Search for dissertations about: "trading"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 229 swedish dissertations containing the word trading.

  2. 1. Trading out? : A study of farming women’s and men’s access to resources in rural Ethiopia

    Author : Åsa Torkelsson; Árni Sverrisson; Eva Meyersson Milgrom; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ethiopia; gender; economic sociology; social resources; local markets; trade; female-headed households; resource index; rural development; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : Women are over-represented among the rural poor in developing countries, and the difficulties they face in raising themselves out of poverty are well established. This thesis examines how gender structures trade in local markets and forms of sociability in rural Ethiopia, using survey data from four rural communities and three local market places. READ MORE

  4. 2. New Insights on Computerized Trading : Implications of Frequently Revised Trading Decisions

    Author : Petter Dahlström; Björn Hagströmer; Lars Nordén; Andriy Shkilko; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : Computerized trading may be viewed as an aspect of modernization of financial markets. This dissertation contains four articles that in different ways examine to what extent the modernization influences the economics of the markets. READ MORE

  5. 3. Trading animal genetics : On the “marketization” of bovine genetics in the dairy industry

    Author : Julia De Gregorio; Brett Christophers; Peeter Maandi; Christian Berndt; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the workings of markets in the specific context of the international trade in bovine genetics in the dairy industry and with a particular focus on the Global North. It draws upon the examples of trade in breeding stock – cows – at auction sales and trade in bovine semen. READ MORE

  6. 4. Off-exchange Trading in Modern Equity Markets : A Market Microstructure Perspective on Systematic Internalizers

    Author : Fatemeh Aramian; Lars Nordén; Lu Liu; Bernt Arne Ødegaard; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Systematic internalizers; Off-exchange trading; Equity markets; Price efficiency; Liquidity; Trading costs; High-frequency traders; Regulation; Dealers; Inventory management; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : Off-exchange trading has become a feature of the equity markets. This dissertation contains three articles that examine how off-exchange trading through systematic internalizers (SIs) affects inter-market competition and various features of market quality.Article I studies SIs' characteristics and the impact of SI operations on price efficiency. READ MORE

  7. 5. On the returns of trend-following trading strategies

    Author : Christian Lundström; Tomas Sjögren; Jussi Nikkinen; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Bootstrap; Commodity Trading Advisor funds; Contraction-Expansion principle; Crude oil futures; Futures trading; Opening Range Breakout strategies; S P 500 futures; Technical analysis; Time series momentum; Time-varying market inefficiency; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Abstract : Paper [I] tests the success rate of trades and the returns of the Opening Range Breakout (ORB) strategy. A trader that trades on the ORB strategy seeks to identify large intraday price movements and trades only when the price moves beyond some predetermined threshold. READ MORE