Search for dissertations about: "Deficit bias"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Deficit bias.
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1. Austerity Politics : Is the Electorate Responsible?
Abstract : This thesis contributes to the public finance literature concerned with fiscal sustainability, and consists of an introduction and four stand-alone essays. The first three essays analyse the reasons why governments accumulate large levels of debt. READ MORE
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2. Genetic Sex Differences in Early Human Neuronal Development : An Investigation in Embryo Tissue and Embryonic Stem Cells
Abstract : Sex differences in the human body affect many different organs and tissues, some of them have an effect on the human brain and its development. In the developing nervous system, sex differences can bias the number or functionality of neurons, glial cells or synapses. As a result, neural networks might develop with a sex-specific bias. READ MORE
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3. Studies on economic growth and inflation : theory and empirics
Abstract : This thesis consists of four independent papers. Paper I examines the effect of environmental policy on economic growth in a small open economy in a neoclassical framework with pollution as an input. READ MORE
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4. Institutions and incentives in monetary and fiscal policy
Abstract : This thesis consists of five independent papers, which are summarized as follows. ”Fiscal Policy when Monetary Policy is Tied to the Mast” analyzes the time inconsistency problem of both exchange rate policy and fiscal policy in a small open economy. The equilibrium under discretion is characterized by inflation and a deficit. READ MORE
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5. Time for time : assessment of time processing ability and daily time management in children with and without disabilities
Abstract : The focus of this thesis was further development of instruments for assessing Time Processing Ability (TPA) and daily Time Management (TM) in children, focusing on the constructs measured and investigating differences in TPA and daily TM between children with and without cognitive disabilities. Participants were 5-11 year-old TD children (n=144) and children with disabilities: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), mild or moderate intellectual disabilities, or with neurological disease such as CP or MMC (n=118). READ MORE