Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Using the advanced methods of financial analysis to predict the bankruptcy of companies
(2022-06-30)Due to the increase in corporate bankruptcy cases worldwide, the need has increased to find a way to protect companies from bankruptcy by finding a scientific model that enables business owners to predict it before it ... -
SPAC Post-Merger Performance in the New Regime - An Agency Perspective
(2022-06-30)SPACs are shell companies without operations created to raise capital in an IPO and subsequently identify a non-listed operating company to merge with. As of the last three years (2019-2021), the SPAC has witnessed a ... -
Unveiling the Cause of NAV-Discounts of Swedish Closed-End Funds
(2022-06-30)Closed-end funds (CEF) have long been a crucial intermediary in the Swedish financial market by providing relatively inexpensive investment opportunities through their portfolio of public and non-public securities. ... -
Employee representation on the board of directors and its implications on corporate risk- A quantitative study on diverging stakeholder preferences
(2022-06-30)This study investigates how board-level employee representation (BLER) impacts the risk profile of a firm. More specifically, it investigates whether the binary presence of employees in the board room, or the relative ... -
The Effects of Audit Committee Characteristics on Firm Financial Performance: A Case Study of the NASDAQ Stockholm.
(2022-06-30)This thesis studies the effect of audit committee characteristics on firm financial performance, using ROA as the proxy. In line with agency theory, a well governed and directed firm should comparatively perform better ... -
Prediction of Stock Returns Using Accounting Data with a Machine Learning Approach
(2022-06-30)The relationship between accounting data and stock price prediction has been a hot topic for over half a century. Researchers have been trying to identify the relationship and investigate how it may be useful when trying ... -
Sustainability in SMEs: Motives, Barriers, and Challenges of Environmental Management Systems Certification
(2022-06-30)This study aims to understand how SMEs in Sweden perceive the pre- and post-implementation motives of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) certificates through understanding motives for adopting EMS certificates for ... -
Sustainability integration in the pharmaceutical industry - A case study of the Management Control from a managerial perspective
(2022-06-30)Background and Problem Discussion: The importance of sustainability has increased and requires proper MCS to be able to implement sustainability strategies. Simons’ levers of control is a MCS framework that has been used ... -
Use of Management Accounting Under a Grant Administrated Project
(2022-06-30)Background – Covid-19 pandemic has triggered responses for financial supports, governmental actions, and subsidies directed to specific industries in several countries inferring administration of projects under non-routine ... -
Is sustainable behavior profitable or is it just a necessity?
(2022-06-30)This thesis investigates the relationship between a firm’s share price and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) disclosure. Using a sample of Swedish listed firms from 2013 - 2019, I observe that there exist no significant relationship ... -
ESG performance, a driver for shareholder value creation? Evidence from mergers and acquisitions
(2022-06-30)With an increasing demand for firms to become more sustainable, business managers are increasingly using merger and acquisition (M&A) investments as a tool to enhance both environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ... -
Sustainability Pressure - A field study investigating the Real-estate and Construction industry
(2022-06-30)Introduction and Purpose: One of the major challenges within most industries today is the increased sustainability-related pressure. The Swedish real-estate and construction industry is furthermore deemed as a significant ... -
Accounting Policies Setting of Internally Developed Software and its Subsequent - Expenditures in The Traditional Production Organisations
(2022-06-30)Background: In recent decades, technologies have overlapped with many traditional products. The competition is no longer limited to the quality of the products but also to the level of technology used in the products. ... -
Examining Voluntary Corporate Disclosures about Reverse Factoring
(2022-06-30)Reverse factoring (RF) is a working capital arrangement through which a buyer involves a financial institution to buy invoices from suppliers on a discount and repays such loan at a later date. This leads to a reduction ... -
Evaluating the Effect of School Closures on Societal Transmission of Covid-19: Evidence from Lower Secondary School Closures in Sweden
(2022-06-30)In lightoftheCovid-19pandemic,oneofthemostcommoninterventions used bycountrieswastoshutdownschoolsinthehopeofmitigatingvirus transmission. However,theeffectivenessofschoolclosuresstilllacks consensus intheliteraturedu ... -
Coping with Covid-19 in rural India: Did financial strategies help to maintain wellbeing?
(2022-06-30)This thesis examines the direct impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on psychological wellbeing and explores the mediating role of financial coping strategies for this association. Using four waves of representative panel ... -
Is it hot in here? An experiment on how climate change and carbon taxation information affect carbon tax acceptance
(2022-06-30)Climate change is an increasing issue around the world. The emissions of greenhouse gases need to be reduced and one of the more effective ways is by using carbon taxation. This thesis aims to investigate how information ... -
Chinese Presence in Africa: For better or worse?- A Study on the Effects of Chinese Aid on Press Freedom in Africa
(2022-06-30)Over the last 20 years, China's growth has increased exponentially, and one aspect of this growth is increasing Chinese presence in many international and economic settings. In this study we focus on the international ... -
Predicting corporate financial distress- A deep neural network approach
(2022-06-29)Background. Predicting bankruptcy is of great importance for creditors, investors and other stakeholders. Early warning signs of financial distress allow stakeholders to take action to minimize the negative consequences ...