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Naturresursförbannelsen och staters utgifter på utbildning
(2018-02-27)
Detta arbete ämnar undersöka om det finns ett negativt samband mellan naturresursberoende och staters utgifter på utbildning. För att testa vår hypotes om att ett sådant samband föreligger har vi genomfört en empirisk ...
Okuns lag i Sverige: Hur starkt är sambandet?
(2018-03-09)
Denna uppsats analyserar relationen mellan arbetslöshet och BNP-tillväxt, genom det välkända begreppet kallat Okuns lag. Två modeller används i denna studie, nivåversionen och förändringsversionen. Genom dessa modeller ...
Paid family leave Policy in California - First, ever implemented in the United States of America
(2018-06-26)
In this essay, we examine the effects of a gender-neutral policy that was implemented in California in 2004. The policy, Paid family leave, is the first policy in the US that offers a financial compensation to both parents ...
ÄR SOLOWPARADOXEN FORTFARANDE AKTUELL?
(2018-04-10)
The discussion concerning the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on economic growth has been going on for a long time. The topic has been debated widely between supporters of the exogenous theory, ...
E-handel i Europa - En analys av vilka makroekonomiska faktorer som driver e-handelns etablering i Europa
(2018-12-12)
E-handeln ökar kraftigt, men ökningen skiljer sig mycket från land till land. I Europa sträc-
ker sig skillnaden från att 82% av befolkningen har handlat på internet ned till att endast
13% av befolkningen har gjort ...
Is it wrong to assume economic growth promotes well-being in society?
(2018-07-05)
Economic growth has for long been implicitly assumed to promote well-being in society, but lately scholars in the field of happiness research have raised critique towards this assumption. This paper investigate the ...
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Stock Market Development in Sweden
(2018-02-16)
Previous research has found a significant relationship between FDI inflow and the domestic stock market development. However, the research mainly examines emerging economies that might benefit from foreign capital to a ...
The female labor market and gender equality
(2018-09-19)
This paper is a cross-national panel study evaluating how education-, health- and political dimensions of gender equality are affected by the size and composition of the female labor market. The hypothesis is that improving ...
Credit Fuelled Asset Prices and Financial Stability - Is there a causal relationship between credit growth and stock market prices?
(2018-07-05)
This thesis investigates the causal relationship between credit growth and stock market prices over the time period 1981-2017 in the US, the UK and Sweden. By performing a Granger causality test to examine if credit affects ...
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 ...