Search for dissertations about: "barriers to entry"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the words barriers to entry.
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21. Essays on Determinants of Individual Performance and Labor Market Outcomes
Abstract : Essay 1 (with Oskar Nordström Skans): This paper provides field evidence on the causal impact of past successes on future performances. Since persistence in success or failure is likely to be linked through, potentially time-varying, ability it is intrinsically difficult to identify the causal effect of succeeding on the probability of performing well in the future. READ MORE
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22. Insurance and cartels through wars and depressions : Swedish Marine insurance and reinsurance between the World Wars
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to enhance our understanding of Swedish marine insurers' choices of business strategies under the potentially difficult business circumstances of the interwar period 1918-1939. Little previous research exists on marine insurance during the interwar period. READ MORE
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23. Contract-theoretic analyses of consultants and trade unions
Abstract : Why can junior management consultants bill four-digit dollar amounts a day for working with corporations and industries where they have no experience? Why do blue-collar workers organise in industry-specific unions involved in collective wage bargaining, while white-collars organise according to educational or professional background, offering résumé proof-reading, or don’t unionise at all? The doctoral thesis Contract-Theoretic Analyses of Consultants and Trade Unions consists of three self-containing essays in Economics of Organisation. What Do Consultants Do? asks why firms pay large fees to outsiders in core activities like management. READ MORE
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24. Exploring openEHR-based clinical guidelines in acute stroke care and research
Abstract : Largely speaking, health information systems today are not able to exchange data between each other and understand the data’s meaning automatically by means of their information technology components. This lack of ‘interoperability’ also leads to patients experiencing an undesired discontinuity in their care. READ MORE
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25. One coin - One vote : the rural political power shift that pushed Sweden towards industrialization
Abstract : The Causal Effect of Political Power on the Provision of Public Education: Evidence from a Weighted Voting SystemWe estimate how political power affects the provision of public education in local governments, using data from a nondemocratic society where voters received votes in proportion to their taxable income. This was the system used in Swedish local governments during the period 1862–1909. READ MORE