Search for dissertations about: "Discount rates"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words Discount rates.
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1. Risk and Rates of Time Preferences of Farm Households in Ethiopia: Implications on land investment decisions
Abstract : Summary Paper 1: Risk Preferences of Farm Households in Ethiopia: Implications to Land Investment Decisions This paper measures farmers' attitude towards risk using an experimental approach for a sample of 262 farm households in Ethiopian highlands. We find more than 50 percent of the households in severe to extreme risk aversion category, unlike similar studies in Asia, where the vast majorities are found under moderate to intermediate risk aversion category. READ MORE
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2. Term structure estimation based on a generalized optimization framework
Abstract : The current work is devoted to estimating the term structure of interest rates based on a generalized optimization framework. To x the ideas of the subject, we introduce representations of the term structure as they are used in nance: yield curve, discount curve and forward rate curve. READ MORE
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3. On cash flow valuation
Abstract : A fundamental fact in finance and economics is that moneyhas a time value, meaning that if we want to value an amount ofmoney we get at some future date we should discount the amountfrom the future date back to today. When facing a stream ofcash flows occurring at di®erent times we discount each ofthe cash flows using suitable discount rates and then sum thecontributions. READ MORE
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4. Essays on the political economy of central bank policy
Abstract : This thesis consists of four independent essays, summarized below.In "Optimal Inflation Targets, Inflation Contracts and Political Cycles", we show that inflation contracts and inflation targets can eliminate both the inflation bias and politically induced variance, if electoral uncertainty merely is due to different preferences. READ MORE
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5. Two studies on fuel choice in power generation
Abstract : This dissertation consists of two studies, both related to the impacts of economic and political factors on fuel choice in electric power generation. The primary purpose of the first study is to estimate the degree of price-induced interfuel substitution between three fossil fuels in West European power generation. READ MORE