This thesis explores the impact of Internet consumption development in China through examining the causal relationship between Internet consumption and GDP under a bivariate VAR model, and between Internet consumption and traditional consumption, telecommunication industry, and express delivery industry under a multivariate VAR model using quarterly data from 2006-2013. The causal relationship bet

Working life is continuously changing and there is a greater responsibility on the individual to be able to adapt to change. For employees to be able to take on this responsibility and to be high performers, organizations need their employees to have high work engagement. This study therefore investigated the relationship between work engagement, organizational change, and employees’ perception of

The aim of this study is to investigate whether the choice of payment method in mergers and acquisitions is determined by the credit rating existence of the bidder and if the credit rating level has an impact of the financing source. The methods used are Probit and GLM logit regressions. The dependent variables are payment method and fraction of cash with credit rating and credit rating level as t

The purpose of the thesis is to examine if it is possible to earn excess returns with a certain strategy at the Stockholm Stock Exchange. More in depth, our strategy observes whether or not there is a signalling effect of raising the dividends. We used two portfolios, one that implies that the signalling effect of raising dividends will have a direct positive effect of the stock the up-coming year

De senaste decennierna har samarbeten mellan företag vuxit fram som en allt vanligare organisationsform. Till stor del beror det på den ökande globalisering som har lett till att konkurrensen har ökat och att mer resurser krävs för att nå en framträdande marknadsposition. I hotellbranschen har en organisationsform kallat konsortium vuxit fram. Ett konsortium är en organisation av fristående hotell

The goal of this bachelor thesis is to create visual effects by solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The visual effects should be dependent on the input from music and the PDEs are solved in real-time. Creating visual effects can be done in many different ways and the reason for using PDEs is that they model natural phenomena which is appealing to the human eye. Focus will be on studying

Omkring 30 000 lobbyister är verksamma inom maktens korridorer i EU:s institutioner. De verkar för att få sina intressen tillgodosedda genom att försöka forma beslutprocesserna till deras fördel. Men trots ett ökat samarbete med det privata näringslivet så har lagar och regler för oegentligheter inte skärpts tillräckligt. Organisationen Transparency International publicerade rapporten European Uni

Syftet med denna uppsats är att utreda vilken inverkan utbildning har haft på Chiles BNP per capita under perioden 1970-2010. Uppsatsen fokuserar på gymnasial- och eftergymnasial utbildning och dess inverkan på Chiles ekonomiska tillväxt. Metoden som används är tillväxtbokföring. Tillväxtbokföringen möjliggör en nedbrytning av produktionsfunktionen i syfte att finna varje variabels inverkan på til

Viral marketing is becoming an increasingly popular method of advertising in all industries. Current research in this field provides a general overview of the key points that cause an ad to go viral. Amongst them, emotions have been found to be one of main aspects of a video that cause it to be shared in social networks. The information available in this field is very general due to the new

Problemformulering: Ett index skapat av CBOE, CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index, påstås, enligt olika källor, uppnå en högre riskjusterad avkastning än marknadsportföljen. De tidigare undersökningarna sträcker sig dock endast fram till år 2004 och inkluderar således inte den senaste tidens unika marknadsläge, framför allt finans- och eurokrisen och deras efterdyningar. Syfte: Undersöka om CBOE S&am

Bakgrund: I en tid med hårdnande konkurrens, där utbudet ofta är större än efterfrågan, tvingas organisationer till effektivisering. Därav har vikten av att implementera ett starkt varumärke ökat, via denna kan kunden upplysas om produkt, kvalitet samt funktion. Efter den svenska skolreformen infördes, vilket innebar att skolväsendet öppnade upp sina portar för konkurrens, har betydelsen av varumä

Unhealthy workplaces can be seen as one of the leading issues regarding society’s high costs for ill health in Sweden. However research has shown that the personnel’s well-being has grown to be of bigger interest during the last few decades. The reason for this is that a connection has been made between the personnel’s well-being and the effectiveness of the organisation. Furthermore the responsib

Diseases and hunger is a cause of high infant and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Harsh environments in early life have been shown to leave the survivors permanently affected causing worse adult health and lower human capital. This environmental impact on health determined in early life can stretch over generations, e.g. through lower parental capabilities and socioeconomic status. In this

Examensarbetet undersöker problematiken i Sverige med impregneringsmedlet kreosot som finns träsliprar, utifrån användning, konsekvenser, avveckling och kostnader. Informationsinsamlingen har genomförts med litteraturstudier och intervjuer med presoner som har kunskap om ämnet. Det är viktigt att identifera hur giftigt kreosot är i anläggningen samt hur mycket det finns i Sverige. Det krävs att al

Sweden has approximately 20 200 kilometers of gravel roads, annually maintained at a great cost for society and entrepreneurs. Nowadays stakeholders agree on efficient ways on practicing the maintaining activities; however the knowledge has not yet been assembled. It is therefore in the interest of the entrepreneurs to gather valuable information from experts in order to distinguish the most profi

In 2012 the Swedish government decided that Sweden’s first high speed rail shall be constructed. The railway is titled Ostlänken and forms a part of a potential high speed rail network. It also sets the technical standard for the new network, and therefore the possibility to improve technical solutions should be evaluated. The Swedish power supply system currently in use differs from the internati

The kind of electoral system in use in a democracy affects voters possibilities regarding the number of parties/candidates any individual is allowed to support and if there is an opportunity to vote against parties/candidates that he or she does not want to see in power. In this study 235 Swedes were participated in a survey about how they experienced three different electoral systems regarding hoThe purpose of this study was to examine the relation between technostress, performance based self-esteem (PBS) and burnout among employees, further if technostress beyond PBS could act as a predictor for burnout. The participants in the study were white collar workers from a Swedish manufacturing industry who on a daily basis were using computer and information technology in their work. These com

Grit, the “passion and perseverance for long-term goals” (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews & Kelly, 2007, p. 1087) is strongly related to success in goal attainment even under challenging circumstances. The current thesis investigated how grit relates to three aspects of well-being: psychological well-being (PWB), life satisfaction, and harmony in life. This relationship is approached through the

I simulate the collision of satellite galaxies with the Milky Way and observe the effects that this has on the orbits of the globular cluster populations within both the Milky Way and the satellite galaxies. This is done in order to investigate whether some of the Milky Way's globular clusters could have been donated from satellite galaxies which have been tidally stripped, since it is believe

Barn med mild till svår hörselnedsättning och cochleaimplantat (CI) eller hörapparat (HA) uppvisar ofta nedsatt eller försenad utveckling inom språkliga områden. För korrekt och effektiv intervention är det viktigt att kartlägga vilka språkliga förmågor som är nedsatta samt vilka samband som finns mellan dessa. I föreliggande studie granskas taltydlighet, meningsförståelse (testad med Test for Rec