Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Consumption changes due to expected future income as a result of Covid-19
(2021-07-02)This thesis aims to investigate the effects of the pandemic on individuals’ expectations regarding future income and thus their consumption behavior. The research will therefore contribute with new insights into the ... -
Husstockens påverkan på köpeskillingen - Småhusstockens effekt på den genomsnittliga köpeskillingen i svenska kommuner
(2021-07-02)Nominal house prices in Sweden have more than doubled, on average, over the last two decades. However, the housing market is fragmented, and the price increase varies from a modest 22 % to a sizable 443 %, depending on the ... -
Villamarknaden under 2020
(2021-07-02)This paper seeks to explore how the persistent health shock that is covid-19 impacted people’s everyday life as it pertains to short-term consumption and priorities. This is conducted by studying how the housing market in ... -
Socioekonomiska och Demografiska Faktorers Påverkan på Adoptering av Miljösubventioner - En Studie om Adoptionen av Ladda-Hemma-Stödet i Sverige mellan 2018 och 2021
(2021-07-02)Several studies have shown that there has been a change in the climate on earth because of how people have been living. One of the activities that have had a large negative impact on the climate is the use of cars running ... -
Asien och Resursförbannelsen: En empirisk studie över demokrati och naturtillgångar
(2021-07-02)Democracy in Asia has declined over the last decade which affects the whole world economically, socially, and politically. For reversing the trend and to implement proactive measures for countries at risk of being autocratized, ... -
Finansiella tillgångar och konsumtion- En analys av svensk data på kort och lång sikt
(2021-07-02)Household consumption is a key determinant of the Swedish economy. Furthermore, the evidence of recent studies show the effects from the financialization, which has shifted the role of certain components of growth of the ... -
Economic Freedom, and the Effect on Misery
(2021-07-02)Questions regarding whether the economy should be free or heavily regulated are relevant in the structuring of government. One might assume that the purpose of government policies should be to maximize the population’s ... -
Is the level of development in a country a vital factor for coping with Covid-19?
(2021-07-02)Covid-19, the virus that dominated 2020 was first detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The virus has since then spread to all countries in the world and has resulted in devastating effects worldwide among developed ... -
Styrmedel för uttjänta fritidsbåtar
(2021-07-02)Today there is approximately 940 000 leisure bots in Sweden and 85 000 of these are considered to have reached their end of life. The scrapping and recycling of end-of-life-leisure-boats is insufficient, and the risk of ... -
The Effect of Repo Rates on Swedish Index Branches
(2021-06-28)This study examines the relationship between the repo rate, lending rate and deposit rate on various price indexes including the Finance and real estate PI (SXS30PI), Technology PI (SX10PI), Industrial goods PI (SX50PI) ... -
An examination of the hedging properties of gold and bitcoin using volatility
(2021-06-23)Gold has been considered a hedge against inflation for a long time, although researchers have found different results in their examinations. Bitcoin, a relatively new phenomenon in the financial market, is also, for some ... -
Modelling rare events using non-parametric machine learning classifiers - Under what circumstances are support vector machines preferable to conventional parametric classifiers?
(2021-04-06)Rare event modelling is an important topic in quantitative social science research. However, despite the fact that traditional classifiers based upon general linear models (GLM) might lead to biased results, little attention ... -
Påverkar grad av bostadsblandning arbetslöshetsnivån? - en longitudinell analys av Göteborgs primärområden mellan åren 2014–2019
(2021-03-31)Sedan 1974 har Sverige haft som målsättning att uppnå socialt blandade områden. Målsättningen vilar på antagandet om att en varierad sammansättning av individer, med särskilt fokus på ekonomisk klass, demografi och ursprung, ... -
Punktskatt på sockerhaltiga drycker och dess inverkan på konsumtionsbeteende
(2021-03-23)This thesis studies the relationship between consumption and the price level of sugary drinks, to examine whether an imposed excise tax on soft drinks will affect consumption behavior. By studying this relationship, an ... -
Energikonsumtionsprediktion med expanding window approach - En undersökning med syfte att skapa dimensioneringsunderlag för framtida elnätsutbyggnader, i samarbete med Kungälv energi.
(2021-03-11)The impact of electric or hybrid vehicles and photovoltaic systems of a households energy consumption is a growing problem for energy grid owners. As the two increase in popularity the variance of energy consumption between ... -
Utanförskapets karta
(2021-03-10)Den här uppsatsen har som syfte att med en metod utvecklad av Liberalerna år 2004 att kartlägga utanförskapsområden i Sverige och kvantifiera antalet personer som levde i utanförskapsområden år 2018. Vi har även som syfte ... -
ESG rating, a booster of stock performance during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden?
(2021-02-26)The purpose of this study is to analyze if ESG rating of sustainability have an influence on the stock return of Swedish firms during the Covid-19 pandemic. The aim is to contribute to the research field by conducting a ... -
Performance Evaluation of Swedish and German Actively Managed Mutual Funds
(2021-02-18)There are many studies examining the performance of actively managed mutual funds in different markets. The results of these studies vary depending on the used model and market. This thesis does as most of the previously ... -
Effekten av bonus-malus-systemet på andelen nyregistrerade elbilar i Sverige
(2021-02-11)The emission of greenhouse gases is a widespread problem around the world and a contributing factor to global warming. The transport sector, which is dominated by fossil fuels, emits a significant amount of greenhouse gases ... -
Privata sjukvårdsförsäkringar i Sverige - Hjälpande eller stjälpande för den offentliga specialistvårdkön?
(2021-02-11)Private health insurance has rapidly increased during the 21st century and has become a target for political debate in recent years. Some argue that private health insurance can be a relief for the public health care system, ...