The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there is evidence of performance persistence among 726 funds with net asset values denominated in Euros. The study is carried out on data ranging from April 1992 to April 2009. Persistence is searched for in raw, risk adjusted and alpha performance. The results attained provide evidence for the distinguishing of performance persistence in the sho

Reducing and eradicating poverty is one of humanities pressing challenges, one that the UN Commission of Legal Empowerment of the Poor has taken on. This thesis describes the prevailing poverty of South African farm workers and dwellers and explores why the empowerment efforts that have been made have not lifted them out of poverty. The results of this study are contrasted with the results of the

In recent years the importance of lobby organizations in the American foreign policy making has increased. One organization that has gained significant influence is the Israel lobby. In this study I present the actors involved in the making of American foreign policy, the relationship America has with Israel and the strategies used by the Israel lobby to gain their influence. I use liberalism to d

Genom att lägga ut verksamhet utomlands hoppas företag på att bli mer konkuranskraftiga då detta kan innebära lägre kostnader, expansionsmöjligheter och tillgång till välutbildad och flexibel personal. Detta benämns som offshoring vilket står i centrum i detta arbete. Offshoring av IT verksamhet är ett aktuellt och växande fenomen i dagens globaliserade värld. Som många andra IT projekt så är det

In recent years a lot of criticism against the main assumptions of economic modeling has come to up, this has led to physicists entering the field of economics. By applying models originally developed for physics to economics, especially finance, analyzing methods with a different approach can be used. Inspired by earthquakes Didier Sornette created a model that analyze financial market crashes. W

Through qualitative semi-structured interviews this study deals with some key questions related to the issue of integration based on the experiences of five Southeast Asian women residing in the Faroe Islands. The motivation behind the study is the apparent lack of awareness and interest among indigenous Faroese and politicians concerning immigrants and the almost complete absence of research on t

LGBTs (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) in Lebanon have for a long time been a target of oppression were legal, economic and social factors have contributed to their historical marginalization. While the Lebanese Penal code in article 534, is criminalizing homosexuality the law is rarely applied and is primarily used to violate the privacy of gay and lesbians by denying them basic human rig

Authors: Sanna Fyledal and Sanne Hjalmar Title: Business and pleasure or victimization –media images of male and female prostitution Supervisor: Katarina Jacobsson Assessor: Håkan Jönsson Prostitution is often described as a female phenomenon in texts describing occurrence, spread and actions against prostitution. Male prostitution was only mentioned briefly, to state the lack of knowledge and in

This paper focuses on measurement methods of credit risk. By modeling credit default swap spreads and predicting possible defaults of corporations with the use of default probabilities this paper makes the search for consistent methods to measure and manage risk by constructing plausible forecasts of contingent corporate defaults. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize advantages and disadvanta

This thesis studies all regional risk- and vulnerability analyses of Swedish county administrative boards from 2006. The method used in this descriptive study is direct content analysis based on theoretical models and relevant research areas. In total, 51 questions for each of the 20 county administrative boards has been answered where some answers have been quantified. The results of the study re

This work presents a rule-based character-recognition system for the Korean script, Hangeul. An input raster image representing one Korean character (Hangeul syllable) is thinned down to a skeleton, and the individual lines extracted. The lines, along with information on how they are interconnected, are translated into a set of hierarchical graphs, which can be easily traversed and compared with a

The aim with this report was to evaluate whether it is possible for the county administration in Skåne to assess the emergency preparedness in the county based on available documented information produced in the county’s municipalities. Seven municipalities’ documented emergency preparedness was evaluated using a direct content analysis. The analysis was based on an assessment template reflecting

Abstract In this study I have sought to understand the conditions for knowledge and objectivity in family assessment-work. I have used a philosophical theory to reach understanding of what possibilities and obstacles there are for an assessor in trying to reach knowledge about, and to be objective in, working with child and family-assessment. To fulfill my purpose I have made one group- and one s

Problem/Bakgrund: Flexibiliseringen av arbetslivet har påverkat och ändrat arbetsförhållandena för människor. I den här studien undersöker vi arbetsflexibilitetens konsekvenser så som de upplevs av enskilda individer i arbeten som innebär en frihet vad gäller arbetstider, distansarbete och eget ansvar. Syfte: Vi ämnar pröva om sociologen Richard Sennetts teori stämmer för svenska arbetsförhållan

This papers examines the impact Transnational Advocacy Networks have had on the process for Human Rights Accountability in Uruguay. Uruguay has an amnesty law in place since 1986, but have in spite of this managed to prosecute main figures of the 1973-1985 dictatorship, and the amnesty law is currently seriously challenged. The 'Network thesis', regards these Transnational Advocacy Network

Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på de inställningar revisorer och småföretag har om revisorer arbete och undersöka om och hur revisorns roll kommer att förändras av revisionspliktens avskaffande. Jag har använt mig av en kvalitativ undersöknings metod samt kommer att använda mig av både sekundär data och primär data för denna studie. Primärdata kommer jag få medelst intervjuer med fem revis

Abstract The competition regarding market shares in the mobile handset industry is tough. Today the mobile phone is more and more becoming a personal accessory and trends in shape, color and material are changing rapidly. The keypad is one of a phone’s many components which the end user gets in touch with first. It is used to activate the phone, and it is what the user feels and looks at initially

The goal of this Master Thesis is to help Tetra Pak with the current problems related with the creasing units. The creasing unit is set with different configurations depending on which package is wanted to be manufactured. The unit is provided with different modules and each module is moved by means a gear transmission. The different packages require different gears setups that could affect the qu

This thesis is done in cooperation with Dresser Wayne AB in Malmö and the objective has been to investigate if it is possible to use the X-flo meter, see Figure 1, in an LPG-dispencer. An increased pressure is used in the LPG-system, which involves a higher risk of leaking and strength problems. During the development consideration has been taken to a new outlet, though other couplings are used in

Our paper tries to verify the relation between international banks’ expansion and international automotive corporations’ overseas business in China. Pervasive phenomena indicate that foreign banks take following their clients as the initial strategy when they start overseas business in China’s market. As many previous literatures analyzed, in the beginning stage in a new foreign market, multinatio