Search for dissertations about: "risk management investment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 46 swedish dissertations containing the words risk management investment.

2. 1. On Incentives affecting Risk and Asset Management of Power Distribution

   Author : Carl Johan Wallnerström; Rajeev Thottappillil; Patrik Hilber; Ulf Sandberg; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; asset management; correlation studies; incentives; investment planning; maintenance planning; power distribution; reliability analysis; risk management; statistical validation; tariff regulation; vulnerability analysis; weather states; Electric power engineering; Elkraftteknik; Mathematical statistics; Matematisk statistik; Industrial engineering and economy; Industriell teknik och ekonomi;

   Abstract : The introduction of performance based tariff regulations along with higher media and political pressure have increased the need for well-performed risk and asset management applied to electric power distribution systems (DS), which is an infrastructure considered as a natural monopoly. Compared to other technical systems, DS have special characteristics which are important to consider. READ MORE

4. 2. 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

5. 3. Supply chain resilience through quality management

   Author : Roy Andersson; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; supply chain strategy; risk; robust; Six Sigma; quality; logistics; management; TQM; Lean; resilient; flexible; collaboration.; Agile;

   Abstract : The length and complexity of the supply chain tend to increase, rather than diminish, thereby making the supply chain riskier and less predictable and, hence, more vulnerable. At the same time, customers are becoming increasingly demanding. READ MORE

6. 4. 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

7. 5. 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