Sökning: "Distance to default"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Distance to default.
1. Essays on Insider Trading and Initial Public Offerings
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-standing articles on insider trading, initial public offerings and delisting of corporate firms. The first paper in this thesis investigates whether insiders, in an asymmetric information environment, manipulate the earnings of a firm to influence investors’ perceptions of firm value in order to benefit from their trades. LÄS MER
2. Transcriptional Silencing in the Imprinted Igf2-H19 Loci: The Mystique of Epigenetics
Sammanfattning : Genomic imprinting marks a subset of autosomal loci expressed in parent of origin-dependent monoallelic expression in a non-Mendelian fashion. To restore totipotency and to reset the imprint according to the sex of the individual, the mark must be erased during germline development. LÄS MER
3. Genome characterisation and mobility investigation in trypanosomes
Sammanfattning : Trypanosomes are uni-flagellated protozoa responsible for some of the most debilitating human infections such as Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi) and sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma brucei). Unravelling their genome organisation and their biology would improve our basic knowledge and could contribute to find new drug target specific to the species. LÄS MER
4. I vinst och förlust : Köpmäns nätverk i 1500-talets Östersjöstäder
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to clarify how the merchant networks involved in the trade across the Baltic Sea interplayed with and contributed to create the economic culture of the Baltic Sea region. This is achieved by examining the economic, social, spatial and political aspects of the trade networks in relation to the social organisation of the early modern towns of Stockholm, Lübeck, Malmö and Reval (Tallinn) in the 16th century. LÄS MER
5. Essays in trade financing and trade relationships
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, I examine the factors affecting trade financing and trade relationships mainly from the perspective of information asymmetry. In particular, I analyze how levels of information asymmetry affect trade financing contracts and how they can be mitigated. LÄS MER