Abstract In this thesis we examine the link between idiosyncratic risk and liquidity on a sample of European equity covering the last 15 years and consisting of monthly retuns on 120 stocks. This thesis builds heavily upon an article by Speigel and Wang (2005), which demonstrates the relationship between risk and various liquidity measures on the US market. In this study idiosyncratic risk is indi

I dagens samhälle finns ett överskott på produkter. Därmed tas produkters funktionella värde mer för givet och det emotionella värdet spelar istället en stor roll i valet av produkt. Huvudsyftet med denna studie blev att undersöka individers emotionella och funktionella värderingar av produkterna schampo, mobiltelefon och kläder. Studien hade också som syfte att undersöka om kön har någon betydels

The motivation for writing this thesis has been to evaluate which parameters that affect the stock market development in a country by using a Dynamic Panel Data model with Panel Data from 98 countries between the years 1992-2011. A scoring system called Stock Market Indicator (SDI) is also developed, in which the worlds countries is ranked in order to assess how the 98 selected countries are perfo

Enligt Smittskyddsinstitutets rapport (2012) har antalet fall av sexuellt överförbara infektioner (STI) ökat hos unga män och kvinnor i Sverige. Trots riskerna med STI väljer unga män och kvinnor att skydda sig med kondom i mindre utsträckning (Herlitz, 2009). Syftet med studien var att undersöka ungdomars kunskaper, attityder och beteenden gällande STI i en mellanstor stad i Sverige. Metoden för

Zambezi River Basin is an international river basin which sustains life of about 30 million people in its riparian countries: Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The main stream of the river enters to Mozambique with average flow of about 2330 m3/s and reaches the outfall in the Indian Ocean with about 4134 m3/s. This makes both the activities in the upstr

Relationer och samarbeten mellan företag är ett ämne som det forskats om under en lång tid. Genom att dela upp olika uppgifter och specialisera sig på sina kärnkompetenser bidrar det till att utvecklingen går framåt och konkurrenskraften ökar. Under de senaste 20-30 åren har en del forskning kommit fram till att det inte räcker att samarbeta med enbart företaget i nästa steg i försörjningskedjan u

I have chosen in my Bachelor thesis to analyze how the two American TV-series, 24 (2001-2010) and Homeland (2011-), examine and explain terrorism and other aspects of the “War on Terror.” They were both created after the attacks on September 11th, 2001 and therefore affected by the political situation in the country. With the help of Noam Chomsky and his propaganda model I wish to find out what ki

Catalonia is a nation with it's own language, its own culture, own policy and own history it is said. A non-independent nation that is living it's ordinary life flagging its banal symbols as if it al ready was an independent state. Some catalanistas assert that this kind of weirdness could be the death row for Catalonia and its future as in independent nation of its own. They state that it

The thesis explores how the political discourse on refugees and asylum seekers is produced within portfolio committee meetings at the South African parliament. A critical discourse analysis investigates how statements of delegates of the Department of Home Affairs and Social Development foster unequal power relations and construct social identities perpetuating the on-going discourse on refugees a

Flann O´Briens The Third Policeman är skriven 1940 men publicerades 1967, efter författarens död. Några av de narrativa grepp som används i berättelsen undersöks. Tidsordningen i berättelsen jämförs med tidsordningen i den berättade storyn med utgångspunkt från teori i Gérard Genettes Narrative Discourse-An Essay in Method. Den totala tidens varaktighet (duration) i berättelsen jämförs med den tot

This essay explores some of the basic norms that exist in two groups that live under honor-related oppression. The two groups we have studied are cults and families that have honor-related norms. By applying Länsstyrelsens definition of honor-related oppression to situations that exists in cults and families with honor-related oppression we have identified the existence of some norms concerning ho

Det här examensarbetet grundar sig på en översättning av den tyske författaren Daniel Kehlmanns Diese sehr ernsten Scherze. Poetikvorlesungen (2007). Efter en inledande källtextanalys följer en redogörelse för de strategiska överväganden som låg till grund för översättningen. Arbetet avslutas sedan med en fördjupande översättningskommentar där två specifika översättningsproblem näranalyseras i rel

How is the police violence described and is it of any importance? The Parliamentary Ombudsman (JO) has to in the public interest watch over the constitutional protection, which each citizen in Sweden receives, by directing the attention at the authorities’ shortcomings in judicial practice. When complaint against Police authority with the claim that violence has been exercised by police comes to J

Ett enhetligt SAS – samspelet mellan vision, kultur & image Den 12 november 2012 gick Scandinavian Airlines ut till allmänheten med en sparplan som skulle hindra bolaget från att gå i konkurs. En stor kris hade utveck-lats, anställningar skulle tas bort och tillgångar skulle säljas. Krisen medförde ett stort medieutrymme och diskussionerna kring krisen var många, på traditionella medier såväl

The housing market in Sweden today has submitted to the rules of commercial markets. The de-mand is rising while the supply is decreasing; pushing rents to go up. The interest in building apartment blocks is low due to high costs and low revenue. Prior to 1991 private actors was encouraged to enter the housing market through tax revenues and loan subventions and through Public-Private Partnerships

As globalization advances, so does international trading. This Bachelor’s thesis’ purpose is to analyze in what way corporations conform to human rights by using suppliers in a globalized environment and what impact globalization has on corporation’s actions in accordance with human rights. By qualitatively analyzing documents and by conducting an argumentation analysis, the methodological foundat

The purpose of this study is to question the neutrality in the reports from Al Jazeera and BBC about the Israeli military operation “Pillar of Defense” that took place in November 2012. The study is conducted through different linguistic and structural analyses that aim to find ideological patterns in the way the agencies report about the events. Since both agencies claim to be neutral and not pol

The study aims to examine the impact of Expressive Suppression (ES), on Working Memory (WM) performance when exposed to mild pain reaction causing physiological activation. Performance measures are obtained to discriminate between three groups having their hands in warm water, cold water, and cold water and implementing ES. As a measure of WM performance, this study used a WM 2-back task intersper