Feminisation of the Swedish bank sector 1910-1939 - what and why?

Mobile Services in an Organisational Context - A Study of the Swedish Road Administration

People have become more and more mobile as a result of advancements in wireless communications technologies. The mobile phone as an enabler of this increased mobility has become an ever more important part of our society but comparatively little research has been done concerning mobile services at the organisational level as opposed to the individual level. With our study we wish to contribute to

Pride, Prejudice and Pigeonholing - a study of multiculturalism in a Swedish setting

Gender and Biculturalism: Ethnic Identity and Choice of Marital Partner among Second Generation Bangladeshi Women in the USA and Sweden

Do Swedish hedge funds outperform the market

Ethnic Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Sweden

GIS as a tool for environmental impact assessment : a case study of EIA implementation for the road building project in Strömstad, Sweden

The Enclosure Movements – A Path towards Social Differentiation? Lessons from Southern Sweden in the 19th Century

A short-term contrarian strategy in the Swedish Stock Exchange

One of the most important topics in financial literature is the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). Recent financial research has questioned this hypothesis, and many authors have reached the conclusion that a contrarian strategy creates abnormal positive returns. In other words a strategy profiting buying losers and selling winners. To explain this market behaviour researchers have come up with a

Relationship effects on the modus operandi and motivation of the offender in Swedish rape cases

The Costs of Abatement - A Cost-effective Allocation of Swedish Phosphorus Abatement Concerning the Sea Basin of the Baltic Proper

Adherence in pharmaceutical utalisation -A demand for health analysis based on the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions and the Pharmaceutical Registry

Partisan Impact on Local Government Spending - The Effects of Party Politics on Municipal Expenditure in Sweden

This essay aims to examine whether there is a partisan influence on local government spending using three different measures, ideology, fragmentation and constellations of government. The ideology measure examines the share of socialists (left-wing parties) in the council. Fragmentation consists of a Herfindahl index which uses information on number of parties in the council and their respective s

Smoking on the shoulders of giants - An application of the two-part model to Swedish longitudinal data

As the title implies this study builds upon earlier research in the area to obtain an increased understanding of the determinants of smoking. Starting from the household production model (Becker 1965; Grossman 1972), the decisions of smoking participation and intensity of cigarette consumption are estimated in two sets of Two-part Models (2PM). Due to the characteristics of the data – the first th

Volatility Decomposition - Empirical Patterns of the Idiosyncratic Risk on the Swedish Stock Market

Pricing Derivatives: Implementing Heston and Nandi's (2000) Model on the Swedish Stock Index

Economic Growth and Abatement of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Swedish Transport Policy

On the Welfare Costs of Business Fluctuations in Sweden 1970 - 2007

Ladyfest Sweden: a female cultural initiative

Burcas : A Simple Concatenation-based MIDI-to-Singing Voice Synthesis System for Swedish