This thesis contributes to the existing literature by examining the effect of oil prices on floating exchange rates of oil dependent countries. I conduct empirical tests on monthly data of 32 currencies over a timeframe of 15 years from 2003 to 2017 and 13 currencies over a timeframe of 25 years from 1993 to 2017. The analysis, therefore, includes a large sample that has the drawback of a shorter

Innovations and economic growth are tightly connected. They are responsible for the humanity’s progress into a modern and industrialized society; they improved welfare, life quality and solved problems in diverse fields. Implicitly, it is expected that innovations will continue to do so. However, some statistics reveal that this view might be overly optimistic, as investments in innovative activit

The purpose of this research is to investigate the Performance Management within the ACAs. The findings of this research concluded that the two Anti-Corruption Authorities have different performance management systems. The researchers believe that this difference stems from internal and external factors.

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to look into different financial planning processes and approaches and see whether gaming behavior is more predominant in one financial planning process or approach over the other as theory suggests. Additionally, the research aims to identify whether performance measures directly tied to financial planning targets are evident and whether this could be the

The traditional play stage once played a big part in Chinese architecture. They witnessed the most common public entertainment for Chinese people, and became a unique icon of traditional architecture, arts and urban life. In today’s society, though the traditional play stage dose not seem to disappear thanks to the developing notion of architectural preservation, it still has to face the fact that

“Det är inget fel med att vara homo, men jag är inte homo-homo”- ​ En narrativ textanalys om hur tv-serien Skam förhandlar homosexualitet ​är en B-uppsats författad vårtterminen 2018 av Alice Ekman och Caroline Oscarsson, studenter i Medie- och Kommunikationsvetenskap, Institutionen för kommunikation och medier, vid Lunds universitet. Denna uppsats fokuserar på huvudkaraktären Isak i tv-serien “Sk

This article uses a systematic and rigorous empirical study of the effects of the policies of the national high-tech zones using relevant socio-economic data from 266 prefecture-level cities in 30 provinces in China from 2001 to 2016. We use the characteristics of the gradual advancement of the national high-tech zones to adopt the difference-in-difference model model to estimate the policy impact

During the period of the Roman Imperial Period the area north of the Roman limes, Germania Magna, was influenced from the Roman Empire. The varied interactions between the Romans and the Germanic population, living beyond the northern frontier, has broadly been studied during centuries. One of these aspects have been to further understand the relation and the Roman- Germanic interaction by investi

Industrialization has been the key engine for economic growth in the developed world, and currently these economies are substituting away from manufacturing towards services. The alarming trend is that developing countries are doing so as well to an even greater extent and at a lower level of GDP and development. This phenomenon of deindustrialization is premature for developing economies as they

Contrary to what practice suggests, social media platforms may not be an appropriate forum for communicating with civil society about sustainability issues. It is common knowledge that fake news and misinformation campaigns are distorting the line between fact and falsity on social media platforms. Complicating this arrangement, these circumstances are the backdrop of a wider distrust of expert op

Climate change is a fact and effects everybody on this planet, whether its humans, plants or animals. There is a comprehensive agreement about the mechanisms on how aerosol particles affect the radiative balance of the earth, but there is a need of more knowledge to fully understand climate change and the strength of the aerosol radiative forcing. The aim of this thesis is to investigate if the SM

Population ageing affects most European countries, placing increasing pressure on publicly funded Long Term Care (LTC) systems. Informal care is often seen as a low-cost alternative to formal care services, yet it may induce unwelcome reductions in labour supply. This study presents evidence on the relationship of informal care provision, employment probability, and work hours of mature caregivers

Social impact in social entrepreneurship and social innovation is a significant common denominator in these fields which received increasing attention recently. The attention is concentrated to measurement methods but the concept social impact is still “fuzzy”. This thesis contributes with clarification of social impact. The study is a case study of social impact where an abductive qualitative app

SCAPIS is a national project in Sweden and stands for Swedish CardioPulmonary bioImage Study. The objective of SCAPIS is to find biomarkers in order to improve the risk prediction and lower the death rate of Cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD is a big health problem and is one of the main causes of death in many industrial countries. It is usually related to atherosclerosis, which is plaque buildup

Videorekrytering är en form av rekrytering som möjliggjorts inom ramen av den digitala utvecklingen, som under de senaste åren haft stor påverkan och förändrat HR-avdelningarnas sätt att arbeta. Studier kring eHRM (elektronisk Human Resource Management) har haft mycket fokus på organisationens perspektiv, och kunskapsluckor har uppstått kring kandidaternas upplevelse av detta nya sätt att rekryterVideo recruitment is a form of recruitment that has grown in the recent years as a result of the rapid digital development within the field of Human Resource Management. Studies within eHRM (electronic Human Resource Management) have mainly focused on an organizational perspective, leaving knowledge gaps regarding the candidate’s experience. Företag X has noticed from their own recruitment process

Since 2015, the provision of solid waste management-related services in Lebanon has been severely lacking and environmentally detrimental. This national crisis has led some municipalities and local enterprises to collaborate to implement sustainable solutions to the disposal of waste. This work explores the functioning of one specific partnership established in Lebanon between the municipality of

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an agile methodology that aligns collaboration between multiple teams in agile software development. SAFe is commonly being applied to global environments where team members are sitting distributed, through so-called virtual teams. The aim of this study is to investigate how the Scaled Agile Framework is perceived by employees working within a virtual team sett