Writings & Insights

This is a deep-dive into the usage of various valuation multiples in finance. In many texts on valuation, multiples are presented briefly, and it is often acknowledged that there are many types and different use-cases for each multiple, but I've never seen a comprehensive overview of them. This article attempts to fill that gap.

This is a three-page article that provides set of general arguments and critieuqes of the McKinsey Global Institute's report 'Dependency and depopulation? Confronting the consequences of a new demographic reality'. This article contains a series of contradictions and bad arguments, and I mention a couple of them here.

This report evaluates the feasability, costs, and benefits of developing fine-grained pedestrian alleyways and mixed-use “smug” districts in Oslo, drawing lessons from Japanese shotengai and Melbourne’s laneways. The analysis provides a 15-year cost model, quantifies expected social and economic impacts under Oslo-specific conditions, and outlines a regulatory and implementation pathway. The findings are intended to inform Oslo’s City Government (Byråd for Byutvikling and Bymiljøetaten) on whether to proceed with a laneways program, and under what conditions.

This report looks at how India's electricity system and power-equipment trade have changed from 2010 to 2025. It discusses the big growth in renewable energy alongside coal's continuing role in meeting demand. Key themes include the need for stronger transmission networks, ongoing problems in distribution companies, and regional differences in access and prices. The report also highlights India's reliance on imported equipment, especially from China, and recent policies to build up local manufacturing. Overall, it shows how India's power sector is changing quickly, shaped by rising demand, cleaner energy goals, and trade.

A compendium written for TIØ4317 - Empirical and Quantitative Methods in Finance at NTNU. The compendium is hosted at wikipendium.no. The compendium covers linear regression, time series analysis, and machine learning techniques applied to financial data. It includes portfolio selection theory and risk management strategies.

This text discusses a metric used in a report by the McKinsey Global Institute to measure the geopolitical distance between two countries. We first discuss limitations with the method as discussed by the authors, after which we try to recreate the metric as the authors described in their report in order to discover more features of this metric.

Recently, private equity firms have started investing in content creators on YouTube. This paper explores the competitive advantages that private equity can offer to YouTubers, such as access to capital, strategic guidance, and operational support. The analysis includes case studies of successful partnerships between private equity firms and YouTubers - a non-conventional investment area - and uses the YouTube channel, Veritasium, as a key example.

This paper tests an hypothesis stating that Expected Threat (xT) is a predictor of results in youth football. The event-based data used in this analysis was collected manually by the author, as event data from Norwegian youth football matches are hard to come by. The paper shows with statistical methods that xT is statistically significant in youth football. As it is a predictor for team performance, it can also be a useful metric for coaches and analysts, as it may play into strategy and tactics.

This paper introduces an approach to quantifying the value of possession in football using advanced statistical techniques. By using event-data, we provide a metric for evaluating player performance and strategy. This is an introduction to my later paper that applies the metric to youth football.