Departing from the increased interest in and beneficial characteristics of investments in commodity futures evident in the literature. This paper evaluates the existence of factors that may explain the cross-section of commodity futures through macro, equity and commodity specific factors. The models employed are estimated through the Fama-Macbeth two step approach on individual contracts as test

The aim for this thesis is evaluate the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in emerging markets. Former researches are in a disagreement on whether it generates any effect at all. The theoretical framework suggests that the human ability to consume new technological innovation is the engine of growth. Furthermore, it implies that FDI is a valuable instrument that provides countr

The purpose of this thesis is to explore how marketing freelancers perceive personal branding and how they practice it. Both offline and online environments for practicing personal branding have been included. The aimed contribution is to broaden the understanding of personal branding by adding the perceptions that marketing freelancers have towards this topic. Additionally, the attempt is to prov

The solar and thermal performance of window is subject to a wide range of parameters. To simulate the energy performance is therefore difficult, and limitations might occur depending on the complexity of each case. This study presents some of the current limitations related to the assessment of window considering solar and thermal performance into the policy framework (standards, regulations and c

Syftet med denna studie var att i ett lokalt elnät undersöka hur laddningen av elbilar påverkar lastmönster i elnätet, både i nuläget och i framtida simulerade situationer. Samt undersöka vilken potential det finns att flytta laddningen över tid i testområdet i Hyllie, Malmö. Detta genom att simulera en del av elnätet i Hyllie och styra elbilsladdningen för att kapa effekttoppar. Därefter kartlägg

This research looks into the gender equality work of two IT companies in Sweden, examines what actions the companies pursue in their gender equality work, the level of management involvement and how that affects the outcome. In the IT industry, organizations are failing with retaining their female employees (Correll & Mackenzie, 2016). Further, stereotypes result in, e.g. the IT industry is se

Both automation and climate change are important topics on today’s policy agenda. Automation is often argued to have environmental benefits in terms of energy efficiency, however, no attempt has yet been made to empirically address the relation between automation and energy consumption. Therefore this paper aims to fill this gap by exploring whether automation and energy intensity developments fol

Located in Båstad, at the Bjäre peninsula, is the camping business Båstad Camping. With many guests from all over of Sweden, the owners of the business want to convey information about tourist attractions, sporting activites, events and restaurants at the Bjäre peninsula in a modern way. The purpose of the thesis is to develop a visitors mobile application with information about the Bjäre peninsul

Sammanfattning Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie var att utforska hur metakommunikation mellan patient och terapeut i mentaliseringsbaserad terapi gestaltar sig. Studien är fenomenologisk med hermeneutisk ansats till tolkning och förståelse. Videosekvenser av individualterapisessioner i MBT samlades in från alla patient- och terapeutdyader som samtyckte till att delta i studien under perioden föAbstract The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the nature of meta-communication between therapist and patient in Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT). The study applied a phenomenological method with attempts to hermeneutic enterpretation and understanding. Video sequenses of MBT individual therapy sessions were collected from all patient and therapist dyads who consented to participat

The overall purpose of thesis is to describe and understand how the law of duty to report child abuse works in practice from the perspective of the officials obligated to report. Interviews with several of these officials has been used in this thesis to collect data with the purpose of establishing their actual routines and experiences in these matters. The data has been analyzed from a street-lev

För att se vilken inverkan regnets intensitet har på avrinningskoefficienten gjordes en litteraturstudie samt beräkningar i Excel. Litteraturstudien visar att de tabellerade värdena på avrinningskoefficienten är framtagna genom en undersökning där ett formulär sändes ut till privata och offentliga kontor i USA där de angav vilka värden på avrinningskoefficienten de brukar använda. Resultatet är prIn order to increase the knowledge regarding how the runoff coefficient varies with increased rainfall intensity, a literature study and calculations in Excel were conducted. The background to how the tabled values of the runoff coefficient have been determined was found to be a book based on an assembly of answers to a survey collected from different companies in USA. The book is called Design an

Since the purchasing expenditure of many companies is such a large part of the total cost and 99,8 % of companies are classified as Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME), one might expect that theories on purchasing strategy would not only be conducted for large companies but also SMEs. In order to fill this gap in theory, this thesis aims to create a purchasing strategy framework for SMEs in t

Det har förekommit situationer där en byggnadsnämnd har tolkat att PBL 9 kap. 30 § 1 st. p. 1 a innebär att bygglov inte kan beviljas för en fastighet som består dels av kvartersmark, dels av allmän platsmark. En sådan fastighet ansågs planstridig oavsett aktuellt huvudmannaskap i detaljplanen. Följaktligen har byggnadsnämnden för att bygglovet ska kunna beviljas, hänvisat bygglovssökande till lanThere have been several occurrences where the Building committee has not granted a building permit due to the fact that a real property unit contains partly development district and partly public space. Such a real property unit has been regarded as not corresponding with the detailed development plan. Consequently, the Building committee has referred the person who applied for the building permit

Climate change, poverty, inequality and the increase of strict regulations - these are just a few of the factors contributing to the rise of sustainability in today’s corporate environment. As society and the worldwide population are affected by these omnipresent changes, it becomes inevitable for companies to transform their business models in order to respond to demands concerning sustainability

In this paper, the effect hosting a mega sports event has on economic growth and the inflow of foreign direct investment is investigated over the period 1970 – 2016. This paper differentiates between six different mega sports events. Furthermore, it also investigates whether hosting mega sports events in developing countries has a different impact on economic growth and the inflow of foreign direc

Syfte: Syftet med följande studie var att undersöka hur talmotoriska markörer för taldyspraxi är applicerbara på en svenskspråkig population samt hur andra talkaraktäristika ter sig hos barn med misstänkt taldyspraxi. Metod: Transkriptioner och analyser genomfördes på 51 barn med misstänkt taldyspraxi i åldrarna 3;4 till 8;10 år utifrån audio-videoinspelningar. Analyserna berörde inventering av ta

Currently, more than one billion people in the world is exposed to flooding and approximately 10 percent of them suffer its consequences every year. With the onset of climate change, the frequency of these events is likely to increase, and especially in Asia and Africa, where many of the global poor are located. One of the reasons why this is likely to present a challenge for poverty reduction is