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Focused Funds – How Do They Perform in Comparison with More Diversified Funds?

The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether or not focused funds can outperform bigger and more diversified funds, both in mean return and in its relation to risk taking. The data used in this thesis consist of 67 Swedish mutual funds, one benchmark index and 129 stocks. All data is from the period 2007-2011. The fund data is retrieved from FactSet, the benchmark index from SIX-Telekurs an

Important Market Characteristics in International Establishments

This study aims to identify important market characteristics that affect international market establishments in the IT consulting industry. A qualitative case study has been conducted at an IT consulting firm, where Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas has been used as a tool to identify and compare market characteristics to existing theory regarding internationalisation in the Knowledge-Intens

Exponering av bisfenol A från fiskkonserver

Bisphenol A (BPA) is an endocrine disruptor which is very present in our surrounding environment. As a component mainly used in plastics and in the inner linings in cans, BPA can also be found in our bodies due to migration into food. Once the substance is reaching the components of the body it is biotransformed into a more water soluble molecule called monoglucoronide. Whether to measure the unco

Chinese OFDI and Private Companies in Ethiopia - Industrialization and Employment Opportunities

Over the past few years, there has been considerable academic interest in studying the relationship between China and Africa. This study aims to describe what effect Chinese outbound foreign direct (OFDI) investments and private companies have had on employment opportunities and industrialization in Ethiopia. The research question reads: What effect has Chinese outbound foreign direct investments

Ett mystiskt ryggradsdjursfossil från Åsen och dess koppling till den skånska, krittida ryggradsdjursfaunan

I detta arbete presenteras en del av den ryggradsdjursfauna som fanns i södra Sverige under krittidens senare del, dvs. för mellan 100 och 66 miljoner år sedan. Vidare avhandlas ett mystiskt, fossilt skelettfynd från Kristianstadbassängen i nordöstra Skåne. Syftet med studien är att identifiera fossilet och att försöka bestämma till vilken djurgrupp det kan ha hört. Benet hittades i grundmarina sThis work presents a part of the vertebrate fauna that existed in the southern of Sweden during the latest Cretaceous period, between 100 and 66 Ma ago. Further, data on a mysterious skeletal finding from the Kristianstad Basin will be presented. The purpose of the study is to identify the fossil and to determine to which group of animals it might have belonged. The fossil was found in shallow, m

Modernisation of Public Procurement - Making the public market more competitive and collusion proof?

This thesis has its focus on the interaction between competition law and the public procurement regime. Since the two systems have the same objective of the creation of an internal market it is vital that the two systems reach coherence. Despite this there is now express provision on the importance to fight anti competitive behaviour in the Public Sector Directive 2004/18/EC. On March 28th 2014 th

Riskinventering i produktionsfas med fokus på kvalitet

I rapporten har ett av de större entreprenadföretagens, Skanska Sverige ABs, arbete kring riskinventeringar studerats. Enligt deras föreskrivna rutiner och arbetssätt startar riskhanteringsarbetet redan i anbudsskedet och ska genom hela projektet, och under produktionen, uppdateras. Förutsättningar finns för att göra riskarbetet kontinuerligt, men enligt personerna som intervjuats verkar det inte

”Jag har aldrig träffat en tonåring som mår jättebra under hela sin pubertetsperiod” - Skolkuratorers beskrivningar av psykisk ohälsa

The aim with the study was to analyse school counselor´s descriptions of how students mental ill-health expresses itself. We also aimed to analyse how they describe causes and solutions in relation to the students’ mental ill-health. Our study is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with six school counselors, who are all working at different secondary schools in the south of Sweden. Th

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION ‐ HOW DOES IT AFFECT XENOPHOBIC ATTITUDES?

Globalization is a complex and constantly changing phenomenon shaping our contemporary world and societies. It is argued to generate economic growth and greater possibilities to most people in the world, but has an impact on an individual level as well, on our personal values and social attitudes. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the research done within the field of globalization and how

Political Economy of Accountability in a Resource-Rich Region: A Case Study of Bojonegoro

This study investigates the emergence of accountability in a natural resource-rich regency in Indonesia namely Bojonegoro. While it is widely acknowledged that natural resource-abundance tends to be associated with predatory states, Bojonegoro has able to promote accountability and achieve a high level of economic growth in the last five years. This paper thus attempts to analyze the incentives th

Driftstörningskonsekvenser utav ERTMS-implementering i Sverige

Today, Sweden is in an upgrade period between the two train control systems. Today’s system has soon reached the end of its lifecycle period and therefore need to be replaced. Meanwhile, decisions within the EU have been taken to improve interoperability between European countries. The solution will be an international control system replacing the different national train control and command syste

Strategic Business Partnerships in the Consumer Technology Industry - A Case Study on Partner Selection Criteria and Their Influence on the Outcome of Value Constellations

Thesis purpose: To identify relevant criteria underlying the partner selection process in a leading company in the consumer technology industry, as well as to subsequently analyse the influences which those criteria have on overall outcome. The intention is to draw valid implications for future research as well as for actors in similar market environments. Methodology: The researchers of this pa

God fastighetsmäklarsed - En rättsfallsstudie

De flesta bostadsöverlåtelserna i Sverige förmedlas av en fastighetsmäklare. Ett centralt begrepp i regleringen av fastighetsmäklare är god fastighetsmäklarsed. Lagstiftaren har ansett att innebörden av god fastighetsmäklarsed inte lämpligen bör låsas fast genom lagstiftning utan att begreppets innebörd istället bör bestäm-mas av bland annat praxis. Störst påverkan på begreppets innebörd har avgör

Vinderosion, sanddrift och markanvändning på Kristianstadsslätten

The Department of Geology at the university and the Swedish National Heritage Board have initiated a collaboration on palaeclimate reconstruction. The main source of information is a sediment sequence from the dead-ice lake of Lyngsjön, just north of Everöd on the Kristianstad plain. The core contains information from far back in Holocene but the analysis and interpretation can be facilitated if s

Nuclear Compton scattering from 12C

Nuclear Compton scattering — the elastic scattering of photons — from 12C has been studied at the Tagged-Photon Facility at MAX IV in Lund, Sweden. The differential cross section for the reaction was determined at laboratory angles of 60° and 120° in the energy range 65-95 MeV. The cross section for nuclear Compton scattering is related to the electric and magnetic polarisabilities of the proton a

Kunskap om stereotyphot och dess påverkan på svenska lärarstudenters förväntningar på flickors och pojkars matematiska förmåga

När kvinnor ägnar sig åt matematik löper de risken att utsättas för stereotyphot och bli bedömda efter den negativa stereotypen som existerar kring kvinnor och matematisk förmåga (Spencer & Steele, 1999). Den aktuella studien undersöker ifall information om stereotyphot påverkar lärarstudenters attityder kring könsstereotyper och matematik. En enkätundersökning med tre olika betingelser deladeWhen women engage in mathematics they are at risk of stereotype threat and can be judged by the negative stereotype that exists about women and mathematical ability (Spencer & Steele, 1999). The current study investigates if information about stereotype threat affects student teachers’ attitudes about gender stereotypes and math. A questionnaire with three different conditions were distributed