The following essays checks whether the Swedish stock market (represented by OMXS30) supports the weak efficiency of the EMH by observing whether the stocks contain a unit root and whether one can use trading strategies to create abnormal profits. The AR(1) model of the stock prices have a unit root coefficient very close to 1, thus they are trend stationary but have a very long memory. This model

Finding the way back to childhood is a dissertation, written to clarify whether or not there exist any rehabilitation plan for the child soldiers being released in southern Sudan. Children are today, worldwide being released and let back into their communities, after years of abuse and violations against their rights. According to The Convention on the Rights of the Child, a child is protected fro

I dagens samhälle används geografiska analyser i stor uträckning som verktyg för att hjälpa till vid beslutsfattning. Det är viktigt att sådana geografiska analyser håller en god kvalitet för att resultatet ska kunna representera verkliga förhållanden. Kvalitetsgranskning av geografiska data är vanligt och flera standarder har tagits fram som beskriver hur geografiska data ska insamlas och kvaliteGeographical analysis is increasingly used in decision making processess. It is therefore very important that such analysis is performed with a satisfying quality, so that the results can be used as a representative model of reality. Quality descriptions of spatial data are common and several standards have been developed that describes how spatial data should be gathered and quality assured. Less

The aim of this report is to contribute with information that can be used to improve access to good risk assessments associated with storage of wood pellets. Frank-Kamenetskii theory is described in a manner intended to facilitate for the reader to understand and carry out calculations with the theory. A modeling tool in Microsoft Excel for calculations with Frank-Kamenetskii theory has been devel

The report studies the area of positive pressure ventilation, how it can be used to obtain a more effective fire services intervention and how an incorrect initiation could drastically worsen the interior conditions for occupants inclusive of fire services personnel. The tests in the report examine how flow rate and pressure within a building are affected if parameters such as fan placement and ra

Det Palestinska Territoriet har sedan 1967 varit ockuperat av Israel. Som följd av ett stort antal oroligheter och protester mot ockupationen har Israel infört restriktioner för rörlighet inom Västbanken och Gaza. Rörligheten är styrd med hjälp av exempelvis vägspärrar och blockerade vägar. År 2002 började Israel bygga en betongmur runt om och inuti Västbanken, trots att det motsätter sig internatThe Palestinian Territory has since 1967 been occupied by Israel. Following a large number of disturbances as protests to the occupation, Israel has imposed mobility restrictions for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. The mobility is regulated by for example checkpoints, roadblocks and earth mounds. In 2002, Israel started to build a concrete wall around and inside the Palestinian Territory o

En auteurstudie av den polska regissören Roman Polanski. En analys av hans fyra filmer: Kniven i Vattnet, Repulsion, Cul de Sac och Ghost Writer och en slutdiskussion där filmerna knyts an Polanskis omtalade liv.

The purpose of this qualitative research was to examine how medical social workers define their professional commission and expertise. It also examines whether the idea of their professional role is established among other professions within the healthcare system, enabling them to gain access to and carry out their professional social work. The empirical research, consisting of interviews with 3 m

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka bank- och försäkringsföretagens förhållning till sociala medier. Ambitionen är att utreda huruvida det föreligger en passiv inställning samt vad den beror på. Undersökningen är kvalitativ och således av djup karaktär, med förklarande ambitioner. Vi har använt oss utav en induktiv ansats och med hjälp av ett fallföretag ökat förståelsen.Insamling av uppsatsens

Title: Lessons from the financial crisis – the importance of communication in a world where business is king. Authors: Peter Houli and Robert Sarvik Mentor: Asta Cepaite Nilsson Problem statement: Currently, seemingly few studies have been conducted with focus on how organisations have used issues and crisis management during the financial crisis. Furthermore, issues and crisis management as field

This thesis investigates the game of oil shipping; both the market settings and how the players play the game. An important characteristic of the oil shipping market is cycles in the spot freight prices. The cycles are created by the imperfect adjustment mechanisms of supply within the relatively short run, and by that the demand is not perfectly predictable. By a mathematical investigation, I sho

During the 1980s and 1990s more and more countries opened up their economies to trade and increased their volumes of trade. In the same period of time it has been said that income inequality increased in many parts of the world. The aim of this thesis is to discover whether increased income inequality can be related to trade openness. This relationship is studied using three different hypotheses.

Due to the increasing need for advanced credit risk management and lacking quantitative credit risk measurement modeling at the Chinese banks, the purpose of this dissertation is to study the feasibility of applying the Western credit risk model, the Moody’s KMV (MKMV), to China. Because of the particular Chinese considerations, such as developing stage of financial market and lacking of default d

The EC Internal Market is aiming at integrating all markets, securing competition and allowing for free movements of goods, services, persons and capital. Measures have been taken to also include the so-called network industries in the internal market, but because of their special features this is not as straight forward as with regular goods. The electricity sector is one of these network industr

Obesity is one of the most important public health concerns around the world. Research suggests that obesity has potentially important effects on labour market outcomes. Using longitudinal data, the thesis aims to study the effect of obesity on wage earnings in Sweden. The data set used in this study is the Swedish level-of-living Survey (LNU) from the year 1991 and 2000. Different estimation proc

In this thesis, employment and earnings differentials between visually or hearing-impaired and non-disabled Swedish workers are analyzed. The thesis investigates whether there are any differences and if so, how large, in the earnings and the employment probabilities of the visually or hearing-impaired and the non-impaired on the Swedish labor market. Due to the detailed measures of visual acuity a

This thesis will focus on one of the most external factors that drove the institutional change particularly in Chinese industry, which is the emergence of private de novo firms. The purpose of this thesis is to bring together the important role of emerging private firms in a marketizing economy and the impediments imposed by the government. Several institutional problems need to be addressed in or

Title: Health in developing countries – The determinants of health in Latin American and Caribbean countries Author: Fredrik Klintberg Supervisor: Carl Hampus Lyttkens, Professor, Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University Problem discussion: There are still today many problems related to health in developing countries. When reasoning on how to deal with these pro

ABSTRACT The threat of globalization to public spending as well as a fiscal debate of the disciplining hypothesis and compensation hypothesis on large sample of countries, have been widely analyzed in the public finance literature. Yet the welfare states in Nordic countries with largest share of public expenditures have never been singled out for similar studies. This study employs a much more det