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Income Distribution and Happiness in Europe - Are Scandinavians more Sensitive to Inequality?
(2019-07-12)
The main objective of this thesis is to investigate the effect of income inequality on happiness in Europe. A comparison between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe is made using cross-sectional data from the European Social ...
Market regulations targeting emissions from the European Union's milk industry - An Environmental Economic Thesis
(2019-08-08)
The objective of the thesis is to investigate how two different emission tax levels can change the greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union’s milk industry. The two different tax levels are an EU ETS price of 25.85 ...
Do international remittances contribute to achieving the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG1) in development economies? Empirical evidence from Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimator.
(2019-07-11)
Eradicating extreme poverty is a fundamental objective and concern for every economy in today’s modernization epoch. Developed countries channel significant amount of financial support annually to poor economies with the ...
Industry Classification and The Relationship between Profitability and Competition: A Study of The US Manufacturing Industry
(2019-09-25)
This paper examines how the relationship between profitability and competition changes with narrowing industry classification—and what implications that carries for policy makers and future antitrust laws. The sample is ...
Paris and the voluntary reduction of emissions - A study on Grandfathering and the Environmental Kuznets Curve
(2019-07-11)
After the global climate meeting in Paris 2015, which resulted in the Paris Agreement, a common goal was set to keep the global temperature from rising over 2 ºC and preferably under 1.5 ºC. Prior to the agreement, each ...
Fler flickor i grundskolan men färre kvinnor i arbete? En kvantitativ studie av det indiska utbildningsprogrammet DPEPs effekter på kvinnligt arbetskraftsdeltagande
(2019-07-11)
Indien har historiskt präglats av en ojämlik samhällsstruktur som dominerats av landets kastsystem och omfattande könsskillnader. Utbildning och arbetskraftsdeltagande har länge varit två viktiga faktorer för att minska ...
Life expectancy and economic growth: AIDS as a natural experiment
(2019-07-11)
The purpose of this study is to examine how life expectancy, as a measure for health, affects economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, the model specifications in this thesis include AIDS, which is assumed to ...
What are the main determinants for companies to behave in sustainable way?
(2019-02-21)
Using a novel dataset collected from a web survey sent out to Swedish large companies, this thesis examines whether institutional factors or basic economic factors are the main determinants for companies’ level of ...
Gasoline Demand in the Different Regions of Sweden
(2019-07-12)
In this thesis, we study the price and income elasticities of gasoline demand in the different regions of Sweden. By collecting data for each region in the period between 2002-2017 we try to derive these elasticities. The ...
Arbitrage Pricing Theory: A study on the Stockholm Stock
(2019-03-01)
This thesis investigates the macroeconomic factors that affect the returns on the different portfolios in Stockholm Stock Exchange by using Arbitrage Pricing Theory (Stephen Ross 1976). We use the portfolios of Large Cap, ...