Search for dissertations about: "Doubt"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 97 swedish dissertations containing the word Doubt.

  2. 1. Essays in Financial Economics

    Author : Emanuel Alfranseder; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; GARCH; Spillover; Contagion; Financial Distress; Financial Constraints; Financial Crisis; Behavioral Finance; Equity Premium; Doubt; Pessimism;

    Abstract : Chapter 1 develops a framework to investigate the impact of the financial crisis starting in 2007 and employs an extended GARCH model to test for spillover and contagion effects originating from the financial sector. We find that the financial crisis affects financially distressed firms more heavily than non-distressed firms. READ MORE

  4. 2. Essays on Financial Risks and the Subprime Crisis

    Author : Emanuel Alfranseder; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; GARCH; Spillover; Contagion; Financial Distress; Financial Constraints; Financial Crisis; Equity Premium; Doubt; Pessimism; ; Investment; Capital Structure; Bankruptcy Risk;

    Abstract : This thesis covers the impact of the financial crisis of 2007-2009, the non-linearity in the impact of bankruptcy risk on leverage and the effect of pessimism and doubt on the equity premium. It consists of four self-contained essays. READ MORE

  5. 3. The liberal state and the politics of virtue

    Author : Ludvig Beckman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; virtue; the good life; rights; the neutral state; equality; scepticism; doubt; liberalism; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : A common belief, shared by liberals and anti-liberals alike, is that the liberalstate should not teach the citizen how to live. Similarly, it is frequently arguedthat liberal theory does not encompass a vision of the virtuous life. READ MORE

  6. 4. Avoiding the subject : A critical inquiry into contemporary theories of subjectivity

    Author : Sharon P. Rider; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; subject; subjectivity; objectivity; certainty; doubt; phenomenology; poststructuralism; deconstruction; neopragmatism; gender; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Theoretical Philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores certain recurrent problems in modern theories about the nature of thesubject. Taking examples from phenomenology, poststructuralism, neopragmatism and feminism, itargues that philosophical theorizing about subjectivity often assumes that the transition from thedescription of the models of meaning with which they work, to the description of the everyday practices of which they are models, can be achieved within the model. READ MORE

  7. 5. Portraying Unease : the Art and Politics of Uncomfortable Attachments

    Author : Ellen Suneson; The Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; emotional responses; contemporary art; performance art; affect theory; feminist theory; queer feminist theory; visual methodology; embarrassment; attachment; hope; subversion; repair; self-doubt; institutional attachment; institutional promises;

    Abstract : Portraying Unease critically discusses a tendency amongst politicized scholars to endow artworks with traits of subversion and political productivity. Artworks that address structural discrimination, such as heterosexism, racism, or ableism, are often described as possessing qualities that can challenge unjust systems or initiate political change. READ MORE