This paper investigates which factors determine how a private equity-backed fund exits their investment in a portfolio company located in the Nordic markets. A total of 397 Nordic portfolio company private equity exits occurring between January 2005 and December 2017 have been analyzed in this paper. The three main exit strategies in this study are Secondary Buyouts, Trade Sales, and IPOs. The maj

This paper investigates how the financial sector's institutional characteristics can allow an economy to benefit from financial deepening and limit the negative effects it can have. Specifically, it tests how macroprudential regulation and financial liberalisation affect the shape and behaviour of the finance–growth relationship. This is done by analysing a sample of 55 developing and develope

With many people not really understanding what the European Union is and how it works the EU is left to fight a lack of interest, identification and participation. The present thesis approaches the problem by looking at the linguistic and rhetorical device of metaphors as a popular means of creating understanding by explaining a complex topic in a transferred way. Numerous metaphors exist in EU di

Shocks in utero can have lasting effects on an individual's physical and socio-economic outcomes. By merging direct rainfall data at the district-level with an individual-level dataset on children's education and socio-economic factors I create a proxy for in utero income shock with negative rainfall to evaluate the effect on Kenyan children's cognitive score in rural districts. I find

De senaste decennierna har antalet förmögenhetsskatter, det vill säga skatt på individers innehav av tillgångar, stadigt minskat. 1990 beskattade hälften av alla OECD-länder förmögenhet. År 2000 var de drygt en tredjedel. Idag existerar sådan förmögenhetsskatt endast i Frankrike, Spanien, Norge och Schweiz. I samband med finanskrisen 2007-2008 aktualiserades den på nytt och några länder som till e

Waste management is an important facet of sustainable development, as improper waste disposal will lead to various negative environmental and health impacts. Recycling has been found to be a useful way to manage waste materials and reduce the negative impacts of waste accumulation. In Thailand, attempts to increase recycling are being hindered by lack of public participation. The aim of this study

Why do Christians become vegans and how do they motivate their vegan lifestyle? I have talked to fifteen Christian individuals that have considered their diets and all of them have at one point in their lives thought about becoming vegans. Thirteen of them were vegans during this study. One pastor feels that she cannot become a vegan yet because of her line of work and a man stopped being a vegan

In the global context of an ever-growing trend of automobility and all its drawbacks, cycling offers an environmentally and socially sustainable transport alternative. Copenhagen has become one of the best cities for cycling, and impressive advances in promoting this practice have raised their cycling share up to 41% of all trips to work/education. However, municipal cycling goals have been postpo

Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depends on timely and reliable information. However, standardized methodologies and regularly available data exist for only 40% of the 232 indicators. The “Data Revolution for Sustainable Development” is supposed to bridge these data gaps by harnessing ongoing developments in information technology, particularly big data. Currently existing pil

To-date, sustainable consumption in grocery is gaining awareness. In response, different sustainable retailing approaches emerge. They entail different scale of changes to consumers’ current shopping practices, as well as varying visions of a sustainable living. This paper aims to shed light on the congruity between consumers’ notions of sustainability and retailers’ sustainable practices, in hope

Our current economic system is inherently unsustainable. The ‘growth fetishism’ not only is the dominant paradigm of our economies, but goes way deeper into our understanding of how well-being is defined and can be improved. The concept of ‘degrowth’ tries to question this hegemony. However, so far, degrowth has not entered the public debate in a sufficient way. I argue that degrowth needs more in

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the in-store customer experience from a millennial consumers’ perspective. Specifically, the authors of this thesis intend to carry-out a comprehensive study that addresses how these customer experiences are manifested within the different retail stores in Sweden. Methodology: The researchers considered the philosophies of epistemology and ontology

The purpose of this thesis is to understand the motivations and expectations of millennials to shop offline in order to find out how retailers can respond to these by means of in-store customer experience and thus create an attractive experience point. We first examined literature in regards to motivations and expectations that influence customer behaviour in order to gain an understanding of the

This thesis examines the various roles of school playgrounds in the Lund municipality in relation to their ability to foster nature relationships in children. In the same vein, the thesis also explores the reasons behind why certain humans care more for the environment than others, especially in regard to taking pro-environmental action. Nature is explored as a positive experience which furthermor

Pairs trading is a widely known investment strategy among hedge funds and institutional investors that focuses on profiting from the relative mispricing between assets. A vast majority of exisiting pairs trading algorithms rely on rather restrictive assumptions concerning the modeling of the so-called spread function and are unable to capture the effects of changing market conditions into the trad

Since the birth of the industrial revolution, there has existed a fear of becoming redundant and unemployed due to technological development. However, this has not been the case, but the last decades have instead seen the surge of income inequality. This has been linked to the growing technology bias towards skilled workers. This paper studies if the interactive effect of technological development

Water is a necessity for human survival, and a lack of sufficient clean water can have severe negative impacts on human health, economic activity, food security and societal relations. Increasing demand on water resources around the globe often leads to conflicts between different water users who compete for available supplies. The Murray Darling Basin (MDB) in Australia is an area that faces many

Sierra Leone struggles with one of the world’s highest rates of teenage pregnancy. Reducing the rate of teenage pregnancy and ensuring access to education for all are key to achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls. This is not only a top priority for the government but also an essential part of ensuring the human rights of the population and achieving inclusive development, as rec

Utveckling av ett bedömningsverktyg för svensk Bus Rapid Transit Detta är ett förslag på nytt bedömningsverktyg för svensk BRT. Med ett sådant verktyg kan olika aktörer inom kollektivtrafikbranschen få en gemensam och tydlig målbild och förutsäga vilken nivå av BRT som kan uppnås med en viss utformning. Anledningen till att detta förslag togs fram var att man i planering av tidigare BRT-linjer tSince 2015 the Swedish BRT Guidelines have supported the BRT planning process in Swedish cities. However, in practical application, these guidelines have been proven to be too vague. A more rigorous assessment tool is needed, making the criteria clearer and the assessment easier to implement. The purpose of this project is to investigate how an assessment tool for BRT could be adapted to a Swedish