The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether an expansionary monetary policy since 2008 has caused inflation in price indices other than the consumer price index, CPI. Most inflation targeting central banks use a CPI to measure inflation. The CPI only covers a subset of all prices in the economy and CPI-inflation has been low despite an expansionary monetary policy during the last 10 years. A

Bakgrund: Många barn upplever att de inte får tillräckligt med stöd när deras förälder blir sjuk i cancer och att de ofta hamnar i skuggan av förälderns sjukdom. Det finns en generell kunskapsbrist om hur barn hanterar situationen som anhörig och både sjukvårdspersonal och föräldrar upplever att de har svårt att bemöta barnens behov. Syfte: Att belysa barns hantering när en förälder är sjuk i canc

The increased capital requirements, as a result of Basel III regulations, have been widely debated among bankers, regulators and other agents. In this thesis, we aim to evaluate if the increased capital requirements have had an effect on bank lending in Sweden. To analyze this, we gather quarterly data from the four largest Swedish banks and divide lending to the public into five categories. We us

Denna uppsats syftar till att analysera och diskutera kriskommunikationen och krishanteringen inom svenska myndigheter för tre olika fall; Estoniakatastrofen 1994, Tsunamikatastrofen 2004 samt Terrorattentatet på Drottninggatan 2017. En väl fungerande krishantering bygger på samverkan på olika nivåer. Såväl efter Estoniakatastrofen 1994, Tsunamikatastrofen i Sydostasien 2004 samt Terrorattentatet

An initial public offering, IPO, is the first offering of a company´s shares to the public. Multiple studies have shown that there are certain anomalies tied to IPOs as they often generate high returns on their first day of trading and underperform in the long-run. This paper investigates the occurrence of these anomalies on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange during 2010-2016. The results indicate that

In most European countries today, immigrants are doing worse than their native counterparts on the labour market, resulting in economically and socially undesirable outcomes. This thesis studies differences in labour market segregation for immigrants among European countries and explains how different institutional factors on the labour markets of Europe affect labour market segregation. More prec

Georgia has through the past 25 years been undergoing changes characterized by rapid transformations and is now a society in a large development. In this thesis, I apply a critical Marxist perspective to the case of women’s rights organizations in Georgia and what characterizes the relations they make with respectively the Georgian government and the Swedish donor organization Kvinna till Kvinna.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the recent trend of economic growth and corruption in Bangladesh. Observing the recent data and analyzing the relevant studies the thesis aims at finding the changing pattern of corruption and how it can be a challenge for attaining sustainable development. The thesis is qualitative in nature based on theoretical studies and few secondary data. The study fin

This paper examines the effect of Chinese OFDI on China’s bilateral trade with affected countries, to investigate the possible build-up of a Eurasian China-centric trade network. The main contribution of the paper is to have combined economics, war theory and geopolitics to analyse and produce a theoretical framework for it. Whereas there is a lack of consensus on the effect of FDI on trade in ge

Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur ett kommunikativt perspektiv, tillsammans med teorier om meningsskapande och meningsgivande, kan användas för att bilda en djupare förståelse för organisationslärande efter en kris. Organisationer försöker i allt större utsträckning kapitalisera på kriser genom att lära sig av dem, men forskning visar att de ofta misslyckas med detta. Genom intervjue

I snart 500 år har människan använt sig av diverse optiska instrument för att betrakta sådant som inte är möjligt att se med blotta ögat. Teleskop har använts för att studera himlakroppar och mikroskop för att exempelvis undersöka små biologiska beståndsdelar. Det finns idag många olika metoder inom optisk mikroskopi men samtliga följer en liknande grundprincip. Objektet som ska avbildas exponerasSeveral significant pathogenic bacteria exhibit surface proteins that bind human antibodies, preventing them from being recognized by the human immune system. These bacteria are thus protected from elimination and can survive in the host organism. One common such bacteria is the Streptococcus pyogenes that exhibits the antibody binding M protein on its surface. Streptococcus pyogenes causes more t

The effects on trade from negotiating and entering voluntary partnership agreement is estimated using forest product trade data from 2000 to 2014 on countries in the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licensing process. Gravity model framework is used and the result shows that beginning negotiations lead to an export drop by approximately 0.6 percent and is relatively stable the

In this thesis, I examine the relation between size and performance in Swedish equity mutual funds during the period 2010 – 2017. The thesis is divided into two main parts with the first part investigating the relation between size and performance by dividing the sample of 107 mutual funds into three groups according to the size of the funds. The funds are then analyzed with three different perfor

Rationale: Urban informal settlements are vulnerable and exposed to hazards. Weather forecasting is possible and provides a “window of opportunity” to push cash or aid to vulnerable dwellers before the disaster strikes. Forecast-based Financing is a framework, which provides this system, and it has had great success with rural pilots. Currently no research has investigated the implementation of Fo

The current thesis examined how employees make sense of employer branding activities tailored for university graduates. A mixed-method approach of conducting qualitative research was use to investigate the nature of tailored employer branding activities. Based on the theory of sensemaking, deeper understanding of the addressed topic was gained.

School-based sex education plays an influential role for adolescents in England. Existing research shows that adolescents are a vulnerable population who are more likely to get a sexually transmitted infection over another age group. Girls between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four are particularly vulnerable to getting an STI. In some countries, a framework called comprehensive sexuality educati

Factors influencing and improving a student’s academic attainments, in particular, test scores, are an essential concern for academics as well as policymakers. In this thesis, I add a student’s ordinal rank, calculated from underlying test scores, as a new input factor to the education production function. By using experimental data on primary schools in the United States, I assess whether the ord

Power systems operate at a specific frequency and constantly require a balance between production and consumption of electricity in order to maintain the frequency within a certain interval. Larger frequency deviations can cause blackouts or damage equipment connected to the grid. Balancing functions that stabilise the grid are referred to as \textit{ancillary services}, which in Sweden include th

Vi i Sverige är duktiga på att återvinna, men man kan ibland fråga sig om återvinning verkligen är det bästa sättet att hantera produkter som man inte längre använder. När det gäller elektroniska produkter så som mobiltelefoner, datorer och surfplattor kan både resurser och pengar sparas genom att återanvända istället för att återvinna. Studien du nu ska läsa är en undersökning om hur skånska koInformation and Communications Technology (ICT) is something that drives our society forward, but how we are consuming these products is rather something that harm our environment rather than pushing our society forward. This thesis investigates our unstainable consumption of ICT products and takes a look at waste prevention solutions in order to reach circular economy with a focus on Swedish muni