Uppsatsen ämnar undersöka huruvida en börshandlad fond lämpar sig för storbankernas kunder och deras regelbundna sparande utifrån hur instrumentet presterar gentemot storbankernas indexfonder. Uppsatsen använder två olika metoder; regressionsanalys för att undersöka hur väl de fem valda fonderna replikerar sitt underliggande index samt en modell för att se hur courtaget slår mot den börshandlade f

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka studenters, som blivande arbetstagares, inställning och syn på några av arbetsmarknadens nya normer. Genom förändringar i form av teknisk utveckling och globalisering har nya normer på arbetsmarknaden tagit form. I denna studie ligger fokus på de förändrade normerna kring anställningsform och konkurrens. Tidsbegränsade anställningar har blivit allt vanligare och k

Basel II och Lag 2006:1371 om kapitaltäckning och stora exponeringar trädde i kraft den 1 februari 2007 och ersatte därmed det tidigare Basel I-regelverket. Enligt Basel I var banker och finansiella företag skyldiga att inneha ett kapital som täckte åtta procent av de riskvägda tillgångarna. Kapitalkravet beräknades för kredit- och marknadsrisker. Basel II-regelverket har samma grunder som Basel I

The purpose of this study was to analyze and interpret how parents react after learning that their child was deceased, and the process that parents employed in dealing with this bereavement. This study also focused on the parents’ perceived ‘treatment’ received from relatives, friends and professionals. A qualitative study was conducted using interviews with seven parents who had suffered bereavem

Abstract Author: Charlotte Edvinsson Title: I support myself on welfare-A qualitative study of social assistance recipients idea of how society perceive them Supervisor: Agneta Hedblom Assesor: Torbjörn Hjort The need of social assistance has increased dramatically during the 1990s. In large due to the unemployment. A large number of studies have been made which look into how the clients have ex

Min analys av verket Listening har fått mig uppmärksam på det jag kallar ”vita fältet” i Peter Fries konstverksamhet. Detta är för mig ett abstrakt fält som förekommer allt mer uteslutande i alla Fries verk från 1990-talet fram till idag. Betydelsen av det ”vita fältets” allt mer dominerande plats i verket har i min mening förändrat betydelsen av Fries verk som en helhet,dock på olika sätt för oli

Child molesters are possibly the most despised and feared of all criminals. Since children are some of the most vulnerable members of our society, sex crimes against children provoke a great deal of anxiety and are seen as particularly distressing. In recent years, the debate whether Sweden should introduce additional punishment and treatment options that are specifically designed to deal with sex

Author: Claes Magnusson Title: The legally sanctioned purchasing of women’s bodies continues. A critical discourse analysis regarding commercial photographically mediated pornography [translated title] Supervisor: Agneta Hedblom Assessor: Håkan Jönson In Sweden it is illegal to buy sex. In some cases, that is. There currently exists a double standard between regular prostitution, and the prostitu

Radical or oppressed? A study of how Muslim women are portrayed in media The aim with our study is to analyze how Muslim women are portrayed and imagined in Swedish media. We have been interested in researching how media affects the public opinion about the Muslim woman in Swedish society and also how it affects Muslim women. We have chosen to concentrate on Muslim women because they are often de

The field of international security has changed significantly during the last decades. New security issues has risen on the agenda, and the concept of human security has diverted the attention of security studies from an exclusively state-centric focus towards a broader comprehension of who should be protected, and from what. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate an aspect of such a novel s

My primary objective in this study was to investigate the impact of the upbringing environment on the development of children’s effortful control and achievement motivation. Twenty-five SOS Children’s Village- and 33 family-raised children reported on achievement motivation, whereas SOS Village and family mothers assessed children’s effortful control along with emotion regulation as an additional

The principal issue of my thesis is to identify the sources of economic growth in Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Review of YRD post-reform development is conducted. The empirical study examines total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which is decompoed into three parts: technical progress, efficiency change and the scale effect in 16 component cities in YRD. Panel data of 1985-2007 are analyzed using

Author: Martina Wikås & Anette Johansson Title: Stödcentrum for young crime victims- organizations cooperation for development Supervisor: Carina Tigervall Assessor: Katarina Jacobsson The purpose of this study was to examine how Stödcentrum for young crime victims were perceived by other collaborators that the organization cooperate with and how the collaboration works. The current participa

This study investigates the impacts of FDI on productivity and economic growth in comparative perspective by using two samples, namely “developing” and “developed” countries. The study employs panel cointegration and panel estimation methods. The panel cointegration test results indicate that there are long-run relations between “FDI and productivity”, and “FDI and economic growth” variables. The

I denna uppsats undersöks effekten av oväntade ändringar i den amerikanska styrräntan, federal funds target rate, på ett urval av 33 aktier från den amerikanska marknaden under perioden 1994 – 2009. Forskning har kunnat påvisa signifikanta samband mellan räntechocker och icke-normal avkastning på aktiemarknaden i ett flertal studier, främst just på den amerikanska marknaden. Marknadseffektivitet g

The concept of identity and a sense of belonging in a multicultural- and multiethnic society are complicated. The aim of this study was to examine how young Swedish-born women of foreign origin perceive their identity when they belong to two or several cultures. Six young women with foreign origin were interviewed through partly themed and semi-structured interviews to share their experience on ho

During the last couple of years gambling addiction has become a phenomenon that has been debated and paid attention to in the daily press as well as in Swedish gambling studies. “Spelberoendes riksförbund”, who is a union of non-profit organizations for gambling addiction, has participated in this debate by giving prominence to gambling addiction as a serious social problem which demands social at

Detta är både en kvantitativ och en kvalitativ studie av distansundervisningsformen inom Kriminalvårdens Lärcentrummodell. Undersökningen består av en enkätdel, som syftar till att ta reda på de studerandes attityder till undervisningsformen. Det framkommer av sammanställningen att de som har distansundervisning är något mer negativa än de som har lärare på plats. Den andra delen består av statist

“I’m different all the time” – A qualitative study of young people’s roles and collective identity formation in different parts of Gothenburg The purpose of this study was to compare young people’s view of their neighborhoods, and what significance the residential area has for their collective identity formation. Young people living in a residential area with a low proportion of native Swedes, lo