Search for dissertations about: "financial economics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 564 swedish dissertations containing the words financial economics.
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1. Essays in Financial Economics
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
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2. Financial literacy, motivated reasoning, and gender : essays in behavioral economics
Abstract : I wrote this thesis to create a better understanding of how individual characteristics influence our feelings, our behavior and our way of interpreting information. My focus is on financial behavior and financial information, however I also consider a political context. READ MORE
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3. An Economic Backbone of Development : Essays in Financial and Political Economy
Abstract : The thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Local Banking and Historical Innovation: the Effect of Swedish Savings BanksHow does access to credit affect innovation at the early stages of development? This essay uses digitized records from the Swedish savings banks movement, in combination with novel data on the universe of historical patenting, to study how savings banks affected innovation in Sweden between 1900 and 1949, a period when the country was still a developing economy. READ MORE
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4. Evaluating Asset-Pricing Models in International Financial Markets
Abstract : This thesis consists of three empirical studies on asset-prices in international financial markets. The purpose is three-fold. First, to evaluate whether good predictions of economic variables may be obtained by pooling information from a broad group of financial variables. READ MORE
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5. Essays in Financial Economics
Abstract : This thesis consists of three independent papers in financial economics. The unifying theme is the goal to address a number of active areas in financial research with new and interdisciplinary methodology... READ MORE