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Abstract Title Leveraged Buyouts – A study on the effects on the operating performance Seminar date 5th of June 2013 Course FEKH89, Degree Project in Finance, 15 ECTS Authors Matilda Björnek Lina Khaled Malin Nilstoft Advisor Maria Gårdängen Key Words LBO, operating performance, operating income, cash flow, employees Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how the operating perform

Using the methodology introduced by Campbell et al. (2001), we decompose and evaluate the historical volatility patterns of the Swedish stock market in the time period 1985 - 2012. The volatility at all component levels, including idiosyncratic risk, appear to be fairly stable throughout the sample, with the exception of temporary dramatic increases during periods of economic distress. As opposed

This paper analyses deuteron evaporation in comparison to the evaporation of a proton-neutron pair for different compound nuclei. The main reaction is the fusion-evaporation reaction of 40Ca on 24Mg target leading to the formation of the 64Ge∗ compound nucleus, along with other contamination reactions. The experimental dataset is obtained from Argonne National Laboratory. Projections on γ-γ matric

This paper examines export diversification with main focus on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a union promoting economic integration in the region of West Africa. The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), another Regional Integration Agreement (RIA), is also of main importance for the study. The study was conducted in order to determine whether ECOWAS and WAEMU,

Active calls are made for sustainability science to step up and provide guidance to address the global challenges of climate change, land degradation, and unsustainable urbanisation. Some scientists claim that an “integral sustainability science” can provide some answers. Relationality and integral theory are combined in an experimental research design to reveal and capture the emerging concept of

As the population is growing and planetary boundaries are being strained, the agro-food industry is facing major challenges. Previous research has proposed the innovation of vertical farming (VF) as a potential solution. This study contributes to the existing VF literature with an examination of the opportunities and obstacles for the implementation and upscaling of VF in Sweden. The VF industry i

This report focuses on CFD-calculations using parallel processors carried out with the software Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS). From a users point of view the advantages and disadvantages with parallel CFD-calculations were analyzed and evaluated. A simplified me-thod for quantitative evaluation was developed with guidance from ASTM E 1355 whereu-pon relative differences between serial reference sc

There are several accident investigation methods and they are used in a wide range of fields. However, the methods have not been used so much in the fire accident area. In the present thesis, the methods’ capability to investigate fires and what they result in are explored. In addition, answers are given concerning how important the background information is for their applicability. First, a selec

NTRU is a public-key cryptosystem, where the underlying mathematical problem is currently safe against large-scale quantum computer attacks. The system is not as well investigated, as for example RSA, and the company behind NTRU has created the NTRU Challenges, to remedy this. These challenges consist of 27 different public keys of increasing size, where the task in each challenge is to calculate

This report deals with the problem of learning to classify observations from a mixture of random variables. The distributions of the random variables are of known functional forms but with unknown parameters.

This problem is equivalent to that of determining separating hypersurfaces in the range of the random variables. Any rule of classification will be a function of random variables and

Rapporten undersöker begreppet gemensamma servitut. Det övergripande målet är att upplysa om de gemensamma servitutens existens och klargöra under vilka premisser de får och kan bildas. Viktiga frågeställningar blir: vad de är, hur de går att bilda, hur de registreras och hur vanligt förekommande de är. Gemensamma servitut omfattas av samma förvaltningsregler som gemensamhetsanläggningar. En frågaThe thesis aims to examine and define the concept of common easements in Swedish real property law. The overall goal is to highlight their very existence, and the conditions for their formation. In order to achieve this goal, material has been collected and examined; mainly from legislative sources and doctrine. The thesis concludes that a common easement is an easement with two or more dominant e