Search for dissertations about: "financial 2019"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 71 swedish dissertations containing the words financial 2019.
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1. 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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2. Essays on Financial Technology and SME Finance : A Tale of Two Effects of the Global Financial Crisis: Financing SMEs and Innovative Financing
Abstract : The financial crisis of 2008-2009 took place exactly half a century after the publication of the seminal Modigliani and Miller (M&M) theorem, often called the capital structure irrelevance principle. This timing is curious since the crisis has highlighted the significance of deviations from assumptions of this theorem, i.e. READ MORE
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3. The role of financial reporting : Perspectives of different actors within the reporting environment of entrepreneurial SMEs
Abstract : In this thesis, the role of entrepreneurial SMEs’ financial reporting is inquired into by posing questions about purposes of use and information needs of users, with the aim of increasing our understanding of what overall objective/s financial reporting can fulfill with respect to this group of entities. The study departs from an interpretivist view and follows a qualitative research strategy with empirical data collected through semi-structured interviews and document studies. READ MORE
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4. Regret and Risk Optimal Design in Control
Abstract : Engineering sciences deal with the problem of optimal design in the face of uncertainty. In particular, control engineering is concerned about designing policies/laws/algorithms that sequentially take decisions given unreliable data.This thesis addresses two particular instances of optimal sequential decision making for two different problems. READ MORE
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5. Essays in Macroeconomics and Political Economy
Abstract : The Response of the Riksbank to House Prices in SwedenIn the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, an environment of historically low interest rates and extensive household indebtedness in the OECD countries have triggered a vivid debate on whether central banks should react to house-price fluctuations in their pursuit of monetary policy. In Sweden, a period of low policy rates and house-price inflation was halted when the central bank increased the interest rates in 2010. READ MORE