Search for dissertations about: "Distributional effects"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 46 swedish dissertations containing the words Distributional effects.
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21. Essays on economic policy on food consumption : environmental taxes, distribution and health
Abstract : This thesis consists of four papers investigating the use of taxes on food consumption. The aim is providing policy information concerning what to eat from an environmental and health perspective. READ MORE
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22. Roads from Unemployment : Institutional Complementarities in Product and Labor Markets
Abstract : Bringing down unemployment is a top priority for governments across the industrialized world, regardless of ideological bent. What is at issue in the political debate is not if unemployment should be combatted, but by what means. READ MORE
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23. Five essays on models and methods for the analysis of survival data with single and multiple causes of failure : With applications in family demography
Abstract : The dissertation consists of five self-contained essays dealing with analytical investigations, simulation studies, and demographic applications of statistical models and associated methods for the analysis of the so-called survival data.Our analytical results in the first paper indicate that models for grouped survival data which, depending on the application, are labeled different names, practically, make use of the same method in the process of parameter estimation and inference. READ MORE
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24. Essays om trade and consumption
Abstract : This doctoral thesis in Economics consists of three self-contained chapters. “How large are the dynamic gains from trade?” uses a theoretical trade model to study the welfare gains from trade in a dynamic setting. READ MORE
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25. Essays on the economic impacts of floods and landslides
Abstract : This thesis consists of an introduction and four self-contained papers addressing aspects that are important for how the negative societal effects of natural disasters can be handled, using floods and landslides in the Gothenburg region in Sweden as examples. In paper I the valuation of the benefits of reducing the negative effects of floods, namely, property damage, traffic disturbances and water supply security, were analysed, using a choice experiment. READ MORE