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Mergers and Acquisitions between foreign companies and Vietnamese companies: Drivers and Issues
(2012-07-11)The value and number of merger and acquisition deals in Vietnam have increased rapidly over the past decade. Foreign investors play an active role in this trend, especially after Vietnam’s accession to the WTO. The aim of ... -
Mergers and acquisitions in a new economy - An opportunistic approach towards organisational changes
(2001)The overall objective of this thesis is to create a broader understanding of how mergers and acquisition processes are planned and managed by firms operating in the new economy. The purpose is to get a picture of a common ... -
MERGING MOMENTUM -THE EFFECTS OF COMBINED CRASH MITIGATING STRATEGIES
(2020-07-07)Momentum strategies offer tempting expected returns but suffer from occasional momentum crashes. Crash mitigating strategies, such as the Absolute momentum (Gulen and Petkova, 2018) and Extreme absolute strength momentum ... -
Micro Enterprise Performances A Study of Swedish Online Micro Retailers
(2017-06-30)Micro-enterprises (ME) is a topic that is less thoroughly studied than its larger peers, the small and medium enterprises (SME), medium and large enterprises. Yet their impact and contributions to the economy and society ... -
Micro terminals - a sustainable solution to urban logistics?
(2018-07-02)The subject of urban freight distribution has received increasing attention as more people settle in urban areas. Traditionally seen as an essential foundation for the modern society, freight transports have provided ... -
Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges to Institutions and Organizations in Managing Rohingya Refugees
(2022-09-14)A few of organiazational studies have been conducted in managing Rohingya refugees under COVID-19 pandemic situation. This study undertook a closer view of the organiztional aporaches in manaigng rohingya refugees in ... -
Millennials Transforming the Luxury Fashion Industry: An exploratory research about enabling a multidirectional service encounter online
(2022-08-04)There is a growing apparent conflict within the luxury fashion industry in regards to the service encounter. This as luxury fashion brands are reluctant to digital change in their service practices while there is a growing ... -
Mind The Gap Between Your Intelligence And Choice Architecture
(2023-07-03)Digital footprints of online behaviour are now possible to gather through the use of cookies. As a result, consumer activities once considered private are now monitored and used by online businesses and marketers, providing ... -
Missing Relevant Disclosures or too much Irrelevant Disclosures: A case study on the concept of materiality
(2016-09-20)One of the primary objectives of financial reporting is to provide users with useful information for decision-making. Standard-setters, such as the IASB, have therefore added to disclosure requirements in attempts to ... -
Mitigating Supply Chain Disruptions in Transportation due to Natural Disasters and Climatic Perturbations
(2011-07-18)Companies have been facing potential devastating impacts from unexpected catastrophic events due to the increasing global supply chain complexity and international outsourced activities. The purpose of the thesis is to ... -
Mitigating Uncertainty by Including the Customer in the Fuzzy Front-End of Innovation - A comparative multiple-case study of Polestar and On to identify successful customer collaboration
(2021-07-06)The fuzzy front-end (FFE) is the first phase of new product development which is associated with high levels of uncertainty. Mitigating uncertainty is a key factor to enable successful innovation. With the inclusion of ... -
Mixed Venture Capital Syndicates: How Independent Venture Capital Firms Evaluate Corporate Venture Capital Arms as Syndication Partners
(2018-07-06)Background and Problem Formulation: Since 2012 there has been a steady increase of corporate venture capital (CVC) activity in The Silicon Valley. In 2017 more than 20 % of the total venture capital investment was made ... -
Model for Central Counterparty Risk with Stochastic Default Intensities
(2021-09-30)In this thesis we use a dynamic model to compute several margins required by a central counterparty, the central clearing house (CCP), to the participants, called clearing members (CM). These margins form the so called ... -
Modeling CVA for interest rate swaps in a CIR-framework
(2013-07-02)Knowing the true Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) and accurately account for it, is vital in maintaining a stable financial system. The Basel committee noted that during the financial crisis of 2008-2009, about 70% of losses ... -
Modeling the evolution of market uncertainty- Hedge Fund returns and Volatility of Aggregate Volatility within a dynamic perspective
(2019-07-02)This paper investigates, in a dynamic perspective, whether uncertainty about equity market returns can have implications on hedge fund portfolio decisions over time. Therefore, the thesis wants to ascertain if the risk ... -
Modelling and Pricing Contingent Convertibles
(2012-07-25)Recent years financial turbulence has energized implementation of comprehensive regulatory standards on bank capital adequacy. Regulators demand more capital with loss absorbance properties and the Contingent Convertible ... -
Models of Credit Risk for Emerging Markets
(2006)The problem of accurate credit risk evaluation is well-known in the world of financial markets. This paper develops a series of credit risk models using multiple discriminant analysis (the MDA) for selected emerging ... -
Momentum and Trend in Sweden: Enhancing profits and limiting downside risk by using indicators from different time horizons
(2020-07-07)Although being one of the most robust anomalies ever discovered, the momentum factor occasionally suffer big losses during market recessions periods. We apply and compare different factor models, and find that when sorting ... -
Momentum During Intraday. Trading Evidence from US NASDAQ
(2017-07-25)Both momentum and contrarian strategies have shown to provide investors with high risk-adjusted returns when applied on daily, weekly and monthly data. This study examines the effect of the underreaction phenomenon on the ... -
Monetary Circuit Theory and the Role of Banks in the Monetization of Profits
(2015-07-13)Using the tools of the monetary circuit the paradox of profits on how the firm sector as a whole can realize profits is addressed. The thesis innovates with the banking system facing the same profit paradox as firms and ...