The thesis concerns inflation measuring and investigates how an alternative to the CPI or GDP-deflator inflation measures could be constructed. The theoretical foundations are based on the quantity theory of money. The measure is constructed as a weighted index where the weights are determined through a statistical method that assigns a weight to a good or a group of goods according to its volatil

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to determine if effective exchange rate pricing can be based on the (flexible) monetary model. If so, it implies a cointegration relationship with a cointegrating vector between the spot exchange rate and the non-stationary determining variables of the monetary model; relative money supplies and relative national incomes. Cointegration tests for individual cou

Uppsatsen handlar om det litterära talspråket, närmare bestämt om hur ungdomars talspråk gestaltas i ungdomsromanen Shoo len, av Douglas Foley. Jag utgår från befintlig forskningslitteratur om verklighetens ungdomsspråk och med speciellt fokus på multietniskt ungdomsspråk. Med en kvalitativ undersökning av romankaraktärernas talspråk beskriver jag hur Foley skapar ”sitt” ungdomliga litterära talsp

Canada’s total fertility rate declined steadily from its peak of 3.92 children per woman in 1958 to a low of 1.49 in 2000. Since 2001 however, Canada’s TFR has increased every year, resting at 1.66 in 2007. This increase has taken place in nearly every province, and coincides with a period when real estate prices increased for 37 consecutive fiscal quarters. Although numerous studies have focused

In this thesis a model for valuing an arbitrary collateralized loan obligation (CLO) is implemented. A CLO is a structured credit product whose performance relies on a pool of corporate loans. Valuation in the context of this thesis is the price on a CLO security and the distribution for the price. The major driver behind the performance of the loan pool is the default distribution among obligors.

Uppsatsen behandlar ansvaret för uppgifter i avtalsförhandlingar. Frågan gäller ansvaret i kommersiella förhållanden mellan två näringsidkare. Det händer ibland att en part ingår ett avtal under en förutsättning som senare visar sig vara felaktig. En uppgift som först presenterats kan senare visa sig vara felaktig. Tvisten kan sedan komma att gå till en domstol för ett avgörande. Tolkningsprincipe

Den rådande ekonomiska krisen har medfört att ett stort antal människor i Sverige har blivit av med sina arbeten. Konkurrensen på arbetsmarknaden är hård och den kräver ambitiösa insatser av de arbetslösa. Tillståndet på arbetsmarknaden har gjort att de arbetslösas situation har blivit en viktig samhällsangelägenhet. Uppsatsens syfte var att ta reda på hur arbetslösa upplever mötet med Arbetsförme

The aim of this study is to 1) describe the structure and types of associational and organizational networks within immigrant women’s community in southern Sweden Malmö, Lund and Eslöv, 2) examine how such networks facilitate Thai women’s well-being and integration by providing social supports and services, and 3) present how Thai women perceive the role of social and organizational networks in re

The aims of the thesis are to investigate the estimation power and the normality of standardized residuals for Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity models (GARCH). We facilitate the analysis by only dealing with GARCH(1, 1) models. We take use of MATLAB as the statistical programming tool for the simulation of the data and the estimation. We define the meaning of estimation

Title: Resistance and uncertainty in change processes. How can dialogue and participation be used to ensure a successful implementation of a change initiative? Author: Cathrine Westlie Eidal Advisor: Charlotte Simonsson Problem: Resistance and uncertainty towards change are the main problems why change initiatives fail. There is also a lack in the literature when it comes to how the employees perc

Hållbarhetsutveckling kan definieras som ”En samhällsutveckling som tillgodoser dagens behov utan att äventyra kommande generationers möjlighet att tillgodose sina behov.” Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa vilka möjligheter ett aktiebolag har att verka för en hållbar utveckling, utan att det går mot verksamhetens syfte att gå med vinst och minoritetsskyddsreglerna i ABL; det vill säga genera

Abstract Equine assisted therapy - a qualitative study of therapeutic riding Assessor: Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed Equine assisted therapy is not a new treatment. During the 1500's riding was recommended for maintaining health or improving it, then riding was considered to have positive impact on both physical and mental health. In the 1600's horse-like machines were manufactured to

Migration of highly skilled individuals or brain drain is an integral part of the globalization. Education is a crucial determinant of human capital accumulation in the country and therefore, a source of economic growth. The aim of this paper is to assess migration tendency as a function of educational level for the Eastern European region. While most previous studies have focused on the rural mig

This essay is about two of the most important surveys concerning cultural politics in Sweden. The first is the survey Boken – Litteraturutredningens huvudbetänkande/1968 års litteraturutredning from 1974, which was a part of the groundwork for the politics concerning literature in Sweden. The other one is Betänkande av Kulturutredningen 2009, which is an attempt to make great structural changes to

This thesis disaggregates the ‘Swedish paradox’ with respect to Swedish manufacturing from 1987 to 2007. This is done by analyzing the impact of R&D expenditure in industry on industry growth of the manufacturing industry in Sweden from 1987 to 2007. A quantitative approach using panel-data from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and OECD is used to investigate the effect of R&D expenditure on econom

This essay is an event study of the share price of a number of companies listed at the Stockholm Exchange Market which prior to the dates studied only had men in their board. The purpose of the essay is to study whether the announcement of a new female board member affects the share price. The number of companies used in the study is 25. The essay builds its reasoning on theories on efficient mark

Sammanfattning De senaste årtiondena har sjukvården i stora delar av Västeuropa präglats av strukturella förändringar. Kostnaderna för sjukvård ökar dramatiskt medan intäkterna är svåra att påverka. Med anledning av de ökande kostnaderna har sjukvården även fått en allt större roll på den politiska agendan, vilket har lett till att sjukvården har blivit föremål för många olika strategier. En synl

From the recent mortality trends in Central and Eastern Europe, it is clear that in the former socialist countries the economic transition had a different effect on male and female mortality: premature death became much more frequent among males, and the gender mortality gap increased as a result. The psycho-social stress hypothesis (Cornia and Paniccia, 2001) explains the Eastern European experie

This Master’s thesis aims to identify aspects of the school librarians’ accessibility in the school library, which is the integral part of the local public library and where integration bears the meaning of two spheres of activities sharing both space and recourses. One of the aspects concerns the design of the library organization and its impact on the school librarians’ accessibility. Another as

Based on individual interviews with six single mothers in the Guatemalan countryside this thesis describes the stigmatization and vulnerability of women who depart from the norm of a society ruled by men. Guatemala is an underdeveloped and violent country, where both men and women are exposed. The vulnerability of women, however, is in many cases huge since the culture of machismo and male superio