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Laddat för elektrifiering
(2020-07-02)Sweden is facing the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector and uses the electrification of the vehicle fleet as the main strategy. Since greenhouse gas emissions are a result of market ... -
Laddstolpar och bonus malus-systemets effekt på andelen elbilar och hybrider i Sverige 2013–2021
(2023-02-09)Global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions is the greatest threat facing our planet today. The electrification of the transportation sector is an important step in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, as transports ... -
Leder mer bistånd till ökat humankapital i Afrika söder om Sahara? En empirisk studie
(2016-07-05)Biståndets möjliga inverkan på ekonomisk tillväxt är ett omdiskuterat ämne i tidigare litteratur där det både finns studier som finner att bistånd har positiv inverkan på tillväxt och studier som hävdar att bistånd ej ... -
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 ... -
Leveraged Buyout - A Case Study on Unibet Group Plc
(2012-12-19)Leveraged buyout (LBO) is an acquisition where the company is taken out of the public market, becomes private and through different strategies give a satisfactory return to the investors. This specific buyout, known to be ... -
Life expectancy and economic growth: AIDS as a natural experiment
(2019-07-11)The purpose of this study is to examine how life expectancy, as a measure for health, affects economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, the model specifications in this thesis include AIDS, which is assumed to ... -
Life skills education: Reducing sexual risk behaviour among young women in South Africa? Analysing the effect of life skills education on life skills knowledge, sexual risk behaviour and HIV prevalence
(2020-06-29)South Africa is considered to be the epicentre of the HIV pandemic and its women are disproportionally affected by the disease. A key strategy to prevent and mitigate the spread of HIV infection is the implementation of ... -
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, ... -
Locals do it better? An empirical study of local advantage in fund management
(2014-08-11)This paper will address whether local Japanese fund managers outperform international -or more specifically Nordic- fund managers when investing in the Japanese market. If local fund managers do in fact have an advantage ... -
Logistic regression - effect of unobserved heterogeneity on estimators bias variance
(2016-06-29)In this paper we study unobserved heterogeneity in logistic regression, which occurs as a result of omitted variables. Unlike linear regression, logistic regression estimates are a ected by model misspeci cation even if ... -
LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT, VIOLENT CRIME AND VIOLENCE-RELATED BEHAVIOUR
(2020-07-01)This is a panel data study over 289 Swedish municipalities for the period of 2000–2018. The purpose of this study is to reinvestigate the relationship between long-term unemployment and violent crime, as well as ... -
LÖNAR SIG FÖRETAGS MILJÖINTRESSE? Ett experiment om reservationslön och CSR
(2015-08-24)Studier av bland andra Frank (2004) och Nyborg och Zhang (2012) har visat att det finns ett samband mellan ett CSR-arbete och lönenivå. Teorin är att anställda kan tänka sig att arbeta för lägre lön om företaget har ... -
Lönegapet
(2013-03-14)This essay is using theories about social norms, and wage determination to evaluate why there is a gender wage gap on the Swedish labour market. To identify the essence of the gender wage gap investigations on specific ... -
Lyckas aktivt förvaltade fonder skapa ett mervärde gentemot indexfonder? En studie som jämför prestationen mellan aktivt förvaltade Sverigefonder och indexfonder på en riskjusterad basis
(2018-07-16)Denna studie undersöker om aktivt förvaltning lyckas skapa ett mervärde gentemot passiv förvaltning genom att jämföra aktivt förvaltade Sverigefonder med svenska indexfonder under tidsperioden 2013 – 2017. I studien används ... -
Macroeconomic Determinants of European FDI Outflows - An Empirical Approach
(2015-09-17)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the effect of country specific characteristics on foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows of ten European countries. The macroeconomic determinants included in the study are income, ... -
Macroeconomic Factors and Stock Returns: Evidence from the Swedish Stock Market
(2020-02-18)This study investigates the relationship between stock returns and macroeconomic factors in a small, open economy by utilizing a vector autoregression (VAR) approach on Swedish large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap data from ... -
Macroeconomic Forces and Their Effects on the Swedish Banking Sector
(2013-03-20)After the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 international capital markets trembled of uncertainty and investors did not know where the markets were heading. The market turmoil also had an impact on Sweden and ... -
Making Use of the Factor Zoo: An unpretentious attempt to predict asset returns using machine learning methods.
(2022-02-15)Factor modeling with the purpose of estimating assets returns is a dynamic and ever changing subject within finance. Recent literature has presented over 300 different fac-tors that seem to have significance in predicting ... -
Market efficiency and herding: A cross-country analysis
(2014-06-24)In this thesis we examine whether or not herd behavior, the act of market participants to ignore their own beliefs and instead follow the market consensus, is present in four different stock markets. To be able to establish ... -
Market regulations targeting emissions from the European Union's milk industry - An Environmental Economic Thesis
(2019-08-08)The objective of the thesis is to investigate how two different emission tax levels can change the greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union’s milk industry. The two different tax levels are an EU ETS price of 25.85 ...