This study aims to investigate how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the entrepreneurial environment in the European Union, selecting a representative sample of eight countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and The Netherlands). Research published at the beginning of the pandemic projected losses in GDP and an increasing unemployment rate due to a socio-economic shock. Thi

This thesis focusses on three distinct unevenness’s seen within the Covid-19 pandemic. Geographical unevenness shows in an uneven spread in and between countries. Societal unevenness is seen as Covid-19 deaths mainly occur in the elderly population, or people with underlying conditions. Finally, governmental policy unevenness is seen between countries as some have imposed strict health measures, a

This essay aims to answer several questions: how is consumer welfare defined in economics and by the Commission, how has the role of the concept evolved throughout the history of the Commission’s competition policy, and how do the modern problems of digital markets and sustainability affect the role of consumer welfare? It can first be stated that there exists a clear definition and a way to meas

There is an increasing demand for responsible business conduct. Different mechanisms have been developed to promote and ensure such responsibility within corporate operations. Two of such mechanisms are the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These two UN mechanisms have been widely implemented into corporate operations with t

This bachelor’s thesis concerns the Swedish housing market and how the publicly and privately owned firms may differ in goals, costs, and actions. Building upon a theoretical foundation of different models of competition and the Lerner Index’s measurement of monopoly power, an empirical investigation is made into whether competition on the Swedish housing market mainly expresses itself in price, q

With the number of digital display advertisements increasing, consumers have become accustomed to ignoring or skipping internet ads. Previous research has investigated the use of different types of human images (like celebrities and social media influencers) in advertising to improve advertising effectiveness. However, existing studies neglect the role of normal people and examine the presence of

In May 2018, the Swedish Parliament voted in favor of a Sexual Offense legislation based on voluntariness and the new law came into force on the first of July. In the proposal to change the legislation, the government claimed that a new consent culture must be established. The purpose of the amendments is not only to achieve legal effects but also to achieve societal effects, in terms of influenci

Involuntary celibacy is often referred to with the term incel. Incels are well-known for their internet forums where they discuss this matter in private. Earlier studies have also shown that the incel community infact is rooted in misogyny but also focuses on immense self-hatred and a longing for death. Several sources have expressed a concern about the growing terror-threats from incels. Therefor

Det här examensarbetet hade som mål att ta reda på om neuronnätverk kan användas för bildigenkänning av ’street-view’-bilder för att avgöra om en byggnad har eller inte har en källare. För att göra detta hämtades en datamängd av bilder från Google Street View utifrån en lista med adresser som på förhand hade inventerats av VA SYD. Från filen med bilder på fastigheter som innehar källare valdes det

This thesis studies the effect on private consumption and its components by durability, following an exogenous shock to government spending, in Denmark and Sweden. In order to compare the outcomes when being at the zero lower bound (ZLB) or not, the quarterly data ranging from 1995 to 2020, is split into two sub-samples. The impulse response functions, generated by a Bayesian structural VAR (BSVAR

Background: According to The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), about 20 percent of adults suffer from chronic pain globally. Insufficient treatment of chronic pain can lead to negative effects on health and quality of life. The cost of chronic pain is high both for society and individuals. For approximately a quarter of the people with chronic pain, the condition results in r

Bakgrund: Enligt resultaten från två översiktsartiklar lever dagens ungdomar och unga vuxna sällan upp till rekommenderad fysisk aktivitetsnivå. Rekommendationerna för att främja hälsa och förebygga ohälsa bland unga vuxna över 18 år är aerob fysisk aktivitet på måttlig intensitet minst 150 minuter/vecka eller aerob fysisk aktivitet på hög intensitet minst 75 minuter/veckan. Aerob fysisk aktivitet

Bakgrund: Barn och unga under 18 år rekommenderas att vara fysiskt aktiva minst 60 min dagligen. År 2014 uppgav Världshälsoorganisationen (WHO) att 81% av unga, globalt sett i världen inte når upp till rekommendationerna. Barn spenderar större del av dagen på stillasittande aktiviteter och det är i övergången från barn till ungdom som minskningen av fysisk aktivitet är som störst. Syfte/frågeställ

Transportation has a central role in the development of societies and has a significant impact on sustainability. Transportations with cars that are motor driven is the largest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions and is seen as the biggest threat to sustainable mobility. The car is deeply rooted in societies and the urban landscape is largely adapted to the use of this kind of transportation.

Arbete på distans blev under en period vardag för flera tjänstepersoner till följd av covid-19 pandemin. Huruvida arbete från den traditionella arbetsplatsen fortsättningsvis är önskvärd för medarbetarna kan tänkas vara av intresse för arbetsgivare att ha kännedom om. Syftet med studien var att undersöka medarbetares upplevelse av distansarbetet utifrån produktivitet och gruppsammanhållning för tiDue to the covid-19 pandemic telework became a regular workday for many white-collar workers during a period of time. Whether the traditional workplace is desirable for workers to be continued working from or not may be of interest to employers to know. The aim of this study was to examine how municipal workers in the white-collar sector experienced telework as well as perceived their productivit

Bakgrund: Allt fler patienter överlever i takt med att intensivvården utvecklas. En stor del av dessa patienter har emellertid kognitiva besvär efter utskrivningen som kan vara bestående lång tid efter utskrivning, vilket påverkar deras livskvalitet negativt. Syfte: Var att belysa prevalensen av långvarig kognitiv nedsättning för patienter efter intensivvård där instrumenten Repeatable Battery for

Recent focus on the negative effects of climate change has amplified the importance of renewable sources of energy for electricity generation. The contribution of renewables to the energy mix is growing steadily with profound effects on the price of electricity and implications for market participants. In this paper, we employed a similar model to that developed in (Green, 2015) to model the very

The purpose of this study was to investigate how social workers, working with financial aid, creates participation for children and if their work has been affected by the legal enforcement of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its children rights perspective. We used a qualitative method when interviewing in order to examine and find an answer to our purpose and question at issue. The r

Preliminary firm level evidence suggests that macroprudential policies reduce firm credit growth and MSME investment, and could therefore have a negative impact on economic growth. However, the question remains if macroprudential policies affect R\&D investments as well. Although R&D is primarily financed internally, the literature also suggests that debt financing may be used to some degr

In this thesis, we investigate many–body systems using simulations of quan- tum computers. Quantum computing is a computational paradigm based on qubits which are defined in a Hilbert space instead of the familiar binary bits. This architecture implies that quantum computers are especially suited to simulate quantum systems that are otherwise difficult to compute. In this work, the excitation and