Search for dissertations about: "honest"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the word honest.
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1. Sexual selection in the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) : A life-history perspective
Abstract : This thesis integrates sexual selection theory with life history theory to elucidate the causes and consequences of variation in a male secondary sexual trait. The model organism, the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis), was studied on Gotland, Sweden. READ MORE
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2. Honest and deceptive alibi witnesses - Their strategies and the consistency of their stories
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3. Honesty, vanity and corporate equity : four microeconomic essays
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4. Come lie with me: On deception by groups and the concept of statement consistency
Abstract : Research on the topic of group deception has primarily focused on cooffenders. The aim of this thesis was to further our understanding of group deception by examining the context of honest and deceptive alibis corroborated by witnesses. READ MORE
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5. Optimal deterrents to malingering : the role of incentives, attitudes and information costs in social insurance, especially sickness benefit and welfare
Abstract : In a sequence of four models which all generalize the single-period model of Diamond and Mirrlees (1978), we explain and optimize the structure of static social insurance against health-related disability in an economy where detected cheaters feel ashamed, where some of the workers are more honest than the others, and where the cost of ascertaining disease and disability varies. Given the insurance the workers report their disease to the insurer who benevolently chooses the consumption in each state and the probability with which to use his test of disease and disability. READ MORE