American and Bermudan options have a wide range of applications in financial markets, e.g. in commodities markets among others. The pricing literature of such contingent claims is broad and many different algorithms and frameworks have been developed. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the Least-Squares Method (LSM), \cite{LSM}, can be extended to incorporate stochastic convenience y

I den här studien strävade vi efter att undersöka hur Holacracy®, en organisationsstruktur, skulle fungera i en modell utformad av Anthony et al. (2014) som visar hur en organisations struktur samspelar med organisationens kultur, styrmedel och Human Resource Management. Syftet var att undersöka om tillämpningen av Holacracy kunde medföra ökade möjligheter till målkongruens. I vår analys upptäckte

Social media have been around for over a decade and many institutions have incorporated them into their communication strategies for some time now. However, despite numerous studies on social media in the US universities, there is a wide knowledge gap regarding the use of these communication platforms in the European higher education sphere, with only a handful of studies in the UK and Netherlands

Titel: Från gårdsbutik till upplevelse – en studie om hur företagare på landsbygden skapar upplevelser kring sin verksamhet. Författare: Isabell Davidsson och Alexandra Sundell Nivå: Kandidatuppsats i Service Management, VT 2014 Institution: Institutionen för Service Management, Lunds universitet, Campus Helsingborg Handledare: Erika Andersson Cederholm och Carina Sjöholm Nyckelord: upplevels

This Master’s thesis investigates how Swedish cultural heritage institutions discuss their work and their role in the preservation of computer games as a cultural expression. The organizations investigated for this thesis is Gamevaults in Malmö, Museum of Technology in Stockholm and the audiovisual department at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm. The first question in this thesis invest

International migration facilitated by contemporary globalization has brought about feelings of insecurity in terms of identity for both the host societies as well as incoming immigrants posing a major obstacle in host countries to integrate immigrants into society. In such context, social exclusion and discrimination can occur. The author argues that this is not a one-directional process. In orde

The European Union (EU) in its current shape and form is primarily a product of deepening economic integration, whereas a social dimension of European integration that would be comparable in ambition to its economic dimension has failed to manifest itself despite repeated attempts to give the social dimension greater weight. Based on a neo-Gramscian theoretical perspective of hegemony, this can be

Primeval forest or prime grassland. This paper aims to bridge the gap between the paleoecology of the Boreal and Atlantic forests and archaeological bone assemblages. The study has been focused on central Scania, Sweden, an area known for rich Mesolithic findings. The population responses over time to ecological changes in the environment has been studied for the five most commonly recovered game

Remifentanil är en ultrakortverkande opioid. På grund av dess mycket potenta effekt måste den ges kontrollerat, antingen via målstyrd tillförsel [TCI] eller manuell kontroll [MK] av hastigheten på pumpen. Syftet med studien var att undersöka om det fanns någon skillnad i dos eller biverkningsfrekvens mellan TCI och MK. Metod: Data samlades in från 49 operationer. Resultat: Ingen signifikant skil

This master's thesis focuses on information seeking from a student perspective. The purpose was to explore how students describe their search for information in relation to writing their master's thesis, where prioritising amongst search tools was one aspect further looked into. Since the context was Lund University and specifically master students within the field of political science, th

Economic evaluation has become an important tool in health and transport economics. To evaluate decisions, thresholds and benchmark values are required. These thresholds can include valuating lives in monetary form. To ensure an efficient distribution of resources the value of human life should be approximately the same between the sectors. In transport economics value of statistical life (VSL) is

In this thesis the question concerning possible influence of language on thinking was addressed by investigating constituent orders in non-verbal representations of motion events. Forty-nine participants, 25 native speakers of Swedish with the default order SVO (or Agent-Act-Patient), and Kurdish with SOV (Agent-Patient-Act) were recruited in Sweden and 24 in Iraqi Kurdistan to take part in an exp

Home ownership has for long been welcomed and subsidized across most Western countries. Earlier macro studies on the linkages between home ownership rates and unemployment rates have shown a fairly strong support of the Oswald hypothesis. However, these results have been contradicted by micro level evidence on the topic. In this paper the Oswald hypothesis will be analysed by conducting a panel da

RESEARCH QUESTION: How do virtualization and globalization processes in contemporary consumer society alter the working of the social multiplier? PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to shed light upon the, nowadays, complex social comparison processes by looking at the working and the effects of the social multiplier in contemporary consumer society. RELEVANCE: We believe that the increased

Allt fler företag har insett marknadsföringsvärdet i att marknadsföra produkter via bloggar. Detta då bloggarna oftast paketerar budskapet som en produktrekommendation vilket gör att bloggaren betraktas som källan till budskapet. Vår undersökning har studerat hur trovärdighet skapas för bloggarens personliga varumärke, hur celebritetsrepresentation är iakttagbart på bloggar och varför bloggaren be

Sweden is often considered a global forerunner of family demographic shifts brought about by increasing individualization and globalization. While modern theories often depict a general movement away from romantic love sentiments and toward more rational, equal and casual exchanges and defamilization, feminist scholarship critiques the optimism of these claims in light of persisting structural ine

Det finns idag omfattande forskning om försörjningskedjans roll för produkttillgängligheten (Aastrup & Kotzab, 2010; Corsten & Gruen, 2003; Grant & Fernie, 2008; Trautrims et al. 2010). Dessvärre är forskningen på butiksnivå och ”de sista 20 metrarna” mindre uppmärksammad. Detta trots konstateranden om butiken som den felande länken, vilket resulterat i att personalens roll inte beakta

Globalization and more open economies has over the last two decades led to an increase of FDI which has been argued to lead to economic growth. So far economists are not unanimous on to what extent or fully agreed upon if certain other conditions have to be fulfilled for this to be true. In newer research on economic development scientists emphasize the importance of institutions for economic grow

Uppsatsen har som syfte att undersöka hur en ung aktör inom lyxindustrin använder sig av storytelling, historieberättande, som ett verktyg för att legitimera höga produktpriser. Eftersom lyxvarumärkets narrativ normalt sett grundar sig i traditioner och arv, kommer uppsatsen granska hur lyxklockvarumärket Hublot, en ung framgångsrik aktör utan tradition eller arv, slagit sig fram på marknaden. ResThe thesis intends to investigate how a young actor in the luxury industry practices storytelling as a tool to legitimize high product prices. Since the luxury brand narrative is normally based on heritage, the thesis will scrutinize the luxury watch brand Hublot, a young successful actor, lacking heritage. The results are based on a narrative analysis of document sources treating brand ambassador

The American public libraries rest on a foundation that dates back into the mid-19th century and are often talked about as a democratic institution. In later years some of these libraries have been outsourced or privatized and are now run and operated by private, for-profit companies. The aim of this study is to examine the arguments for and against the privatization of American public libraries a