This study examines the impact that the association agreement between the European Union and Israel has had on Israel in terms of trade and specialization. The thesis concludes that Israel benefited from increased trade and specialization between 1995 and 2005, despite the macroeconomic instability that caused trade contraction in 2002-03. An important finding is that the increased international m

Purpose The paper intends to analyze how the moving average performs in two different types of markets and thereby contribute to the knowledge of its practical use. Methodology Thirty companies from the OMX Nordic list are studied with the use of a moving average. The study will take place in two different periods, one characterized with market-fall (2000-2003) and one with market-rise (2003-2007)

Följderna av narkotikamissbruk kostar samhället stora summor pengar varje år. Att beräkna den exakta storleken på dessa summor är omöjligt, eftersom stora delar av den narkotikarelaterade verksamheten är olaglig. De kostnadsberäkningar man kan göra blir ungefärliga uppskattningar. Ändå är det viktigt att försöka, eftersom den kunskap man har om kostnaderna för narkotikamissbrukets konsekvenser utg

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EU:s inre marknad skapades 1993 och det var väntat att avskaffandet av icketariffera handelshinder skulle leda till bl.a. ökad handel mellan medlemsländerna. Genom att undersöka om andelen intern export av total export har ökat söker den här studien besvara om den inre marknaden har lett till ökad handel i livsmedel inom EU15. Resultaten tyder på att handelseffekterna för EU15 som helhet har varit

Denna uppsats har till syfte att undersöka huruvida det, med hjälp av teknisk analys, föreligger större möjlighet att skapa lönsamma handelsstrategier för index än för enskilda aktier. Vi kommer även att belysa hur god avkastning sådana strategier kan generera i förhållande till en jämförelsestrategi där man köper och håller tillgången under hela perioden. Handelsstrategier baserade på dubbla löpa

I följande uppsats behandlas en del av Nigerias moderna historia, 1960-1999, i syfte att utforska den roll som oljeindustrin har spelat för landets utveckling under just denna period. I denna undersökning inkluderas en beskrivning av oljesektorn utseende samt även en genomgång av de skiftningar i industriell och ekonomisk policy som påverkat oljesektorns effekter, vars resultat analyseras i skenet

This study analyzes fluctuations in the current account, financial account and their main components in Turkey between 1984 and 2007. Two Stage Least Squares method is used and the empirical model is built up on the base of the study of Clausen and Kandil (2005). Real output growth, price inflation, real effective exchange rates, oil prices, global output growth and European output growth are used

Uppsatsen syftar till att beskriva en framtida avreglerad marknad för receptfria läkemedel i Sverige, samt att utvärdera effekterna av en avreglering. Resonemang har främst förts via nationalekonomiska modeller om monopol och oligopol samt med hjälp av Andersens ”behavioral model”. Jämförelser och erfarenheter från andra europeiska länder har också betydelse för analysen. Sedan år 1970 har Apoteke

Due to the concerns of increasing need for advanced credit risk management and lacking of 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 pricing the temporary non-tradable restricted

In this paper, whether Chinese stock market has long-term and short-term liquidity effect is discussed. Traditional use of factors indicating different level of monetary supply is not sufficient in explaining short-term liquidity. Other factors such as foreign exchange reserve, private saving, deposit reserve rate all contribute to the liquidity effect after the split-share reform. Also, the nomin

The phenomenon of price difference between A shares and H shares of the firms in Mainland China has been of research interest for years. A shares, traded in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges with the currency of CNY (also known as Renminbi), are always traded at a premium to H shares of the same firm, which traded in Hong Kong with HKD. On the basis of previous studies, we proposed to introduc

Den 1 juli 2004 ändrade riksdagen lagen, så att det skulle bli möjligt för svenska bostadsinstitut att finansiera sin utlåning genom emittering av s.k. säkerställda obligationer. Fördelen med denna form av finansiering är att investerarna som köper de säkerställda obligationerna kommer att ha prioriterade fordringar på den underliggande säkerheten om det emitterande institutet skulle gå i konkurs.

Syftet med denna uppsats var att kartlägga utländska bankers utveckling i Kina samt att studera dess effekter på den kinesiska ekonomin. Uppsatsen är kronologiskt indelad och börjar då de utlänska bankerna gjorde sina första inträden på den kinesiska marknaden under andra hälften av 1800-talet och forsätter in till mitten av 2000-talet. Beskrivningen sker med hjälp av en löpande diskussion av makr

This thesis compares three different tests by analyzing the difference in sample means between two different data samples, both with small sample sizes. The three tests being examined here are the t-test, nonparametric bootstrap, and permutation test. These tests are employed under several different circumstances, such as varying sample sizes, means, underlying distributions, and variances in the

The role of commercial aviation and economy in common perception, having a new airport is a new signal of the development in a region. It brings prosperity and creates development blocks to facilitate the growing aeropolis. At least, 4.5 percent of the world’s GDP is contributed by the emergence of airports and aviation industries. However, there are many societal, environmental, and economic draw

This thesis is concerned with the problems that the monopolist is facing under the second-degree price discrimination where he does not possess the complete information about the preferences of the different consumer groups and as result he is not able to recognize different consumers prior to the consumption. The aim is to investigate what is, under those circumstances, the best possible strategy

This thesis is concerned with the problems that a government of a country faces when it will find the Pareto optimal tax-system, for finitely many inhabitants in a country where individuals have quasilinear preferences and a lack of information of wage or hours worked by any particular individual, based on Weymark's model (1986, p. 201-204). The aim of this thesis is to describe pedagogically

This essay is a comparison of the American and the Swedish labor law systems regarding the right to strike. American unions generally have a tougher time than Swedish unions to get by. Not only do they have to fight the employers, the federal government does not give much support either and the union dislike is widely spread amongst the population. This goes back all the way to the beginning of th

Small- and Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) contributed a lot to the economic growth and promote employment in China. However, they were suffering from the credit discrimination, insecure property right protection, lack of the industry support policy and social services the same time. Based on this general background, in 2003, the Law of the PRC on promotion of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (S