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Indiska mödrars läskunnighet och påverkan på deras barns hälsa
(2018-04-11)Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om det finns en korrelation mellan indiska mödrars läskunnighet och olika hälsoutfall samt hälsoinvesteringar hos deras barn för året 2005. Utöver det undersöktes också potentiella ... -
ÄR SOLOWPARADOXEN FORTFARANDE AKTUELL?
(2018-04-10)The discussion concerning the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on economic growth has been going on for a long time. The topic has been debated widely between supporters of the exogenous theory, ... -
Okuns lag i Sverige: Hur starkt är sambandet?
(2018-03-09)Denna uppsats analyserar relationen mellan arbetslöshet och BNP-tillväxt, genom det välkända begreppet kallat Okuns lag. Två modeller används i denna studie, nivåversionen och förändringsversionen. Genom dessa modeller ... -
Variable selection techniques for the Cox proportional hazardsmodel: A comparative study
(2018-03-08)In statistics different models are used to emulate real world processes. Variable selection refers to reduction of the number of parameters in the models in order to increase interpretability and model effectiveness. This ... -
Risk-Seeking Under Time Pressure: From an Information Load Perspective
(2018-02-28)Decision theory has made many additions in the field of risk-behavior. For this paper, we will specifically look at risk-seeking under time pressure, when the information aspect is varied. Subjects took part in a ... -
Naturresursförbannelsen och staters utgifter på utbildning
(2018-02-27)Detta arbete ämnar undersöka om det finns ett negativt samband mellan naturresursberoende och staters utgifter på utbildning. För att testa vår hypotes om att ett sådant samband föreligger har vi genomfört en empirisk ... -
An Evaluation of Asset Pricing Models in the Swedish Context - Is Carharts Four-Factor Model more suitable than its predecessors for explaining the Swedish stock exchange?
(2018-02-20)This thesis investigates the explanatory power of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, the Fama French Three-Factor Model and the Carhart Four-Factor Model on the Stockholm Stock Exchange over the period 2012-2016. The purpose ... -
Finanskriser & Transparens - En studie om korruption ur ett collective action-perspektiv
(2018-02-20)Corruption is a widespread problem in large parts of the world. Studying the phenomenon and putting forward useful propositions for decreasing corruption is therefore of immediate importance. A recent contribution ... -
SWEDISH PRIVATE EQUITY - A study on perfomrance of Private Equity owned companies in Sweden
(2018-02-20)This thesis aims to study the possible superior performance of Swedish companies owned by Private Equity firms. This is achieved through constructing a panel dataset consisting of portfolio companies of the ten largest ... -
Importance of daily data in long horizon inflation forecasting - a MIDAS approach
(2018-02-19)We examine the accuracy of forecast models for the monthly Euro area inflation, focusing on the MIDAS approach. We compare two mixed frequency models with four low frequency models, using fourteen mixed frequency variables ... -
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Stock Market Development in Sweden
(2018-02-16)Previous research has found a significant relationship between FDI inflow and the domestic stock market development. However, the research mainly examines emerging economies that might benefit from foreign capital to a ... -
Kostnaden av att heta Ali på svensk bostadsmarknad - Ett fältexperiment om etnisk diskriminering vid andrahandsuthyrning på Blocket.se
(2018-02-14)The aim of the study is to investigate if discrimination occurs at the Swedish housing market for sublet at Blocket.se. The study applied an experimental design and thereby created four fictional men who signal four different ... -
Mitigation of drug sentencing and its effect on crime- Evidence from Supreme Court rulings
(2018-02-13)We estimate the effect of several Supreme Court rulings during 2011 and 2012 that reduced the punishment for serious drug crime. We evaluate whether a decrease in punishment for serious drug crime had an impact on the ... -
Local Employment Effects of Falling Copper prices: A Case study in the Copperbelt province of Zambia.
(2017-11-23)Zambia is heavily dependent on copper, and a typical example of a country subject to the natural resource curse. From 2011 until 2016, the copper price fell from around $9,900 to $5,660 per metric tonne (mt). In this thesis, ... -
CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
(2017-11-06)Estimating the risk of corporate bankruptcies is of large importance to creditors and in- vestors. For this reason bankruptcy prediction constitutes an important area of research. In recent years artificial intelligence ... -
På Lafferkurvans Sluttning - En ekonometrisk studie av vilken den pekuniära effekten är av förändringar i svenska kommuners skattesatser
(2017-10-31)Using comprehensive data from 286 municipalities in Sweden, attention is focused on examining the connection between tax rates and public revenues. By means of a quadratic model adjusted to control for fixed effects, an ... -
Are people living with HIV discriminated by the microfinance market? Evidence from Uganda
(2017-10-10)Microfinance has considered to be the key to end world poverty by serving the poor and vulnerable. In Uganda, the microfinance market has been on a steady rise since 1980; a time when HIV prevalence peaked. When voices are ... -
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’ ... -
Det kommunala utjämningssystemet inom landstingen - Den vårdtunga gruppens effekt på nettokostnadsavvikelsen
(2017-09-25)Syftet med vår uppsats är att undersöka den förändring av det kommunala utjämningssystemet för landstingen som genomfördes 2014, när man slutade kompensera landstingen för en hög andel vårdtunga patienter. Studiens fokus ... -
FOND VS HEDGEFOND, ÄR DET VÄRT ATT UTSÄTTA SIG FÖR DEN SYSTEMATISKA RISKEN?
(2017-09-21)During the first decade of the millennium there have been some financial uncertainty due to financial crises that have affected our economy. The effect on mutual funds were a dramatic decreases since they are unable to ...