China’s surging OFDI has been a prominent phenomenon since the start of 20th century. As China’s economic growth is widely received as following a unique path, a question arises immediately---does Chinese outward investment also follows a distinctive pattern which can only be explained by special theori¬es? This paper analyzes the determinants of Chinese OFDI by adopting Random Effects FGLS estima

There is a remarkable gap between the socio-economic living conditions of the urban aboriginal people compared to other urban residents in Canada. The purpose of this essay is to explain why this gap is intact by explaining how urban space is intimately connected with the search for a national identity. The Canadian national identity was originally based on the displacement of the aboriginal peopl

The purpose of this essay was to research and study the accountability of NGOs. The main question dealt with is with what measures and mechanisms NGOs handles critic on legitimacy and accountability deficit. It defines accountability and non-governmental organisations to facilitate an understanding of the concepts and notions of the study and goes on to discuss the criticism faced by NGOs, mainly

The most common cause of death in the world is not cancer or heart attack. The most common cause of death, is a deaths related to poverty. Yet, poverty is rarely mentioned in a connection to the right to life. Is there a reasonable ground for not mentioning the poverty in connection to the right to life? What difference could be made if the deaths caused by poverty, was mentioned in a direct conne

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the Colombian children’s situation looks like due to the internal armed conflict in Colombia. I do this by exploring how the different actors, illegal armed groups and the state, of the conflict affect the children’s rights to education, life and safety, and adequate standard of living. In the last mentioned rights indicator I focus on children’s health

Parents have the primary responsibility to create a safe environment for their children. The family is of great importance, both as a basic social unit, but also for the individual child's development. In cases where the parents for various reasons are unable to care for their children and the family environment may be even harmful to the child, it is society's role to take over parental r

The purpose of this essay is to present the conclusions and recommendations in the Goldstone report that were given to the state of Israel, as well as presenting the state of Israel’s response and presented investigations against the allegations. Along with that, a presentation of Amnesty International’s updated assessment will be given along with its criticism towards the state of Israel due to t

Den boreala skogen, mer känd som taigan, breder ut sig på de nordliga delarna av norra halvklotet innan den trädlösa tundran tar över. I detta enorma skogsområde som sträcker sig genom Skandinavien, Ryssland och Nordamerika är störningar i form av bränder, insektsangrepp och stormar vanliga och en naturlig del av ekosystemet. Dessa störningar påverkar skogens kolbalans genom deras inverkan på bådeNatural disturbances such as fires, insect outbreaks and windthrows are able to influence the balance between the ecosystem gain and loss of carbon in the boreal forest. This effect of natural disturbances on the ecosystem carbon balance has been proposed as one of the reasons why the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere varies between years. At present the boreal forest as a whole act to mitigate

Denna uppsats studerar hur kausal attribution kan predicera för risken av migränanfall eller vice versa. Testningar gjordes dels på normalpopulation och migränpopulation En inomgruppsmätning gjordes även för att se om kausal attribution kan samvariera med migränintensitet, frekvens och duration. Deltagarna var 90 personer varav 66 kvinnor och 24 män. Testpersonerna rekryterades via facebook, psyko

Uppsatsen söker finna empiriskt stöd för teorin om Environmental Kuznets curve genom regressioner baserade på paneldata från 59 länder under en 47-årsperiod. Att undersöka hur sambandet mellan koldioxidutsläpp per capita och BNP per capita ser ut är det centrala i uppsatsen. Relationen enligt teorin för EKC bör få formen av ett uppochnedvänt U om teorin stämmer. Bäst empiriskt stöd för detta har t

This paper studies the determinants of bank capital structure and discusses how traditional theories of capital structure apply to banks in the light of financial regulation. The purpose is to find out the impact, to EU in particular, of the new regulatory framework that has been pushed through because of the financial crisis post 2007. This is done by a review of capital structure theories and th

The conventional NAIRU model stipulates that any existing money illusion would vanish by the passage of time. In contrast, the model developed by Akerlof, Dickens and Perry (2000) (ADP) argues that inflation, instead of time, dissipate money illusion. Accordingly, there exists a possibility of an inflation unemployment tradeoff in the long run. This essay reviews the evidence of money illusion and

Abstract The spring of 2011 unrest grew in the Middle East and North Africa, and as a result we saw a surge in in oil prices. This essay conducts an evaluation on if these kinds of geopolitical events within the OPEC have affected the oil price in the past in the same way. As a contrary variable we have also assessed if the VIX-index is a good indicator of decreasing oil prices. We have used

Frågan om bevarande av och långsiktigt utnyttjande av miljön framstår som en av vår tids viktigaste frågor. Bland tillgängliga åtgärder på miljöområdet finns kriminalisering: ett styrmedel med kraftfull klang men med begränsad räckvidd och nytta och framför allt en åtgärd som endast bör användas som sista utväg i enlighet med principen om ultima ratio. Sålunda anses varje straffbeläggande genereEnvironmental sustainability is one of the most important issues of our time and environmental harm can be dealt with in numerous ways. One strategy is to use criminal prohibitions. Fighting environmental crime has a powerful ring to it, but the reach of the criminal law is limited and its usefulness often highly (and sadly) overestimated. Such factors, combined with the adverse effects typically

Abstract The aim of this study was to make a survey of different perspectives on “voluntary” prostitution in Thailand, which we tried to accomplish by semi structured interviews with people who, in some way, were connected with the field. Their occupations stretch from a student writing his thesis to a human rights lawyer. This study has centered around four areas concerning prostitution in Thaila

Sedan 1975 har det funnits en utökad möjlighet för patienter att få ersättning vid felbehandling inom vården genom den frivilliga patientförsäkringen, utöver de möjligheter som skadeståndsrätten erbjuder. År 1997 var patient-försäkringen inte frivillig längre, då det lagstadgades att varje vårdgivare är skyldig att ha en patientförsäkring och förutsättningarna för ersättning fastställdes. FörutsätSince 1975, the possibility for remedy when Swedish healthcare is performed incorrectly and causes personal injury is extended by the voluntary patient injury insurance. Since 1997, the patient injury insurance is statutory in the Patient Injury Act and thereby mandatory for all health care institutions. The conditions for compensation through the patient injury insurance are the same regardless o

We set out to investigate the presence of momentum in the Swedish stock market in an attempt to distinguish whether the market displays the weak- and the semi-strong form of efficiency. Adopting a strategy similar to that of Jegadeesh and Titman (1993) and (2001), where past winners are bought and past loser are sold, we are able to show that momentum indeed is present, earning approximately 1 per

The purpose of this paper is to make a personal reflection of the last year when I have been studying the Master‟s Programme in Entrepreneurship at Lund University and the experiences I have had during this time. This paper mainly explores the importance of legitimacy and what you need to do to adapt and maybe change to fit in on a market but also the importance of trust, both within your own orga

This thesis analyses changes in operating performance for a sample of 110 Swedish buyouts from 2001 through 2008 based on measures of profitability, working capital management and employee management. Furthermore, regression models have been made in cases where we have significant differences between our sample and peer groups to test the correlation between company size and operational performanc