Search for dissertations about: "risk investment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 170 swedish dissertations containing the words risk investment.

2. 1. The emergence of routine enforcement of international investment law : Effects on investment protection and development

   Author : Love Rönnelid; Iain Cameron; Steffen Hindelang; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Investment law; enforcement; foreign direct investment FDI ; power; investment insurance; bilateral investment treaties BITs ; World Trade Organisation WTO ; Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency MIGA ; International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ICSID ; development; developmental state; regulatory space; development strategies; law and development; New York Convention; Aron Broches; Ibrahim Shihata; Wilhelm Röpke; Friedrich Hayek; rule of law; good governance; Public International Law; Folkrätt;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores how the enforcement of international investment law became so powerful. It does so by tracing the different legal developments that have enabled the strength of the present regime. In this respect, the two aims of providing investment protection and that of fostering economic development are examined. READ MORE

4. 2. Risk, Relative Standing and Property Rights: Rural Household Decision-Making in China

   Author : Ping Qin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Choice experiment; China; Field experiment; Forestry; Household decision-making; Inequality; Ignoring attributes; Investment; Relative standing; Risk; MWTP; Property rights.;

   Abstract : Paper 1 examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We used a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about their relative income and found that the respondents cared to a high degree. READ MORE

5. 3. The Challenge of Political Risk : Exploring the political risk management of Swedsih multinational corporations

   Author : Magdalena Kettis; Rune Premfors; Jan Hallenberg; Gunnar Sjöstedt; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political risk; Swedish mutinational corporations; foreign direct investment; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : In an overarching aim to bridge the gap between political science and international business studies, this study explores how, against the backgrond of globalization, multinational coprorations understand and deal with the influence of many differet and sometimes very dynamic political environments, by focusing on the political risk management of a number of Swedish multinational corporations invoved in foreign investing. Based on interviewswith coproate executives in these corporations, this qualitative study found that Swedish invetsors use a "pragmatic" approach toeards political risk and the political envrionments in which they operate. READ MORE

6. 4. Essays on Risks in Investment Strategies

   Author : Ian Khrashchevskyi; Ai Jun Hou; Jarkko Peltomäki; Mika Vaihekoski; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; investment strategies; risk; hedging; diversification; derivatives; safe haven; investor behavior; financial education; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

   Abstract : This dissertation contains three articles, which investigate different types of risks investors encounter during the investment process.Article I investigates the relation between macroeconomic risk and higher-moment moment risk premia. READ MORE

7. 5. Infrastructure investment planning under uncertainty

   Author : Niclas A. Krüger; Lars Hultkrantz; Farideh Ramjerdi; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Real options; Wavelets; Risk; Uncertainty; Investments; Growth; Benefit-cost analysis; Infrastructure; Transportation; Traffic safety; Fractional Brownian motion; Incomplete contracts; Monte-Carlo simulation; Long memory; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This dissertation is concerned with the planning processes in transportation and infrastructure investments and the aim is to improve risk assessment, risk valuation and risk management. Many of the results presented in this thesis are also applicable to a wider range of questions... READ MORE