Sökning: "financial sector"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 177 avhandlingar innehållade orden financial sector.
1. Essays in Financial Economics
Sammanfattning : Chapter 1 develops a framework to investigate the impact of the financial crisis starting in 2007 and employs an extended GARCH model to test for spillover and contagion effects originating from the financial sector. We find that the financial crisis affects financially distressed firms more heavily than non-distressed firms. LÄS MER
2. Essays of Financial Performance and Capital Structure
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of an introductory chapter and four self-contained essays on financial performance and capital structure. Essay I assesses the strength of strategic inputs into profitability among firms within several sub-sectors within the industrial service sector in the U.S. and Sweden. LÄS MER
3. Essays on Financial Risks and the Subprime Crisis
Sammanfattning : This thesis covers the impact of the financial crisis of 2007-2009, the non-linearity in the impact of bankruptcy risk on leverage and the effect of pessimism and doubt on the equity premium. It consists of four self-contained essays. LÄS MER
4. Corporate Social Responsibility in the Swedish Financial Services Sector : Translating an Idea into Practice
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on how popular ideas in society influence corporate behavior, as corporations adapt to normative ideas in society in order to achieve legitimacy. However, we need more knowledge about how ideas influence organizations and what happens when ideas enter in an organizational context. LÄS MER
5. Internal Control in the Financial Sector : A Longitudinal Case Study of an Insurance Company
Sammanfattning : This thesis comprises of an initial summary of Study I which is my licentiate thesis in business administration. Study I is a literature study on internal control. Thereafter follows Study II which is a case study of Swedish insurance organization. LÄS MER