Essays about: "collective investment"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 27 essays containing the words collective investment.

1. 21. Property Rights, Tenure Security and Forest Investment Incentives

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Yuan Yuan Yi; [2011-07-18]
   Keywords : Property Rights; Tenure Security; Forest Investment; China’s Collective Forest Tenure Reform;

   Abstract : Determinants of farmers’ investment incentives in forestland have a significant impact on forest management and welfare improvement, but few studies in the literature have consonantly shown the causal linkage between perceived tenure security on forestland and farmers’ incentive to invest. This study explores the driving factors of forest investment and whether China’s collective forest tenure reform has stimulated such investment on individually controlled plots, by developing a conceptual model and corresponding econometric strategy. READ MORE

3. 22. Commercialization Activity and Support Structure of Swedish universities

   University essay from IHH, Företagsekonomi

   Author : Einav Peretz Andersson; My Ljungberg; [2011]
   Keywords : University; Commercialization; The Swedish Paradox;

   Abstract : Knowledge and technology has in recent decades become a driving force of economic growth and national productivity (Goldfarb & Henrekson, 2003). This recognition has had an impact of the universities’ core mission. READ MORE

4. 23. The World Bank : A qualitative content analysis of anti-corruption strategies 1997 – 2006

   University essay from Kriminologiska institutionen

   Author : Sabina Andersson; [2010]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : The World Bank is a large organization that has been an influential actor in world politics for decades. The foundation of the work in the World Bank was stipulated in the Articles of Agreement, negotiated in 1944, which concluded that the purpose of the Bank was to finance postwar reconstruction and investment in developing countries. READ MORE

5. 24. Currency Trading in the FX market : Will spectral analysis improve technical forecasting?

   University essay from IHH, Redovisning och finansiering; IHH, Företagsekonomi

   Author : Gustaf Haag; Jessica Häggman; Jacob Mattsson; [2010]
   Keywords : Technical analysis; foreign exchange market; spectral analysis; Fourier transform; Teknisk analys; valutamarknad; spektralanalys; Fourier transform;

   Abstract : Background: The efficient market hypothesis asserts that one cannot consistently achieve returns in excess of market returns by trading on publicly available information. Since there is no collective market return in the foreign exchange (FX) market, it has generally been perceived as impossible to consistently generate a profit. READ MORE

6. 25. Is historical data a good estimate of the future risk of funds? - A study on the Swedish Hedge Fund market

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Martin Irding; Joacim Lydén; [2008-02-06T09:47:06Z]
   Keywords : Hedge funds; Risk; Regression; Prediction interval.;

   Abstract : Predicting the future is something that every person trading with financial instruments or commodities, which have prices that depend on a future demand, tries to do. The objective of this thesis has been to examine whether or not historical returns are a good way to measure a funds future risk. READ MORE