Search for dissertations about: "trading out"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the words trading out.
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1. Trading out? : A study of farming women’s and men’s access to resources in rural Ethiopia
Abstract : Women are over-represented among the rural poor in developing countries, and the difficulties they face in raising themselves out of poverty are well established. This thesis examines how gender structures trade in local markets and forms of sociability in rural Ethiopia, using survey data from four rural communities and three local market places. READ MORE
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2. From Illusiveness to Genuineness : Routines, Trading Zones, Tools and Emotions in Sales Work
Abstract : Alongside the growing accessibility of information technologies organizations make attempts to structure work even in the areas that have been traditionally perceived as difficult to structure. The rationale is to increase the efficiency of work in the areas that are difficult to manage and where profitability can be questionable. READ MORE
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3. Essays on Energy and Climate Policy – Green Certificates, Emissions Trading and Electricity Prices
Abstract : Paper I: An Electricity Trading System with Tradable Green Certificates and CO₂-emission Allowances Combinations of various policy instruments to deal with the threat of climate change are used throughout the world. The aim of this article is to investigate an electricity market with two different policy instruments, Tradable Green Certificates (TGCs) and CO₂ emission allowances (an Emission Trading System, ETS). READ MORE
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4. Interacting particle systems in varying environment, stochastic domination in statistical mechanics and optimal pairs trading in finance
Abstract : In this thesis we first consider the contact process in a randomly evolving environment, introduced by Erik Broman. This process is a generalization of the contact process where the recovery rate can vary between two values. The rate which it chooses is determined by a background process, which evolves independently at different sites. READ MORE
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5. On the Feasibility of Reinforcement Learning in Single- and Multi-Agent Systems : The Cases of Indoor Climate and Prosumer Electricity Trading Communities
Abstract : Over half of the world’s population live in urban areas, a trend which is expected to only grow as we move further into the future. With this increasing trend in urbanisation, challenges are presented in the form of the management of urban infrastructure systems. READ MORE