Search for dissertations about: "externalities"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 97 swedish dissertations containing the word externalities.
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16. Essays on entry externalities and market segmentation
Abstract : The thesis consists of four papers. The first two essays deal with entry externalities, the third studies the Law of One Price (LOP), while the last essay examines average profits for a monopolist under uncertainty. In the first essay, entry externalities in the form of information and positive payoff externalities are studied. READ MORE
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17. Essays on externalities, regulation, institutions, and firm performance
Abstract : This thesis is devoted to the empirical analysis of how externalities—the nonexistence of private markets in some good or the absence of sufficient incentives to establish such markets— affect firm performance and growth. A minor part investigates a direct link between positive externalities, in the form of localized knowledge spillovers, and firm growth, by testing the so-called local export spillover hypothesis: Exporting firms in a region may reduce export entry costs for other local firms through export-related informal knowledge and information flows. READ MORE
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18. Power generation choice in the presence of environmental externalities
Abstract : This dissertation consists of an introductory part and six self-contained papers, all related to the issue of power generation choice in the presence of environmental externalities. Paper 1 provides a critical survey of a large number of electricity externality studies carried out during the last decades, and discusses a number of conceptual, policy-related and, in some cases, unresolved questions in the economic valuation of electricity externalities. READ MORE
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19. Land Taxation, Lobbies and Technological Change: Internalizing environmental externalities
Abstract : We study the effect of a land tax on agricultural land on the allocation of land between agriculture and forestry, and on damages from agriculture. Land is used in the production of agricultural and forestry goods, and we assume that two lobbies attempt to influence the government while it sets the tax. READ MORE
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20. Industrial Dynamics and Regional Structural Change : Geographical Perspectives on Economic Evolution
Abstract : This thesis investigates the process of economic transformation taking place in Sweden since the mid 1970s. Especially, it is concerned with how and why benefits that firms and industries draw from regional co-location with other actors (agglomeration externalities) vary over stages of economic transformation. READ MORE
