Essays about: "private investments"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 231 essays containing the words private investments.

  1. 1. Towards a Green Techno-Economic Paradigm - The implications of EUs strategy to finance a sustainable growth on industry dynamics from a neo-Schumpeterian perspective

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Eric Lindh; [2020-07-23]
    Keywords : Sustainability; sustainable development; sustainable finance; industry dynamics; techno-economic paradigms; innovation; disruption; creative destruction;

    Abstract : The consequences of climate change are becoming more and more evident. Environmentalshocks in terms of massive forest fires, ferocious cyclones and droughts have become morefrequent leading to mass migrations and business disruptions. It has now been declared that wehave reached a tipping point and that further global warming is inevitable. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Game of Success : Educational Strategies among Greek middle class parents in the education market of parapaedia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

    Author : Dimitra Pappa; [2020]
    Keywords : Pierre Bourdieu; strategies; private investments; middle class parents; Greece;

    Abstract : The selection process in tertiary education in Greece is characterized by a competitive and grade-oriented system that lays the foundations for the extensive use of private educational services. Family inclination towards private expenditure in education raises arguments for the conversion of public education into a private commodity. READ MORE

  4. 3. Private Equity and Long-Term Investment: Evidence from Sweden

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Pontus Berg; Isac Öberg; [2020]
    Keywords : Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Corporate Investment; Innovation; Financial Constraints;

    Abstract : There is a long-lasting debate on whether private equity (PE) firms invest long-term in portfolio firms, or if their short investment horizon lead to long-term growth being sacrificed to boost short-term performance. In this thesis, we examine three types of long- term investments: changes in asset investments, innovative investments and investments in personnel. READ MORE

  5. 4. Crowding out or crowding in? : A study on the effects of the public debt ratio on private investments of countries in the euro area

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Nationalekonomi

    Author : Alexander Nilsson; [2020]
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    Abstract : The evolution of public debt in the euro area into unsustainable levels is discussed now more than ever after the recent financial crisis of 2008 and the European sovereign debt crisis that followed. With countries like Greece and Italy hovering around the level of 181.2- and 134. READ MORE

  6. 5. Housing for whom? Urban development and housing commodification in a suburban area of Stockholm, Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Márcia Cezar Zaccaria Endrighi; [2020]
    Keywords : Conversion; Displacement; Neoliberalism; Planning; Power; Privatization; Renoviction;

    Abstract : Departing from a critical perspective to the neoliberalization of planning and housing policies in Sweden, this study aimed to investigate the existing housing dynamics and the proposed residential developments in a Focus Area for Urban Development, as well as the relationship between these processes. The research was conducted as a single case-study in the neighboring areas Hagsätra and Rågsved, where the City of Stockholm is expecting to build at least 3,000 new dwellings. READ MORE