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Informal Payments for Health Care and their Implications on Patient Welfare
(2012-07-24)
Corruption in the healthcare sector is a widespread problem in many
countries. Empirical research has shown that petty corruption is especially
endemic in healthcare, perhaps due to the importance of health
to human ...
Foreign Currency Denominated Debt as a Hedging Instrument - A Case Study on AstraZeneca Ltd, Nestl´e S.A. and SKF AB
(2012-07-25)
In the current global economic environment post-crisis, the area of managing foreign exchange rate exposure becomes increasingly eminent. The recent turmoil has shown that there is a wide variety of ways trying to mitigate ...
Parking fees in Gothenburg: Effectiveness and consistency with traffic planning goals
(2012-07-25)
In 2009 the city of Gothenburg adopted a new parking policy which, among other things, aims to reduce long term parking and encourage short term parking in urban areas. This thesis provides an analysis of parking fees in ...
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 ...
The Untold Story -Storytelling in External Employer Branding
(2012-07-12)
In a cluttered landscape of brands storytelling could be a mean to get the message across. 80 percent of employers find it difficult to attract the right and talented people. Therefore, the aim of this study is to study ...
Cleantech System Solutions - A case study on how to manage the necessary knowledge to prepare for a transaction
(2012-07-16)
Climate change and a growing awareness from governments, industry and citizens have led to an increased growth of the cleantech sector, with the goal to reduce the industrialized world’s impact on the environment. There ...
Structural breaks in mean reverting processes: Empirical study of WTI-Brent futures spreads
(2012-07-25)
The purpose of this study is to examine the implication of structural breaks in mean reverting processes on the expected return of spread trading. Previous research focuses on the effective- ness of threshold filters in ...
Facilitating faster knowledge transfer in the MNC: A case study of Volvo Car Corporation’s matched pairs system in Shanghai
(2012-07-11)
Internal transfer of knowledge is critical for firms’ survival, particularly in highly competitive markets where successful firms are those that rapidly transfer knowledge internally. Although knowledge transfer has been ...
Utilization of Social Media within Product Development -an exploratory multiple case study of SMEs and their perception on the usability of social media in the product development process
(2012-07-16)
While social media is already widely adopted among firms within commercialization and marketing, it can also prove to be a useful tool in the process of product development in order to interact with customers and open up ...
Preferences on the Rental Housing Market - What Factors Determine the Attractiveness of an Apartment in Gothenburg?
(2012-07-24)
This thesis is an empirical examination of the demand side of the rental housing market in Gothenburg. The study is done in collaboration with Boplats Göteborg, the main housing agency in the city. Due to certain regulations ...