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Active fund management or passive index cruising?
(2020-08-07)
How should an investor pick funds to invest in? What is the best strategy, picking active or passive funds? It’s hard to navigate the fund landscape when there is ambiguous evidence and advice coming from different directions. ...
Does a changed grading scale affect mean GPA - A descriptive analysis of the 2011 grading scale reform in the Swedish upper secondary school
(2016-07-01)
That students receive accurate grades is of high importance, both for employers that want to hire productive workers and for university admission. Grades can also be used as a motivation for students to perform better, and ...
Finanskriser & Transparens - En studie om korruption ur ett collective action-perspektiv
(2018-02-20)
Corruption is a widespread problem in large parts of the world. Studying the phenomenon and putting forward
useful propositions for decreasing corruption is therefore of immediate importance. A recent contribution ...
All or Nothing - A Study of Optimal Investment Behavior with Regards to Risk and Return
(2016-07-05)
The financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 lead to great instability on the financial market as stock prices fell rapidly to then progressively increase again. Further on, in February 2015, Sweden experienced a negative repo ...
En Svensk Flygskatt - Arbetar den mot målsättningarna?
(2017-07-03)
Klimatförändringarna är en av vår tid största utmaningar. För att hantera flygtrafikens utsläpp av växthusgaser har regeringen ambitionen att från och med den 1 januari 2018 införa en skatt på kommersiella flygresor. När ...
Ethnic Discrimination in London’s Housing Market – Are Bangladeshi women worse off applying for housing compared to White women?
(2019-02-15)
This study investigates ethnic discrimination for sublets in London’s rental housing market. By applying an experimental design, four female fictitious characters were created to apply for housing advertisements on the ...
Stock market interdependencies - Evidence from the Eurozone´s southern periphery before and after the outbreak of the European debt crisis
(2013-09-18)
Recent events in the Eurozone´s southern periphery have directed much interest to the region but only a limited number of studies have targeted the market interdependencies among these counties. This thesis examines the ...
Local Employment Effects of Falling Copper prices: A Case study in the Copperbelt province of Zambia.
(2017-11-23)
Zambia is heavily dependent on copper, and a typical example of a country subject to the natural resource curse. From 2011 until 2016, the copper price fell from around $9,900 to $5,660 per metric tonne (mt). In this thesis, ...
The Wait for Primary Care - an analysis of underlying factors variety in waiting time for primary care within the region of Västra Götaland, Sweden
(2014-06-18)
A frequently debated problem regarding Swedish healthcare is the ineffectiveness of the system and how people in need of care have to wait unjustifiably long time periods in order to get treatment. In 2009, Västra Götaland ...
Finns det en betalningsvilja hos invånarna i Göteborg som överstiger dagens Va-avgift? En kvantitativ studie genomförd med Contingent Valuation
(2017-07-03)
Invånarna i Göteborg har god tillgång på dricksvatten av bra kvalité, samtidigt som de betalar en av Sveriges lägsta Va-taxor. Göta älv som står för utbudet av ytvattnet, spås vara utsatt för diverse hot till följd av ...