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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 ... -
Chinese Foreign Direct Investments in the Zambian mining sector
(2012-12-19)Title: Chinese Foreign Direct Investments in the Zambian Mining Sector Authors: Louise Granath and Marika Larsson Supervisor: Prof. Arne Bigsten Pages: 75 Background and Problem: China’s presence and influence on ... -
Är den tyska euron felvärderad?
(2012-12-19)Det finns en uppfattning om att den så kallade tyska euron skulle vara undervärderad. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka om det finns någon felvärdering. Flera tänkbara modeller för att bestämma växelkurser ... -
House Prices for Real – The Determinants of Swedish Nominal Real Estate Prices
(2013-01-11)We examined what drives Swedish real estate price changes in general and whether or not Swedish real estate is currently overvalued. We examined if money supply is an important factor in particular. In accordance with ... -
Female Education and Economic Growth: theoretical overview and two country cases
(2013-03-05)This bachelor thesis examines if female education affects economic growth through human capital and fertility rate. To illustrate this aim, two country cases have been presented: India and Niger. The motive behind choosing ... -
Tougher rules on mandatory substitution brought forth price drop in the Swedish pharmaceutical market -Estimating the impact of the new rules of 2009 using Difference – in - Difference regression.
(2013-03-06)In 2009 the governmental monopoly on the Swedish pharmaceutical market was abolished. Coinciding with this reform, a new set of rules and proceedings concerning mandatory substitution was adopted. In this paper a difference ... -
Religion and Youth´s Political Engagement: A Quantitative Approach
(2013-03-06)This study examines how religious belonging might be an underlying factor for youth students’ political interest and participation. We use data from a survey conducted in 2010 on Swedish junior and senior high school ... -
Bonus och ägarskap i svenska storbanker
(2013-03-14)In this master thesis we are trying to investigate whether the heads of the four major Swedish banks are receiving compensation because of their own performance. We have investigated a number of parameters in the reporting ... -
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 ... -
The effect of Optimism on teh Equity Premium
(2013-03-14)The Equity Premium Puzzle highlights the occurrence of historical equity premium being an order of magnitude greater than can be rationalized in the context of the standard paradigm of financial economics. Studies have ... -
Towards Optimum: Can Europe become an optimum currency area
(2013-03-18)The purpose of this thesis is to study the Eurozone and give an answer to the question: Can Europe become an optimum currency area? Our analysis is based on theory structured in the form of several criteria for an optimum ... -
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 ... -
Effekten av förvärv på aktieavkastningen hos de inblandade företagen
(2013-03-26)Företag som är involverade i ett förvärv har intentionerna att skapa ett högre värde i den egna verksamheten. Avkastningen vid tillkännagivandet av ett tänkt förvärv indikerar hur lönsamt marknaden tror förvärvet är. I ... -
The Effects of Household Water Access on Employment in SSA: Is There a Gender Difference?
(2013-03-28)Several of the Millennium Development Goals stress the importance of working for improved drinking water, gender equality and employment to improve the life of people as well as creating growth in developing countries. ... -
The Ex-dividend effect during a crisis - An analysis of the Swedish stock market
(2013-04-03)The previous years have been turbulent for the financial sector. Major banks and financial institutions have filed for bankruptcy and some were taken over by governments. Europe has seen a deepening of the crisis and now ... -
SECTORAL FDI IMPACT ON EMERGING MARKETS
(2013-04-08)Although it may seem natural to argue that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is positive for host economies and their economic growth, earlier research gives and ambiguous picture in this matter of interest. This paper uses ... -
Do Winners Keep Winning? A Study of the Performance Persistence in Swedish Mutual Funds
(2013-04-11)We investigate whether performance persistence exists on the Swedish market for equity based mutual funds for the years 1992 – 2011. We test for one-year persistence for the risk-neutral returns for eight fund categories. ... -
Investing in commodities - Will commodity futures enhance risk-adjusted return in efficient portfolios?
(2013-04-23)With this paper we intend to investigate what kind of benefits there are by adding commodity futures to a well-diversified portfolio. Since the last fifteen years the commodity speculation has grown tremendously, which ... -
Inflation och Investeringar med Särskilt Fokus på Realränteobligationer
(2013-05-13)Title: Inflation and Investments, with Focus on Inflation-linked Bonds. Investors face many types of risks when allocating assets in a portfolio, e.g. volatility and inflation risk. Inflation risk will mainly affect ... -
Köpvärda bolag inom telekombranschen
(2013-05-13)Här beskriver vi hur väl vi lyckats besvara vår frågeställning och hur syftet med uppsatsen uppfyllts. I denna uppsats har vi undersökt och värderat åtta ledande telekombolag i Europa. De värderingsmetoder vi använt oss ...