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Since the China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC) was established in 1959, it has been more than 50 years for both China and CMAC in developing China’s Maritime Arbitration. From the basic point of view, it would be easily expected that the arbitration institutions of China could accept and hear a lot of maritime cases every year due to its advantages in coastal geography and developed intern
The purpose of the present study was to analyze the relationship between attachment style and level of work satisfaction for employees (n = 95) within a wide variety of workplaces in Sweden. A survey method was used and the questionnaire that was distributed contained ASQ, QPSNordic as well as items measuring general work satisfaction. A positive correlation between secure attachment style and lev
VAT fraud exists in different forms, ranging from the black economy to internal fraud and carousel fraud if intra-Union transactions are involved. It effects the financial interest of both the Member State in question and the European Union within the meaning of Article 325 TFEU. Both Member States and the Commission take measures to prevent the potential tax evasion or avoidance and abuse of law.
Refusal to license is one of the main areas of tension between IPRs and Article 102 TFEU, dealing with the problematic but important question of whether it is an abuse for a dominant undertaking to refuse to allow others to use its protected rights. The European Courts have, in a number of cases, decided that the refusal to supply/license may amount to an abuse of a dominant position. The last cas
In the last decade, Hong Kong maintains a relatively stable and sustained economic growth compared to other developed countries despite the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, the outburst of IT Bubble in 2001, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003. This thesis suggests that integration with China is the reason for such growth. Many studies have shown that Hong Kong and China have been closely
High trading volume is a common phenomenon in global financial markets, and it seems to go against the paradigm of classic economic theory based on rational agents and efficient markets. In this thesis, we turn to behavioral finance, as we try to explain this anomaly as a consequence of the so-called overconfidence bias. According to previous research, market return influences the level of overcon
This paper examines to what extent the 2011 EU-wide bank stress test provided the market with new information. The intention is to conclude whether the European banking sector should be considered opaque or not. This is done by studying the credit default swap market and the equity market using event-study methodologies. Three different groups will be observed: i) the stress tested banks ii) a sam
The Killeröd Formation ("Bronnii beds or Coscinorrhinus limestone") is a thin, but distinctive formation in the Middle Ordovician, upper Uhakuan Stage, of southeastern Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden. It is about 70 cm thick and consists of alternating grey microcrystalline limestone and blue-grey shaly mudstone. The Killeröd Fm is richly fossiliferous and has yielded a fairl
Glacial and marine geomorphological features have been studied and mapped on the south coast of Gilsfjördur West-Iceland. In this region the main Icelandic ice-sheet is supposed to have met with a separate Vestfirdir ice-cap. Fossiliferous sediments in the area are assumed to be of Late Weichselian age. Sediment terraces in the valley mouths indicate that smaller glaciers existed in the valleys al
Economic sanctions are defined as the exercise of pressure by one state to bring about a change in political behaviour of another state. Traditional economic sanctions are directed at the entire population of the sanctioned country while targeted sanctions are directed at the State’s government and/or individuals. Iran has become a sanction target first in 1979, which was imposed by United States
Vectorization has been an important consideration for scientific com- puting performance for a long time. Early super computers were designed around vectorization, the so called ”vector computers”, but recent trends point toward favouring other computer architectures, and vector comput- ers are much more rare than they used to be. Nonetheless, vectorization still lives on to a smaller extent in mo
A specific class of signaling proteins has been shown to affect adult hematopoiesis in mice, but little is known about the role that these proteins play during hematopoiesis in the fetal liver of the embryo. Here, we have studied and compared the in vitro and in vivo response to a cytokine in bone marrow and fetal liver hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). We have found that fetal live
This work is an investigation into practical design and loss minimization of DC/DC-switched power supplies, enabling cooler operation, smaller size, and additional or wider areas of use. There is an abundance of switch controller ICs on the market and a few of the manufacturers offer very sophisticated design tools that suggest operating parameters and grade components. However, one of the major
Purpose of this paper: The U.S. and European way of planning road-freight transport are different. These differences pose an interest of analyzing, assessing and evaluating. Transport planning in the U.S. is far more centralized and integrated than in the de-centralized inefficient European way. The aim of this paper is therefore to improve transport planning in Europe by analyzing the U.S. best-p
The present study investigates whether the mean and the standard deviation of real GDP growth forecasts from the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) can help to explain the cross-sectional variation of expected returns in the German stock market. The expected real GDP growth from the SPF can be interpreted as a proxy for expected business conditions, whereas the cross-sectional dispersion
Key words: Innovation, start-ups, exploration, exploitation, formal networks Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to explore the effects of formal network participation on exploration and exploitation activities in start-ups. Methodology: Following a cross-sectional design, an explorative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews. 18 interviews were performed with representatives fr
Abstract William Gibson’s influential Cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984) raises many questions about the effects of rapid technological advancements. The novel presents a Baudrillardian hyperreal situation for the individual characters in the story. Their desires and goals are shaped and directed by the environment in which they live. This essay builds on the work of scholars who have approached G
This thesis assesses the role of social capabilities in the development of Iceland’s economy in 1870-2019. Throughout the period, economic shrinking gradually decreased in the country. The paper argues that a lower frequency of shrinking resulted in better economic performance and that these changes are due to increased resilience to shrinking, provided by the build-up of social capability. By ana
