Search for dissertations about: "long-term contracts"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words long-term contracts.
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1. Valuation and hedging of long-term asset-linked contracts
Abstract : The five essays in this dissertation are all concerned with how commodity price uncertainty affects the valuation of real and financial assets. Focusing on the stochastic process approximating the price process of the commodity, a time-inhomogeneous mean reverting process is suggested and used in the valuation of a pulp mill. READ MORE
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2. Integrated Product Service Offerings for Rail and Road Infrastructure : Reviewing Applicability in Sweden
Abstract : This research aims to explore and propose a more effective management of rail and road infrastructure and the possibility of a more resource-efficient road and rail infrastructure by applying business models based on performance and a life-cycle perspective.There is a lack of efficiency in the Swedish rail and road infrastructure industries - at the same time as the availability of the rail tracks and roads is essential. READ MORE
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3. Procurement Contracts, Innovation and Productivity in the Construction Sector : Five Studies
Abstract : With its size, large number of actors, and its impact on everyday life, the construction sector plays an important role in every nation’s economy and in the improvement of the built environment. The recognition of this fact by the sector, in combination with the reputation for being conservative, problematic, having low productivity growth, and low pressure for change leads to a focus on different strategies that can be used to improve of the sector. READ MORE
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4. Doctors Behind Borders : The Ethics of Skilled Worker Emigration
Abstract : This doctoral thesis within applied ethics consists of four articles together with a cover essay. All articles concern the ethics of skilled health worker emigration from under-served and resourcepoor regions, often referred to as ‘medical brain drain’. READ MORE
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5. Financial Choice and Public Policy
Abstract : Costly reversals of bad policies: the case of the mortgage interest deductionThis paper measures the welfare effects of removing the mortgage interest deduction under a variety of implementation scenarios. To this end, we build a life-cycle model with heterogeneous households calibrated to the U.S. READ MORE