Search for dissertations about: "interdependence of preferences"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words interdependence of preferences.
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1. Studies on the Swedish Parental Insurance
Abstract : This thesis contains an introductory chapter and three essays, all considering different aspects of the Swedish parental insurance. In the first two essays, different aspects of temporary parental leave (leave from work to take care of a sick child) are investigated, whereas the third essay considers parental leave (leave from work to take care of a new-born child). READ MORE
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2. To Levy Taxes on Multinational Corporations : Allocating Rights and Making Them Enforceable
Abstract : Who, if anyone, should have the right to levy taxes on a multinational corporation’s (MNC’s) profits? Using a practice-dependent nonideal theoretical methodology this dissertation seeks to explore how the currently intended distribution of the rights to levy taxes on MNCs’ profits can be defended. That is, why we might value it and, what the goals of it is. READ MORE
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3. A Topographic Study of Functional Surfaces
Abstract : Surface topography through the years has taken on increased importance, because of the rise in quality demands. The surface often has to meet additional functional demands when products become more complex in accordance with customer preferences. READ MORE
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4. Unravelling Sustainability : The complex dynamics of emergent environmental governance and management systems at multiple scales
Abstract : This thesis adopts a complex systems approach to investigate the dynamic emergence of sustainable environmental governance and management systems in multiple contexts in Europe. Accelerating rates of environmental degradation across the world have called the legitimacy of previous environmental governance and management arrangements into question. READ MORE
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5. The Evolution of a New(s) Genre
Abstract : This thesis describes and analyzes how the online newspaper genre has evolved since its inception on the Internet in the mid-nineties. The overall research question is: What characterizes the online newspaper genre evolution? The thesis is based on both synchronic and diachronic studies with a multimethod approach (including six different studies involving, e. READ MORE