This paper examines the relationship between the employment rate of foreign-born women and their place of residence. Segregation in Sweden has been increasing along with differences in income and employment between the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the first fast loan company entered the market in 2006, there has been an increasing amount of individuals who have become indebted and ended up at Kronofogden because they haven't been able to pay off their loans. ...

This paper examines the impact of lockdown stringency on the cross-country variations in real GDP growth and unemployment in OECD countries following the recession caused by the covid-19 pandemic. The GDP is estimated with ...

Economic development does not mean producing more of the same; instead, according to Rickardo Hausmann and his colleagues, it means to diversify and to produce more sophisticated goods. This thesis analyzes how this can ...

Over the last decades, the service sector has increased as a percentage of the economies. This paper analyzes whether service prices can be internationally standardized based on the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) theory. ...

This thesis examines the impact of Sweden’s decision to retain the krona rather than adopt the euro in 1999 on export performance. Employing the innovative Synthetic Difference-in-Differences method, it analyses 1231 trade ...

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 ...

Investing and saving have always been integral aspects of human behavior. Saving essentially represents deferred consumption, as individuals set aside money for future use. In recent years, saving and investing have become ...