This paper explores whether financial deepening that occurred in the Western Balkans during the past decades had a significant impact on economic growth. We take into account different measures of financial deepening and estimate their impact on economic growth using panel data for seven countries over a period of thirty years. Our findings differ from expectations that financial deepening acceler

In 2012, The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision decided to change the standard risk measure from the well-known Value-at-Risk (VaR) to Expected Shortfal (ES). The committee believes that the new standard risk measure could offer more benefit, aside from just overcoming the major weaknesses of VaR like incoherency and inability to capture tail risk. In this study, best models for VaR and ES are

The purpose of this paper is to study how the mindset of an international service firm evolves over time and to research the relationship between internationalization actions and entrepreneurial orientations. The international entrepreneurial orientation of a firm consists of eight dimensions, five of which derive from the Entrepreneurial Orientation concept, and three more are suggested as additi

Today’s work environment is currently undergoing radical changes and although the aware-ness of social collaboration is growing within organizations, they still struggle with the digital transformation and thereby with the integration of Enterprise Social Network (ESN). Our study aims to investigate the role of ESN within the todays’ organizations. Specifically, it intends to build on previous res

How do English speaking women from USA and England who live in Sweden relate to nationality and inclusion and how is this affected by ethnicity, age, sex, and language skills? The aim of the study is to present an immigrant group often overlooked in Swedish research and immigration debates. With an intersectionality perspective and theories about nationality and in/exclusion the material which con

This paper examines the impact of foreign capital inflows on economic growth and self-employment in Ethiopia; using self-employment as a proxy for poverty reduction. It employs a descriptive statistics in the first part and Granger causality Wald tests in the second part. In the first part, 1961 to 2010, the findings indicate that there is an increase in the average growth rates, especially in the

Title: Does the CEO manipulate earnings prior to routine departure? – An empirical study about earnings management prior to routine CEO departure on Swedish firms listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm Seminar Date: 2015-05-25 Course: FEKN90: Degree project, Master of Science in Business and Economics (30 University credit points) Authors: Biljana Colevska and Ida Lindgren Advisor: Per Magnus Andersso

Business Intelligence (BI) är ett ämne som är högst aktuellt inom verksamheter idag. Detta eftersom BI möjliggör stöd för beslutstaganden inom verksamheter vilket leder till bättre effektivitet samt snabbare svar på affärsfrågor. För att hanteringen av ett BI-initiativ ska lyckas har vi i denna studie sett att det är viktigt att ha en tydligt Governance-strategi. Vi kan dra slutsatsen att BI Gover

Syfte: Studien ämnar undersöka ifall procent korrekt skattade kreditbetyg kan påvisas vara högre än vad tidigare forskning fastställt vid en branschspecifik undersökning av teknologibranschen samt allmännyttiga företag. Studien ämnar även, i samma kontext, undersöka om procent korrekt skattade kreditbetyg visar sig vara högre vid dessa två separata branschspecifika undersökningar än vid en undersöPurpose: The study aims to investigate if the percent correctly predicted credit ratings can be shown to be higher than previous research has established with an industry-specific survey of technology and utility companies. The study also aims to, in the same context, examine if the percent correctly predicted credit ratings proves to be higher in the these two separate industry-specific than in a

In order to assist developed countries in reaching their emission reduction targets, and to help developing countries onto a sustainable path of development, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change established a market for credits generated from emission reductions. However, since its conception, a majority of the projects implemented have gone to emerging economies such as China

Secondary packaging solutions presently used to package food goods in e-commerce supply chain are either taken from old supply chains, or sub-optimally developed in a non-holistic manner. Due to the increase use of the Internet in Europe to perform online food purchases, secondary packaging must be adapted to meet these new needs. Therefore, a secondary packaging solution for a Dutch e-grocer was

Leadership is often proposed as a key solution for social change, although the actual meaning remains unclear. By studying leadership in the context of Indian feminist NGOs’ hybridity, situated in-between Western structures and the values of the Indian Women’s Movement, I intended to deepen our understanding of the lived meaning of leadership and followership, beyond its buzzword character. Throug

Attempts to promote women’s rights to land in Sub-Saharan Africa have attracted attention in both academia and from an international development perspective. Female Farmers (FFs) in Bombali district in northern Sierra Leone gain access to farmland through male heritages under customary practices. This makes them dependent on maintaining connections with male lineages in order to gain rights to lan

Den här masteruppsatsen handlar om Gunnel Vallquists svenska översättning av Marcel Prousts roman På spaning efter den tid som flytt (1913−1927). Uppsatsen inleds med en presentation av författaren och romanen samt en genomgång av tidigare forskning om romanens stil. Här presenteras några drag som är utmärkande för Prousts stil, närmare bestämt bildspråk, precision och rytmiska element. Därefter f

The purpose of this research is to explore the impact users have on value co-creation in the sharing economy. More specifically, we aim to examine the values users can co-create for each other through exchanges and interactions within the sharing economy. Because the sharing economy is a recent phenomenon, an explorative research design has been chosen with a qualitative study. 25 semi-structured

This thesis proposes a novel method for multi-pitch estimation. The method operates by posing pitch estimation as a sparse recovery problem which is solved using convex optimization techniques. In that respect, it is an extension of an earlier presented estimation method based on the group-LASSO. However, by introducing an adaptive total variation penalty, the proposed method requires fewer user s

Produktionsvåtmarker – lika bra för alla syften? Produktionsvåtmarker kan vara ett bra verktyg för att motverka övergödningen av våra hav och vattendrag. Detta eftersom produktionsvåtmarker genom till exempel växtupptag kan fånga in näring samtidigt som växter och djur får ett bättre och mer varierat landskap. Växtbiomassan kan sedan skördas och användas som resurs för biogasproduktion. Hur väl vModern agricultural practices give rise to environmental issues such as the eutrophication of waters (e.g. rivers and oceans). Increased knowledge and understanding of the negative consequences of nutritional leakage have led to comprehensive mitigation measures, one of which is the construction of wetlands. In order to achieve successful, cost-effective and sustainable measures it is essential to

Learning partnerships are becoming increasingly common for municipalities to fulfill their roles as important actors in adaptive governance regimes for sustainability. However, there is little theoretical guidance for municipalities, endangering the effectiveness of partnerships. The Ball-Bearing Framework used in this thesis is one of the first attempts to understand inter-municipal partnerships,

Nästan alla moderna programspråk använder en interpretator – en flexibel och praktisk om än långsam lösning. Vi prövar ett enkelt sätt att kraftigt öka prestandan på Erlangs interpretator.We have modified the Erlang runtime to add support for a tracing just-in-time (JIT) compiler, similar to Mozilla’s TraceMonkey. Tracing is a technique to augment an existing interpreter with a JIT simply by recording the instructions executed during a loop iteration, and then generate optimized native code from this. Tracing compilers are particularly suited to optimize number crunching tight loo

This paper seeks to outline the implications of an increasingly entrepreneurial mindset among top and middle management on the execution of key managerial activities in a successful strategic implementation and the interrelated outcomes. The intention is the draw valid managerial implications for those considering strategic change as well as implications for future research. The research contribut