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Fairness or Possibilities - Equal opportunities in Swedish sports

Writing in Swedish as a First Language (L1) and English as a Foreign Language (FL): A Topic-Related Functional Perspective

Analysis of the rainfall-runoff pattern of a catchment with limited data to estimate the runoff potential. Case study: The Mefou sub basin in Cameroon

Water resources management in a catchment requires the quantification of the water potential. This is usually achieved by the estimation of the hydrological and meteorological characteristics of the basin using observed data to carry out statistical estimates or for use in hydrological models. Hydrological and meteorological data for the Mefou sub basin in Cameroon were collected to analyse the ra

Framing the Radical Right-Wing Politics - A Comparative Study of the Sweden Democrats and the Norwegian Progress Party

Over the last years, Europe has witnessed the rise of a new political party family, the RRP (Radical Right Populism). These parties signify a serious challenge to contemporary politics of Europe and raise questions concerning the cause of their increasing electoral success within European politics. By taking departure from previous literature, explaining the emergence of the RRP from a social-move

Greening the (welfare) state: Rethinking Reflexivity in Swedish Sustainability Governance

Contemporary developments in sustainability governance have enhanced environmental policy and induced comprehensive institutional reforms in several countries. Theoretically, this has also induces a debate on the role of the state for reflexive and ecological sustainability governance. Informed by Eckersley's political theory of the green state, this thesis offer an analysis of the prospects

The New Moderates A motive analysis of the Swedish Moderates? stated transformation during 2003-2006.

Swedish Mainstream Mass Media as Opinion Builder?

Monitoring of electrical energy - Why and how do Swedish industries do it? In search of energy conservation, efficiency and better performance in manufacturing industries

Relationship effects on the modus operandi and motivation of the offender in Swedish rape cases

The Economic Growth Consequences of Population Aging in Sweden

A Study of the Excess Comovement on the Swedish Stock Market 1985-2003

This paper is focused on two phenomenons that is called excess comovement and financial contagion. The excess comovement is defined as the comovement, or correlation, between normally uncorrelated assets, that can not be explained by economic fundamentals and financial contagion is the occurrence of excess comovement. Excess comovement has been observed on several stock markets by economic researc

Forecasting Swedish GDP Growth

The Costs of Abatement - A Cost-effective Allocation of Swedish Phosphorus Abatement Concerning the Sea Basin of the Baltic Proper

Pricing Derivatives: Implementing Heston and Nandi's (2000) Model on the Swedish Stock Index

Following in your Father’s Footsteps? - Intergenerational Mobility and Ethnic Capital Among Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden

Adherence in pharmaceutical utalisation -A demand for health analysis based on the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions and the Pharmaceutical Registry

Economic Growth and Abatement of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Swedish Transport Policy

On the Welfare Costs of Business Fluctuations in Sweden 1970 - 2007

Recyclable Reform: Explaining Sweden's Pension Reform through Garbage Can Theory

Leverage Effects on the Swedish stock market

The leverage effect is one of two main hypotheses explaining the negative relationship between volatility of returns and return on equity. It states that a decrease in leverage, due for example to rising stock prices, increases the amount of equity which carries the firm volatility and thus decreases the volatility on rates of return. Using 51 companies that have been actively traded on the Stockh