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Art funds are gaining traction as an alternative asset class, yet investors must often weigh financial returns against ethical objectives such as promoting diversity in the art market. This bachelor’s thesis investigates how these two motives interact by asking: How do ethical and financial drivers shape individual investors’ willingness to allocate capital to art funds? A two-part online survey

This thesis examines how the European Union’s recent development towards binding regulations on Human Rights Due Diligence and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure, particularly the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive have impact on Chinese companies and China’s regulatory framework. These laws require companies to ide

The rise of manipulated visual content on digital platforms (whether through artificial intelligence, photo editing software, or simple filters) has led to growing concerns around misinformation. This thesis investigates the use of deep learning models, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), to detect fake images. Several architectures derived from pretrained models (in which we added

This thesis investigates whether incorporating the Christoffersen independence test into regulatory backtesting frameworks can enhance financial stability by improving the detection of systemic risk. Using daily Value-at-Risk and profit-and-loss data from 13 major international banks over 2018–2022, the study distinguishes between clustered and isolated VaR exceptions, applying event studies and p

In recent decades, international human rights law has encountered growing challenges and opportunities at the same time, posed by regimes that, while maintaining democratic appearances such as free and fair elections, adopt authoritarian practices questionable with liberal rule-of-law stand-ards. This phenomenon, has being referred to as "illiberalism," reflecting a ris-ing tension betw

IPH, specifically men's lethal violence against females, persists as a persuasive issue, both internationally and nationally. This is despite political reforms such as the 2020 legal amendment addressing such violence. In response to contemporary concerns and to analyse the phenomena deeper, this thesis focuses on the narratives, dynamics, and motives presented in court rulings concerning IPH

This thesis explores a central question in the macroeconomic debate today: Why has Europe`s economic growth lagged behind the United States in recent decades? The study specifically examines if this divergence in part can be explained by differences in digitalization and energy prices. By employing an OLS panel data model with country specific effects – modelling the two samples of EU15 countries

This thesis examines the legal conformity of Special Tax Zones (STZs) with the principle of non-discrimination under European Union (EU) law, especially when these zones are exempt from State aid rules. STZs are most of the time geographic tax regimes that provide advantages to companies according to their location or their needs in the context of regional development difficulties. Although freque

Social sustainability remains the most diffuse and least developed of the three pillars of-sustainability, often overshadowed by its environmental and economic counterparts. As-Geographic Information System (GIS) continues to emerge as a powerful tool in urban-planning and policy-making, its potential to address social dimensions of sustainability-is increasingly recognized but still underexplored

Vi har under vår ämneslärarutbildning i musik på Musikhögskolan i Malmö upplevt och blivit intresserade av projektbaserat lärande som ett arbetssätt för att skapa inkluderande, meningsfull och kreativ musikundervisning. Frågeställningarna i studien är: (i) Hur förhåller sig informanterna till projektbaserat lärande? (ii) Hur arbetar informanterna med projektbaserat lärande utifrån sin förståelse aDuring our teacher training program in music at the Malmö Academy of Music, we have experienced and become interested in project-based learning as an approach to creating inclusive, meaningful and creative music education. The questions this thesis poses are: (i) How do the informants relate to project-based learning? (ii) How do informants implement project-based learning in accordance with their

This is an ethnographic study of a Swedish Fountain House and the members and counselors who curate the culture and community within the specific field of this Fountain House (F.H). To provide an analysis of individuals who have dealt with or are dealing with mental health and illness coming together within a rehabilitation organization, a focus on subjectivity and intersubjectivity is expound

Det råder stor osäkerhet angående bestämningen av den ersättning som bör utgå för det som kallas miljö- eller företagsskada. Miljö- och företagsskada har sin grund i olika lagstiftningar, 32 kap. MB respektive 2 § 4 kap. ExL, men avser i praktiken samma faktiska skada. Vid bestämning av den ersättning som bör utgå används samma modeller och praxis för att bedöma skadan. Den modell som idag har stöRoads can cause surrounding property units’ disturbances that negatively affect the property values. The disturbances are created by the activity on the road and typically include increased noise, impairment of the view, vibration, dust and light pollution. Under certain circumstances the property owner is entitled to compensation for the damages, which should be commensurate with the decrease in

This thesis aims to fill a gap in the study of segmentation in advanced economies by exploring the multidimensional nature of segmentation, with a focus on migrants. It seeks to do so by studying the segmentation within institutions that constitutes the coordinated market economy of Sweden, utilising it as a national case to further understand change in advanced economies. This change is analysed

Following approximately three decades of rapid economic growth since the 1980s, in China, more attention has been paid to the sustainability of economic growth. Since 2010, as the main actors of economic activity, Chinese enterprises must face stricter regulatory and policies driving them toward greener transformation. Based on this background, this study will discuss the effect of top management

Biologiska läkemedel används i allt större utsträckning. Med tiden upptäcks fler och fler användningsområden för exempelvis proteiner (i form av hormoner, antikroppar och enzymer) eller virus, som kan användas till bland annat cancerterapi, genterapi eller behandling av neurologiska sjukdomar. På senare tid har marknaden exploderat genom bland annat upptäckten av GLP-1-analoger som har enorm potenIn this thesis, the traditional way of conducting chromatographic separation by linear elution was re-evaluated by introducing variable elution buffer trajectories in the mobile phase. Through numerical simulation of ion exchange chromatography using a finite volume method approach, various salt concentration profiles were optimized for improving the separation of components, using yield and produ

Många studenter som läser matematik på universitetsnivå, vare sig det är på ett ingenjörsprogram eller matematiklärarprogram, upplever svårigheter i sina studier. Siffror verkar peka på att hälften av ingenjörsstudenter hoppar av sina studier innan de tar examen. Detta är inte helt i enlighet med ett av gymnasieskolans mål, nämligen att gymnasiet ska vara högskoleförberedande. Det verkar då finnasStudents studying mathematics-intensive programmes have a very high rate of dropping out before graduating. This, in a Swedish context, is despite upper-secondary schools saying that students will be prepared to study at a university level upon graduating upper-secondary school. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the perceptions of mathematics as a subject differ between upper-second

In Sweden, unemployed jobseekers increasingly encounter automated decision-making systems (ADMs) when applying for both jobs and welfare support. The present qualitative project interpreted the lived experiences of 14 interviewees within these increasingly automated environments, with the aim of finding unjust constraints on their self-determination and self-development, as well as to spot potenti

This thesis analyzes the legal challenges of inheritances within Colombia’s tax treaty network, specifically addressing the asymmetrical tax coverage that arises when Colombia applies Double Taxation Conventions on Income and Capital to cross-border inheritances. The core research question is whether inheritance taxes can be covered by the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital, as interp