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Leveraged Buyout - A Case Study on Unibet Group Plc
(2012-12-19)Leveraged buyout (LBO) is an acquisition where the company is taken out of the public market, becomes private and through different strategies give a satisfactory return to the investors. This specific buyout, known to be ... -
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 ... -
Life skills education: Reducing sexual risk behaviour among young women in South Africa? Analysing the effect of life skills education on life skills knowledge, sexual risk behaviour and HIV prevalence
(2020-06-29)South Africa is considered to be the epicentre of the HIV pandemic and its women are disproportionally affected by the disease. A key strategy to prevent and mitigate the spread of HIV infection is the implementation of ... -
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, ... -
Locals do it better? An empirical study of local advantage in fund management
(2014-08-11)This paper will address whether local Japanese fund managers outperform international -or more specifically Nordic- fund managers when investing in the Japanese market. If local fund managers do in fact have an advantage ... -
Logistic regression - effect of unobserved heterogeneity on estimators bias variance
(2016-06-29)In this paper we study unobserved heterogeneity in logistic regression, which occurs as a result of omitted variables. Unlike linear regression, logistic regression estimates are a ected by model misspeci cation even if ... -
LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT, VIOLENT CRIME AND VIOLENCE-RELATED BEHAVIOUR
(2020-07-01)This is a panel data study over 289 Swedish municipalities for the period of 2000–2018. The purpose of this study is to reinvestigate the relationship between long-term unemployment and violent crime, as well as ... -
LÖNAR SIG FÖRETAGS MILJÖINTRESSE? Ett experiment om reservationslön och CSR
(2015-08-24)Studier av bland andra Frank (2004) och Nyborg och Zhang (2012) har visat att det finns ett samband mellan ett CSR-arbete och lönenivå. Teorin är att anställda kan tänka sig att arbeta för lägre lön om företaget har ... -
Lyckas aktivt förvaltade fonder skapa ett mervärde gentemot indexfonder? En studie som jämför prestationen mellan aktivt förvaltade Sverigefonder och indexfonder på en riskjusterad basis
(2018-07-16)Denna studie undersöker om aktivt förvaltning lyckas skapa ett mervärde gentemot passiv förvaltning genom att jämföra aktivt förvaltade Sverigefonder med svenska indexfonder under tidsperioden 2013 – 2017. I studien används ... -
Macroeconomic Determinants of European FDI Outflows - An Empirical Approach
(2015-09-17)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the effect of country specific characteristics on foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows of ten European countries. The macroeconomic determinants included in the study are income, ... -
Macroeconomic Factors and Stock Returns: Evidence from the Swedish Stock Market
(2020-02-18)This study investigates the relationship between stock returns and macroeconomic factors in a small, open economy by utilizing a vector autoregression (VAR) approach on Swedish large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap data from ... -
Macroeconomic Forces and Their Effects on the Swedish Banking Sector
(2013-03-20)After the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 international capital markets trembled of uncertainty and investors did not know where the markets were heading. The market turmoil also had an impact on Sweden and ... -
Making Use of the Factor Zoo: An unpretentious attempt to predict asset returns using machine learning methods.
(2022-02-15)Factor modeling with the purpose of estimating assets returns is a dynamic and ever changing subject within finance. Recent literature has presented over 300 different fac-tors that seem to have significance in predicting ... -
Market efficiency and herding: A cross-country analysis
(2014-06-24)In this thesis we examine whether or not herd behavior, the act of market participants to ignore their own beliefs and instead follow the market consensus, is present in four different stock markets. To be able to establish ... -
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 ... -
Marknadshyrans Effekt på Arbetslösheten - En Difference-in-difference-studie av avskaffandet av hyresregleringen i Finland
(2021-02-09)The aim of this study is to investigate how the abolishment of rent control and changed mobility on the labor market in Finland affects its unemployment. It is of importance to examine the mechanisms that affect unemployment ... -
Measuring inflation - History, theory, applications and importance
(2016-07-05)Sweden and other western economies have been battling low rates of inflation since the eco-nomic crisis of 2008. However, the Swedish economy is booming, with soaring house prices and falling rate of unemployment which got ... -
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 ... -
Metoder för biaskorrigering vid punktskattning av populationsstandardavvikelsen - En jämförande simuleringsstudie vid normalfördelad population
(2021-07-09)Det finns flera olika metoder som har till syfte att korrigera bias vid estimering av populationsstandardavvikelsen för en normalfördelad population. Det är ett ämne som över tid har avhandlats i en rad olika statistiska ... -
Microfinance and agricultural productivity - A study exploring the relationship between access to credit and agricultural productivity
(2022-07-08)This thesis establishes a macro-level analysis of how credit and microfinance affect agricultural productivity. We use fixed effects regression for panel data with countries as the cross-sectional variation from 2000 to ...