Essays about: "Cross-border development"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 112 essays containing the words Cross-border development.

1. 1. (Swift) sanctions and the rise of parallel payment systems: A qualitative study of financial infrastructure and power dynamics in times of FinTech

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Jacqueline Klehr; [2023-10-05]
   Keywords : Financial infrastructure; economic sanctions; Swift; payment systems; ; cross border payments; financial network;

   Abstract : In 2022, the West imposed sanctions of unprecedented scale on Russia following the war in Ukraine, including severing Moscow from the main global financial message provider, Swift, with the objective to harm the ability of Russian banks to operate globally. As the global financial system is centralised, being severed from Swift significantly complicates the process of conducting cross border payments. READ MORE

3. 2. Insuring the Future: Managing Risks and Disruptions within the Insurance Value Chain - A multiple case study on the commercial insurance industry

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Ezabella Kwok; Sarah Pramle; [2023-07-19]
   Keywords : Risk; Risk Management; Commercial Insurance; Insurance Value Chain; Global Disruption; Covid-19 Pandemic;

   Abstract : Globalization has resulted in the fragmentation of business activities and participation in cross-border networks, giving rise to Global Value Chains, thus increasing vulnerability to risks and disruptions. While there is existing research on risk management in tangible product production within GVCs, there is a scarcity of literature on risk management in service industries, particularly on the Insurance Value Chain. READ MORE

4. 3. Large-Scale Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development: A Synthetic Control Analysis of the Øresund Fixed Link

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Hanna Larsson; Gabriel Ehrnst Grundin; [2023]
   Keywords : cross-border infrastructure; Øresund Bridge; Denmark; Sweden; synthetic control method;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the regional economic effects of the Øresund Bridge across the Denmark-Sweden border. Using macroeconomic data over the period 1980-2019, we employ the synthetic control method to estimate the effects of the bridge on three economic outcomes in the regions linked by it. READ MORE

5. 4. Borderland Peripheries. from dead end - to new beginning

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Maya Kranner; [2023]
   Keywords : Rural renewal; cross-border initiatives; periphery; social sustainability; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : It’s been 34 years ago now since the iron curtain has parted the European continent and its inhabitants in an East and a West. The analysed area for the following thesis on the border between northern Austria and southern Czechia gives a case example of a region, that is still suffering from an era, where one sky-direction has been erased from people’s everyday living and thinking – leaving the border areas as a dead end for either country. READ MORE

6. 5. The Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights in the Field of Cross-Border Surrogacy: In the Best Interests of the Child?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Margrét María Grétarsdóttir; [2023]
   Keywords : European Court of Human Rights Cross-border Surrogacy; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Surrogacy is prohibited in many European states. However, such a ban is not global. This can create problems when individuals from states where surrogacy is prohibited travel to other states where it is allowed and become legally recognised parents of children born through surrogacy in the latter states. READ MORE