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A Breath of Bad Air - A contingent valuation study
(2017-10-09)Bosnia and Herzegovina has the highest concentration of PM2.5 and the highest death rate related to air pollution in Europe. This study tries to address the issue by the contingent valuation method to elicit citizens’ ... -
A CEA of Energy Conservation - A case study of Katjas Gata 119
(2013-08-08)This paper includes a cost-effectiveness analysis of different energy efforts when renovating a typical building of Miljonprogrammet. We have chosen to proceed from the conditions of a building in Backa Röd, Katjas Gata ... -
A Comparison between the Performance of Ehtical and Conventional US Funds - Do different ethical characteristics matter?
(2014-06-17)This thesis investigates if there are differences in performance and investment styles between ethical and conventional US funds in the time period January 2004 – January 2014. We study both a pooled ethical portfolio and ... -
A CURRENCY UNION’S EFFECT ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE - EMU membership effect on international trade for Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta and Slovakia
(2019-02-15)This thesis investigates if there is an increase in international trade from joining a currency union. This is done by looking at the European Monetary Union with a focus on four countries that became members in 2007-2009: ... -
A Level Playing Filed in Shipping with the New ECA Regulation
(2016-07-05)Emissions from vessels affect individual’s health and the environment. In the year 2000 emissions from the shipping industry was responsible for approximately 49500 premature deaths and the extern costs associated with ... -
A performance comparison between concentrated mutual funds and conventional mutual funds in Scandinavian countries
(2015-02-04)Our thesis focuses on the Scandinavian fund market, where we compare concentrated funds with conventional funds during the time period 2009-2014. Funds have been divided into two separate categories: small/mid-cap funds ... -
A Performance Evaluation of Black Swan Investments.
(2013-07-04)This thesis evaluates an investment strategy that involves investing in ten out of the 30 most traded stocks listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, exploiting the market’s reaction to unpredicted events, so called Black ... -
A Retake on Productivity Growht, Technical Progress and Efficiency Change using Malmquist Productivity Indexes.
(2014-09-05)This thesis follows methods employed by Färe et al. (1994) in their influential article ‘Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries’, published in the American Economic Review. ... -
A study in the effectiveness of predicting default using the Merton model during financial distress
(2014-06-09)Bachelor thesis in financial economics Applied financial pricing theory Department of finance School of Business, Economics and Law Gothenburg University 9 June 2014. Title: A study in the effectiveness of ... -
A study of sentiment and returns on the stock market
(2019-07-11)The purpose of this bachelor’s thesis has been to examine the relationship between sentiment and the stock market returns in Sweden and the United States of America. The focus was put on the corporate and consumer sentiment ... -
A study on the relation between VIX, S&P500 and the CDX-index
(2015-02-26)In this thesis we investigate the relationship between the VIX-index, CDX NA IG and S&P500. Our goal is to study how well the market volatility (traded in VIX) can be explained by stock prices(S&P500) and credit indices ... -
About Monetary- & Banking System Reforms - A Revision Of The Past To Conclude About The Future
(2015-07-02)The crises of the 1930s and of 2008 are clear evidence of the fragility of the Fractional Reserve Banking System. Both of these events resulted in a liquidity crisis that sent the afflicted economies spiralling into deep ... -
Access to Financial Services and Women´s Empowerment
(2015-09-07)The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between membership in a Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) in rural Malawi and the empowerment of women. The data used in this study was collected ... -
Active fund management or passive index cruising?
(2020-08-07)How should an investor pick funds to invest in? What is the best strategy, picking active or passive funds? It’s hard to navigate the fund landscape when there is ambiguous evidence and advice coming from different directions. ... -
Age-disparate Partnerships and Socioeconomic Status - a study on HIV risk for adolescent girls and young women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(2020-06-30)This thesis investigates the relationship between socioeconomic status and age-disparate partnerships for adolescent girls and young women aged 15-24 in KwaZulu-Natal. Age-disparate partnering is defined as engaging in a ... -
Agriturism i Sverige - En paneldatastudie om agriturism och regional tillväxt i Sverige
(2019-09-10)This study examines the impact of agritourism on a regional growth in Sweden. Agritourism is charted by Swedish county and three different forms, related to wine or cider production, or traditional agritourism, in order ... -
Aid Effectiveness on Living Standards - How Does Aid Affect Human Development Index HDI in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2013-08-07)This study looks at whether aid affects Human Development Index (HDI), focusing on the geographical region of Sub-Saharan Africa. Aid effectiveness is often measured in economic growth, why we choose to see how aid affects ... -
Aktierekommendationers påverkan på aktiemarknaden
(2022-07-07)This study examines the impact of stock recommendations on the Swedish stock market. A recommendation can be either a buy recommendation or a sell recommendation. A recommendation is established by an analyst producing a ... -
AKTIV ELLER PASSIV FONDFÖRVALTNING? - En kvantitativ studie om fondavkastning och fondavgift
(2018-07-12)Mutual funds have risen in popularity across Sweden and over the last 20 years the amount invested have risen from 1000 billion Swedish Crowns to over 4000 billion Swedish Crowns. The majority of the increase has been in ... -
AKTIV ELLER PASSIV FÖRVALTNING -EN UNDERSÖKNING AV SVENSKA FONDERS RISKJUSTERADE AVKASTNING UNDER OLIKA BÖRSFASER
(2021-02-10)Mutual funds are at an all-time high in popularity in Sweden and have risen extensively the last decades, with equity funds as the most sought-after. The purpose of this study is to examine and distinguish the performance ...