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Abstract: The main purpose of this study is to compare national innovation patterns in two Baltic States, Latvia and Estonia, and also to seek evidence of different innovation performance in these countries, over the period of 2001-2008. Besides general changes in innovation functioning, my interest lies in understanding the possible reasons of Estonia outperforming its neighbor country, while for
In this paper using time-series data for a large number of Islamic bank stocks belonging to eight Islamic countries we test for evidence of price discovery. We find that in each of the eight countries there appears a bank that dominates the price discovery process. We then utilize this information on price discovery to form a portfolio of price discovery dominating bank stocks and compare its perf
When we introduce transaction costs the perfect Black and Scholes hedge, consisting of the underlying stock and a risk free asset, becomes infinitely expensive. By loosening the pure arbitrage argument and only considering the expected transaction costs, one can find an upper bound on the price of an option. In this essay this is done by using a framework presented by Leland (1985) and Boyle and V
Brevmall Datum 201X-XX-XX Diarienummer U 201X/XXX KURSPLAN Kursplan för kursen Hållbar markanvändning, NMV004F Engelsk titel: Sustainable Land Use Kursplanen är fastställd av fakultetens nämnd för utbildning på forskarnivå 2020- 12-XX. Kursen ges på forskarnivå och omfattar 7,5 högskolepoäng Lärandemål Hållbar markanvändning är en central komponent för att uppnå FN:s globala hållbarhetsmål. Beslut
https://www.sustainability.lu.se/sites/sustainability.lu.se/files/2021-01/NMV004F-SustainableLandUseAgenda2030.pdf - 2026-05-09
https://www.keg.lu.se/about-website - 2026-05-07
In Sweden, buying sex is an illegal act that is also often viewed as immoral, which is understood in this thesis as sex buyers being stigmatized. The aim of this study was therefore to understand how Swedish men who buy sex describe themselves and how they discuss the criminal act of buying sex in an escort forum on the Internet. A qualitative method with a netnographic viewpoint was used wherein
This master thesis examines a space issue in compact living and results in a transformable chair that also can serve as a bench. A big part of the project is the complex and creative way for the designer to fi nd his form language. Th is report looks closer on compact living, furniture in general, the chair especially, trends, infl uences from the furniture industry, carpentry and related subjects
Att köpa sexuella tjänster har varit brottsligt i Sverige sedan 1999. Även om kriminaliseringen i förarbetena delvis motiverades med att prostitution är skadligt för individerna som befinner sig i situationen så är det inte, åtminstone inte tydligt, ett brott mot person. Samtidigt finns det personer med erfarenhet av att sälja sex som vittnar om utsatthet och övergrepp inom prostitutionen, något s
Hospital. Not a positive word. Children + Hospital. Create an even more unpleasant feeling. When you arrive to the Children´s Hospital in Lund, you enter a dark but wide corridor. A busy doctor may scurry across the fl oor and disappear behind an alarmed door. If the reception is unmanned, the grey metallic venetian blinds are closed. It is hard to understand where to go. Even a grown-up can feel
The article tells the story of the rise and fall of the organic store Yggdrasill in Iceland. That story features humble founders, caring customers, dedicated staff, as well as anonymous investment funds, and it describes the conversion of organics from a niche market to mainstream consumption. Through an ethnographic account of everyday life at the organic store, the article analyzes how intimacy
Scholars continue to debate whether economic development affects regime type. This article argues that a clear relationship exists between development and the electoral component of democracy, but not – or at least less so – between development and other components of broader understandings of democracy. This is so because development enhances the power resources of citizens and elections provide
Welcome to the homepage of the Hydrology course at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem sciences! This page will list all lecture notes. Some exercises and and data are only available via the servers at the department ("kursdata"). The course book for this course is Available at webstores and listed as course literature in the local bookstores. In some webstores you can buy a
https://www.nateko.lu.se/ngea20-introduction-hydrology - 2026-05-07
Zero Magic is a trick for the financial markets, which has the capacity to undermine the perceived value of a publicly traded company and profit from this. Short selling is a way of profiting from loss: Making money if and when a target company loses in value. It is a fundamental market activity that goes as far back as the first stock, yet to this day little is publicly known about the strategie
Textile industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world and fast fashion is the unsustainable practice that most consumers are following. Adopting the habit of purchasing secondhand goods can lead to a more sustainable life. However, some people still do not prefer to consume secondhand clothes because of various stigma and barriers attached to it. In order to eliminate the stigma an
The main purpose of this paper is to find if there are any differences between the two Scandinavian countries Sweden and Denmark in help institutions for women in prostitution. Buying sexual services has been illegal in Sweden since 1999. There are no similar regulations in Denmark. By employing a comparative study method, information from the two countries have been broken down through content a
The purpose of this thesis is to question the cause of the lack of consensus surrounding Europe 2020s poverty and social exclusion target – to lift 20 million people out of poverty and social exclusion. The target was a major development for the European Union’s social dimension. Even so, it did not come easily, with divides over the existence and measurement of such a target. The Commission propo
