Search for dissertations about: "WTP"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 swedish dissertations containing the word WTP.
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1. Willingness to Pay for a Reduction in Road Mortality Risk: Evidence from Sweden
Abstract : The thesis consists of an introductory chapter, followed by three chapters in which willingness to pay (WTP) for a reduction in car- and road-mortality risk is estimated using both revealed- and stated-preference methods. In chapter 2 the hedonic regression technique is used to estimate the value of traffic safety, using information from the Swedish market for automobiles. READ MORE
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2. The Demand for Health and the Contingent Valuation Method
Abstract : The theoretical part develops Michael Grossman’s dynamic demand-for-health model by (a) letting the depreciation rate depend upon the level of health, (b) allowing a continuous set of health states, (c) introducing uncertainty (by letting health be a stochastic variable), (d) introducing social and private insurance and (e) releasing the assumption of an isoperimetric budget constraint. Beside the theoretical results, there are also results with important policy implications. READ MORE
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3. Economic aspects on obesity. Results from the Swedish obese subjects study
Abstract : Aims: To analyse the patterns of sick leave, disability pension and drug consumption, and the willingness to pay (WTP) for obesity treatment among obese individuals. To estimate indirect obesity-related morbidity costs and direct costs of medication in relation to these costs in the general population. READ MORE
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4. Psychological perspectives on environmetal policy measures: The role of values, norms, and attitudes
Abstract : The major aim of this thesis is to investigate how psychological, and especially social psychological, concepts and theories may enhance the understanding of peoples reactions to issues relevant for environmental policy measures. More specifically, the aim is to investigate antecedents of attitudes towards policy measures as well as antecedents to people’s valuation of environmental resources. READ MORE
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5. Valuation and pricing of traffic safety
Abstract : This thesis consists of six essays covering the topic of valuation and pricing of accidents. In the first essay a theory of the external marginal cost of accidents is presented. The external cost is dependent on the value of statistical life, the proportion internal cost and the so called risk elasticity, i.e. READ MORE