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In the light of the latest decade of structural change and growth in trade on the commodity markets it is natural to ask the question: Is it worth adding commodity futures to your portfolio? The objective of this paper is to find out if commodity futures does or does not add to the performance of portfolios consisting of equity funds. The theory used is basic portfolio theory, with Sharpe's ra
Sammanfattning Examensarbetets titel: Humankapital som en varaktig konkurrensfördel -En fallstudie på EY Seminariedatum: 16-01-2015 Ämne/kurs FEKH19 Examensarbete i Strategic Management Författare: Alexander Evjenth, Louise Macksey, Mattias Pettersson Handledare: Niklas Hallberg Fem nyckelord: RBV, humankapital, konkurrensfördel, EY, PSF Syfte: Studien syftar till att undersöka hur humankapital kaAbstract Title: Human capital as a sustainable competitive advantage - A casestudy of EY Seminar date: 16-01-2015 Course: FEKH19 Bachelor Strategic Management Authors: Alexander Evjenth, Louise Macksey, Mattias Pettersson Advisor: Niklas Hallberg Key words: RBV, Human capital, competitive advantage, EY, PSF Purpose: This study aims to examine in what way human capital can be a source of a sustaina
Syfte: Hur påverkas informationsutbytet mellan revisorer och redovisningskonsulter av skillna-derna i tystnadsplikt? Metod: Studien har gjorts med kvalitativa intervjuer. Ett romantiskt synsätt antogs vid intervju-erna för att skapa ett förtroende inför den intervjuade och på så sätt få fram ytterligare inform-ation om problematiken. För att strukturera den insamlade empirin använde vi oss av kod
This master thesis studies what happens when the labour market norms and the society norms meet law in the labour law books. Despite "law in the books" ensuring equal treatment of workers and non-discrimination in the access to jobs, research seems to indicate that societal norms play a role when persons try to enter the labour market. This thesis focuses on racial minorities, who are la
Syfte: Denna studie har som syfte att undersöka hur aktiekursen påverkas vid aktiesplit. Metod: Utifrån studiens syfte en kvantitativ metod med en deduktiv ansats valts. Grundurvalet är samtliga bolag noterade på New York Stock Exchange mellan åren 1962 - 2014, där vi har samlat data kring genomförda aktiesplits, omfattningen av dessa samt aktieutveckling. Utifrån insamlad data har en eventstudi
The aim of this thesis is to give a detailed account of migrant entrepreneurs in Malmö, their daily patterns, their unique experiences, the distinct strategies they develop, the challenges they face, and their relationship with ‘regulation and ‘advice’ organizations. In addition, unique ways of ‘making’ a restaurant via food and other material items are discussed and illustrated. It is also underl
This thesis evaluates the possibilities of determining the flight direction of insects by analysing the wingbeat modulation pattern of the backscattered sunlight from insects. The Lund University Mobile Biosphere Observatory (LUMBO) was used during the summer of 2013 for a field campaign at two locations in Skåne, Sweden. The purpose of the campaigns was to study insect activity and biodiversity i
Syftet med studien var att undersöka erfarenheter av återhämtning från psykos hos personer som genomlevt tillståndet och som rekryterats utanför den psykiatriska vården. Frågeställningen lyder: Hur upplevs återhämtningsprocessen efter psykos av personer som själva genomlevt en eller flera psykoser? En deskriptiv fenomenologisk metod efter Amedeo Giorgi användes. Tio intervjupersoner rekryterades. The aim for this study was to examine experiences of recovery from psychosis in persons with such experiences, recruited in a non-psychiatric context. The research question was stated as follows: How is the process of recovery from psychosis described by people with a personal experience of psychosis? This is a descriptive phenomenological study based on Amedeo Giorgi’s method. Ten persons were re
In modern times, the world has experienced the rise of a range of different large, well-coordinated social movements with the goal to make the world a better place for oppressed societal groups. One of these movements is the animal activist movement, with the objective to change the societal norms regarding facilitating and exploiting cetaceans through captivity at zoos- and marine mammal parks et
Examensarbetets titel: Kapitalisering av operationell leasing - hur påverkar den föreslagna förändringen av IAS 17 små och medelstora företag på Stockholmsbörsen? Seminariedatum: 2015-01-15. Kurs: FEKH69, Examensarbete i redovisning på kandidatnivå, 15 högskolepoäng. Författare: Joel Holmdahl, Klaudia Wojtkowiak och Mergime Preteni. Handledare: Niklas Sandell. Nyckelord: IAS 17, kapitalisering, Mi
Global wind power capacity has greatly increased in the last decades and is in certain areas constituting a significant share of generating capacity. This thesis examines wind power production data along with prices and inter-regional trade volumes on the Nordic electricity market Nord Pool Spot to deduce the effects of wind power on the grid. The research focused on Denmark, since it gets a very
Författarna ämnar beskriva och analysera fastighetsföretags finansieringsmöjligheter och överväganden vid finansiering inom fastighetsbranschen. Studien har visat att det finns skillnader avseende finansieringsmöjligheter för svenska fastighetsbolag i Sverige respektive Danmark. Tradition påverkar hur marknaderna ser ut, och därmed vilka olika alternativ som finns tillgängliga på respektive marknaThe authors wish to describe and analyse real estate companies’ considerations regarding financing in the real estate industry. The thesis concludes that there are major differences regarding real estate financing alternatives in Sweden and Denmark. Tradition affects largely the different options available in each market. On the Swedish market the trend is toward continued growth of alternative fi
I arbetet mot ett hållbart samhälle har det vuxit fram miljöcertifieringssystem för byggnader. Miljöcertifieringssystem värderar och bedömer en byggnader utifrån dess miljöprestanda och underlättar i projekteringsskedet att utforma en miljöanpassad byggnad. Ett miljöcertifieringssystem kan även användas på en färdig byggnad för att bestämma dess miljöprestanda. Inom byggbranschen finns det idag fl
Syftet med denna pilotstudie var att undersöka anknytning hos en grupp barn i mellanbarndo- men som lever växelvis, och vad de berättar om sina relationer till viktiga andra. Studien base- rades på transkriberade intervjuer (Friends and Family Interview, FFI) och berättelser (Secure Base Script Test, SBST) från två tidigare studier, där barn som levde växelvis (n = 20) valdes ut. Materialet kodadeThis pilot study examined attachment of a group children in middle childhood living with joint custody, also what they say about their relationships with significant others. The study was based on the transcribed interviews (Friends and Family Interview, FFI) and stories (Secure Base Script Test, SBST) from two previous studies. Children living with joint custody (n = 20) were selected. Material w
Uppsatsen skrivs på uppdrag av avdelningen Datainsamling från företag och organisationer - Offentlig sektors uppgiftslämnande (DFO/OU) på Statistiska centralbyrån. Avdelningen tillhandahåller en telefonsupport dit uppgiftslämnare från offentlig sektor kan ringa för att ställa eventuella frågor. För att effektivisera planeringen av bemanning har vårt uppdrag bestått i att utveckla statistiska modelThis thesis is an external commission written on request of the Data Collection from Enterprises and Organisations Department at Statistics Sweden. The department disposes a phone support where informants from the public sector can call to ask questions that may occur. To increase the effectiveness of the staffing system, our commission is to develop statistical models which can be used to predict
The aim of this essay is to study if the Chicago Board of Options Exchange’s volatility index VIX can be used as an indicator on the stock market, and if an investor can make a profit on portfolios by using a volatility strategy based on VIX. The study is based on nine volatility strategies that are tested on four different portfolios containing stocks from Mega Cap, Large Cap, Mid Cap and Small C
Pharmaceuticals are contaminating the environment from sources like landfills, hospitals, irrigation with treated wastewater, septic systems and urban areas. This literature review provides an insight into the situation of how and where pharmaceuticals are contaminating groundwater around the world. Many important factors have been stated to control the occurrence and fate of pharmaceuticals in gr
It is a hotly debated issue whether second language (L2) learners can achieve target-like online syntactic processing of relations not instantiated in their first language (L1). The Shallow Structure Hypothesis (SSH) predicts that L2 learners will not process configurations with structural distance in a target-like online fashion (Clahsen & Felser, 2006 a,b,c), whereas some studies find that t
This thesis compares Auto Regressive Moving Average (ARMA) and Generalized Auto Regressive Conditional Heteroscedacity (GARCH) models for three metal commodities. ARMA models have an unconditionally non-random and constant variance, which typically serves well in effectively representing homoscedastic data. The GARCH models feature variable variance that is non-random when conditioning on the past
