nvestigating the Swedish stock market, we find value stocks to have significantly outperformed growth stocks during the period of 1993 to 2017. As value stocks are found to be riskier during bad states of the economy, the existence of the value premium can be partly attributed to time-varying risk. Value betas are anticyclical, while growth betas exhibit a procyclical pattern. Controlling for time

Denna studie undersöker om införandet av Pay-for-Performance-program (P4P) i Sveriges primärvård har påverkat antal undvikbara slutenvårdstillfällen. I Västernorrland och Västerbotten har man använt sig av P4P med kvalitetsindikatorn undvikbar slutenvård under åren 2012-2014. Dessa län definieras som behandlingsgrupp i studien, och resterande län definieras som kontrollgrupp. Studien genomförs medThis study examines if the implementation of Pay-for-Performance-programmes (P4P) in Swedish primary care has had an effect on avoidable hospitalizations. In the counties Västernorrland and Västerbotten P4P has been used with the quality indicator avoidable hospitalization included in the programme during 2012-2014. These counties are defined as the treatment group in the study, and the remaining

The relationship between economic development and environmental performance has gained much attention since the development of the environmental Kuznets curve, which predicted that economic growth would lead to environmental degradation at early stages of development but would eventually improve environmental quality at higher income levels. This assumption of economic growth alone driving both ca

Augmented Reality har vuxit och visat vara intresse som verktyg inom flera verksamhetsområden. Tekniken visualiserar virtuell data i verklig miljö vilket möjliggör för användare att kunna ”promenera omkring” i en förstärkt verklighet. Samtidigt använder byggprojekt sig länge av tekniska verktyg för ökad förståelse och som stöd, i form av modeller. I denna studie undersöks hur aktörer och intressen

As China has become the top exporter in the world, new trade models move forward in explaining the interactions in world trade. Researchers advocate an increase in productivity and decreased survivability for low productive firms as China enters the market for domestic firms. The purpose of this paper is to research if a higher rate of import from China has a reallocation effect on productivity an

The aim of this study is to define and conceptualise the dimensions of customer value for value-based pricing strategies within a B2B industrial context. Furthermore, this study advances theory and knowledge in research about pricing and B2B relationships between customers and sellers. Prior research findings were incorporated in order to develop a multidimensional and multifaceted framework showi

Begränsningar med polyetylenglykol (PEG) som ytbeläggningen av proteiner och nanopartiklar i biologiska tillämpningar, har ökat intresset för peptoider. Peptoider har framställts med både en fastfassyntes och en syntes i lösningsmedel. Vad är mest lämpligt för storskalig framställning?Polymers of N-substituted glycine (NSG) or as they are also called, peptoids, have shown potential in biomedical applications due to proteolytic resistance, among other interesting properties. In this thesis project, two synthetic routes have been performed and evaluated to achieve a better understanding of large-scale syntheses of peptoids as a bioinert coating for nanoparticles. The primary fo

The overall purpose of thesis is to describe and understand how the law of duty to report child abuse works in practice from the perspective of the officials obligated to report. Interviews with several of these officials has been used in this thesis to collect data with the purpose of establishing their actual routines and experiences in these matters. The data has been analyzed from a street-lev

This paper takes off in the rapidly growing fields of financial independence and financial literacy. We develop a model focusing on reaching financial independence during retirement and mitigate financial decision making for financially illiterate. The model is based on theoretical research within financial literacy, economic life-cycle and safe withdrawal rates. To ensure qualified monthly saving

The European Union has proved to be unable to efficiently deal with the refugee crisis that is devastating Middle East since 2011. The problem grew bigger in 2014 and 2015, when Syrian migrants illegally entered some frontier Member States, forcing the European Union to introduce a new relocation mechanism that is far from being more effective than previous solutions. To address this distributiona

How to work with and talk about sound as part the architectural expression.

This master thesis has been conducted at Alfa Laval in cooperation with the division of Production and Materials Engineering at Lund University. The objective has been to investigate virtual production with regards to its required resources, benefits and limitations of the technology. Work with production analysis, literature studies, creating a prototype, benchmarking led to our conclusion. Virt

In October 2016, the IACtHR issued the judgment of the case of Hacienda Brasil Verde Workers v Brazil. The case concerns the subjection of 85 workers to slavery-like conditions in a private-owned livestock farm located in the north of Brazil. Brasil Verde Workers v. Brazil was the first judgment of the IACtHR on the prohibition of slavery of article 6 ACHR. Moreover, it was also the first time tha

The aim of this research was to explore the consumer behavior of international students in the context of the choice for a higher education institution abroad in order to gain insights on their interactions with different online media communication channels during their decision journey. Previous research discussed the increased use of the internet during the application process for universities a

Hushållens skuldsättningsgrad är av intresse för en mängd instanser i samhället eftersom denna bland annat kan ge en bild av hur allvarligt en ekonomisk kris skulle drabba hushållen. Om man kan hitta en modell som väldigt väl förklarar hushållens skuldsättningsnivå kan man eventuellt också upptäcka potentiellt farliga situationer i ekonomin tidigare och då ha möjlighet att sätta in åtgärder mot deHousehold debts is interesting for a number of institutions in society. One reason for this is that it gives a picture of how severely a potential economic crisis might affect the country. If a model can be found which precisely explains the household debt levels, it can be used to predict dangerous situations at an earlier stage, so that resources to counteract the situation can be employed befor

In this paper we have looked at the effect good schools have on surrounding house prices, focusing on London. We consider both the effect of “% of students that meet expected standard in math, reading, and writing”, and the new “progression score” that the UK government has introduced. These two scores are used as the basis of how a school is defined as ‘good’. We used two different propensity sco

This paper introduces machine learning to automate the coarsening choices in coarsened exact matching (CEM) as a monotonic imbalance bounding matching class. I suggest to replace the otherwise arbitrary multivariate stratification process with a binary classification tree. This way, I can minimise potential bias caused by subjective preferences. By using the LaLonde (1986) dataset, I systematicall

The purpose of this study is to understand how alcohol culture in corridors is reproduced by applying Bourdieus and Durkheim's theoretical concepts. Furthermore, the study will analyze how people look at alcohol in relation to life situation, context, patterns of action and attitudes, which is important in understanding the statistics available and in order to counteract or encourage alcohol c

Utveckling av en modell för att öka livsmedelssäkerheten för mexikansk färskost Då säkerheten av livsmedel är väldigt viktig för alla individer, försöker industrin och forskare alltid hitta nya lösningar för att öka livsmedelssäkerheten. Hur kan man enkelt kolla flera konserveringsmedel samtidigt? Hur kontrollerar man att de fungerar? De här frågorna kan besvaras genom att studera hur bakterien Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogen, sometimes occurring in fresh cheese, such as Queso Fresco. Antimicrobials could be utilized to prevent the presence of L. monocytogenes in this type of cheese. In order to be able to screen and assess several novel antimicrobials simultaneously in the future, the validated miniaturized laboratory-scale model for Queso Fresco (MLQF) was further developed into a

This bachelor thesis examines the Swedish arms law and its development, by investigating its changes since it first was founded. The law applicable today was founded in 1996. It has been changed 22 times since then, where 13 of these changes had the purpose to prevent crimes where weapons are involved. Furthermore, this bachelor thesis also examines the knowledge behind the political arguments sta