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This study mainly explores the expansions of higher education institutions across Swedish twenty-one regions over the period 2005 to 2024 has affected population health, with special attention to physical and mental health conditions. The empirical strategy studies regional variation of university establishment, expansion and upgrading, using a Difference-In-Differences (DiD) framework with region
Public policies that label specific neighbourhoods as problematic can generate stigma that can shape residential behaviour independently of any accompanying interventions. We study how the Swedish Police Authority's 2015 listing of vulnerable neighbourhoods has affected residential migration patterns in Stockholm municipality. Since the listing lacked significant resource allocation, it offers
As a result of the reform of the Swedish pension system in the 1990s, the public pension is now divided into two parts: The income pension follows a pay-as-you-go system, whereas the premium pension is a funded pension. In the premium pension the pension saver has the possibility to choose funds to invest in and if no choice is made, the savings are placed in a default option. This study aims to d
The subject of compensating wage differentials is a cornerstone to labor economics and has been widely researched internationally, especially with concern to risk, since it is both relatively easy to quantify and has interesting policy implications. Studies over the Swedish labor market though, are few and often old. Much research has been carried out specifically on male workers, often blue-colla
In recent years, Sweden has experienced substantial refugee-intensive immigration, culminating in the refugee crisis of 2015. Meanwhile, persistent disparities in labour market outcomes between native- and foreign-born populations have called attention to the importance of successful labour market integration of immigrants. The purpose of this study is to examine whether differences in initial loc
This paper examines the Environmental Kuznets Curve relationship and the associated scale, technique and composition effects by incorporating variables for income, outsourcing and green technology transfer. Comparative analysis of territorial and consumption-based carbon dioxide emissions is applied to account for international trade. The study examines a balanced panel data set for 28 OECD-countr
This thesis investigates the impact of S&P Global Sustainable1 ESG score changes on abnormal stock returns among public European firms of large market capitalization. It further examines whether the relationships differ across Environmental, Social and Governance categories. Using a short-run event study design, the cumulative abnormal returns of 112 publicly listed European companies with a
This paper examines whether changes in oil dependence affect the pass-through of oil price shocks to consumer price inflation. Using monthly data for eight European countries from January 2000 to December 2024, it estimates panel local projections in which the oil price shock is interacted with the year-on-year change in oil dependence. The baseline results show a positive but statistically insign
This thesis examines whether Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) promotes economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries, and to what extent its effects reflect neo-colonial patterns of dependency. Drawing on FDI theory, dependency theory and Kwame Nkrumah’s concept of neo-colonialism, the thesis situates China-Africa relations within debates on whether foreign investment functions as a sour
This thesis examines the determinants of post-IPO volatility and the timing of volatility stabilization in the aftermarket. Using a sample of IPOs listed on NASDAQ exchanges in the United States between 2015 and 2025, the study investigates how firm specific, IPO specific, industry specific, and market related factors influence both the level of volatility during the first trading quarter and the
This thesis investigates the macroeconomic effect of the 2011 split of the Swedish electricity market into four bidding zones (SE1–SE4). The objective is to determine how the resulting price differences between zones affected the location of energy-intensive industry. Using a county-level panel of Swedish manufacturing establishments and zonal electricity prices over 2007–2021, I implement a diffe
This study evaluates the impact of the 2015 minimum wage introduction in Germany on household poverty risk. Using microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the period 2011-2019, we utilise a Difference-in-Differences framework that exploits regional heterogeneity in minimum wage exposure between federal states (regional bite). We initially find the minimum wage to be associated wit
In 2022, the European Commission implemented a competition regulation called the Digital Markets Act (DMA) that specifically targets the largest ‘Gatekeeper’ internet companies. One major consequence of the DMA’s implementation is that large social media companies no longer can collect EU-users’ data for targeted advertising without said users’ consent. The regulation led Meta to implement a ‘Pay
This thesis investigates whether membership in the CFA franc zone (WAEMU & CEMAC) alters the relationship between resource rents and macroeconomic outcomes of its members. Treating the CFA as a supranational institution, the study tests the effect of membership on a panel of 35 sub–Saharan African countries observed over the period 1990-2019. This thesis’s main finding is that, when controllin
A central question in labor market research is understanding why some individuals remain unemployed even when jobs are available. Despite existing vacancies across the Swedish labor market, many unemployed individuals face difficulties finding work, highlighting the importance of factors such as education, work experience and social networks. This bachelor’s thesis examines whether social isolatio
Previous research varies in its interpretations of the macroeconomic impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on economic growth in Africa. This thesis will present these varying interpretations through contrasting lenses: neoclassical growth theory, and dependency and neocolonial frameworks. It does so by examining whether the growth effects of FDI are conditionally dependent on a host-nation’s
This thesis provides an empirical estimate of the relationship between urban sprawl and per capita net municipal expenditure in Sweden. Employing a pooled OLS regression on panel data covering 288 Swedish municipalities across three years (2011, 2015 and 2020), the results indicate a positive and statistically significant relationship: a one percent increase in urbanized land per capita is associa
This thesis examines how nonbank financial intermediaries influence monetary policy transmission in advanced economies. Using an annual panel dataset covering 16 countries over the period 2002-2024, local projection methods are employed to estimate how inflation responds to monetary policy shocks under different financial structures. The analysis distinguishes between other financial intermediarie
This thesis investigates whether the sectoral composition of foreign aid disbursements helps explain variation in economic outcomes among recipient countries. Drawing on a neoclassical theoretical framework, the study conducts fixed-effects panel regressions on disbursed sectoral aid data from the OECD Creditor Reporting System over the period 2002-2019. Three models are estimated: a baseline grow
Rising income inequality and increasing household debt have been defining features of many advanced economies since the 1980s. This thesis examines how these developments have affected consumption growth across 29 OECD countries between 1990 and 2023. It investigates whether rising inequality suppresses consumption growth and whether household debt sustains consumption despite rising inequality. T
