Search for dissertations about: "Public Goods"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 105 swedish dissertations containing the words Public Goods.

  2. 16. Behavioral Spillovers across Prosocial Alternatives

    Author : Claes Ek; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Behavioral spillovers; Prosocial Behavior; Public Goods; moral licensing; charitable giving; Environmental behavior; Dictator game; Recycling;

    Abstract : This thesis contributes to the economic literature on prosocial behavior. It includes three papers, all of which relate to the issue of policy-driven spillovers across prosocial alternatives. READ MORE

  4. 17. Social Dilemmas: The Role of Incentives, Norms and Institutions

    Author : Marcela Ibanez Diaz; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; portfolio model of crime; norms of behavior; choice experiment; field experiment; public goods; income heterogeneity; illegal drugs; Colombia;

    Abstract : The subject of this dissertation is social dilemmas. In a social dilemma situation, there is a clear incentive not to cooperate. However, if nobody cooperates, then everybody is worse off than if they had cooperated. The question we try to answer in this dissertation is what prevents non-cooperation. READ MORE

  5. 18. Global Warming and Our Natural Duties of Justice : A cosmopolitan political conception of justice

    Author : Aaron Maltais; Jörgen Hermansson; Ludvig Beckman; Edward Page; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; Global warming; climate change; global justice; natural duties; political conception; contractualism; intergenerational; political duty; political authority; collective action; public goods; John Rawls; Thomas Nagel; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : Compelling research in international relations and international political economy on global warming suggests that one part of any meaningful effort to radically reverse current trends of increasing green house gas (GHG) emissions is shared policies among states that generate costs for such emissions in many if not most of the world’s regions. Effectively employing such policies involves gaining much more extensive global commitments and developing much stronger compliance mechanism than those currently found in the Kyoto Protocol. READ MORE

  6. 19. The Promise of Public Value Co-Creation in Open Government : Designing IT Services for Open Government and Public Value Co-Creation

    Author : Elin Uppström; Christer Magnusson; Paul Johanesson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Value Co-Creation; Open Government; Inhibitors; Design; IT-services; Computer and Systems Sciences; data- och systemvetenskap;

    Abstract : The engagement of citizens in governmental actives is the future of publicsector reforms. The private sector has already started to leverage onlinetechnology to innovate and to reinvent businesses. READ MORE

  7. 20. Essays on Politics, Fiscal Institutions, and Public Finance

    Author : Lovisa Persson; Eva Mörk; Jon H. Fiva; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Property taxation; housing market; fiscal institutions; balanced budget rule; local public finance; fiscal consolidation; political fragmentation; median voter model; regression discontinuity; citizen candidates; party effects; right-wing populism; welfare chauvinism.; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Essay 1 (with Mikael Elinder): We show that house prices in general did not respond to a large cut in the property tax in Sweden. Our estimates are based on rich register data covering more than 100,000 sales over a time period of two and a half years. READ MORE