangements affect their member countries in terms of macroeconomic outcomes, with emphasize on balance of payments, economic growth, and inflation. I will present a literature review, and bas…
Hvor og hvordan vil eldre bo? : Casestudie av Hovedgårdstunet og Bystranda park
2017
Masteroppgave økonomi og administrasjon BE501 - Universitetet i Agder 2017 Formålet med denne studien er å undersøke boligpreferansene til en selektert gruppe eldre mennesker som har valgt å flytte til leilighetskomplekser som tilbyr ”noe ekstra”. Målet er å gjøre et dypdykk i flytteårsak, hva som var viktig for dem ved valg av nytt bosted og hva som er viktig for dem i dag. Dette er en svært aktuell problemstilling og temaet er allmennyttig i lys av pågående debatt vedrørende utfordringer knyttet til den såkalte eldrebølgen. Studiens teoretiske forankring er hedonistisk pristeori hvor man i denne forbindelse ser på servicetjenester, fellesaktiviteter og en bemannet lobby som boligattributt…
The Role of Education and Gender in Cultural Intelligence
2017
Master's thesis Business Administration BE501 - University of Agder 2017 The aim of this thesis is to identify how education and gender influences an individual’s level of cultural intelligence. This is a relatively young field that is growing, as the world is getting smaller. Initially, the theory on the subject is presented through different perspectives on cultural intelligence and previous studies connecting the relationship between cultural intelligence and both antecedents and outcomes. By using analysis of variance, we have researched and analyzed the relationship between gender, education and other factors that might have an explanatory power on the level of cultural intelligence. W…