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Tougher rules on mandatory substitution brought forth price drop in the Swedish pharmaceutical market -Estimating the impact of the new rules of 2009 using Difference – in - Difference regression.
(2013-03-06)In 2009 the governmental monopoly on the Swedish pharmaceutical market was abolished. Coinciding with this reform, a new set of rules and proceedings concerning mandatory substitution was adopted. In this paper a difference ... -
Religion and Youth´s Political Engagement: A Quantitative Approach
(2013-03-06)This study examines how religious belonging might be an underlying factor for youth students’ political interest and participation. We use data from a survey conducted in 2010 on Swedish junior and senior high school ... -
The effect of Optimism on teh Equity Premium
(2013-03-14)The Equity Premium Puzzle highlights the occurrence of historical equity premium being an order of magnitude greater than can be rationalized in the context of the standard paradigm of financial economics. Studies have ... -
Towards Optimum: Can Europe become an optimum currency area
(2013-03-18)The purpose of this thesis is to study the Eurozone and give an answer to the question: Can Europe become an optimum currency area? Our analysis is based on theory structured in the form of several criteria for an optimum ... -
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 ... -
Effekten av förvärv på aktieavkastningen hos de inblandade företagen
(2013-03-26)Företag som är involverade i ett förvärv har intentionerna att skapa ett högre värde i den egna verksamheten. Avkastningen vid tillkännagivandet av ett tänkt förvärv indikerar hur lönsamt marknaden tror förvärvet är. I ... -
The Effects of Household Water Access on Employment in SSA: Is There a Gender Difference?
(2013-03-28)Several of the Millennium Development Goals stress the importance of working for improved drinking water, gender equality and employment to improve the life of people as well as creating growth in developing countries. ... -
The Ex-dividend effect during a crisis - An analysis of the Swedish stock market
(2013-04-03)The previous years have been turbulent for the financial sector. Major banks and financial institutions have filed for bankruptcy and some were taken over by governments. Europe has seen a deepening of the crisis and now ... -
SECTORAL FDI IMPACT ON EMERGING MARKETS
(2013-04-08)Although it may seem natural to argue that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is positive for host economies and their economic growth, earlier research gives and ambiguous picture in this matter of interest. This paper uses ... -
Do Winners Keep Winning? A Study of the Performance Persistence in Swedish Mutual Funds
(2013-04-11)We investigate whether performance persistence exists on the Swedish market for equity based mutual funds for the years 1992 – 2011. We test for one-year persistence for the risk-neutral returns for eight fund categories. ... -
Investing in commodities - Will commodity futures enhance risk-adjusted return in efficient portfolios?
(2013-04-23)With this paper we intend to investigate what kind of benefits there are by adding commodity futures to a well-diversified portfolio. Since the last fifteen years the commodity speculation has grown tremendously, which ... -
Inflation och Investeringar med Särskilt Fokus på Realränteobligationer
(2013-05-13)Title: Inflation and Investments, with Focus on Inflation-linked Bonds. Investors face many types of risks when allocating assets in a portfolio, e.g. volatility and inflation risk. Inflation risk will mainly affect ... -
Bayesiansk klassificering av ursprung för fångster av sill
(2013-05-14)Sammanfattning I september 2008 fångades 311 juveniler (unga individer) av arten sill (Clupea harengus) in vid fyra olika områden på den svenska västkusten; Råssö, Hunnebo, Askerö- och Gullmarfjorden. Genetiska, kemiska ... -
Correlations within and between Markets and Commodities
(2013-06-13)With a growing interaction between markets, when all markets and exchanges are being inuenced by the globalisation, the correlations between markets and com- modity exchanges becomes an interesting topic. How are they ... -
Västlänken - Den samhällsekonomiska analysens roll i infrastrukturbeslut
(2013-06-13)Syftet med denna uppsats är att göra en analys av samhällsekonomiska nyttokostnadsanalyser och deras användning i beslutsfattandet av tågtunneln ”Västlänken” i Göteborg. Vår uppsats ger en översikt i hur nyttokostnadsanalyser ... -
Economic Analysis on Electrification of Rural Villages in Eastern Zambia
(2013-06-19)A large proportion of Zambia’s population lives in rural areas and only 3 percent of them have access to electricity. This means that they have to cook over open fire that requires firewood, and with a growing population ... -
The optimality of EMU - A comparative study
(2013-06-19)The aim of this macroeconomic study is to evaluate whether the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has become an optimum currency area (OCA) or not. To reach a conclusion about the optimality of EMU we have performed two ... -
The impact of orphanhood and HIV/AIDS on school enrolment - Evidence from Zambia
(2013-06-20)HIV/AIDS has made a great number of children orphans in sub-Saharan Africa where Zambia is one of the worst hit countries. The impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has become an issue of not only health, but of cross-sectional ... -
Sample size calculation for longitudinal data of abdominal aortic aneurysm
(2013-07-02)Sample size calculation is a crucial step in all experimental design. In clinical research and drug development activities, it is required in order to be able to demonstrate a presumed statistical effect of a drug or a ... -
Payment Method in Mergers and Acquisitions - A Study on Swedish firm´s Domestic and Cross-Border Acquisitions
(2013-07-04)In this study we investigate the effect of payment method used in 108 acquisitions made between 2010 and 2012 with a publicly listed Swedish firm as the bidder. We also control for deal-specific characteristics such as the ...