In the airline industry, it is critical for carriers to vary prices offered to different customer groups in order to extract maximum willingness-to-pay from each consumer. This essay investigates a dynamic form of third-degree price discrimination in which prices are strategically adjusted as departure date approaches. It is hypothesized that by including a stochastic element in their pricing sche

This essay investigates the extent to which the four emerging Central Eastern European stock markets of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine have become integrated with the developed market of the European Union over the sample period from 1997 to 2010. Rolling-window correlation and a more advanced, dynamic conditional correlation approach with GARCH and EGARCH specifications are utili

Author: Nina Andersson Title: The employees right – The managers obligation. A study regarding midline managers view of performance reviews. [Translated title] Supervisor: Tove Harnett Assessor: Hans Swärd In Swedish municipalities all employees have the right to once a year have a private meeting with their manager. This meeting is meant to give feedback to the employee regarding their work eff

There are today about 200 000 children living in families where either one or both parents are addicted to alcohol. These children often become young carers, as they are prematurely being placed in adult caring roles. The aim of this thesis has been to illustrate the situation for children of alcoholics and to examine how these children are coping when parents do not fulfil their parenting respons

The system on migrant domestic workers in post-industrialist countries has been widely researched, and extensive material exists on migrant domestic service from the Philippines and Eastern Europe. However, the system on domestic work performed by local women other than housewives or nonmembers of the family in the household(nonkinship) has rarely caught the attention of mainstream research commun

By using Lee-Carter model by sex and the origin of tumor we forecasted the cancer incidence. The usefulness of Lee-Carter methods to the incidence rates was shown. For forecasting the future the time trend parameter of Lee-Carter model behaves very close to Random-walk but it is not exactly Random-walk for most cases. It is better to leave the option open to AR(1) and not restrict ourselves to Ran

Att säga upp en arbetstagare på personliga uppsägningsgrunder är något som är tämligen strikt reglerat i Sverige genom 7 § LAS krav på saklig grund. Samarbetssvårigheter är kanske den svåraste grunden att nyttja då den endast i undantagsfall utgör skäl för uppsägning. Detta beror på att ett samarbetsproblem alltför lättvindigt kan tillskrivas en enskild eller flera arbetstagares vilja att göra sig

The study aims to explore the relationship between migration and the quality of education, considering the lowering quality of higher education in Georgia as one of the main ‘push-factors’. The research itself tries to identify the main motivations of why Georgian students migrate. Furthermore, the main gaps and disadvantages of the higher education system of Georgia are investigated. The findings

This thesis test weak form efficiency in the stock markets of Ukraine, Russian, and China and compare the efficiency with USA stock market. We employ Distribution test, Unit root test, Runs test, ARMA test and GARCH test to estimate the efficiency of the above four stock markets. In our study, we find that under unit root test and runs test, all of the four stock markets are not weak-form efficie

The aim of our study was to examine how gender is created in the school world and how it affects the work with boys and girls. The questions we intended to look at were: How do you respond to ADHD in the school world depending on the sex of the child, and how does it differ; What difficulties do you face in the school world when working with boys and girls with ADHD, and how do you try to solve th

This study analyzes trade and FDI effect on wages in the 20 OECD countries. These countries are divided into six samples according to their geographical position. Panel cointegration and panel OLS methods are conducted during the study. The empirical model is built up on the base of the study of Onaran and Stockhammer (2006). The panel cointegration results show that there is a long-run relationsh

Denna studie hade som syfte att undersöka vad organisationskreativitet innebär och har för följder på ett företag där kreativitet betraktades som en hygienfaktor. Studien var en kvalitativ undersökning som utgick från en grundad teoridesign. Deltagarna rekryterades via företagets verkställande direktör och resulterade i sex intervjudeltagare med olika yrkesbeteckningar. De slutsatser som kunde dra

Children are constantly surrounded by stereotypes in the form of books, television series, and films. The majority of children acquire knowledge about gender stereotypes at 3-4 years of age. Gender stereotypes can influence children’s personalities, social relations and future plans regarding occupation. The study at hand investigated whether 4-5 year old girls in preschool were affected in their

Efter regeringsskiftet 2006 har politiska kampanjer lanserats för att främja och synliggöra kvinnors företagande. Synliggörandet sker främst via medier. I denna medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapliga kandidatuppsats har vi utifrån ett genusperspektiv granskat framställningen av företagarkvinnor i svensk dagspress samt sambandet mellan framställningen och det politiska engagemang för kvinnors föret

Uppsatsen ämnar undersöka huruvida en börshandlad fond lämpar sig för storbankernas kunder och deras regelbundna sparande utifrån hur instrumentet presterar gentemot storbankernas indexfonder. Uppsatsen använder två olika metoder; regressionsanalys för att undersöka hur väl de fem valda fonderna replikerar sitt underliggande index samt en modell för att se hur courtaget slår mot den börshandlade f

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka studenters, som blivande arbetstagares, inställning och syn på några av arbetsmarknadens nya normer. Genom förändringar i form av teknisk utveckling och globalisering har nya normer på arbetsmarknaden tagit form. I denna studie ligger fokus på de förändrade normerna kring anställningsform och konkurrens. Tidsbegränsade anställningar har blivit allt vanligare och k

Basel II och Lag 2006:1371 om kapitaltäckning och stora exponeringar trädde i kraft den 1 februari 2007 och ersatte därmed det tidigare Basel I-regelverket. Enligt Basel I var banker och finansiella företag skyldiga att inneha ett kapital som täckte åtta procent av de riskvägda tillgångarna. Kapitalkravet beräknades för kredit- och marknadsrisker. Basel II-regelverket har samma grunder som Basel I

The purpose of this study was to analyze and interpret how parents react after learning that their child was deceased, and the process that parents employed in dealing with this bereavement. This study also focused on the parents’ perceived ‘treatment’ received from relatives, friends and professionals. A qualitative study was conducted using interviews with seven parents who had suffered bereavem

Abstract Author: Charlotte Edvinsson Title: I support myself on welfare-A qualitative study of social assistance recipients idea of how society perceive them Supervisor: Agneta Hedblom Assesor: Torbjörn Hjort The need of social assistance has increased dramatically during the 1990s. In large due to the unemployment. A large number of studies have been made which look into how the clients have ex