Search for dissertations about: "insurance industry"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the words insurance industry.

  2. 11. Climate Change after the International : Rethinking Security, Territory and Authority

    Author : Johannes Stripple; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Insurance Industry; Climate Change; Environmental Politics; Environmental Issues; Environment; Process Philosophy; Authority; Territory; Security; International Relations; International Politics; UNFCCC; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

    Abstract : What does a politics after the international mean? Many strands of contemporary scholarship converge on the image of the international as obsolete, but strongly diverge on the contours of the kinds of politics that are superseding it. The modern state has been pivotal to the meaning of security, territory and authority?concepts central to the idea of the international?but they do not necessarily have to be tied to the state. READ MORE

  4. 12. Essays on Smallholder Diversification, Industry Location, Debt Relief, and Disability and Utility

    Author : Sven Tengstam; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Zambia; agriculture; income diversification; structural change; poverty; global clothing industry; new economic geography; comparative advantages; industrial agglomeration; HIPC; debt relief; debt overhang; investment; incentives; disability; mobility impairment; marginal utility; hypothetical lotteries; risk.;

    Abstract : Essay 1 Smallholder Income Diversification in Zambia: The Way Out of Poverty? This paper investigates the relationship between income diversification (combinations of farm income, agricultural wage work, non-agricultural wage work, and own-business income) and income within Zambian smallholder households. Shifting to a higher degree of diversification is found to be associated with getting higher income per laborer. READ MORE

  5. 13. Multi-period valuation of insurance liabilities subject to capital requirements

    Author : Hampus Engsner; Filip Lindskog; Mathias Lindholm; Albrecher Hansjörg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : In the papers presented here, approaches to multi-period valuation of a liability cashflow in runoff, subject to repeated capital requirements, are developed and analyzed. The valuation approaches are inspired by current risk-based regulatory frameworks for the insurance industry, and consistent with the fundamental principles underlying them. READ MORE

  6. 14. Essays on altruism and health care markets

    Author : Björn Persson; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of two parts. The first part includes two essays that deal with the pharmaceutical market, and one essay that looks at strategic incentives that arise in optimal treatment involving untried drugs. The second part, consisting of two essays, examines some implications of altruism. READ MORE

  7. 15. Business to Business E-Commerce Adoption: - A strategic Perspective

    Author : Moses Niwe; Stockholms universitet; []
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    Abstract : This research presents an explorative study examining issues and challenges in adoption of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. We have collected a variety of organizational experiences of adopting and using B2B e-commerce, on the basis of which we synthesize a set of guidelines that support B2B adoption presented in form of organizational patterns. READ MORE