Search for dissertations about: "Institutions"
Showing result 31 - 35 of 937 swedish dissertations containing the word Institutions.
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31. Changing Swedish sickness insurance : Policies, institutions and outcomes
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to contribute to welfare state theorising by analysing changing risk protection in Swedish sickness insurance and demonstrate how the understanding of such, and its implications, can be enhanced by strategic methodological choices. When analysing formal policy change in the compulsory sickness insurance system, it is concluded that the Swedish system fulfils almost every aspect of a so called social democratic welfare state, and no institutional shift can be discerned over time. READ MORE
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32. Policy, Institutions and Misallocation
Abstract : The thesis contains three models. Chapter 1 illustrates financial market incompleteness causes misallocations and fluences international trade pattern. Countries with more complete markets tend to specialize in risky sectors. Chapter 2 sets up a cross-generation utility function. READ MORE
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33. Strategic ignorance and social Institutions
Abstract : This doctoral thesis in Economics consists of three self-contained chapters in strategic behavior and social institutions.Do People Avoid Morally Relevant Information? Evidence from the Refugee Crisis examines whether people avoid information in an attempt to reduce the moral pressure to engage in prosocial behavior. READ MORE
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34. Economic Determinants and Consequences of Political Institutions
Abstract : This thesis is comprised of four empirical essays on the economic determinants and consequences of political institutions. It opens with a broad perspective on the link between the state throughout history and the past and current economic performance of nations. READ MORE
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35. To Have and to Hold: Continuity and change in property rights institutions governing water resources among the Meru of Tanzania and the BaKgatla in Botswana; 1925-2000
Abstract : Allocation, control, and management of natural resources are issues that absorb researchers within both the social and natural sciences. This study deals with such research questions as well as with one of the most fundamental issues in Economic History – namely institutional change. READ MORE