File sharing programs have changed the music industry in the last few years, as a lot of Internet users have started to download music. While the access to music has spread though the population of most countries, music sales have also dropped. The music industry has been pressuring political institutions to change laws to protect music copyrights. Sweden and Spain are two different countries with

Theories lead to contradictory hypotheses regarding the determinants of vertical and horizontal IIT. Hence, in order to be able to investigate the country-specific determinants of VIIT and HIIT, it is important to empirically delimit the two from each other. This study employs the traditional Grubel and Lloyd measure of intra-industry trade, unadjusted for trade imbalance, and the method developed

The interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which recognizes that companies have obligations that extend beyond short-run profit maximization to include notions of social and environmental concern, has increased considerably in recent decades. The globalization of the world economy and the related trade liberalization has brought forward a discussion of the importance of business as an

Vi undersökte hur arbetet för anställda inom myndigheter påverkas av den pågående utvecklingen av samverkande e-myndigheter. Elektroniska kommunikationsmedel ska ge medborgare möjlighet att uträtta ärenden 24 timmar om dygnet. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur de myndighetsanställdas arbete påverkas av en alltmer elektronisk hantering av arbetsuppgifter. För detta ändamål valde vi att utfö

Bakgrund: Om VaR kan estimeras väl med hjälp av ES-metodik, kan man få bukt med VaR-måttets brist på sudadditivitet (vilken innebär dels praktiska problem vid utformning av finansiella organisationers limitstrukturer, dels teoretiska problem i enlighet med Artzner et al (1997, 1999)) samtidigt som man uppfyller det formella kravet på att rapportera sitt VaR på 99 %:snivån. Syfte: Att undersöka hur

Project management has been a very popular way of conducting information system development in the past years. Among all major information system developing companies today, almost everyone work in some form of project management. Our objective with this study has been to find out if there are any problems that begin in the early part of the project. Problems that, if they aren’t solved directly,

Titel: Softcommissions, en strategi som hindrar utvecklingen för institutionella aktietransaktioner? Författare: Patrik Albinsson Handledare: Jerker Holm Nyckelord: Institution, aktiemäklare, spelteori, nashjämvikt, bertrandjämvikt Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva marknaden för institutionell aktiehandel i Sverige och i USA. Fokus är att kartlägga den utveckling som sker på den svens

In many biomedical contexts, e. g. when evaluating hearing disorders, the data obtained can be described as pairs (x1, y1), …, (xn, yn) where x is a quantitative variable and y a 0/1 variable whose probability of taking the value 1 is a monotonic function of x. One way of analysing such data is to perform probit regression; thereby two parameters, b0 (= the constant) and b1 (= the slope) are estim

The objective of this thesis was firstly to examine the possibilities of creating a universal tool for evaluating IT-security. When all the material was gathered we saw that we had strayed away from our subject and that our focus was on IT-threats and IT-professionals apprehensions and possibilities on the subject. The purpose of this thesis was there after to find and identify threats and counter

Standardsystem är något som är mycket vanligt hos företag idag. Det är många som implementerar sådana system för att effektivisera sin verksamhet. När verksamheten hos ett företag förändras eller om verksamheten skiljer sig något från andra uppstår vissa problem med standarder i system. I det läget kan det bli nödvändigt att vidareutveckla ett standardsystem för att det ska passa just det företage

The flat tax rate is increasingly under scrutiny in West European countries as a model for taxation. Progressive taxation might be deemed as unsatisfactory to attract investment in the 21st century in a world of more global competition. Using macroeconomic data, this paper investigates whether the Baltic flat tax countries in Europe have higher growth rates than other transition economies. The fin

This essay uses the Factor Augmented Vector Autoregressive (FAVAR) approach to quantify the effects of monetary policy. Traditional methods to estimate the effects of monetary policy, such as Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models, have yielded unsatisfactory results, mainly due to sparse information sets included in the models. Augmenting the VAR model with factors summarizing the information of a va

Systems development methods mirror different organizational perspectives, and not all methods are formalised, but what they have in common is the purpose of structuring and supporting systems development processes. Which method would be the most suitable may be determined by the systems development context at hand, because every systems development context is unique. Information is a valuable asse

China has had an unbelievable economic development over the last 25 years. Their gross domestic product (GDP) has increased by more than 9% yearly. Since the middle of the 1980’s this trend has become more and more dependent on China’s private firms. China’s private firms are much more effective than their counterpart state-owned enterprises. Despite this fact, private firms are still treated very

This thesis is the result of a case study which has its starting point in the fact that mergers and acquisitions are characterized by a high level of risk and often fail to reach stated goals such as leverage of synergy, many times due to the inability of integrating the concerned organization’s information systems. Existing problem perspectives do not include what could be a factor contributing t

Increased global trade in high-value food products presents new possibilities to developing countries to increase export revenues from agro-food trade. Yet, it also poses new challenges upon these countries to comply with prevailing food safety standards on industrial markets. Increased wealth in industrial countries and a number of severe food safety scandals have jointly contributed to an increa

Under tidigt 80-tal växte olika sorter av kommunikationsmodeller fram, bland annat Daft och Lengels, Media Richness Theory. Denna teori var baserad på den tidens kommunikationsmönster. Idag nästan 20 år senare har vi sett explosionsartad IT-utveckling vilket har medfört förändringar i det dagliga kommunikationsmönstret. I denna uppsats undersöker vi om Media Richness Theory fungerar på ny teknik m

Det finns fyra huvudsakliga orsaker till genusskillnader. Jag har valt att främst undersöka hur dessa påverkar utbildning, hälsa och arbetskraft i Ghana. Genom att samla statistik över dessa tre indikatorer för både män och kvinnor vid olika årtal har jag gjort observationer.

This paper examines the increasing use of bilateral investment treaties as instruments of foreign investment protection. The outcomes of treaty arbitrations are analysed to assess the extent to which treaties limit the economic policy choices available to host states. The disputes are also analysed to determine how such treaties may affect the development of legal institutions and the general appl

In May 2004 eight former communist countries (EU-8) with close historical trade ties to Russia joined the European Union. According to integration theory, we expect that Russia – a so called third country – in some cases may suffer from trade diversion due to this. This thesis focuses on the possible effects on Russian trade resulting from the 2004 eastern enlargement of the European Union. It aim