Search for dissertations about: "Bankruptcy"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the word Bankruptcy.

  2. 11. An Exploration of Information Inadequacy: Instances that Cause the Lack of Needed Information

    Author : Miranda Kajtazi; Darek Haftor; Anita Mirijamdotter; Marcelo Milrad; Sören Brier; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; information; information inadequacy; information lack; information overflow; hermeneutic approach; grounded theory approach; Informatics; computer and systems science; Informatik; data- och systemvetenskap; Information Systems; Informatik;

    Abstract : Information is one of the most essential resources in our contemporary societies, as it guideshuman thinking, planning and subsequent actions, which in turn generates consequencesthat are desired or not. The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008, the tsunami in Indonesiain 2004, the Space Shuttle Challenger destruction in 1986 are just three instances ofdramatic situations, emerging continuously, where information plays a crucial role. READ MORE

  4. 12. Continuity and change : institutions and transition in the Russian forest sector

    Author : Mats-Olov Olsson; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political Science; Statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the relation between institutions and the emergence of markets in the context of the Russian transition since the beginning of the 1990s. Introducing democracy and market economic relations in Russia are goals that require profound changes in the institutional framework inherited from the Soviet Union. READ MORE

  5. 13. Upscaling, Training, Commoning

    Author : Ana Džokić; Marc Neelen; Dougald Hine; Martijn Jeroen van der Linden; Ana Méndez de Andés; Iva Marčetić; Paul Currion; Henrietta Palmer; Doina Petrescu; Katherine Gibson; Kungl. Konsthögskolan; []
    Keywords : art; architecture; urbanism; spatial practice; artistic research; space; fiction; imagination; future; commons; community; economy; political economy; legitimacy; housing; emancipation; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; Arkitektur; Architecture;

    Abstract : When on September 15, 2008 the financial conglomerate Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy – and with that ‘officially’ sparks the international financial crisis – still few would anticipate the invasive effect this crisis would come to have on the professional and personal life of many across the world. Today, it’s implosion remains a mere ‘blip’ in the universe of events that followed. READ MORE

  6. 14. Empirical Essays on Financial Economics

    Author : Henrik Degrér; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Swap Agreements; Default Risk; Economic Conditions Index; Finansiering; Financial science; Term Structure of Interest Rates;

    Abstract : In the first essay of this thesis we develop a model for calculating the net expected value of a swap agreement subject to dual-default risk. The main explanatory variable for the net expected return of a swap is the default intensity of each party measured by the credit rating of the firm. READ MORE

  7. 15. Essays on corporate risk, U.S. business cycles, international spillovers of stock returns, and dual listing

    Author : Iryna Ivaschenko; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays on the various topics in finance. The first essay, The Information Content of The Systematic Risk Structure of Corporate Yields for Future Real Activity: An Exploratory Empirical Investigation, constructs a proxy for the systematic component of the risk structure of corporate yields (or systematic risk structure), and tests how well it predicts real economic activity in the United States. READ MORE