Search for dissertations about: "Market Information"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 933 swedish dissertations containing the words Market Information.

2. 1. Information and financial markets

   Author : Stefan Anchev; Jörgen Hellström; Rickard Olsson; Juha-Pekka Kallunki; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information; dissemination of information; production of private information; information disadvantage; investor base; stock return anomalies; stock price informativeness; quantity of firm disclosure; less sophisticated individual investors;

   Abstract : The results in this thesis are consistent with the hypotheses that: 1) the incomplete dissemination of information across investors helps in explaining the occurrence and the persistence of cross-sectional stock return anomalies, 2) the properties of the investor base of a stock have implications for the informativeness of the stock's price and 3) a greater quantity of firm disclosure places less sophisticated investors at an information disadvantage. Overall, the thesis provides new empirical evidence about the role of information in financial markets. READ MORE

4. 2. Information, Markets and Conflict : Essays on Development and Political Economics

   Author : David Yanagizawa Drott; Jakob Svensson; La Ferrara Eliana; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information; Mass Media; Propaganda; Market Information; Conflict; Genocide; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : The thesis consists of four essays.The first essay, “The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War”, uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the strategic value of these countries. READ MORE

5. 3. Creating opportunity by connecting the unconnected : mobile phone based agriculture market information service for farmers in Bangladesh

   Author : M. Sirajul Islam; Åke Grönlund; Rahul Dé; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; ICT4D; agriculture market information service; design science research; mobile phones; farmers; technology acceptance; artifact design; Bangladesh; least developed countries; Informatics; Informatik; Informatik; Informatics;

   Abstract : This thesis is framed within the research area of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), which is concerned with how ICT can make a difference to the lives of the poor. This study focuses primarily on mobile phones and how they can be used as part of an Agriculture Market Information Service (AMIS) in order to provide crucial information to farmers in Bangladesh. READ MORE

6. 4. Constructing Invisible Hands : Market Technocrats in Sweden 1880–2000

   Author : Gabriel Söderberg; Maths Isacson; Lars Magnusson; Janken Myrdal; Deirdre McCloskey; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Markets; technocrats; central banks; agricultural science; Nobel prize; economics and society; asymmetric information; Social Democracy; neoliberalism; social engineering; market history; market engineering; market design; performativity; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

   Abstract : Dominant market theories analyze markets as ahistorical entities without the need for professional groups that manage crucial functions within them. This thesis, in contrast, approaches markets as historical systems that develop over time and that can be constituted in many different ways because of different historical trajectories. READ MORE

7. 5. Distributed Optimization of P2P Media Delivery Overlays

   Author : Amir H. Payberah; Seif Haridi; Alberto Montresor; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; P2P overlay networks; P2P live streaming; Distributed optimization; Electronics; Elektronik; Computer and systems science; Data- och systemvetenskap;

   Abstract : Media streaming over the Internet is becoming increasingly popular. Currently, most media is delivered using global content-delivery networks, providing a scalable and robust client-server model. However, content delivery infrastructures are expensive. READ MORE