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FPI in Sweden - An economic approach to Swedish housing prices in 1996-2014
(2016-06-28)
Swedish house prices have increased substantially in recent years and this paper investigates, using OLS, if the key drivers for housing prices are the same across the nation, or if there are any regional differences.
The ...
Efficient Market Hypothesis: Testing for Price Predictability on the OMX Stockholm 30 Index
(2016-09-15)
The use of historical information to predict future pricing of equities has been a topic of debate among the financial community for some time. This study examines the issue by testing for statistical significance on lagged ...
How Does Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards Affect the Firm Financial Performance?
(2016-01-22)
The aim of this thesis is to determine whether gender diversity in corporate boards has an impact on firm financial performance of Swedish OMX-listed firms. The study is conducted in Sweden, as there is frequent political ...
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 ...
The European Union & Suthern African Development Community Economic Partnershiop Agreements Impact on the Namibian Exports
(2016-07-04)
The amount of research that has been done on the effects of free trade is extensive to say the least. Even though free trade creates winners and losers, there has almost been a unanimity among economists that free trade ...
Conditional cooperation for mitigating effects of climate change in rural Nepal
(2016-11-16)
Due to the climate warming effects the glacier lakes of the Khumbu has started to form and grow in size and the natural moraine dams give poor support to the expanding lakes. In order to find out how much the sherpa people ...
Forced Sustainability - a stated preferences study investigating expected compliance with an externally imposed diet restriction
(2016-08-11)
The municipality of Gothenburg aims to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions stemming from meals served within the public sector, partially by substituting meat with plant-based alternatives within the schooling ...
Measuring inflation - History, theory, applications and importance
(2016-07-05)
Sweden and other western economies have been battling low rates of inflation since the eco-nomic crisis of 2008. However, the Swedish economy is booming, with soaring house prices and falling rate of unemployment which got ...
Expected equity fund investor returns and the level of management fees - a study of Swedish funds and the relationship between managment fees and excess return
(2016-05-26)
The cost to investors of investing in mutual equity funds through management fees, could be substantial when compared to the return they generate. If the fees are fairly set, they should give investors a high excess return, ...
Policy Changes in the Swedish Payroll Tax Rate - Implications for Youth Unemployment
(2016-06-27)
In 2007 and 2009 the Swedish payroll tax rates decreased for employees under the age of 26 years. The decrease partly discontinued in 2015 and will be completely taken away in June 2016, increasing the wage costs for those ...