The purpose of this essay is to test for significance between TED- spread and four different macrovariables, housing prices, Federal funds rate, Asset Backes Securities and mortgage volume. Multiple regression has been used to search for significance between the dependent and the four independent variables. Our data consist of quarterly reports from January 1998 to June 2008. Our conclusion is tha

Fair trade har vuxit fram med en otrolig fart de sista åren och frågan är hur det påverkar producenterna, om det existerar något sådant som rättvis handel och om marknaden kan fortsätta växa? För att diskutera dessa frågor presenteras nationalekonomiska modeller, argument för och emot fair trade samt ett antal fallstudier i ämnet. De modeller som tas upp är H-O modellen tillsammans med Stolper-Sam

Då allt fler mobiltelefoner med integrerad digitalkamera sprider ut sig bland allmänheten skapas ökade möjligheter för många människor att spontant kunna fotografera sina omgivningar. Kameratelefonen är dessutom svår att skilja från en vanlig mobiltelefon, vilket gör att en person kanske inte ens vet om att denne blir fotograferad. Genom kameratelefonernas kommunikationsteknik kan sedan dessa bild

The paper provides a description of conditionality mainly focusing on the years 1995-2005. Initially, the two main theoretical approaches to conditionality, the principal agent model and the political economy approach, are outlined. Conditionality is then described as it has been defined and implemented by the Bretton Woods Institutions, the European Commission and a few bilateral donors. The case

Denna uppsats grundar sig i en kvalitativ studie som behandlat fallgropar som återfinns inom projektstyrningen i IT-projekt. Att IT-projekt ofta framställs som över tid och budget och därmed som misslyckade var ett intressant fenomen som vi ville titta närmare på. Vårt fokus låg på själva projektstyrningen av projektet och av den anledningen uteslöts faktorer som utvecklingsmetod eller designaspek

Through WTO membership, a large number of countries are parties to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, also known as TRIPs. The strongest form of IP protection is the patent, which grants a number of valuable exclusive rights when the criteria for patentability have been met. Patents are often claimed to be a means for inventors to regain the expenses they may h

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka olika modellers förmåga att prognostisera den systematiska samvariationen mellan Affärsvärldens branschindex. Med regressionsanalys undersöks systematisk kovarians på den svenska aktiemarknaden under perioden 1997 – 2006. Först skattas branschindexens känslighet för olika riskfaktorer, skattningarna används för att skapa en varians-kovariansmatris. Utvärdering

This study evaluates the international production fragmentation and the specialization of the textile and apparel sector in the ASEAN countries. Moreover, it examines Thailand’s participation in textile and apparel supply-chains with the aim of finding prospects for more value-added production. The finding of the study is that production fragmentation only exists to a small extent in the ASEAN cou

Z39.50 is a standard protocol designed to create an interface between diverse computer databases for diverse information needs. Since it has to be adjustable it is also complex and demands a certain degree of expertise when being set. However, the aim of this paper is not to make a theoretical description but to examine certain conditions in practice. From the perspective of Swedish research libra

Information management is today a matter of great importance for every organisation. It is therefore necessary for organisations to see information and its management as a significant part of the organisation s key to success. In this essay we have chosen to study the implications of information policy and information strategy for The Nordic Council/The Nordic Council of Ministers. These two inter

"Outstanding" or "They ought to know more about computers" : A study on computer support at university libraries. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the support computer users are given at university libraries. Further, the aim is to find out if the users thought they received the support that they needed. The study is carried out at two different university libr

This Master s thesis deals with the display of library media, whether it is conceivable and desirable to draw inspiration from the retail business when displaying articles. The questions asked are: are there, in the retail sector, well established display ideas and - if so - what do they look like? Are the similarities in conditions, between the branches, sufficient? In conveying the ideas to libr

Our state of emergency is good - is the public library prepared for the future? Our state of emergency is good! These are the words spoken by Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson in 1939. He claimed that Sweden had nothing to fear from a future war, we were safe. Today we know it was not so. Is this the situation for Swedish public library of today? Is the public library ready to face the future, or

User-centred acquisitions at three academic libraries A new way of developing collections has been adopted at a number of small academic libraries, user-centred acquisitions. The method implies that the main way of building the collection is by means of receiving suggestions of titles from library users. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate changes in acquisitions of monographs. At a

The aim of this study is to examine the services offered by the public libraries in the context of distance learning students. I wanted to examine if there has been any discussion among the public libraries on how the new needs and demands affect them. To get a premonition on the development in Sweden I have focused on the public libraries in the province of Blekinge, which in many ways can be loo

This Masters thesis in Library and Information Science has the title The New Information Desks at Malmö Public Library . During the rebuilding of the library in Malmö a new information desk was developed. This desk differs to a great extent from conventional information desks used in libraries. The information desk is triangular with rounded edges which allows the librarian and the user of the lib

Information is essential in order for pharmaceutical companies to be successful. This essay focuses on the information provision of pre-clinical scientists at AstraZeneca R&D Lund, and the role of the company library in this process. In semi-structured interviews, four pre-clinical scientists were asked to describe their information provision regarding what type of information they need, how t

The purpose of this study is to analyse the offer from the ministry of education and cultural affairs to Swedish public libraries concerning a computerised connection to SUNET (the Swedish University Network). The study is based on analyses of the main texts from the campaign and interviews in order to identify arguments that caused the libraries to accept or decline the offer. My conclusions are

This study is an analysis of the Internet transaction logs of Malmö Public, Sweden [...]

The purpose of this study is to focus on library service for children in a hospital, which in turn is seen in relation to a traditional children s library. Four aspects of library work were investigated. These aspects were working methods, partners of co-operation for the libraries, media policy (acquisition, use of the collection and circulation procedures), as well as programme activities for ch