Search for dissertations about: "currency crisis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words currency crisis.
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1. Insurance and cartels through wars and depressions : Swedish Marine insurance and reinsurance between the World Wars
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to enhance our understanding of Swedish marine insurers' choices of business strategies under the potentially difficult business circumstances of the interwar period 1918-1939. Little previous research exists on marine insurance during the interwar period. READ MORE
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2. Essays in international risk sharing : Currency strategies and credit cycles
Abstract : In order to earn excess returns, investors must take on risk. For an international investor that risk can be characterized as either country-specific or global. While the former risks are contained within a given country, global risks are spread across economies and can potentially affect investors around the world. READ MORE
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3. Markov Regime Switching in Economic Time Series
Abstract : This dissertation studies statistical properties and applications of the Markov switching models for economic time series in five separate papers. The two main statistical themes are (i) the task of choosing the number of states to use in the model, and (ii) inference on time-varying transition probabilities. READ MORE
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4. Swedish marine insurance between the World Wars
Abstract : The present licentiate thesis analyses developments in Swedish marine insurance during the interwar period, including both direct marine insurance and marine reinsurance. This is done in order to provide insights on how companies of a highly internationalised and vulnerable line of insurance were affected by and responded to new risks during a period of far-reaching international financial and economic crises. READ MORE
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5. Essays on systemic risk and financial market volatility
Abstract : This doctoral thesis consists of four independent research papers. All papers are empirical and cover the area of financial market risk, with a particular focus on systemic risk and volatility in financial markets. READ MORE