Search for dissertations about: "Wealth distribution"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 61 swedish dissertations containing the words Wealth distribution.
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6. Essays in Macroeconomics and Political Economy
Abstract : The Response of the Riksbank to House Prices in SwedenIn the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, an environment of historically low interest rates and extensive household indebtedness in the OECD countries have triggered a vivid debate on whether central banks should react to house-price fluctuations in their pursuit of monetary policy. In Sweden, a period of low policy rates and house-price inflation was halted when the central bank increased the interest rates in 2010. READ MORE
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7. The Wealth of Urban Regions : On the Location of Creative Individuals and Firms
Abstract : This doctoral thesis consists of four individual chapters and an introduction to the thesis. The common feature of the four separate chapters is their focus on the location patterns of creative individuals and firms, the inter-relation between those actors and the regional development and how those actors in the end shape the wealth of urban regions. READ MORE
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8. Family matters : Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained papers in applied microeconomics with family as a common theme. The first paper documents how the financial portfolios of parents change in response to the birth of a child. READ MORE
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9. A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Sierra Leone
Abstract : In the present dissertation, social stratification in colonial Sierra Leone is discussed, with the aim of providing novel evidence on the association between ideals, institutions and inequality. The case study of Sierra Leone is valuable for it allows to examine social stratification in an alleged egalitarian context. READ MORE
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10. Essays on Portfolio Choice and Wealth Inequality
Abstract : This doctoral thesis consists of three self-contained chapters. In chapter 1, I analyze a model of saving and portfolio choice and show that jointly matching saving, debt taking and housing decisions over the life-cycle also enables a good fit of portfolio choice patterns over the wealth distribution. READ MORE