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Valuation of Intangible Assets -
(2003)While intangible assets play an increasingly important role in today’s business world, it remains difficult to quantify its economic and monetary value. The “fair” value of an intangible asset is the amount that such asset ... -
Valuation of Interest Rate Swaps in the presence of Counterparty Credit Risk
(2014-11-26)Insuring debt through credit default swaps (CDS) and collateralized debt obligations (CDO) has become increasingly more popular. Recent events such as the financial crisis of 2008 have shown that the credit models for these ... -
Valuation Procedures for Portfolio Investments
(2002)Investment Companies are financial intermediaries between investors and investments. Investors buy shares in Investment Companies, which are entities that invest these share revenues in order to make income from dividends, ... -
The valuation relevance of ESG score in the Nordic market - A study on the effect of ESG score on stock price and financial performance
(2023-06-29)This study investigates the relationship between ESG score and ROA and ESG score and stock price. Furthermore, we investigate whether there exists an ESG premium and if this premium is fundamentally established in the ... -
VALUE CREATION IN A PROCESS CONSULTANCY SETTING, CASE: ABOY
(2005)The ever-changing prerequisites of the business world, the continuous discussions around value creation as well as the increasing curiosity toward the consultancy business were the starting points for this thesis. Besides ... -
Value Creation in the Banking Industry - A comparative case study of how value is proposed by two Swedish banks from a S-D logic perspective
(2020-07-23)This study examines how two banks with different digital strategies and customer interaction approaches propose value propositions. Digitalization is reshaping industrial fundamentals as well as leading to changes in the ... -
Value Creation through Orphan Innovations; A case study of AstraZeneca
(2016-09-29)It can be assumed that within all industries, it does occasionally happen that innovations occur that are not in line with the company’s business strategy. This master thesis focuses on these innovations that throughout ... -
Value Creation through Smartphones- An Ethnographic Study about Consumer Value and Social Interaction through Smartphones
(2012-07-12)Smartphones are currently conquering the mobile market in an explosive fashion. They have become a part of our everyday lives and increased the availability, frequency and rapidness of our communication with the surrounding ... -
Value gains from increased visibility in the supply chain - A case study on Volvo Penta’s service market of spare parts
(2022-08-04)The complexity of supply chains worldwide has increased tremendously, with more global chains as well as increased demand for higher customer service levels. Technical enablers can to some extent ease this complexity and ... -
Value Proposition in Oversea Study Agency industry - A case study of Huashi oversea study agency
(2020-10-12)Background and purpose: With globalization development, education cooperation and competition among countries are becoming more and more frequent, which makes many students want to go abroad for further study to learn more ... -
Value Relevance Effects of R&D Capitalization in US Companies
(2017-08-08)During the last few decades, investments in intangible knowledge have grown in importance. Along with this development, there has been an ongoing discussion on how to best treat such investments in the financial reports. ... -
Value relevance of fair value estimates - The impact of ownership structures and increased disclosures
(2019-08-08)This study investigates the effects ownership structures and actions by regulatory bodies (in the form of increased disclosures) have on investors’ perceptions of fair value estimates. By taking a value relevance approach, ... -
Value Relevance of R&D Advances in the US Biotechnology Industry
(2020-07-08)We investigate the value relevance of non-financial information in the US biotechnology industry by studying the stock market reactions to announcements of drug development outcomes for a sample period of 10 years (from ... -
Value-adding sevices in Roro-shipping
(2002)Increasing demands in logistics and transportation is a driving force behind the demand for value-adding transport services. However, concerning rorotransportation it is not always clear what kind of extra services the ... -
Vehicle adoption and the bonusmalus policy in Sweden; what is the impact on economic welfare?
(2024-07-03)There is an emerging clarity of the need to reduce emissions, but emission-reducing policies often appear to decrease welfare. In Sweden, the bonus-malus policy was introduced to promote the adoption of electric vehicles ... -
Venture after venture: cultivating serial entrepreneurial drive
(2023-07-20)Given the significant economic impact of new businesses, serial entrepreneurs are a force to be reckoned with, creating numerous enterprises in succession and continually implementing new ideas that boost economic prosperity. ... -
Venture capital and the hazard of exit: The role of corporate funds
(2017-07-25)We study how corporate venture capital investments affect the hazard of exit outcomes in start-up companies. The presence of corporate venture capital in a syndicate of venture capitalists raises the likelihood of exit. ... -
Venture Capital flows to fintech innovators in Africa: How governmental policy and actions affect the ecosystem and capital sources
(2021-07-06)This master’s thesis explores aspects of the current state of fintech and venture capital within Africa as an emerging market, bringing to light the policies and actions of the different governments that contribute to ... -
Victim Blaming and the Swedish Consent Law - A Swedish vignette experiment investigating the effectiveness of the Law of Consent on normative attitudes towards victim blaming
(2021-09-13)and economical burdens on the victim, especially when the victim is a woman. This study contributes to an expanding literature on social norms, the law, and economics, focusing on the expressive effect of the law as one ... -
Video Consumption Online - The relationship between the sender and receiver of video clips
(2020-06-23)Videos online has become an immense part of people’s internet consumption, and is bound to become even greater in the next few years. To discover what is affecting the spread of these videos, this study aims to investigate ...