Search for dissertations about: "Private consumption"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 76 swedish dissertations containing the words Private consumption.

  2. 6. Critical Infrastructure at the Dawn of a Techno-Organizational Shift : Accountability and Public-Private Governance

    Author : Lindy Newlove-Eriksson; Thomas Sandberg; Jan Hallenberg; Staffan Furusten; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accountability; Critical Infrastructure; Public-Private Governance; Industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Management;

    Abstract : How public-private governance affects accountability for safety in the realm of critical infrastructure is the focus of this doctoral thesis. Case studies of previously under-researched crises and their cascading affects across infrastructures and governance systems, comparative analysis of public-private governance (PPG) of infrastructures such as space and urban rail junctions, and analysis of wider sets of policies and doctrine pertaining to critical infrastructures and their governance are presented. READ MORE

  4. 7. Empirical Studies in Consumption, House Prices and the Accuracy of European Growth and Inflation Forecasts

    Author : Bharat Barot; Bengt Turner; Thomas Lindh; Robert Campbell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business and economics; consumption; house prices; housing investment; error correction method; forecasting accuracy; Ekonomi; Business and economics; Ekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four essays: Essay 1: The Role of Wealth in the Aggregated Consumption Function using an Error Correction Approach: Swedish Evidence from the years 1970 - 1993, an aggregated consumption function based on the life cycle hypothesis using the error correction methodology is estimated for Sweden. Aggregate wealth is spilt into net financial and housing wealth. READ MORE

  5. 8. Essays on stochastic fiscal policy, public debt and private consumption

    Author : Torbjörn Becker; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This dissertation consists of five separate essays (and a short introductory chapter) that analyze the effects of debt policy on private consumption. Essay 1: Government Debt and Private Consumption: Theory and Evidence. The Ricardian equivalence theorem has been widely debated since (at least) the seventies. READ MORE

  6. 9. Quantifying the Metabolism of Individual Households

    Author : Robin Harder; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; household metabolism; private consumption; waste generation; individual household; mobile application; resource use;

    Abstract : The magnitude of the flows of matter and energy resulting from human activities is influenced by human needs and demands as well as the practices and technologies applied to fulfil them. The aim of this study was to explore differences in resource use and waste generation between individual households through the simultaneous quantification of physical flows entering and leaving the households. READ MORE

  7. 10. Structuring Fashion : Department Stores as Situating Spatial Practice

    Author : Daniel Koch; Lars Marcus; Rolf Gullström Hughes; Staffan Henriksson; Judith Williamson; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; architecture; architecture theory; architectural morphology; spatial systems; department stores; commercial cultures; shopping; consumption; social structures; fashion; identity; public culture; relational space; space syntax; Architecture; Arkitektur;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates department stores as complex spatial and cultural buildings, in which values and ideas are expressed, negotiated, and produced. Situated in a cultural context commonly referred to as a society of consumption, where identity and social structures are worked out through consumption rather than production, the query turns to a specific act of consumption: that of shopping. READ MORE