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Bachelor Theses 1996 - 2017 ID Title Name Surname Year Supervisor Pages Notes Year 2017 2017 Adoption of Mobile Wallet Payment System in Eduards Vi ļums 2017 Sergejs Gubins 53 01 Latvia: An Empirical Analysis Kristaps Miks 2017 Analysis of the Fine Art Market from Financial Sendija Sili ņa 2017 Lauris Gr āvelis 48 02 Perspective Everita Rupmeja Vja eslavs Šuhtins 2017 Are Latvian entrepreneurs debt-starved? Analysis č 2017 Aleksejs Prokofjevs 48 03 of SME credit supply Armans Hanamirjans 2017 Attitudes Toward Immigrants in France Violeta Toncu 2017 Dominik Gerber 44 04 Card-to-card payment systems as a threat to 2017 conventional financial transactions: The case of Vasili Halai 2017 Raimonds Lieksnis 49 05 Rietumu bank Clustering Consumers of Natural Cosmetics Monika Tim čenkait ė 2017 Market in Lithuania: Application of Consumer 2017 Inese Jurevica 55 06 Style Inventory Ieva Pecukevi čiūtė Goda Barilait 2017 Consumers' Responsiveness to Different Pricing ė 2017 Kārlis Apkalns 61 07 Strategies in Spirits Industry in Lithuania Gabriel ė Vaitk ūnait ė Correlation Analysis of Different Aspects of 2017 Facebook Usage, Facebook Attitude and Social Dmitrii Vasiukov 2017 Mattias Svahn 44 08 Anxiety 2017 Could Crowdsourced Financial Analysis Replace Martin Sillasoo 2017 Elchin Jafarov 55 09 the Equity Research by Investment Banks? Karl Arnold Kommel 2017 Determinants of consumer payment choice - The Gytis Paškevi čius 2017 Marius Raugalas 48 10 case of Vilnius Ervin Eivin 2017 Determinants of Delisting: The Case of European Elvis Krasti ņš 2017 Agnes Lubloy 49 11 Stock Exchanges Mikus Pētersons Does the Financial Cycle Theory Explain Short Signe Kārkli ņa 2017 Term Deviations from Covered Interest Rate 2017 Agnes Lubloy 59 12 Parity? Dominykas Rajun čius Does the new culture infrastructure benefit Other title : Do regional 2017 Latvia's regional economies? A comparative concert halls benefit local Laura Bukbarde 2017 Ieva Zem īte 39 economies? A comparative 13 economic impact assessment study of regional economic impact concert halls assessment in Latvia Does Ownership Change from Domestic to Art ūrs Loze 2017 Foreign Improve Firms’ Financial Performance? 2017 Anete Pajuste 42 14 Empirical Evidence from Europe Mārti ņš Lindemanis 2017 The drivers of brand loyalty for scheduled airlines Daniela Sekisova 2017 Marius Raugalas 59 15 in Latvia: the case of airBaltic Nastassia Zeliankouskaya The Earnings Announcement Premium: The Role Katsiaryna Falkovich 2017 of Microstructure Effects and Divergence of 2017 Tālis J. Putni ņš 55 16 Opinion in the Presence of Short Sale Constraints Alexandra Lapitskaya The ECB's Unconventional Monetary Policy: Jekaterina Gornostajeva 2017 Spillovers to the Financial Markets of Non-euro 2017 Agnes Lubloy 56 17 Area European Countries Alivija Kova ļova 2017 The Effect of Progressive Tax on Reducing In āra El īne Bāli ņa 2017 Oļegs Tka čevs 38 18 Citizen Income Inequality: Cross-Country Study Lāsma Kuhtarska The Effects of Art Infusion in Branded Packaging: Gundega Tupi ņa 2017 The Study of Beverage, Sweets and Cosmetics 2017 Heidi Reinson 57 19 Industries in Latvia Tatjana Sidjakina Mindaugas Dadurkevicius Other title: The case of 2017 Effects of Prescheduled Political Events on Stock 2017 Anete Pajuste 50 Brexit: effects of 20 Merkets: The Case of Brexit prescheduled political events Adele Jansonaite on stock markets 2017 The Effects of Stock Ownership by Exchange- Volodymyr Moroz 2017 Tālis J. Putni ņš 45 21 Traded Funds on Corporate Investment Maksim Naruta Ethnic identity and ethnicity-specific values in Mara Kesnere 2017 slogans. The case of Latvians and Russians in 2017 Kārlis Apkalns 57 22 Latvia Karlis Zemitis Page 1 2017 Reinis Bekeris European funding: Does it induce exporting? 2017 Tālis J. Putni ņš 34 23 Vents Viksna Rokas Budrauskas 2017 Evaluating the Performance of Second-Pillar 2017 Iļja Arefjevs 54 24 Pension Funds in Lithuania Linas J. Leš činskas 2017 Fiscal sustainability analysis for aging Lithuania: Agn ė Pe čiūrait ė 2017 Oļegs Tka čevs 52 25 The risk of fiscal fatigue Karina Latyšovi č Hanna Aliakseyenka 2017 The Florange Act and its Impact on Publicly 2017 Anete Pajuste 52 26 Listed Companies Yuliya Kamisarenka 2017 Gazelles and Industry Growth: A PVAR Analysis Vlad Dobrovan 2017 Arnis Sauka 42 27 on the Czech Republic Nicoleta Gu țanu 2017 Andrejs Ļitvinovs Green Bonds - A Cheaper Way of Debt Financing? 2017 Andris Kot āns 51 28 Yauheniya Raiko 2017 Groceries Delivery Industry: Comparison between Adomas Stankevicius Other title : Consumer 2017 Marius Raugalas 65 perception towards online 29 the United Kingdom and the Baltics Simonas Jonas Žirgulis grocery service in Lithuania Have markets become more informative? Arina Golichenkova Other title : Has the US stock 2017 market become more Evidence from a new measure of informational 2017 Tālis J. Putni ņš 46 informative? Evidence from a new 30 measure of informational efficiency Ecaterina Grecu efficiency 2017 Herding Behaviour in an emerging market: Edgars Rihards Indars 2017 Agnes Lubloy 45 31 Evidence from Moscow Exchange Aliaksei Savin 2017 "High" society - high economy? The implicationsEdmundas Baltramiejus Bilotas 2017 Oļegs Krasnopjorovs 56 32 of marijuana legalization Justas Valauskas 2017 Impact of Corporate News Announcements on the Reinholds R. Razums 2017 Anete Pajuste 62 33 Stock Returns in the Baltic Stock Market Aivars Andris Vītols The impact of corporate social responsibility Olga Gustiuc 2017 practices on organizational commitment for 2017 Inga Gleizd āne 48 34 different personality types among employees in an international microfinance company Aleksandra Saltanova 2017 Impact of ECB Unconventional Measures on Oļegs Matvejevs 2017 Konstant īns Be ņkovskis 62 35 Monetary Policy Stance 2017 The impact of financial constraints on propensity Sindija Liepi ņa 2017 Nicolas Gavoille 69 36 to export and export success in Latvia Zane Šmite 2017 The impact of Globalization on Income Inequality: Darta Dozberga 2017 Konstant īns Be ņkovskis 49 37 Cross-Country Analysis Veronika Kosintseva 2017 Implications of retirement age increase for Žans Teodors Jasvins 2017 Oļegs Krasnopjorovs 38 38 intergenerational welfare Darja Jevstafjeva Latvia’s Final Year Bachelor Students’ Emigration Elizabete Kalnozola 2017 or Stay Intentions and Their Motivating Factors: 2017 Anna Zasova 55 39 Will They Stay or Will They Go? 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Bert Peterson 2017 Reintegration of the Latvian returnees into the Arnolds Runde 2017 Inta Mieri ņa 55 53 labour market 2017 The Relationship Between Selling Orientation and Nikolozi Gogoladze 2017 Ģirts Dimdi ņš 53 54 Job Satisfaction in a Door-to-Door Selling Context Sandro Kipiani 2017 The Relationship Between Transformational Vladislav Hramtsov 2017 Marina Pavlova 49 55 Leadership and Myers-Briggs Indicator Hans Voldemar Tamm 2017 The Role of Online Information Sources in Initial Karina Zuravlova 2017 Ivars Austers 53 56 Restaurant Choice: the Case of Latvia Other title : Social media Megija Mīlberga 2017 The role of social media in fundraising activities fundraising: opportunities for 2017 Mattias Svahn 59 civil society participation 57 of civil society nonprofit organizations in Latvia Jaroslavs Si ņko nonprofit organizations in Latvia Scale or Fail: an Examination of Factors that Ri čards Križanovskis 2017 Contribute to High Growth of Latvian IT and 2017 Aivars Timofejevs 52 58 Software Firms Di āna Lāce 2017 The Supply Side of Sharing Economy in the Baltic Madara Suško 2017 Heidi Reinson 53 59 Countries: The Case of Airbnb Monta Tija Valkovska 2017 Trends in the returns of education:
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    Latvia by Kārlis Bukovskis and Andris Sprūds Capital: Riga Population: 2.03 million GNI/capita, PPP: US$23,150 Source: World Bank World Development Indicators. Nations in Transit Ratings and Averaged Scores 8 4 2007 200 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 201 2015 2016 National Democratic 2.00 2.00 2.50 2.50 2.25 2.25 2.25 2.00 2.00 2.00 Governance Electoral Process 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 Civil Society 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 Independent Media 1.50 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 2.00 2.00 2.00 Local Democratic 2.50 2.25 2.25 2.25 2.25 2.25 2.25 2.25 2.25 2.25 Governance Judicial Framework 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 and Independence Corruption 3.00 3.00 3.25 3.25 3.50 3.25 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 Democracy Score 2.07 2.07 2.18 2.18 2.14 2.11 2.07 2.07 2.07 2.07 NOTE: The ratings reflect the consensus of Freedom House, its academic advisers, and the author(s) of this report. If consensus cannot be reached, Freedom House is responsible for the final ratings. The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 7 the lowest.