Essays about: "Contrast Effect"
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1. Shifting, Linking and Framing : The Case for Technology as a Coherence-Making Textual Device in Literary Realism
University essay from Karlstads universitetAbstract : Literary realism, that is, texts that seek to represent the actual in literature while achieving a sense of verisimilitude, have historically been analyzed and defined by a number of critics. These critics have, with differing approaches, attempted to make comprehensible what it is that constitutes the realist text. READ MORE
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2. The impact of firm-level greenness on the transmission of monetary policy shocks to stock market prices in Sweden
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : A growing literature has indicated that monetary policy shocks impact the stock prices of brown firms more strongly than the stock prices of green firms. Monetary policy tightening is associated with lower stock prices since it leads to a higher cost of capital and in turn a higher discount rate for the expected stream of cash flows. READ MORE
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3. Examining the Effects of Economic Crises on Firm Leverage: Insights from Financial Institutions and Information Technology Companies Listed on the Swedish Stock Markets
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Numerous studies have examined factors influencing a company's capital structure, but most focus on non-financial firms and neglect the distinct characteristics of financial institutions. Furthermore, little research exists on the Swedish financial and information technology markets despite their special market conditions, important global position and unique capital structures of their belonging companies. READ MORE
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4. A spatially explicit model of segregation dynamics : Comparing the Schelling and the Sakoda model
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutet för analytisk sociologi, IASAbstract : The scientific consensus has for long been that residential segregation is best conceived of as a multidimensional phenomenon that can exist on several geographical scales (Massey & Denton, 1988; Lee et al., 2008; Reardon & O’Sullivan, 2004; Reardon et al., 2008). READ MORE
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5. Taxation on Labour Incomes : The Effect of Changes in Marginal Taxation on Labour Supply in Sweden
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)Abstract : In this study I investigate how changes in marginal taxation on labour income affect labour supply in Sweden in the time period 1991-2006. Unlike previous research which has used data on the individual level, this study uses aggregated data on the municipality level and another methodological approach. READ MORE