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In the lights of the reopening of formal negotiations between the EU and Mercosur, this thesis investigates the image of the EU in Argentina. How others’ view the EU is important for the union’s possibility to succeed with its foreign policy goals. Mutual understanding is crucial in order to make the cooperation run smoothly. The EU seems to expect that the cooperation automatically would benefit

Uppsatsens syfte är att redogöra samt att analysera för ett antal intressenters förväntningar på effekter av revisionspliktens avskaffande för mindre företag i Sverige. Uppsatsen bygger på aktuellt material kring revisionspliktens avskaffande och ett antal person- och telefonintervjuer. Vi har kommit fram till att: • Frivillig revision kommer att leda till att det blir lättare att starta och driva

Vi genomförde en studie bestående av ett urval på 252 svenska små och medelstora företag inom tillverkningssektorn. Sammanlagt blev det 1008 observationer över en period på fyra år från 2005 till 2008. Vi använde oss av Pecking order teorin, Trade-off teorin samt Free cash-flow teorin för att försöka förklara effekten av de studerade variablerna på företagens likvida medel. Paneldata regressionen

The aim of this paper is to study the influence of indigenous identification on the fertility of Mexican women. It has been debated if the higher fertility of indigenous women in the Country is due to culture and traditions specifics of indigenous people, or if it is caused by socioeconomic and demographic factors. Controlling for socioeconomic and demographic variables, the results from an Ordina

The foundation of this study is a dynamic model, describing wealth effects on aggregate consumption in Sweden based on annual data 1980-2008. The dynamic model is conducted with reference to the life-cycle hypothesis, and results in a short-term as well as a long-term relationship between the examined variables. In general, its method is a conventional cointegration study, where the long term rela

Companies today are forced to expand and position outside their borders. The Öresund region is a common labor market for Swedes and Danes. Since 2000, with the opening of the Öresund Bridge, circumstances have improved for the region's business climate which is in a strong growth. Both Swedish and Danish companies are working across borders to take advantage of the region's dynamic and suc

Kazakhstan has since its independence following the disintegration of Soviet Union undergone a transition from plan-to market economy and one part of this involved increased exports in oil. This development might induce Dutch Disease, a phenomenon that has negative effects on the country’s GDP growth. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate if Kazakhstan shows any signs of Dutch Disease. T

In recent years several policies concerning Aid effectiveness has emerged for Swedish civil society organizations. This thesis investigates what facilitates and complicates implementation of these policies. The theoretical framework is constituted by a top-down perspective of implementation and three essential actor properties; understand, can and will, developed by Lennart Lundquist. The empirica

This essay is an event study of the share price of a number of companies listed at the Stockholm Exchange Market which prior to the dates studied only had men in their board. The purpose of the essay is to study whether the announcement of a new female board member affects the share price. The number of companies used in the study is 25. The essay builds its reasoning on theories on efficient mark

From the recent mortality trends in Central and Eastern Europe, it is clear that in the former socialist countries the economic transition had a different effect on male and female mortality: premature death became much more frequent among males, and the gender mortality gap increased as a result. The psycho-social stress hypothesis (Cornia and Paniccia, 2001) explains the Eastern European experie

It is difficult to assess and measure IC, and most companies lack extensive disclosure of IC. Meanwhile, theories advocate a higher level of disclosure as it is considered beneficial for companies, investors, and other stakeholders. The purpose of the thesis is to investigate in which industries IC disclosure has effect on market values. Further, we want to keep a theoretical discussion whether th

Different models for predicting volatility in financial returns have been proposed during the years. This paper focuses on two different ways of volatility modeling, generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) models and exponential smoothing models. In a previous study 2004, James W. Taylor introduced an adaptive version of the traditionally exponential smoothing method with

Abstract Title: The video surveillance industry in the USA - the future development and the technology shift Seminar date: 4/6 - 2010 Course: FEKP01, Degree Project Graduate Level, Business Administration, Graduate Level, 15 University Credit Points (ECTS-cr) Authors: Johan Lindgren and Marc Palm Mentor: Thomas Kalling Key words: Technology shift, Video surveillance industry, Organizational Learni

I uppsatsen undersöks hur användningen av ordet typ har förändrats i dagspress under perioden 1965–2009 och vad som kan ha lett till denna utveckling. Syntaktiskt har ordet under perioden gått från att vara ett regelrätt substantiv till att fungera som en preposition och slutligen ett adverb. Semantiskt har ordets betydelse under samma tid blivit allt vagare. Denna utveckling relateras i uppsatsen