Browsing by Author "Nilsson, Carl"

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Digitaliseringens direkta och indirekta effekt på styrning - En kvalitativ studie av hur digitaliseringen påverkat styrningen
(2021-09-16) Nilsson, Carl; Olsson, David; University of Gothenburg/Department of Business Administration; Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen
Bakgrund och problem: Digitaliseringen har på ett revolutionärt sätt utvecklat samhället och påverkar idag alla delar av samhället. En förändring som blir särskilt tydlig bland företag, där konkurrenskraften i stort sett beror på förmågan att anpassa sig till nya teknologier. En anpassning som är direkt nödvändig att ta del av, samtidigt som det medfört ett nytt sätt att styra bolag. Syfte: Att beskriva hur digitaliseringen påverkat styrningen av bolag. Vidare är även syftet att beskriva hur digitaliseringen påverkat kunskap och beslutsprocessen inom organisationer. Metod: Kvalitativ intervju med 5 yrkesverksamma personer med erfarenhet från styrning eller insynen i hur styrningen påverkas av digitalisering. Empirin från intervjuerna har därefter diskuterats och en slutsats har dragits utifrån syftet med uppsatsen. Resultat och slutsats: Det går att säga att digitaliseringen påverkat styrningen av bolag, kunskap och beslutsfattande. Styrningen har indirekt ökat på grund av ökat kunskapskrav samt effektivare beslutsprocess. Digitaliseringens direkta effekt på styrningen har inneburit ökat fokus på företagens diagnostiska och interaktiva styrning. Det råder viss osäkerhet i ifall digitaliseringen demokratiserat information, dock så kan vi från rapporten säga att det blivit ett ökat fokus på styrning. Förslag till vidare forskning: En fördjupad studie rörande hur digitaliseringen påverkat styrningen av bolag beroende på storlek och mognad. Dessutom finns det ett stort behov att efter återgången till ett normalt samhälle, mer likt samhället före Covid-19, undersöka hur implementeringen av digitala teknologier skapar ytterligare värde för företag.
Reducing Portfolio Risk Using Volatility - A risk-return examination of the addition of VIX and VIX futures contracts to an equity portfolio
(2013-07-05) Alenfalk, Patrik; Nilsson, Carl; University of Gothenburg/Department of Economics; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik
This thesis examines the effects of adding volatility, as represented by the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) and VIX futures contracts, to a stock portfolio in terms of portfolio risk and portfolio return. The study is based on statistical properties as well as Markowitz’s modern portfolio theory, with support from previous research conducted by Hill (2013), Szado (2009), and Daigler and Rossi (2006). We find that volatility can be used to reduce risk in a stock portfolio, and in many cases also increase expected portfolio return. These findings are in line with previous mentioned research.
The Effect of Retirement on Mental Health: The Role of Social Capital.
(2017-07-28) Heinevik, Josefine; Nilsson, Carl; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
The purpose of this paper is to empirically evaluate the causal eﬀect of retirement on so-cial capital, and by extension, mental health. Social capital is often divided into diﬀerent parts. Two common measures are cognitive social capital, for example, ”how people feel” and, structural social capital, for example, what they “do“ in regards to social interaction. To study the eﬀects of retirement on social capital we use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), which contains a social network module. We use the jump in the probability of retiring that arises when a person reaches the statutory retirement age as an IV for retirement, in a fussy regression discontinuity (FRD) design. Our results, which are robust, suggest that retirement has a positive and signiﬁcant eﬀect on both structural and cognitive social capital. Retirement increases the probability of having activities and attending social clubs. Retirement also decreases the probability and the frequency of feeling left out. We do, however, not ﬁnd any eﬀect on loneliness.
The Effect on House Prices of the Remediation of Contaminated Areas A study of the Falu mine in Sweden
(2016-09-09) Nilsson, Carl; Östberg, Sofia; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
Our thesis aims to measure how a local population values the effect of remediating a contaminated site to strengthen the argument for remediation. We estimate the effect of remediation processes of the Falu mine in Sweden on sales prices of surrounding houses and estimate the willingness to pay of the local population for the cleanup. We find that after remediation, residential property prices in the remediated area increased by 6.9 percent more than prices of houses located outside the remediated area. We estimate that the aggregated profit for the increase in price on the total land area owned by homeowners in the remediated area is SEK 100,725,965 SEK, which exceeds the governmental costs of remediation of the Falu mine. H a
Will more funding generate better academic results in primary school - A quasi-experimental study of the centralization reform in Stockholm 2007
(2015-07-02) Hallberg, Mattias; Nilsson, Carl; University of Gothenburg/Department of Economics; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik
The fact that education plays a major part for wealth of nations has been known for quite some time, but the debate over the true relationship between school funding and student performance is ongoing in both academia and among policymakers. They all want to answer the same question - how can the returns of education be maximized? We use a centralization reform in Stockholm from 2007 to estimate the causal e_ect of increased school funding on student performance. We study three measurements: Grade point average, the amount of students that at least got a pass in every class and the amount of students that got the grades required to graduate. The studied schools are public primary schools in Stockholm. The study was done by using a di_erence-in-di_erence approach with GPA, Pass and Grad as our outcome variables. Our _ndings show that the reform created clear winners and losers in terms of school funding and that the majority of school budgets were unchanged. Our results however show no statistically signi_cant short term e_ects on student performance whether a school was a winner or not