Search for dissertations about: "Book of Tobit"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words Book of Tobit.
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6. Essays on the Infestation of Lake Victoria by the Water Hyacinth
Abstract : This thesis consists of four essays that seek to estimate the abundance of the water hyacinth in Lake Victoria during the 1990s and analyse its effects on the catchability of fish, estimate the elasticities of catch with respect to the various components of effort in lake Victoria fisheries, and estimate the welfare costs of electricity outages. In the first essay, data on the extent of water hyacinth mat coverage collected from a number of reports and surveys is used to fit time trend water hyacinth mats growth curves for the three sections of Lake Victoria. READ MORE
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7. Heterogeneity in oligopoly : theories and tests
Abstract : This dissertation consists of five separate chapters, of which the three first three are empirical and the last two are theoretical. Chapter 1: Competition in Interrelated Markets: An Empirical Study. (Co-authored with Marcus Asplund.)This chapter studies competition in small, concentrated and interrelated markets. READ MORE
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8. Demand, segmentation and rationing in the rural credit markets of Puri
Abstract : This thesis consists of five chapters.Chapter 1 and 2 The first chapter presents the introduction and the summary and the second chapter provides details on the survey and the data collection.Chapter 3 The demand and supply of credit in the rural finance markets are investigated in this paper using data on 989 households, in Orissa, India. READ MORE
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9. Essays on Microeconometrics and Immigrant Assimilation
Abstract : Paper I. Asymptotic bias reduction for a conditional marginal effects estimator in sam- ple selection models. In this article we discuss the di¤erences between the average marginal effect and the mar- ginal effect of the average individual in sample selection models, estimated by the Heck- man procedure. READ MORE
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10. Supply chain management approach to reduce food losses : empirical results of selected food commodities in Ethiopia
Abstract : Food loss is one of the heavy challenges to food security in low income countries. Inefficiencies and ineffectiveness of management in supply chains are considered as the major reasons for postharvest food losses. READ MORE