Search for dissertations about: "national markets"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 119 swedish dissertations containing the words national markets.

2. 1. Firms and Labor Markets : Essays in Development Economics

   Author : Francesco Loiacono; Jakob Svensson; Andreas Madestam; Tessa Bold; Simon Quinn; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Firms; Labor Markets; Refugees; Social Cohesion; Corruption; Public Procurement; Gender; Credit Markets; RCT; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : Matching with the Right Attitude: the Effect of Matching Firms with Refugee WorkersWe study the effect of contact in the workplace on firms' willingness to hire refugees and ultimately on refugees' labor market integration. We run an experiment in Uganda, where treated firms provide an internship of one week to a skilled refugee worker. READ MORE

4. 2. Information, Markets and Conflict : Essays on Development and Political Economics

   Author : David Yanagizawa Drott; Jakob Svensson; La Ferrara Eliana; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information; Mass Media; Propaganda; Market Information; Conflict; Genocide; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : The thesis consists of four essays.The first essay, “The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War”, uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the strategic value of these countries. READ MORE

5. 3. Climate Policy and Financial Markets

   Author : Samson Mukanjari; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; burden sharing; climate policy; commodity futures; distribution; environmental deregulation; Environmental Protection Agency; EPA; equity; event study; fairness; impulse-indicator saturation; international climate negotiations; Paris Agreement; Trump;

   Abstract : Climate change represents a serious, as-yet-unresolved global commons problem. After decades of international climate negotiations, 195 nations adopted the Paris climate agreement in December 2015. The subsequent election of Donald Trump as US president in 2016 was seen as a setback for climate policy. READ MORE

6. 4. Cooperation in local electricity markets : modelling of technical measures

   Author : Maria Andersson; Björn Karlsson; Curt Björk; Tomas Larsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Energy system; System cost; Electricity market; Co-operation; Demand-side management; Energy efficiency; Shadow prices;

   Abstract : This thesis presents a system analysis for co-operation in local electricity markets including distributors and customers. The purpose of co-operation is to minimise the system cost of local markets by introducing system measures, such as end-use measures and municipal co-generation plants. READ MORE

7. 5. International Asset Pricing, Diversification and Links between National Stock Markets

   Author : Birger Nilsson; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Financial science; Finansiering; economic systems; economic theory; Economics; econometrics; Simulated Annealing; Capital Market Liberalization; International Asset Pricing; Diversification;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained empirical studies on international financial economics. The common economic theme is that all three studies deal with international stock market return and risk. READ MORE