• «Big Fish»: Valuation of the world’s largest salmon farming companies 

      Misund, Bård; Nygård, Rune (UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance;2017/11, Others, 2017)
      The recent five years have seen a nearly tenfold increase the salmon stock price index at the Oslo Stock Exchange. This paper tries to shed some light on the reasons why this substantial stock price appreciation has occurred. ...
    • Challenges and opportunities: impacts of COVID-19 on Norwegian seafood exports 

      Asche, Frank; Straume, Hans-Martin; Garlock, Taryn M.; Johansen, Ulf; Kvamsdal, Sturla Furunes; Nygård, Rune; Pincinato, Ruth B. M.; Tveterås, Ragnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      A rapidly growing literature shows that COVID-19 and the measures to contain the spread of the virus can have significant market impacts for seafood. These can be interruptions of production, or reductions in demand directly ...
    • Production growth, company size, and concentration: The case of salmon 

      Pandey, Rudresh; Asche, Frank; Misund, Bård; Nygård, Rune; Adewumi, Olugbenga Michael; Straume, Hans-Martin; Zhang, Dengjun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The largest companies in salmon aquaculture are rapidly getting bigger due to organic growth as well as mergers and acquisitions, and the largest are now multi-national companies. There are two main explanations for this ...
    • Trends in environmental CSR at the Oslo Seafood Index: A market value approach 

      Nygård, Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This study address whether different sustainability initiatives by the companies listed at the Oslo Seafood Index impact company value. With signaling theory as framework, it is argued that sustainability reports and other ...