The relevance of credit ratings has seen augmented growth after the financial crises, especially in the Eurobond market, even though U.S. agencies have been criticised whether ratings are relevant information sources for international capital markets and if non-U.S. market participants relate their investment decision on the ratings. This paper is concentrated on the association between changes in

Over the last two decades Sweden became one of the European countries with the highest levels of immigration. About the same time the country experienced a substantial boom in house prices. Since many analysts view a housing shortage as the main driver for the increase in prices it seems natural to ask if immigration has the potential to accelerate prices in the housing market. This paper analyses

The aim of this essay is to analyze how the preconditions for legal recognition of gender contribute to cis- and heteronormativity in Finland. The material used in the analysis consists of the final report of a working group which was given the assignment by the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health to investigate possible changes in the Act on Legal Recognition of Transexuals. As it stand

Projektet tar avstamp i den flyktingvåg samt allmänna bostadsbrist som genomsyrar dagens samhälle och samhällsdebatt. Dessa förutsättningar för med sig många utmaningar för såväl politiken som byggbranschen, vilken borde driva fram kreativa lösningar och utmana dagens uppfattning om konceptet bostad. Fokus får inte enbart ligga på mängden bostäder som behövs utan även hur och för vem. Vi som arki

Människans påverkan på jordens klimat är tydlig. Ökande halter av koldioxid i atmosfären leder till en global uppvärmning. Haven arbetar emot klimatförändringarna genom att ta upp en stor del av överskottsenergin och koldioxid som ökat på jorden till följd av mänskliga koldioxidutsläpp. Den globala kolbudgeten undersöker hur vårt utsläpp av koldioxid fördelas runt om på jorden, mellan haven, atmosThe rising amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is an environmental problem. The temperature of the Earth is rising as a result of the large quantities of greenhouse gas emissions. The oceans absorb a lot of the excess heat energy trapped on Earth due to the positive radiative forcing of the substances, which results in the warming of the oceans as well as the land surfaces. The ocean also p

This paper analyzes the impact of skilled emigration on the economic development of sending countries. Specifically, our study is concerned with how feedback effects of brain drain may mitigate some of the loss incurred from the outflow of talent. We construct an endogenous growth model incorporating skilled emigration to consider in detail how the inflow of remittances, network externalities of t

Proclaiming the successful way forward for Africa to modernize continues to puzzle economists and policy makers. Though the region has experienced the highest growth rates for the past decade, no large-scale structural transformation can be observed. Africa’s continuous failure to industrialize has shown that the conventional model of a country experiencing an agricultural transformation and the r

Distribution and warehousing networks of Humanitarian Organizations has proven to be an area where cost reductions and shortened lead times can be achieved. Humanitarian organizations have also started pre-positioning goods in anticipation of disasters as a way to improve their disaster preparedness. Research in the area has, generally, been extensive but few articles have tried to incorporate the

This paper investigates the impact of information spillovers on the export entry decision of Chinese manufacturers between 2000 and 2006 by using a combination of firm and transaction level data that allows to track the occurrence of individual export starts and captures the extent of local export agglomeration at a detailed geographical level. We examine if the presence of neighboring exporters i

The aim of this paper was to study the municipal guidelines that socialworkers use in their judicial decision-making regarding clients right to welfare in relation to national recommendations of how a child perspective should be considered in all decision-making that concerns children. The study consists of 9 Scanian municipal guidelines that have been studied via the method of qualitative content

Over the past two decades non-representational and affectual geographers have cited the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze to the point of exhaustion. In this thesis I read Deleuze’s interpretation of Spinoza through the weird tales written by the American horror author H. P. Lovecraft to argue for a radicalization of the former’s work within geography. To this end I examine the often recognized, b

The relationship between natural resources and economic growth has been widely analyzed in the recent past. This thesis empirically examines the “resource curse hypothesis”, i.e. countries with large natural resource endowments have tended to grow less rapidly than resource-scarce nations. In this paper, oil and gas production data are used as a measure for resource abundance. In addition, we will

Germany’s Energy Concept aims to reduce the building sector’s primary energy demand by 80% compared to 2008 levels, of which 20% are to be achieved by 2020. This requires significant investment in integrated renewables and thermal. Public funds cannot finance such transition alone. Therefore, it is crucial to not only understand current investment levels and potential investment gaps, but also to

This paper examines factors that triggered widespread currency and banking crises in Latin America during 1990-2010 by looking at specific macroeconomic and financial variables. The paper aim to contribute to the vast literature of financial crises by distinguishing itself in three ways. First, the paper implements a dynamic binary choice panel data model with fixed effects. The binary choice mode

The link between education and economic growth is thoroughly covered in the economic research literature. However, little emphasis has been put on the effect of female education particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa in This paper analyses the relationship between female educational attainment and economic growth for a panel of 28 Sub-Saharan countries in the time-period 1960 - 2010. Using a pooling e

Informationssystem är något som de flesta organisationer till stor del är beroende av i sitt dagliga arbete och på så sätt är även informationssäkerheten en viktig del för att organisationerna ska kunna skydda sina resurser på ett effektivt sätt utan att det hindrar arbetsflödet. Studien uppmärksammar viktiga faktorer för hur ett företag arbetar med sin informationssäkerhet. Dessa faktorer har en

Media målar upp en bild av att ett svenskt samhälle som befinner sig i kris till följd av att rättsväsendet inte lyckas utföra sitt jobb på ett tillfredsställande sätt, något som i sin tur kan leda till minskad tillit. Tillit har en viktig roll i samhället och utan den riskerar vi ett samhälle präglat av stereotyper och splittringar mellan medborgarna. En minskad tillit till rättsväsendet kan även

The climate change and conflict nexus has been the focus of much debate and speculation in academic circles as well as public discourse. Much of the existing research has been undertaken by studies using quantitative methods, which intend to prove or disprove the existence of a causal relationship. However, this approach does little to help inform policy and practice, where a deeper understanding