Search for dissertations about: "Capital investments"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 125 swedish dissertations containing the words Capital investments.

  2. 16. Analysis of Mining Investments in Zimbabwe

    Author : Ronald Chifamba; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Investment; minerals; natural resource; uncertainty; irreversibility; cost function; consumption; return; investment; risk premia; user-cost; capital; Zimbabwe;

    Abstract : The papers in this thesis investigate issues related to investment with particular reference to the mining sector in Zimbabwe. Issues analysed are the levels of risk premia that attract investment in minerals in developing countries, whether firms in the sector manage to reduce operation to optimal levels consistent with theoretical predictions, and the extent to which irreversibility has reduced investment expenditures. READ MORE

  4. 17. Venture capital as a tool for regional development: Exit patterns and long-term consequences

    Author : Per Hulthén; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ecosystem.; Venture Capital; Startups; Entrepreneurship; Exit; Policy;

    Abstract : Venture capital (VC) funded high-tech startups are often cited drivers of economic impact and catalysts of regional growth. Public support of high-tech startups and investments into venture capital has thus been a popular focus for public policy globally in the past decades. READ MORE

  5. 18. Buying behavior and long-term relationships in the metal mining industry : case studies of capital equipment buying

    Author : Cristina Sales Baptista; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Industriell marknadsföring; Industrial Marketing;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with industrial buying behavior and long-term relationships in the metal mining industry. The mining environment is increasingly competitive as a result of globalization, deregulation and privatization, technological improvements, and eco-sensitivity. READ MORE

  6. 19. Refugee Immigrants in Sweden - educational investments and labour market integration

    Author : Dan-Olof Rooth; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economic theory; econometrics; Economics; Discrete models; Duration models; Count models; Unemployment; Human Capital Formation; Employment; Economics of Immigrants; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses educational investments and labour market attachment for refugee immigrants who received a permanent visa to Sweden during 1987-1991. It consists of five self-contained chapters. READ MORE

  7. 20. Essays on investment in human capital

    Author : Christian Kjellström; Per Skedinger; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Heterogeneous On-the-job Training: Implications for the Specification and Estimation of the human Capital Earnings FunctionDespite the centrality of heterogeneous on-the-job training in human capital theory, this is rarely accounted for in the estimation. The empirical findings indicate that individual-specific components in the earnings function are stochastic. READ MORE