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The European credit default swap (CDS) market has experienced noticeable changes and remarkably developed over the last decades. Today, the relation between the CDS and corporate bond market is a prominent topic in the financial literature. According to the arbitrage argument, the CDS spread equals the corresponding credit spread of a corporate bond. However, substantial deviations between the mar
Due to the European financial and sovereign debt crisis occurred in 2008, the decision-makers of the European Union decided to take steps to avoid a further possible turmoil and created a mechanism to ensure the efficiency of financial supervision across the union. This financial integration of Europe is called the banking union. The milestones of the union are: the single rulebook for the capital
Outdoor air pollution is generally recognized as a serious environmental risk factor of premature mortality. The main aim of this thesis is to examine how changes in fine particulate air pollution (PM 2.5 ) account for changes in selected mortality indicators, using empirical evidence from 45 districts in the Czech Republic. Besides the impact on changes in life expectancy, a special emphasis was
The purpose of this essay is to investigate which financial ratios are significant in the prediction of bank failure for the sample of Russian and Ukrainian banks and to see if there any similar ratios, which drive the bank to bankruptcy in both countries for the first decade of this century. As an instrument for our analysis we use the linear probability and the binary choice models. They are use
Large digital platforms impact the entire internal market of the EU. In particular, three challenges characterise their relationship with businesses and end-users, “access to data”, “imbalanced bargaining power”, and “degrading data privacy”, where the common denominator is personal data. This thesis investigates to what extent these challenges are regulated in the GDPR, Article 102 TFEU and the D
In the rush of urban growth, a fractured reality unfolds in Metro Manila, Philippines: one side is a booming, ever-evolving metropolis, while the other is a flood of migrant workers, the unemployed, and the homeless. Slums have even become a luxury few can afford, where even securing a place to live means waiting in line. When slums are a dream out of reach, and space for survival is stretched t
This research examines the racial and gendered dynamics of dancehall culture in Sweden, focusing on how participation in a transnational Black cultural practice shapes relationships between white women and racialized women within predominantly female dance spaces. Originating in Jamaica, dancehall has expanded globally, becoming both a site of cultural expression and a commodified transnational pr
Membrane technology has revolutionized protein recovery in the food industry, beginning with whey protein extraction via ultrafiltration. This success led to its application in concentrating animal proteins like blood plasma, fish proteins, and albumen. As the protein shift towards plant-based sources grows, membrane processes now enable the industrial recovery of wheat, sunflower, and rapeseed pr
En fulldome visning om den forskning som pågår utanför Skånes kuster producerad för Forskarfredagen.Fulldome show about the marine research of the coast of southern Sweden.
We discuss instrumentalism as a component of the social changes that accompanied the second industrial revolution, following particularly the case of Germany. These changes constituted a departure from the Enlightenment tradition of natural philosophers towards a new approach to knowledge. We claim that instrumentalism cannot be separated from the disciplining of science that produced the sciences
This editorial introduces the special issue on the geography of innovation and sustainability transitions in the bioeconomy, situating the bioeconomy as a policy-driven transformation project with strong regional and multi-scalar implications. The special issue contains six papers that focus on different parts of the bioeconomy and employ a wide range of empirical approaches; jointly, they provide
The activities of cluster initiatives operating as systemic intermediaries and supporting networking activities have been discussed in prior studies. We integrate insights from the cluster theory and the literature on sustainability transitions to study the activities of clusters acting as systemic intermediaries in the different phases of the development of a forest-based bioeconomy, namely (1) p
Advances the method of isnād-cum-matn analysis for unravelling complex aspects of early Islamic history • Establishes the earliest dating of the Qurʾanic codex based on the study of hadith • Contributes to the textual history of the Qur’an • Examines the claims regarding the integrity of the text of the Qur’an • Uses case studies of the verses on stoning and breastfeeding, making it relevant to co
The 2018 Andalusian elections marked a watershed moment in Spain's democracy. Against all forecasts, Vox, founded in 2013 by disgruntled cadres of the Popular Party, the country's main conservative party, garnered 10 percent of the vote, thus becoming the first far-right party to enter a regional parliament and ushering in a new era in Spanish politics. Vox's meteoric rise culminated in the 2020 S
Can artificial entities be worthy of moral considerations? Can they be artificial moral agents (AMAs), capable of telling the difference between good and evil? In this essay, I explore both questions—i.e., whether and to what extent artificial entities can have a moral status (“the machine question”) and moral agency (“the AMA question”)—in light of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun. I
How sticky were wages during the Great Depression? Although classic accounts emphasise the importance of nominal rigidity in amplifying deflationary shocks, the evidence is limited. In this paper, I calculate the degree of nominal wage rigidity in the United Kingdom between the wars using new granular data covering millions of wages. I find that nominal wages changed infrequently but that wage cut
Whereas autonomic dysfunction and the metabolic syndrome are clinically associated, the relationships with the plasma metabolome is unknown. We explored the association between orthostatic blood pressure responses and 818 plasma metabolites in middle-aged subjects from the general population. We included 3803 out of 6251 subjects (mean age, 57 years; 52% women) from the Malmö sub-cohort of The Swe
The distinctive features of the modern form of citizenship include, among other things, that it is both internally inclusive and externally exclusive; that it establishes legal equality so that membership of the state supersedes all other memberships and allegiances; and that it defines membership as independent of residence. These characteristics largely evolved during the “long nineteenth centur
