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1. 16. Tredje världen i nyheterna : en fallstudie av tretton utländska tidningars rapportering från inbördeskriget i Nigeria 1967-1970

   Författare :Stig Arne Nohrstedt; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; third world news; ideology; distortion; new international information order; Political Science; Statskunskap; Political science;

   Sammanfattning : The debate concerning a new international information order has raised two important issues: the question of balance and the question of distortion. This case study of the news coverage of the Third World, mainly in Western publications, is devoted to the latter issue. LÄS MER

3. 17. Empirical studies of auctions of non-distressed residential real estate

   Författare :Rosane Hungria-Gunnelin; Mats Wilhelmsson; Hans Wijkander; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; housing market; auctions; underpricing; bidding strategies; time-on-market; brokers commission fee structures; information asymmetry; winner s curse; bostadsmarknad; auktioner; underprissättning; budgivningsstrategier; time-on-market; provisionsstruktur; informationsasymmetri; winner s curse; Real Estate and Construction Management; Fastigheter och byggande;

   Sammanfattning : Real estate auctions have become a popular sales mechanism in Sweden in the past couple of decades when the internet facilitated the marketing of properties for sale. With the possibility to display several exterior and interior pictures of the property rather than the single façade picture style of traditional newspapers advertisements, and a more detailed description of the object, brokers significantly increased the number of potential buyers at the showings of properties for sale. LÄS MER

4. 18. Institutional Real Investments : Real Estate in a Multi-Asset Portfolio

   Författare :Jon Lekander; Åke Gunnelin; Tony Key; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Real Estate Investment; Asset Allocation; Alternative Assets; Multi-Asset Portfolio; Real Estate and Construction Management; Fastigheter och byggande;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to analyze real estate investments from the vantage point of an institutional multi asset investor perspective, both in terms of the potential benefits real estate can bring as well as the challenges it can pose. The thesis consists of six papers and approaches the research question from three distinct perspectives. LÄS MER

5. 19. From Birth to Senescence. Studies on factors at birth and their relation to morbidity in women in adult life

   Författare :Susan W. Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; birth weight; birth length; gestational age; recall; epidemiology; longitudinal; middle age; women; blood pressure; hypertension; cancer;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with factors at birth and their relation to disease in later adulthood. The aims of this thesis were to a) identify variables in Swedish midwife records at the early part of the 1900's and their relation to birth outcome; b) assess agreement between self-reported birth weight and recorded birth weight; and, c) examine the relationship between size at birth and 1) hypertension, and, 2) cancer morbidity in adult women. LÄS MER

7. 20. Essays on Measurement Error and Nonresponse

   Författare :Fredrik Johansson; Anders Klevmarken; Per Johansson; Markus Jäntti; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Essay 1 deals with measurement errors. Matching survey data with administrative records provides unique opportunities to evaluate the statistical properties of respondents' answers. This paper focuses primarily on home ownership and wealth variables. LÄS MER