Bosnia and Herzegovina has the highest concentration of PM2.5 and the highest death rate related to air pollution in Europe. This study tries to address the issue by the contingent valuation method to elicit citizens’ ...

Investing and saving have always been integral aspects of human behavior. Saving essentially represents deferred consumption, as individuals set aside money for future use. In recent years, saving and investing have become ...

This thesis investigates if there is an increase in international trade from joining a currency union. This is done by looking at the European Monetary Union with a focus on four countries that became members in 2007-2009: ...

Our thesis focuses on the Scandinavian fund market, where we compare concentrated funds with conventional funds during the time period 2009-2014. Funds have been divided into two separate categories: small/mid-cap funds ...

This thesis follows methods employed by Färe et al. (1994) in their influential article ‘Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries’, published in the American Economic Review. ...

The purpose of this bachelor’s thesis has been to examine the relationship between sentiment and the stock market returns in Sweden and the United States of America. The focus was put on the corporate and consumer sentiment ...

The crises of the 1930s and of 2008 are clear evidence of the fragility of the Fractional Reserve Banking System. Both of these events resulted in a liquidity crisis that sent the afflicted economies spiralling into deep ...

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. ...

Aviation accounts for approximately 2.5% of global CO2 emissions. However, this seemingly low number is deceiving for several reasons. For one thing, it does not account for other warming effects of aviation, and further, ...

This study examines the impact of agritourism on a regional growth in Sweden. Agritourism is charted by Swedish county and three different forms, related to wine or cider production, or traditional agritourism, in order ...