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This research paper analyses the relationship between average excess stock return and market beta on the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm for the period 1999 to 2015. By using the Fama-MacBeth approach and several additional regressions, we are able to examine if the relationship exists on days when the market anticipates receiving news regarding monetary policy decision by the Riksbank, Federal Reserve, Euro
BACKGROUND: Distress tolerance (DT), anxiety sensitivity (AS), and intolerance of uncertainty (IU) are transdiagnostic vulnerability factors for emotional distress. Some have argued that AS and IU are components of DT but this hypothesis has not been properly addressed yet, and neither has their relationship to trait anxiety. Self-report studies and to lesser extent small clinical trials suggest t
Estonia has taken an upward trend in terms of innovation and economic growth since 1991 and is currently the most prosperous ex-USSR country. Moldova on the other hand, another ex-USSR country, is one of the poorest countries in Europe and it has more or less stagnated for the past 2 decades in terms of innovation and R&D. Estonia’s NIS (National Innovation System) has evolved remarkably and w
Plastic has brought great benefits to human life, but it has also given rise to serious environmental problems as “microplastic” threatening the living organisms. Due to the promising properties, the polymer poly (ethylene) terephthalate (PET) has been widely used for packaging and textiles industries with large annual demand and low recycle rate. The imbalance between the production and recycling
As the population is growing and planetary boundaries are being strained, the agro-food industry is facing major challenges. Previous research has proposed the innovation of vertical farming (VF) as a potential solution. This study contributes to the existing VF literature with an examination of the opportunities and obstacles for the implementation and upscaling of VF in Sweden. The VF industry i
Standardization plays a key role in modern industries. Standards provide compatibility and interoperability of products, thus increasing their value for consumers. In fact, standards go beyond that and positively affect market integration, consumer safety, environment issues etc. The European Union actively supports standardization run by Standard Setting Organizations. These organizations operate
Introduction: Calcium is an important ubiquitous second messenger regarding the maintenance of cellular homeostasis, and is therefore tightly regulated. Calcium induces cell death when internalised into cancer cells after permeabilization of the cell membrane by electroporation. It is established that radiation causes damage to the lipids and proteins of the cell membrane; and ionizing radiation a
The Women, Peace and Security agenda (WPS) argues for women’s rights and recognition of women’s situations in all stages of a conflict. Previous research has shown how refugee women seem to be overlooked in international legislation. Existing research considering the WPS agenda has mainly focused on issues of implementation and discourses. This study aims to explore how conceptualizations of secur
Effective and fair taxation is imperative for development and thus sustainable peace in post-conflict countries; yet there is a glaring paucity of generalizable research on the subject. Drawing on theories from Political Economy and Comparative Politics this thesis investigates how political veto powers affect these states’ ability to mobilize domestic resources. An integrated model of delayed pol
Many natural resources lead economies experience worse economic performance than their exports lead counterparts. This phenomenon is known as the Resource Curse, and many resource abundant countries face it. This study is aimed to critically assess existing Resource Curse theory by comparing two seemingly different cases Kazakhstan and Norway. Based on the Resource Curse theory hypothesis suggests
The real estate market and stock market, as two major investment channels in China, had experienced dramatically skyrocketing and fluctuations. Especially, after 2008 financial crisis, the price index of these two asset markets tended to be alternately soaring and declining. It seems there is a new principle or new relationship generating between the real estate and stock markets. This study emplo
The goal of this project was to gain a broader understanding of the process of developing design ideas into commercial products by producing a low volume production run of 100-1000 units based upon a set budget of 40.000 SEK. Appropriate manufacturing processes was selected and evaluated regarding costs and suitable volumes. Design ideas was developed by meeting with Swedish producers carrying ou
The importance to cut costs and to be as efficient as possible has never been as important as it is today in order to stay competitive in the market. IKEA are currently facing increasing challenges with the production growth due to a high demand from the market and goals for 2020. This large growth will affect the bottom line of the supply chain, the suppliers. The necessary production growth also
Ship mortgage and equivalent to it in civil law, hypothec, provides a mortgagee or the lender an opportunity to obtain security for his debt. The concept of this thesis is to compare Croatian and English systems of ship mortgage, hypothec. Relevant legislation of Merchant Shipping Acts in England and Maritime Code 2004 in Croatia, shall be used as a form of comparison as well as range of the relev
Since 2004 when China started the first Confucius Institute (CI) in the world, there has been hundreds of CIs established in the world till now. This study tried to provide a deep look of China's CI project and contribute a comprehensive knowledge to understand CI's functions in Scandinavia and its impact on building China's soft power in this community. In this study, two CI cases in
Dhaka the capital city of Bangladesh is one of the largest and most populous cities in the world. According to World Bank, Bangladesh has been experiencing a rapid urbanization over the last few decades, and Dhaka City’s projected 20 million residents will make it the third-largest city in the world by 2020. Dhaka city is also one of the most densely populated areas of the world. This paper tried
This paper aims at describing the drivers of long-run consumer price inflation in China as well as determining the role of imported inflation through changes in international food prices. The study was conducted with an OLS-regression on a Two-Pillar Phillips curve theoretical framework. Analysis of year-on-year growth data concludes that the main drivers of CPI inflation are: output gap, house pr
Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: För drygt 500 miljoner år sedan var Sverige beläget söder om ekvatorn och utgjorde tillsammans med resten av Skandinavien och östra Europa en kontinent kallad Baltica. Vid denna tid, under den period som kallas kambrium, var klimatet ganska kallt. I början av kambrium började havet stiga upp över Baltica så att dagens Skåne, samt övriga delar av Sverige, täcktesA core drilling at Almbacken in Södra Sandby, Scania, southern Sweden, penetrated a c. 30 m thick succession of Middle Cambrian-upper Lower Cambrian strata. The Middle Cambrian of this core is the most complete one so far documented in Scania. The core contains a stratigraphical sequence from the Lejopyge laevigata Zone (upper Paradoxides forchhammeri Stage) to the Holmia kjerulfi-group Zone (uppe
Occurrences of high alumina rocks constituted by quartz, kyanite, rutile and Al-phosphates are spatially related with the Protogine Zone, a system of ductile and brittle deformation zones within the Proterozoic crust of southern Scandinavia. A hydrothermal origin has been proposed for high alumina rocks at Västanå, based on the chemistry of these rocks, while gradual transitions between magmatic r
At least three terranes have been identified in the Svalbard Caledonides, each one having independent structures and tectonothermal evolution. On Biskayerhalvöya in the Northwestern Terrane, eclogites, located within deformed igneous basement rocks, have been dated by the U-Pb zircon method to c. 625 Ma. This study, using the garnet-clinopyroxene Fe/Mg exchange geothermometer, has established the
