Search for dissertations about: "economic systems"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 1170 swedish dissertations containing the words economic systems.
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6. Market Structure and Integration - Essays on Trade, Specialisation and Foreign Direct Investment
Abstract : The study analyses various aspects of international economics related to foreign direct investment, trade and specialisation. These issues are considered in view of the increased internationalisation - through trade and foreign direct investment - in recent decades. Special interest is devoted to the effects of economic integration. READ MORE
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7. Enabling socio-technical transitions – electric vehicles and high voltage electricity grids as focal points of low emission futures
Abstract : Today humankind is facing numerous sustainability challenges that require us to question CO2 intensive practices like those present in the transport and energy sector. To meet those challenges, many countries have adopted ambitious climate targets. Achieving such targets requires an understanding of the wider socio-technical context of transitions. READ MORE
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8. Product-service systems: Panacea or myth?
Abstract : Life cycle environmental problems have been addressed by a number of strategies. However, the results are mostly lamentable because solutions are searched for within the same paradigms that give rise to the problems. READ MORE
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9. Transformations towards Sustainable Food Systems : Pathways, Governance, and Actors in a Swedish and European Union Context
Abstract : Food systems are central to global sustainability, while being complex systems where places and people are intertwined over large distances and at different scales. Transformations towards sustainable food systems have been called for in both research and policy, and Sweden and the European Union have declared high ambitions to act as global leaders in these transformations. READ MORE
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10. Markov Regime Switching in Economic Time Series
Abstract : This dissertation studies statistical properties and applications of the Markov switching models for economic time series in five separate papers. The two main statistical themes are (i) the task of choosing the number of states to use in the model, and (ii) inference on time-varying transition probabilities. READ MORE