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Measuring the impact of the 2009 COP15 Copenhagen Summit - An event study of coal and solar portfolios in the United States of America and China
(2017-06-28)
One of the biggest challenges currently facing mankind is tackling the challenge of climate change. To mitigate this, there have been several multilateral conferences, where some steps have been taken. The Copenhagen Summit ...
An Empirical Investigation of Factors Affecting the Standardization of Service Pricing - A Case Study of Flexlink
(2013-08-08)
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. ...
Offentliga hälsoutgifter och hälsoutveckling: Har utvecklingsnivån någon betydelse?
(2017-07-03)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether public health expenditures can improve the health situation of a country. We also analyse if the effect is different depending on the degree of human development. To do this ...
Income recovery in urban and rural areas in Columbia
(2017-07-03)
This thesis investigates whether the household income recovery after a negative income shock, caused by a health or death shock, differs between urban and rural areas in Colombia. The hypothesis is that urban areas are ...
The relationship between foreign direct investments and exchange rates - A quantitative analysis of how the exchange rate is affecting the FDI inflows in South Korea and China
(2018-06-26)
This study investigates the effect of exchange rate movements on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. According to previous studies, it seems to be a significant correlation between exchange rate movements and the FDI ...
Skuldkvotens regionala skillnader - En ekonometrisk panelstudie för Sveriges kommunala skillnader i hushållens skuldkvot under perioden 2010-2015.
(2017-09-20)
Since the mid-1990’s, citizens of Sweden have nearly doubled their income-debt ratio and international institutions such as IMF and OECD consider the indebtedness to be of considerable risk for Sweden’s economy. In 2013, ...
The Strength of Competition in the Swedish Grocery Retailing Market. A Comparison to Germany
(2012-02-14)
I have many times heard that the Swedish grocery retail market has low competition, high concentration and high food prices, whereas in Germany the prices are considered lower and the competition more intense . I decided ...
House Prices for Real – The Determinants of Swedish Nominal Real Estate Prices
(2013-01-11)
We examined what drives Swedish real estate price changes in general and whether or not Swedish real estate is currently overvalued. We examined if money supply is an important factor in particular. In accordance with ...
Tillgång och konkurrens. Etablering av fristående gymnasieskolor på den svenska skolmarknaden
(2018-07-03)
This thesis analyzes the determinants of entry of independent upper secondary schools following the Swedish school reform, introduced in 1992. We have used a cumulative logistic distribution function to find what characterizes ...
Faktorer som får elever att uppnå betyget godkänt i årskurs 9
(2019-08-20)
The results of Swedish school students graduating from 9th grade have been declining since the beginning of the 21th century. This have been shown repeatedly in both studies from PISA and TIMSS, which both test the abilities ...