Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Private equity owned companies' performance in Sweden after the financial crises in 2007-2008
(2015-04-10)The private equity industry has grown tremendously in the past 20-30 years, and several studies have been made to examine the potential superior returns by private equity owned companies. However, there has been limited ... -
Leverage and how it affects shareholder value
(2015-03-13)This paper investigates the factors that affect a firm’s capital structure decision and how the capital structure affects a firm’s shareholder value. The two most important theories that are used in the thesis are the ... -
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 ... -
Why put that Seedling in the Ground - A Case Study of the TIST Tree Planting Program in Tamil Nadu India
(2015-02-20)This study examines a reforestation program, TIST (The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program), and its effects on farmer's tree planting behavior. TIST is funded by selling carbon credits on the Voluntary ... -
Svenska fondförvaltares avkastning och deras risk att bli utbytta på grund av underprestation
(2015-02-12)Mycket forskning har genom de senaste 50 åren studerat huruvida det går att prestera bättre än en marknadsportfölj. Har fondförvaltare egentligen någon förmåga att generera extra avkastning till sina investerare? Om aktörer ... -
KOMMUNALSKATTER OCH KONJUNKTUR
(2015-02-12)Fiscal policy and its consequences have attracted much attention on both academic and societal level, in Sweden and elsewhere. However, the dependence between fiscal policy on municipality level and business cycles has ... -
Inflationen i Sverige - Hur påverkar Sveriges låga inflation ekonomin - har Svensson rätt om Riksbankens politik?
(2015-02-12)Reporäntan är sänkt till noll för första gången i Sveriges moderna historia samtidigt som det pågår en livlig debatt om vilken inflationsnivå som är lämpligast. Lars E.O. Svensson arbetade som vice Riksbankschef åren ... -
Nischbanker - potentiella dynamikskapare
(2015-02-12)The banking industry is a fundamental part of the economy in Sweden. Despite its importance, the competition and the concentration level within the Swedish banking sector is relatively unexplored. This paper aims to examine ... -
The Choice between Bank Debt and Market Debt - Theoretical Review and Empirical Illustration
(2015-02-06)When a firm needs additional capital it faces a choice between issuing debt and issuing equity. The choice also includes whether the firm should turn to the bank or to the market. This bachelor’s thesis aimed at exploring ... -
The power of parents´aspiration - A project evaluation in rural India
(2015-02-06)The objective of this thesis is whether women accessing education and credit affect her and her husband’s aspiration concerning their child’s future age of marriage, preferred occupation and educational attainment. By ... -
Carry trade optimization
(2015-02-06)This thesis investigates various possible improvements of implementing the carry trade. For this purpose a number of benchmark carry trade strategies are formed to which the results of the modified strategies are compared. ... -
Är riskjusterad fondavkastning en funktion av fondförvaltarens bakgrund och egenskaper?
(2015-02-06)Avkastning och risk för en aktiefond styrs generellt av flera direkta och indirekta mekanismer, exempelvis relaterade till nationella makroekonomiska faktorer såsom ränteförändring och inflation. Utöver makroekonomiska ... -
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 ... -
THE CHINESE STOCK MARKET - Differences in performance in consideration to level of state ownership
(2015-02-04)We examine the success of the privatization reform in China by evaluating the changes in performance of the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) after the Split-Share Structure reform in 2005, considering the changes in ownership ... -
Waitlisted! A policy analysis on childcare reform and its effect on female labour force.
(2014-10-10)The municipality Yokohama in Japan implemented a new child care reform in 2010, which in 2013 managed to eradicate the long child care waiting list in the area. This paper focuses on how an increase in child care supply ... -
Does size matter? The Effect of Assets under Management on Tracking Error in the American ETF Market.
(2014-10-10)Numerous studies have been conducted on the subject of tracking error of mutual funds and exchange traded funds in respect to their underlying indexes. In this paper we intend to shed some light on the causes of the tracking ... -
Patientupplevd vårdkvalité utifrån olika bakgrunder
(2014-09-16)I uppsatsen har jag undersökt om och hur mycket olika bakgrundsfaktorer hos patienter påverkar hur nöjda de är med vårdkvalitén. Uppsatsen begränsar sig till läkarbesök inom den offentliga Primärvården (Närhälsan) i VGR. ... -
Arbetskraft från tredjeland - Ett naturligt experiment av reformens efftekt
(2014-09-12)Den 15 december 2008 genomfördes en reform för arbetskraftsinvandring från tredje land i Sverige. Syftet med förändringen är att underlätta rekrytering utanför EU/EES och Schweiz för att minska bristen på arbetskraft. Genom ... -
Is the Risk-Return Tradeoff Hypothesis valid: Should an Investor hold Growth Stocks rather than Value Stocks?
(2014-09-10)This paper will examine if smaller companies outperform large ones in the backwashes of the crisis, i.e. if growth stocks are better off than value stocks when investing. I will investigate how well the three largest ... -
Are Denmark, Norway and Sweden an optimum currency area?
(2014-09-08)This paper investigates the possibility of Denmark, Norway and Sweden to form an optimum currency area. Based on the theories of optimum currency areas, such as Mundell’s Optimum Currency Areas, a few economical factors ...