Branding of people is a relatively new concept within the branding area. This concept has grown rapidly and its importance is increasing. Our purpose of this thesis is to describe how a strong personal brand is developed and how it is sustained. We also want to highlight what factors that determine who will succeed to …
Background and problem discussion: The need for aid organizations is growing in pace with increase in natural disasters and poverty. At the same time the need for non-profit organization to be able to present results of some kind increases with the amount of money involved. The often quite long distance between people giving money to …
The market of consumer goods has become saturated and in the superfluous range of goods it is necessary to be able to differentiate your products from the competitors’. To facilitate this, many products and services are attributed with additional qualities, such as feelings, status and personality traits. These attributes are included in the abstract concept …
This paper studies the importance of liquidity in determining security returns. The study is conducted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, 1901-1919, a market which at the time suffered from low market turnover. We find out-of-sample effects that liquidity levels are significant determinants of returns. Securities with lower liquidity levels earn, on average, higher returns than …
Introduction : One of the major problems faced in international taxation is that of double taxation. Double taxation arises when the same asset, financial transaction or income is taxed twice or more due to different states’ overlapping tax jurisdictions and conflicting tax laws. A prime example is a taxpayer who lives in one state but …
Background: Employees are the human capital which contributes to the success and development of a company to a great extent. Thus, these days, companies do not see them only as factors of production from the classical perspective, but have started to value them as stakeholders and partners with whom long-term goals are achieved together.Problem Discussion …
One shortcoming in the existing models for credit scoring is the assumption that all borrowers are at-risk, i.e. they must default in the long run. With this assumption, the models’ performance gets skewed in the sense that the probability of default for “good” borrowers is overestimated. To overcome this problem, the long-term survival mixture model …
Introduction : Why do we live where we live? Is it a coincident, family tradition or a deliberate choice? Perhaps the choice is not entirely free, but rather affected by forces such as working opportunities and the possibility to attract household resources.The free choice is hence restricted by economic funds.Many times we just cannot afford …
Background and discussion of problem Incentive reward systems are commonly used in many companies around the world. There is no such thing as a perfect reward system and that is why a company needs to adjust the reward system after their own needs, to more effectively reach their future goals. It is very important that …
Historically, it has been difficult to obtain solid data on stock market liquidity for large parts of the world. In recent years, however, the availability of data has improved, but does still have troubles with concentrations to recent years and to relatively wealthy countries. Thus, samples based on balance between industrialized and developing countries may …