Search for dissertations about: "capital investment"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 142 swedish dissertations containing the words capital investment.
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1. The Investment Process for Capital Investments : The case of industrial energy-efficiency investments and non-energy benefits
Abstract : Capital investments play a crucial role for the business of every firm. In an industrial context, energy efficiency is an important means to meet future energy needs and in the same time reduce climate impact. READ MORE
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2. Institutional Ownership - the Anonymous Capital : Corporate Governance and Investment Performance
Abstract : This thesis consists of five separate essays and an introductory chapter, The essays can be read independently from each other, but they are all in the field of corporate governance and investment performance. Specifically, the focus is on the role of institutional owners in the conflict between controlling shareholders and minority owners. READ MORE
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3. International Capital Flows : Effects, Defects and Possibilities
Abstract : Short-Term Capital Flows and Growth in Developed and Emerging Markets: A lot of attention has been directed towards recent financial crises. Empirical studies have found that short-term flows increase financial fragility and also increase the probability of financial crises. READ MORE
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4. Essays on investment in human capital
Abstract : Heterogeneous On-the-job Training: Implications for the Specification and Estimation of the human Capital Earnings FunctionDespite the centrality of heterogeneous on-the-job training in human capital theory, this is rarely accounted for in the estimation. The empirical findings indicate that individual-specific components in the earnings function are stochastic. READ MORE
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5. Essays on Firms' Financing and Investment Decisions
Abstract : This thesis analyses how the capital structures of financial and non-financial firms affect each other and how shocks in the financial sector affect investments in non-financial firms. The thesis consists of three self-contained essays. READ MORE