Browsing Kandidatuppsatser i finansiell ekonomi by Title
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The Effect of Attention on the Behaviour of Investors Using a Social Trading Platform, Shareville
(2016-07-07)When buying a stock, it is impossible to take hundreds or thousands of stocks into consideration. A way for investors to simplify the search problem is to make the choice from stocks that have caught their attention. ... -
Effekten av information vid vinstvarningar - En studie på den svenska aktiemarknaden
(2019-07-05)This thesis investigates how the difference in information affects the firm’s stock prices when the firm announces a profit warning, based on the Swedish stock market during the period 2014-2018. The thesis uses a quantitative ... -
An Empirical Study About Young People's Risk Preferences and Determinants Affecting them
(2022-07-11)In this report, the aim was to investigate what determinants or associations may affect an individual’s choice when facing different risk-related prospectus. Through surveys based on previous literature, a study on a ... -
En empirisk studie om processen bakom ett outsourcingbeslut
(2017-07-04)This thesis examines how Swedish banks measure risks associated with outsourcing and how they weigh it against expected profit. It also discusses the benefits and disadvantages of outsourcing and investigates how banks ... -
ESG and Bond Performance: Evidence from the Nordic
(2021-06-23)This study examines whether corporate ESG performance has an effect on bond performance in the Nordic countries. There are two main theoretical views regarding ESG investments which are risk mitigation and resource depletion. ... -
ESG and Fund Performance Comparing Funds with Different Strategic Benchmarks
(2023-07-03)This thesis aims to identify if there is a positive relationship between ESG and fund performance, and if this relationship is different depending on the strategic benchmark of the funds and how they differ between the ... -
ESG Performance - Effect on acquisition premium
(2022-07-01)From a target perspective we investigate how environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance affects the premium paid in acquisitions. ESG has been growing in importance during the last decade, and reporting of ... -
ETF OWNERSHIP AND THE VOLATILITY OF U.S. STOCKS
(2018-07-16)This thesis explores the effect ownership by exchange traded funds have on the volatility of their underlying securities. We build upon the research conducted by Ben-David, Franzoni and Moussawi (2017a) and first replicate ... -
Ethical Fund Performance - A matched pair analysis of the Swedish fund market
(2019-07-05)This thesis investigates the effect of ethics on the performance of Swedish funds over the years 2009-2018. Through the use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) score, this study distinguishes ethical funds from ... -
Examining the Impact of Football Tournaments on Equity Markets: An Analysis of Market Anomalies, Market Dynamics and Investor sentiment
(2023-07-06)This paper investigates whether two international football tournaments have an effect on the performance of four major stock markets during the event period. Some previous literature suggest that the NYSE index tended to ... -
Exploring the Influence of Firm Size on Leverage Evidence from OMX Stockholm Small Cap
(2023-07-06)This study examines the relationship between leverage and firm size for a sample of 83 firms listed on OMX Stockholm Small Cap between 2018 and 2022. Additionally, it explores the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on this ... -
Facilitating Sustainable Investments - How the EU Taxonomy is expected to change the principal-agent relationship between fund managers and retail customers
(2020-07-02)There is currently an information asymmetry on the financial market, which has implications for the practice of greenwashing, hindering the capital allocation towards the Sustainable Development Goals. To fill this information ... -
Feeling the Heat of Climate Change - How Sensitive Could It Be?
(2020-06-29)This thesis examines if climate sensitivity predicts stock returns and how well this measurement performs. The sample consists of the S&P 500 and the monthly stock return for the period between 1979 to 2019. The method is ... -
Financial Fair Play and its Intended Impact - An Investigation of the European Football Environment
(2022-07-12)This study examines what effect the implementation of UEFAs Financial Fair Play regulations have had on football clubs' financial performance and if the top leagues competitiveness in Europe has changed for the better. The ... -
Första-Fjärde AP-fonden: Riskjusterad avkastning och risk 2001-2017
(2018-07-11)The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the four Swedish public pension funds AP1-4 contribute to the stability of the pension system by evaluating their mandate as formulated in the law. The thesis contributes ... -
From Tree Huggers to Money Makers: How ESG Scores Boost Corporate Financial Performance in the EU
(2023-06-29)This thesis examines the relationship between Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores and financial performance as measured by both accounting- and market-based measures; Return on Assets and Tobin's Q. The study ... -
Fund activity and performance: A closer look at the Swedish mutual fund industry
(2016-07-06)This paper investigates the level of fund activity and its e ect on fund performance on the Swedish market. By analyzing fund characteristics between 2005 to 2015, we find that among the active fund alternatives, the ... -
Genererar fonder med prestationsavgifter bättre avkastning? En empirisk studie på den svenska fondmarknaden.
(2017-07-05)This paper investigates how asymmetric performance fees affect the performance and risk-taking of mutual funds in the Swedish market between 2012–2016. From our findings we cannot conclude that performance fees induce fund ... -
Geopolitisk risk och dess påverkan på Stockholmsbörsens volatilitet
(2022-07-11)The aim of this thesis is to analyze if geopolitical risk has an effect on the volatility of the Swedish stock market. The methods: OLS-regression and quantile-regressions are used. Geopolitical risk is quantified using ...