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1. Industry Effects on Stock Price Crash Risk: Quantifying Industry Effects and the Effect of Structural Industry Characteristics
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This paper empirically investigates the determinants of stock price crash risk at the industry level. Prior research has largely focused on firm-level and macro-level factors that impact stock price crash risk, with little attention being drawn to inter-industry differences. READ MORE
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2. Fragile Market: The impact of mutual funds on the corporate bond market
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This master's thesis investigates whether mutual funds can induce fire sales on the Swedish corporate bond market between August 2019 and August 2020 to determine whether mutual funds aggravated the COVID-19 crash, and if their solution to temporarily freeze withdrawals were a viable remedy. Moreover, the thesis addresses this question using a panel-data framework that includes mutual fund-specific variables, control variables suggested by previous literature, entity, and time-fixed effects, allowing the thesis to capture divergences between corporate bonds and months. READ MORE
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3. The Framing of Affordability within Ireland’s Housing Discourse : Analysis of the Negotiated Process of Narrative Struggles within the Framing of Affordability within Housing Discourse
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : After the 2008 Global Financial Crash, Ireland’s neoliberal housing policy turned again to housing financialisation as focus lay upon the attraction of corporate investors in order to revive the housing market. The result was a swift return to housing price rises but this came with ever growing homelessness and housing precarity as REITs and other corporate investors' influence on the housing market grew. READ MORE
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4. SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION - A study on how Swedish manufacturing firms can achieve sustainable digital transformation
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : The revolution of digital technologies has transformed the fundamental nature of a various range of organizations and business models, which increase productivity and creativity to address market demand more effectively than ever and allow faster information sharing thus reaching higher levels of collaboration. However, digital transformation often comes with many challenges, which require lots of time, effort, and willpower to get major transformative effects from new technology. READ MORE
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5. CSR and firm performance: An analysis of the impact of CSR during the COVID-19 market crash of 2020
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : The COVID-19 virus induced a financial market crash, between February 20th to March 23rd of 2020, during which governments were in a hurry to create aid packages, often touted as green restarts. Therefore, is it studied whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) investments pay off for companies during a stock market crash. READ MORE
