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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 ... -
Alla för alla, en för en: en kvantitativ analys av hur gemensam kontra individuell energimätning påverkar hushålls energiförbrukning.
(2020-06-29)The issue of climate change is becoming increasingly relevant and measures have been implemented all over the world to combat the resulting negative effects. A big emitter of greenhouse gases both in Sweden and internationally ... -
Amorteringskravet - En studie över amorteringskravets påverkan på de svenska bostadspriserna
(2022-07-07)This essay examines the impact of the amortization requirements on the Swedish housing market by comparing the price change in the Swedish and Danish housing markets. By also comparing the effects of the amortization ... -
Amorteringskravet - minskad skuldsättning eller högre trösklar för förstagångsköpare?
(2017-06-26)This thesis examines the effect of the amorteringskrav, which is an amortization requirement, on the price of apartments in Gothenburg. More precisely, the purpose is to investigate whether the importance of the monthly ... -
Amorteringskravets påverkan på socioekonomiskt utsatta områden
(2021-07-13)Finansinspektionen införde ett amorteringskrav 2016 i syfte att dämpa de svenska hushållens skuldsättning, där effekterna av kravet har blivit ett debatterat ämne bland olika forskare. Målbilden med den här studien är att ... -
An Evaluation of Asset Pricing Models in the Swedish Context - Is Carharts Four-Factor Model more suitable than its predecessors for explaining the Swedish stock exchange?
(2018-02-20)This thesis investigates the explanatory power of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, the Fama French Three-Factor Model and the Carhart Four-Factor Model on the Stockholm Stock Exchange over the period 2012-2016. The purpose ... -
An evaluation of last digit-based test as a tool for electoral fraud detection
(2019-06-18)In the pursuit of developing reliable tools for electoral fraud detection, tools that use statistical analysis have become very popular. Specifically, methods of digits pattern analysis, of election results, based on ... -
An examination of the hedging properties of gold and bitcoin using volatility
(2021-06-23)Gold has been considered a hedge against inflation for a long time, although researchers have found different results in their examinations. Bitcoin, a relatively new phenomenon in the financial market, is also, for some ... -
En analys av volatiliteten på Stockholmbörsen 2007-2009.
(2020-07-02)This thesis examines the volatility on the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the Great Recession in 2007-2009. In order to examine whether the financial crisis had a larger impact on any sector the report investigate the ... -
An Analysis of E-Waste Collection Across Countries
(2024-02-12)In line with technological development, electronic waste has become the world's fastest-growing waste category, increasing three times faster than the world's population. Although e-waste legislation covers about 66% of ... -
Anchoring Bias in Strategic Business Decisions
(2014-02-05)Cognitive biases are tendencies that cause distortions in perception, interpretation and judgment, thereby leading to a systematic deviation from rational decision-making. There are various types of cognitive biases, where ... -
Antagningen till högskolestudier - betyg eller konjunktur? En empirisk analys om betygsinflationens effekter på universitet och högskolor i Sverige.
(2019-11-13)This study examines the relationship between average admission points to universities and colleges and average Swedish upper secondary school graduation rate, with control variables for youth unemployment and population ... -
Arbetskraft från tredje land: Effekter på den svenska arbetsmarknaden
(2021-07-13)Non-European labour migration has become a regularly discussed political issue, portrayed variously as a threat or a benefit for the domestic labour market. Since 2008, Sweden has had the most liberal labour migration ... -
Arbetskraft från tredjeland - Ett naturligt experiment av reformens efftekt
(2014-09-12)Den 15 december 2008 genomfördes en reform för arbetskraftsinvandring från tredje land i Sverige. Syftet med förändringen är att underlätta rekrytering utanför EU/EES och Schweiz för att minska bristen på arbetskraft. Genom ... -
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, ... -
Are Denmark, Norway and Sweden an optimum currency area?
(2014-09-08)This paper investigates the possibility of Denmark, Norway and Sweden to form an optimum currency area. Based on the theories of optimum currency areas, such as Mundell’s Optimum Currency Areas, a few economical factors ... -
Are people living with HIV discriminated by the microfinance market? Evidence from Uganda
(2017-10-10)Microfinance has considered to be the key to end world poverty by serving the poor and vulnerable. In Uganda, the microfinance market has been on a steady rise since 1980; a time when HIV prevalence peaked. When voices are ... -
Are Swedish housing markets duration dependent?
(2018-09-07)Sweden’s rapidly growing housing sector, and the long-last boom it’s experienced even in a global financial crisis, has been the topic for several recent studies. In this thesis, we examine house price data from 279 Swedish ... -
Asien och Resursförbannelsen: En empirisk studie över demokrati och naturtillgångar
(2021-07-02)Democracy in Asia has declined over the last decade which affects the whole world economically, socially, and politically. For reversing the trend and to implement proactive measures for countries at risk of being autocratized, ... -
Assessing the EU Emission Trading system´s Impact on Economic Growth
(2015-07-02)This study uses a cross-country panel data set to investigate the effect of the EU ETS on economic growth and the total national level of CO2 emission. To estimate this we have conducted a growth regression using country ...