This research investigates the effect of stock liquidity on credit default swap spreads. The relationship between stock liquidity and CDS spreads is tested empirically using a panel data of 82 companies spanning a period of 64 months. To ensure the accuracy of our findings, we use three proxies for stock liquidity, namely the bid-ask spread, Amihud illiquidity measure and the turnover ratio. When

The purpose of this study was to examine in which way people with current or past experience of substance abuse describe their relationship to alcohol. There is a general point of view in the society about the people with an addiction problem. The perspective concerns that this group of inhabitants "must" live with complete abstinence from alcohol and drugs in their lives. The study was

Author: Mia Nelson Kurdve & Malin Törneld Title: “It’s up to each and everyone. But at the same time…” - A study about social workers’ approach to alcohol, when working with substance abuse. (Translated title) Supervisor: Hanna Wittrock Assessor: Malinda Andersson The purpose of this paper is to investigate if there are differences and contradictions between alcohol norms in society in genera

Globalization has brought numerous benefits to the world economy in general. On the one hand, it has contributed by giving opportunities and improving the quality of life of many people. It has also boosted some local markets in developing countries by giving local people employment as well as increasing their GDP, due to the fact that a vast amount of natural resources are found there. From the “

My essay is about the Danish Radio Concert House, a building for the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen. The architect Jean Nouvel started the project in 1992, and the building was finished in 2009. When Nouvel started to plan the Concert House, the area around the building location consisted of nature and wasteland. Usually Nouvel uses genius loci, the special history and context

Mycket forskning har förts kring Alexandra Kollontajs politiska liv, men mindre kring de skönlitterära verk hon har gjort. I denna uppsats åskådliggör jag Arbetsbiens kärleks förhållande till den samtida svenska kommuniströrelsen, men visar även hur en sådan analys kan bidra till en mer nyanserad läsning av hennes normering för sexualiteten, den kvinnliga kroppen och det kvinnliga arbetet.

This paper investigates whether the information from a number of different economic variables have the ability to predict stock returns on the OMXS30. The estimated forecast models are evaluated with a number of standard metrics to find the best performing models. These models are then used in combination with two portfolio strategies and tested over different time periods and forecast horizons, t

This study explores the relationship between democratic ideals and web technology discourses observable in the US media debate on the nation branding initiative Curators of Sweden. Having identified discursive patterns that touched upon issues of democracy and web technology, and by connecting the reactions to a theoretical foundation on digital democracy, the analysis show how the democratic valu

In commercial maritime law, "the contract of affreightment" and "marine insurance" may be the most important and difficult subjects. As far as the contract of affreightment is concerned, the difficulites derive from the existence of two entirely different forms of contracts, a charterparty and a bill of lading. In order to explore commercial maritime law, one key question is to

Global temperatures are expected to rise high above normal in our near future. The Nordic countries, like Sweden, will experience almost central European climate at the end of this century. This study investigates the effects that climate change will have on the Swedish national parks. Climate change will initially act as a stress factor towards the species. Furthermore, the species inside the bou

The Troubles in Northern Ireland have played a prominent part in modern European history. Despite the success of the Peace Process in the 1990s and subsequent stabilisation of the conflict through the introduction of power-sharing and paramilitary decommissioning of weapons, tensions still dominate the province. This thesis uses the Copenhagen School of Security Studies to investigate processes of

This study examines the impact that homelessness may have on young homeless people and how it could be explained that the situation can lead to mental illness and future consequences for these individuals. This was achieved by using qualitative content analysis to explore five international studies and also applying Lazarus’ Coping theory and Antonovsky’s theory of Sense of Coherence. The studies

This Master’s thesis investigates how public administrations in Sweden have developed e-archives and how these have been tailored according to the needs of use. The study takes off from within the context of what is called e-Government, which means that public administrations increase their use of IT in order to facilitate their operation and interaction with citizens. This development has been ch

Nedskärningar och sparkrav inom hälso- och sjukvården i Sverige har lett till kortare vårdtider efter förlossningen vilket kan leda till att nyblivna föräldrar fått mindre stöd och hjälp efter förlossningen. Syftet med studien var att undersöka kvinnors känsla av trygghet första tiden efter förlossningen. En kvantitativ deskriptiv och jämförande metod valdes. Instrumentet som användes var PPSS (Pa

Educational investments are made with the expectation that the acquired skills and knowledge will be applied on the labour market. Matching education and occupations lead to lower unemployment and vacancy rates and higher productivity and wages, but several imperfections of the labour market hinder the matching process. Education-occupation mismatch has been found to be positively linked with the

Europeiska kommissionen anser att den svenska rätten inte överensstämmer med EU-rätten vad gäller begreppet beskattningsbar person och att det inte är förenligt att inte betrakta ideella föreningars verksamhet som en del av mervärdesskattesystemets såsom det sker i den svenska lagen. Begreppet beskattningsbar person kommer att införas i den svenska lagstiftningen från och med den 1 juli 2013 med a

The purpose of this master's thesis is to examine whether music formats, as well as social media and apps, has affected how people dedicated to music search for music – and how this relates to the master's thesis theoretical aspects, as well as previous research about music information-seeking and -retrieval and the significance of tactile attributes. This will also be put in a library con

Det är en extra utmaning att skriva för barn eftersom barnet som läser vet att det är en vuxen som skrivit texten. För att skapa trovärdighet och möjliggöra identifiering krävs ett ärligt uppsåt. I den här uppsatsen undersöker jag om det finns generella riktlinjer som en författare kan använda sig av för att nå läsare i åldern nio till tolv år, utan att anpassningen av texten medför en konstruerad

Denna uppsats undersöker hur utbrett bruket av Google Translate (GT) är vid översättning av svenska kommuners hemsidor och vilken inställning kommuner har till översättningstjänsten samt hur förenlig tjänsten är med kommunernas lagstadgade informationsskyldigheter. Uppsatsen bygger på en enkät som har skickats ut till Sveriges samtliga 290 kommuner och enkätfrågorna berör på vilket sätt hemsidorn