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Taxing the skies - A study on the Swedish air passenger tax and its impact on the number of passengers
(2023-06-29)The purpose of the thesis is to analyze the impact of the Swedish air passenger tax on the number of air passengers in Sweden. The tax was implemented in April 2018 with the aim to reduce air travel demand and decrease the ... -
Technical Analysis - A comparative study between a Moving average and a buy-and-hold strategy
(2018-07-16)Background and research question: There are shared opinions about whether it is possible to forecast the direction of prices through studying previous of market data. According to the efficient market hypothesis, using ... -
Technical Analysis - Testing the performance of five commonly used technical indicators
(2016-07-04)This thesis examines five commonly used technical indicators and their performance on five stocks listed at the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the time period January 2010 – March 2016. The research aims to see if the ... -
A test of the Environmental Kuznets Curve in the Nordic countries
(2023-02-09)Climate change arising from global warming is an important issue for the global community to resolve for the prospect of a sustainable future. It is therefore crucial to gain understanding in how nations can contain the ... -
Testing for Unit Root Processes for South American Countries
(2016-02-18)In this thesis, we aim to test the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) hypothesis on data from ten di erent South American countries, using di erent statistical methods. We begin by testing the hypothesis using the standard ... -
Testing Pecking Order and Trade Off Models on Mining and Software Industries in Canada.
(2013-07-10)This paper tests the two major capital structure theories; pecking order theory and trade off theory, in order to determine how the debt ratios in mining and software industries in Canada behave. We used a disaggregated ... -
Testing the Performance of the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Fama-French Three-Factor Model - A study on the Swedish Stock Market between 2014-2019
(2019-07-12)The returns of potential investments are interesting for every investor. In this thesis we compared two financial models that are often used to predict expected returns of portfolios with different financial instruments. ... -
Testing the weak form EMH - An empirical study of the Swedish stock market
(2019-07-11)This thesis investigates whether the Swedish stock market shows signs of weak form efficiency between January 2012 and January 2019. Weekly data is gathered from the OMXSPI and from three indices of different capitalization ... -
The Apartment Market and the Rent Regulation
(2016-06-27)This study aims to investigate whether the rental regulation in Gothenburg fulfill its purpose, by comparing difference in terms of rent levels for three different types of contract. The first one is owner occupied ... -
The Art of Measurement - Exogenous Activation of Self-Control with Simple Verbal Sentences in Intertemporal Choice
(2015-06-24)Recent neurological studies have found first causal evidence for a neural self-control mechanism in decision-making in intertemporal choice (e.g. Hare et al. 2009, 2011 & 2014, Figner et al., 2010). Figner et al. (2010) ... -
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 ... -
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 confidence for swedish authorities before and during the pandemic Covid-19
(2020-07-24)Trust has a fundamental importance in a society. Confidence for community institutions such as the government, the healthcare system, the police authority, the media and the public health agency is an important part of the ... -
The Debate on Whether the Repo Rate Should Be Affected by the Household Debt
(2014-03-20)According to the Sveriges Riksbank Act, the Riksbank should aim for an inflation target of 2 per cent, but at the same time foster a stable payment system. The low inflation in Sweden in the last few years has led to a ... -
The Development of the Relation Between the Swedish Repo Rate and the Three-month Mortgage Rate
(2017-07-03)This paper examines whether the effect of the Swedish repo rate on the mortgage rate has changed during the period between the years of 2005-2017. The relation between the repo rate and mortgage rate is examined during ... -
The difference in risk adjusted performance between socially responsible and conventional equity mutual funds - Evidence from Sweden
(2020-07-01)This thesis aims to study the difference in risk-adjusted performance between socially responsible (SR) and conventional equity mutual funds from a Swedish perspective. The study uses mutual fund data from the time-period ... -
The Economic Impact of Increased Access to Commercial Banks in Ethiopia
(2020-07-02)Savings rates are strongly predictive of future economic growth and, for several reasons, it is difficult to save in areas where resources are scarce. Increasing access to financial services is crucial to efficiently ... -
The effect of an increased excise tax on alcohol consumption
(2021-02-09)In September 2020, the Swedish government announced the ambition to further raise the tax on alcohol and tobacco products. The new policy, planned to be enacted in January 2023, aims to adjust for inflationary measures ... -
The effect of environmental policies on CO2 emissions - using the environmental policy stringency index
(2020-09-15)The carbon concentration in the air has increased by 50 percent since pre-industrial times and continues to increase every year. Climate change is, therefore, a significant challenge today. The purpose of this paper is to ... -
The Effect of Environmental Policy Stringency on Environmental Innovations - A Cross Country Comparison
(2020-06-30)This thesis is a cross-country comparison based on panel-data across 30 countries from 1990-2012. It uses a Negative Binomial Regression Model to test The Porter Hypothesis to see if environmental policy stringency affects ...