Search for dissertations about: "insider"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the word insider.

  2. 1. Insiders’ outside/Outsiders’ inside : Rethinking the insider regulation

    Author : Ulrika Sjödin; Thomas Bay; Pierre Guillet de Monthoux; Elton G. McGoun; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Financial trade; speculation; insider trading; insider regulation; market professionals; law; game rule; gambling; economy; financial markets; desire; investment; risk; symmetric information; genealogy; deconstruction; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : Financial speculation has increased dramatically over the last 30 years. This means that a practice that used to be viewed as immoral gambling has become legitimate financial trade. This book explores the genealogy of the coexisting insider trading laws. READ MORE

  4. 2. Essays on Insider Trading and Initial Public Offerings

    Author : Abu Chowdhury; Jarkko Peltomäki; Tor Brunzell; Mika Vaihekoski; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Insider trading; Discretionary accruals; Information asymmetry; Opportunistic trades; Contrarian beliefs; Superior information; Monday IPOs; Underwriters; Institutional holdings; Delisting; Distance to default; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract :    This thesis consists of four self-standing articles on insider trading, initial public offerings and delisting of corporate firms.   The first paper in this thesis investigates whether insiders, in an asymmetric information environment, manipulate the earnings of a firm to influence investors’ perceptions of firm value in order to benefit from their trades. READ MORE

  5. 3. From Icon to Identity. Scottish Piping & Drumming in Scandinavia

    Author : Mats d Hermansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; bagpipe; drum; pipe band; icon; identity; Scandinavia; Scotland; Highland; function of music; imaginary world; impact of music; insider; outsider; learning music; learning music.;

    Abstract : In the 1960s, a few individuals in Scandinavia got so interested in Scottish Highland piping and pipe band drumming that they started to play themselves, although there was no existing tradition for this music in Scandinavia, and they formed a small community of dedicated pipers and drummers. The major objective of this thesis is to analyse the background to why and processes through which the marginal culture of Scottish piping and drumming spread to and developed in Scandinavia as well as to interrogate what use and function this genre of music may have in Scandinavia. READ MORE

  6. 4. Queer Community through Photographic Acts. Three Entrances to an Artistic Research Project Approaching LGBTQIA Russia

    Author : Annica Karlsson Rixon; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; queer community; photographic acts; fotografisk gestaltning; photography; feminist theory; queer theory; community; embodied positions; movement; performativity; intersectionality; situated knowledge; in-between; insider; outsider; Russian LGBTQIA; artistic research; Trinh T. Minh-ha;

    Abstract : This compilation thesis is made within the field of fotografisk gestaltning (photography) and is a study of the potential for queer community to emerge through photographic acts. It consists of two artworks that have been presented in a series of exhibitions, published texts, workshops, and lectures. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Insider and Outsider Perspective : Clinical importance of agreement between patients and nurses in cancer care concerning patients’ emotional distress, coping resources and quality of life

    Author : Gunilla Mårtensson; Claudia Lampic; Marianne Carlsson; Anna Ehrenberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; cancer care; patient-nurse agreement; emotional distress; coping resources; quality of life; implemented care; trusting relationship; satisfaction with care; work satisfaction; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap; Omvårdnadsforskning med medicinsk inriktning; Caring Sciences in Medical Sciences;

    Abstract : Background: It is a well-known phenomenon that nurses and other oncology staff have a tendency to ascribe patients with cancer more problems and suffering than the patients themselves report. Aim: The overall aim of the present thesis was therefore to gain increased knowledge and understanding of dis/agreement between patients with cancer and nurses regarding their perception of patients’ situation and of the importance of patient-nurse dis/agreement in clinical practice. READ MORE