This thesis aims to shed light on the impact of the so-called Pay as You Save® (PAYS ®) or on-bill programmes for energy efficiency improvements in the building sector. These programmes are based on an innovative financing model that was developed to overcome several barriers to the up-take of energy efficiency measures by households and businesses. From the consumer’s side, these barriers include

The fluctuations of the price in the energy market affect the households, firms and the government intuitions. We can perceive the information of the energy market from daily economic news. The entire society is concerned for the events that affect the energy market and the changing prices of the energy resources. It is thus meaningful and interesting to study the risk of the energy market. This p

Millenniemålen och Parisdeklarationen har kommit att dominera den internationella biståndspolitiken under 2000-talet. EU, världens största biståndsgivare, har åtagit sig att gå längre än deklarationerna i kampen för ökad biståndseffektivitet och minskad fattigdom. Uppsatsens övergripande syfte är att undersöka EU:s mål och medel för större och bättre bistånd. Med andra ord studeras unionens bistå

In this thesis three different methodologies to convert Point-in-Time (PIT) probability of default (PD) to Through-the-Cycle (TTC) PD are applied on a sample of large Danish firms for the period 2005-2014. These kind of methodologies are important for preventing pro-cyclicality in the capital requirement, i.e. how much capital banks need to hold in order to cope with unexpected losses. The methods

Denmark is the least corrupt country in the world, meaning that the country’s political system is characterized by openness and transparency. Danish politicians distance themselves from backroom deals and secret negotiations. The mediatization of politics has put pressure on the appearance of politicians and the need for employing spin doctors who can cope with the media is increasing in Western d

Social Mobile Apps: A Case Study of Carlsberg’s CrowdIt Purpose/Originality/Value: Through an analysis of the Carlsberg’s CrowdIt-App, the case study whishes to draw attention to three conceptual areas, which have received scant attention,namely social mobile application (app), culture, and strategic mobile campaigning. While some prominent Public Relations and Communication Management scholars ha

This report evaluates the consequences of fire in a cable shaft at one of SSAB's facilities. Available models of cable fire behavior and the state of knowledge of cable fires in various configurations have been evaluated. Furthermore, an assessment has been made of which areas that is in need of more research. The applicability of the cable fire models to the configurations in the cable shaft

This study analyses the situation of information and communication technologies in Turkey with making a comparison by applying social capability and catch up theory between Turkey and EU-27 countries ICT production, export, diffusion, and usage among individuals and households, between 2007 and 2013. However, development of ICT industry has started after the industrialization; production and techn

In this work, lipid nanoparticles were used as pseudostationary phase, PSP, for protein separation in capillary electrochromatography, CEC. The aim of the work was to use a new analytical separation technique for future analysis of protein drugs by using lipid nanoparticles as a pseudo-stationary phase with conventional UV-detection. PSP-CEC was combined with UV-detection to study proteins elution

Med hjälp av laserljus i en kubisk kammare har halten CO2 runt en katalysator studerats. Denna typen av studier är viktiga för att kunna förbättra och effektivisera katalysatorer vilket är väldigt viktigt inom både industri och för miljömål. Använder man laser på det här sättet kan man se hur olika parametrar, så som flöde eller tryck, påverkar effektiviteten av katalysatorn. Andra metoder har intCO2 Catalysis has been studied with Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) in combination with a mass spectrometer for a small, 23 cubic centimeters, cube shaped flow reactor. Both catalysis processes with one and with two catalysts inside the reactor have been carried out and analysed. Some results have been visualised by images showing concentration, given by the PLIF signal, of CO2 inside the

Research on aid is continuously exploring new channels to measure its effectiveness on economic development. The Millennium Development Goals have set the standard for aid policy-making and now, when facing deadline, its partakers have to set a new aid policy-agenda. The European Union is the largest donor of official development assistance (ODA), contributing a total of 50-60 percent of world ODA

sustainability, stakeholder theory, general theory on collaboration as well as identified success factors in the literature are presented. Empirical foundation: The empirical data consists mainly of the responses from 19 interviewees representing 15 different organizations in New York City. Conclusions: The results from this study are an expanded and redesigned framework based on the empirical fin

Implementing anammox based processes in the mainstream at municipal wastewater treatment plants is challenging and requires carefully constructed control strategies in order to be successful. A method to measure the specific anammox activity (SAA) was further developed and implemented in the mainstream anammox pilot plant at Sjölunda Wastewater Treatment Plant. The developed method was found to be

Behandlingsmetoder för medialt tibialt stressyndrom; en litteraturstudie. Bakgrund: Medialt tibialt stressyndrom är en av de vanligaste överbelastningsskadorna bland idrottsmän. Symtomet ses främst bland kvinnor, och grupper med hög prevalens är militärer, löpare och dansare (mellan 4 % och 35 % drabbas). Genom tidigare studier har forskare trott att symtomet beror på en inflammatorisk process i

Young people account for 40% of all new adult infections worldwide. If education can have preventive effects, great opportunities arise considering this demographic structure of the epidemic since young people are dominating educational enrollment. This thesis investigates the impact of education on HIV prevalence. For empirical testing, five multivariate regression models with ordinary least squa

Since 1910, the major income of Venezuela comes, from the oil exploitation industry which is connected to the consolidation of the nation-state. This oil wealth has throughout history influenced its relations with countries in the Americas, United States and the rest of the world. This case-study examines Venezuela as a petro-state and its impacts on Latin American post-liberal regionalism and po

This theory testing study investigates the decision-making of the member states in the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO, using a game theoretical approach. Game theory has its origins in political philosophy and can thus be valuable when analysing the behaviour of states in international regimes. Through using the specific game theory model Stag Hunt, this study aims to examine if such a model c

This study examines the political discourse concerning access to subsidized health-care for irregular immigrants in Sweden. The discourse is the public one fetched from the two major parliamentary debates that have taken place, one in 2008 and one in 2013. The parliamentary material is studied by way of a critical discourse analysis in which the material is related to two ideologically separate pr

The objective of this essay is to investigate if the performance of an Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) share has an impact on the probability of closure of the same Exchange-Traded Fund. A great number of ETFs closures occurred in the last two years and the number of these closed ETFs represent a relevant percentage of the total number of ETFs that have been liquidated since this type of shares came to