Search for dissertations about: "visible goods"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words visible goods.

2. 1. Household Decision Making, Time Preferences, and Positional Concern: Experimental Evidence from Rural China

   Author : Xiaojun Yang; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; individual decisions; ; joint decisions; ; intertemporal choices; ; Convex Time Budget; ; relative influence; ; patience; ; time-consistency; ; choice shifts; ; own decisions; ; predictions; ; decisions for spouse; ; positional concern; ; gender; ; household expenditures; ; visible goods; ; rural China; ;

   Abstract : For abstracts, see full text thesis.... READ MORE

4. 2. Empirical Essays in Public and Political Economics

   Author : Jonas Klarin; Eva Mörk; Luca Repetto; Francesco Sobbrio; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Essay I: This paper proposes a novel approach to the issue of size, cost-efficiency and economies of scale by focusing on the break-up of municipalities. Municipal break-ups are an understudied phenomenon that nevertheless has been recurrent not only in parts of eastern Europe, but also in Spain and Sweden. READ MORE

5. 3. Cattle for beads : The archaeology of historical contact and trade on the Namib Coast

   Author : Jill Kinahan; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Historical archaeology; contact; indigenous response; glass trade beads; commercial ceramics; nineteenth century; Namib coast; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Abstract : Early contacts between indigenous pastoralists at Walvis Bay on the Namib Coast and Western seafarers are poorly documented and little understood. Trade augmented regional exchange networks with a range, of archaeologically visible and easily identifiable objects. READ MORE

6. 4. Logistics systems for recycling : on the influence of products, structures, relationships and power

   Author : Maria Huge Brodin; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : logistics systems; recycling; products structures; relationships; power; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Abstract : The environmental trend, and environmental legislation, has during the past decade grown stronger, and with it the focus on environmental issues within many fields of research and practice. This has implications for logistics, and the focus in this dissertation is on the logistics systems that are needed to realise recycling of end-of-life products: logistics systems for recycling (LSRs). READ MORE

7. 5. Privileged Places in South Central Mozambique : The archaeology of Manyikeni, Niamara, Songo and Degue-Mufa

   Author : Solange Macamo; Paul Sinclair; David Phillipson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; privileged place; madzimbabwe; heritage management; gender; slave trade; prazo; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Abstract : Throughout the 20th century, archaeologists in southern Africa have focused upon visible architectural features of stone built Madzimbabwe settlements as indicators of prestige and power. Manyikeni a stone built settlement in Inhambane province, S. READ MORE