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- Market Price of Variance Risk and Performance of Hedge Funds
- This paper implements a model-free approach to measure the market price of the variance risk. In this approach, the value of the variance contract is estimated from prices of traded options. The paper finds that when the variance risk is priced, its risk premium is negative and economically very large....
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Measuring And Validating Emotional Intelligence As Performance Or Self-Report
- This is a study of Emotional Intelligence EI. EI was measured by performance and self-report tasks. Data were also obtained on basic values, some standard personality dimensions such as those specified in the five-factor model, social adjustment and several scales of impression management. Criteria were loneliness, work-family life balance and...
- White papers 2004-02-07
- Trade Liberalization And Productivity Growth
- This paper presents a trade model with firm-level productivity differences and R&D-driven growth. Trade liberalization causes the least productive firms to exit but also slows the development of new products. The overall effect on productivity growth depends on the size of intertemporal knowledge spillovers in R&D (Research & Development). When...
- White papers 2006-09-11
- Argumentative Themes In The Literature On Corporate Social Responsibility And Corporate Citizenship
- The quest for socially responsible business is a current organisational trend. One expression of this trend is the growing literature on Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Citizenship. In this paper, the author analyses what arguments are used to promote social responsibility and what arguments are used against that project. A...
- White papers 2003-08-14
- The Economics Of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives
- This paper suggests that the use of investment incentives focusing exclusively on foreign firms, although motivated in some cases from a theoretical point of view, is generally not an efficient way to raise national welfare. The main reason is that the strongest theoretical motive for financial subsidies to inward FDI...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Acquisitions, Multinationals, And Wage Dispersion
- Multinational firms pay relatively high wages. Less is known about the wage structure within multinational and non-multinational firms. This paper examines the impact of acquisitions on wage dispersion in Sweden using a large matched employer-employee data set. Foreign acquisitions of Swedish firms increase wage dispersion by increasing wages for high-skilled...
- White papers 2006-01-10
- Human Capital And Inward FDI
- After a review of the literature, the authors have concluded that there is potential for significant 'Spillover effects' from FDI Foreign Direct Investment into host countries. However, some limitations of this potential are identified to do with the stock of human capital, the interest in local firms of promoting skills...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Home Country Effects Of FDI In Developed Economies
- This paper surveys the effects of outward foreign direct investment on the developed home countries of multinational corporations. The focus is on the production interactions arising from outward investment - what is the impact on home country exports and production structure - but the paper also discusses effects on investment,...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Managing And Measuring Product Development: Challenges Related To Embeddedness In Time And Space
- Product development is of great importance to many companies. At the same time, product development is risky, as companies set out to do things they have never done before. The literature has introduced a variety of models on product development to manage this challenging process. These models are often supplemented...
- White papers 2005-11-21
- Investor Protection and the Demand for Equity
- This paper develops a simple equilibrium model showing that investor protection has an impact on stock market development also through the demand for equity. A joint rationale is provided for the lower returns of weak corporate governance stocks and investors' portfolio decisions. In this model, investor protection affects how a...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Consultant Supported ERP Implementation - A Learning Opportunity?
- Management consultants are often described as accumulators, generators and disseminators of knowledge in the business world. Little research has however been devoted to the extent to which and the processes by which organizations hiring management consultants learn. This issue is addressed in the current paper based on a study of...
- White papers 2005-05-03
- Application of Price Bundling Strategies in Retail Banking in Europe
- Application of price bundling strategies in retail banking in Europe is a report based on an empirical study of price bundling practices. The current report defines three core price bundling models that are in one form or another applied by the interviewed banks. The models are cost efficiency bundling, cross-selling...
- White papers 2001-02-23
- A Note on the Pricing of Real Estate Index Linked Swaps
- This paper discusses the pricing of commercial real estate index linked swaps CREILS. The paper shows that their results are only approximately correct and that the true theoretical price of the swap is in fact equal to zero. This result is shown to hold regardless of the specific model chosen...
- White papers 2002-02-13
- Succession Strategies in a Large Family Business Group: The Case of the Swedish Wallenberg Family
- In this paper the long term viability of one of the most important Swedish family business groups, that of the Wallenberg family, is analyzed by focusing on one aspect of great importance in family strategic business behavior: the succession of leadership from one generation to another. This case clearly shows...
- White papers 2002-08-20
- The Impact of Pro Forma Profits on Analyst Forecasts: Some Experimental Evidence
- The trend of pro forma (non-GAAP) reporting has made it increasingly difficult for financial analysts and investors to evaluate company performance. This study investigates how pro forma reporting affects analysts' judgments in a non-US experimental setting. The results show that analysts who received both pro forma and GAAP information made...
- White papers 2004-05-28
- P/E-Ratios in Relative Valuation - A Mission Impossible?
- Relative P/E-ratio valuation apparently still plays an important role among investment research analysts and advisors. In a valuation model of this kind, the value of owner's equity is typically calculated as a function of an observed P/E-ratio for some peer company or the mean/median P/E-ratio for some group of peer...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Investment Strategies, Fund Performance and Portfolio Characteristics
- This paper studies the relation between fund performance and the fund manager's investment strategy, which is based on the characteristics of the portfolio. The results show that neither momentum characteristics nor the valuation of stocks can explain differences in fund performance. However, the paper finds a negative firm-size effect that...
- White papers 2004-01-29
- Framing, Debating, and Standardising "Natural Food" in Two Different Political Contexts: Sweden and the U.S.
- Food labeling has been introduced in several countries as a tool for consumers who want to make reflexive and responsible choices. This is connected to increased worries and concerns about environmental, ethical, and health-related problems caused by production and consumption. Organic food is interpreted by many as a good solution...
- White papers 2003-05-26
- Emotional Intelligence, Personality And Sales Performance
- In this paper, salespersons in a telecommunications company were tested for perceived risk, Emotional Intelligence EI, a number of additional dimensions of work motivation and personality, and performance. It was found that EI was related as expected to other variables, most notably to life/work balance positively, to positive affective tone...
- White papers 2003-05-01
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- More on Russian Gas
- Ferdinand E. Banks submits: "The production of energy is the moving force of world economic progress." -President Vladimir Putin Almost a year ago, Professor Jonathan Stern of Oxford University visited the Stockholm School of Economics, where he presented a ‘pop’ version of Russian gas intentions in both their...
- External links 2008-09-01
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