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This paper explores and compares the effects of two financial crises (the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and the 2007-2010 Subprime Financial Crisis) on short-run and long-run linkages between equity markets in China (mainland and Hong Kong) and US. In particular, we not only investigate the return causality relationships by applying vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis, but we also examine the volat

This essay had tested for the significant influence of USD index and Euro index on Gold market traded in Dollar and Euro. The results show that the mean return of Gold in both markets is affected by the USD index as well as Euro index. However the variance in each market is only significantly affected by the currency that the market is being traded. Applying APGARCH shows that Gold market variance

Jag har valt att göra en studie om hur högt uppsatta HR-chefer ser på sin egen utveckling som ledare, i förhållande till att det arbetar med att utveckla andra ledare. Ämnet bottnar i en vilja att få en inblick i det yrke som jag snart ska ge mig in i och få en djupare insyn i vad det kan finnas för svårigheter i yrket som HR-chef. Jag har inte haft några avsikter att dra generella slutsatser, uta

Skatteverkets Helsingborgskontor genomgick för ungefär ett år sedan en organisationsförändring i form av ett byte från arbete i cellkontor till arbete i öppna kontorslandskap i en annan byggnad. Detta gjordes på grund av att det uppstod problem i den tidigare byggnaden. Denna utvärdering syftade till att undersöka hur medarbetare och sektionschefer upplever sig ha påverkats av förändringen i konto

Att börja bli vuxen är inte alltid enkelt och det gör att en del problem uppstår. Genom media får ungdomar en bild av samhället om hur de förväntas vara, en bild som inte alltid är korrekt. Syftet med denna analys var därför att få fram hur vuxenvärlden som en motpol till övriga medier vill förmedla en mer korrekt bild till unga mellan 8-14 år. För att analysera hur denna motpol förmedlar olika bu

This thesis is a fenomenological approach to percieved pros and cons of a mature ISO14001-certificate. I've also investigated if my interviewees have expeerienced an influence from their environmental management work to their personal environmental awareness. I also sought to see if these Environmental Management Officers thought that their having the certificate influences the general environ

This thesis deals with the vital issue of empowerment in development work and development projects, a multimillion dollar enterprise which engages donors,governmental agencies and governments. More specifically the thesis deals with a development intervention in education as social policy in Uruguay, investigated as a case study. The methodological intention is to present the voices of the subject

This thesis aims to explore the impact of population policy on women’s reproductive rights. I use one child policy, which has far-reaching repercussions on all Chinese women at childbearing age, as the case for this research. The following questions are asked: What is one child policy? What kinds of measures are used to lower fertility rate? What is the impact on women’s reproductive rights? I emp

With around 3 million affected people, Colombia has the second highest number of internal displaced persons (IDPs) in the world after Sudan (ACNUR 2007). They are basically refugees inside their own country. One of the main problems of IDPs living in the cities is the difficulty to generate income that allows them to satisfy their basic needs. Looking to solve this problem, the government of Colom

Huruvida det existerar en prisbubbla eller inte på den svenska bostadsmarknaden är ett flitigt diskuterat ämne, inte minst i medierna. Syftet med vår uppsats är att besvara frågan med hjälp av en metod som är kallad imputed rent eller imputerad hyra. I den imputerade hyran vägs årskostnaden av att äga ett hus mot årskostnaden av att hyra en likvärdig bostad och om det finns en prisbubbla på markna

This paper examines the impacts of short-term changes in individual socioeconomic status on marital formation and dissolution by using data from Current Population Survey (CPS). Empirical results suggest that employment stability plays the most important role in conditioning the marriage entry and dramatic increase in relative earning power within family may impose greatest threat to marital stabi

The aim of the current study was to examine the relation between self-efficacy, sense of coherence and general mental health in unemployed individuals. The study was based on Antonovsky’s concept sense of coherence and Bandura’s concept of self-efficacy. A questionnaire was constructed based on the SOC scale, the general self-efficacy scale and the general health questionnaire. The sample consiste

I dagens samhälle som präglas av ständig förändring och utveckling i arbetslivet har mycket kommit att handla om konkurrens, personlig utveckling och hållbarhet. För att företag ska kunna konkurrera på en alltmer dynamisk marknad har organisationer fått en större insikt om medarbetarnas betydelse och insats för verksamhetens utveckling. Performance Management är ett system organisationer använder

For well over two decades, the European Union (EU) has been an important actor in climate change policy. It has developed a wide range of tools for its external and internal climate policy. This thesis examines the EU’s view on international climate agreements. The EU promotes a relatively stable approach to deal with the problem of climate change which is characterised by efforts to conclude lega

This thesis examines the external energy policy of the European Union in a two-step approach. First, an analysis of the degree of actorness that the EU has achieved in this new policy field is carried out on the basis of the theoretical concept introduced by Bretherton and Vogler. It is argued that the EU only possesses fragmented actorness in all three dimensions examined. Second, this is followe

The aim of this study was to reach a better understanding on how quality education can be applied so that the needs, views and values of local actors are fulfilled at the same time as national principles and perspectives on education are considered. Three research questions guided our study: What patterns can be discerned among local stakeholders in three community schools in Lusaka, Zambia in the

The European Union (EU) has been engaged in Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the early 1970’s. The Union has since then tried to gain a role in the diplomatic process by different means, but without any particularly success to be able to influence the bilateral talks. One has in recent years tried to develop the union towards a more coherent collective foreign policy in order to adopt a stronge

Kenya had a disputed presidential election in late 2007 which erupted into ethnic clashes between supporters of the two candidates. Western media was quick to report back that the sudden violence was due to tribal differences. The goal of my essay was such to explore whether or not a post-colonial discourse could be found in western media. By choosing three international magazines with more analyt

Den svenska integrationspolitiken står inför en strukturomvandling då de delar av flyktingmottagandet som handlar om arbetsmarknadsetablering flyttar från flyktingmottagande kommuners ansvar till den statliga myndigheten Arbetsförmedlingen. Genom en intervjuundersökning med tjänstemän inom integrationsområdet i fyra olika skånska kommuner tittar denna uppsats närmre på hur implementeringsberedskap