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Why put that Seedling in the Ground - A Case Study of the TIST Tree Planting Program in Tamil Nadu India
(2015-02-20)
This study examines a reforestation program, TIST (The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program), and its effects on farmer's tree planting behavior. TIST is funded by selling carbon credits on the Voluntary ...
Nischbanker - potentiella dynamikskapare
(2015-02-12)
The banking industry is a fundamental part of the economy in Sweden. Despite its importance, the competition and the concentration level within the Swedish banking sector is relatively unexplored. This paper aims to examine ...
Access to Financial Services and Women´s Empowerment
(2015-09-07)
The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between membership in a
Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) in rural Malawi and the
empowerment of women. The data used in this study was collected ...
Inflationen i Sverige - Hur påverkar Sveriges låga inflation ekonomin - har Svensson rätt om Riksbankens politik?
(2015-02-12)
Reporäntan är sänkt till noll för första gången i Sveriges moderna historia samtidigt som det pågår en livlig debatt om vilken inflationsnivå som är lämpligast. Lars E.O. Svensson arbetade som vice Riksbankschef åren ...
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 ...
What factors affect the capital structure of real estate firms? An analysis between listed firms on the European market
(2015-05-21)
This thesis examines what factors that affect the capital structure of 84 listed real estate firms within the European Union for ten years during 2003-2012. To identify factors that affect capital structure a literature ...
KOMMUNALSKATTER OCH KONJUNKTUR
(2015-02-12)
Fiscal policy and its consequences have attracted much attention on both academic and societal level, in Sweden and elsewhere. However, the dependence between fiscal policy on municipality level and business cycles has ...
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, ...
Corporate Sustainability and the Financial Implications for the European Basic Materials Industry
(2015-08-27)
In this thesis we investigate the relationship between sustainable performance and firm performance within the basic materials industry. Specifically, and in line with prior studies, we demonstrate a significant, negative ...
The power of parents´aspiration - A project evaluation in rural India
(2015-02-06)
The objective of this thesis is whether women accessing education and credit affect her and her husband’s aspiration concerning their child’s future age of marriage, preferred occupation and educational attainment. By ...