Search for dissertations about: "market reform"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 128 swedish dissertations containing the words market reform.

  2. 1. Market liberalization and market integration : Essays on the Nordic electricity market

    Author : Jens Lundgren; Runar Brännlund; Niklas Rudholm; Jörgen Hellström; Robert Lundmark; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Consumer welfare; Electricity price; Market integration; Market power; Price jump; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained papers related to the Nordic electricity market.Paper [I] examine how the reform of the Nordic electricity markets has affected competition in the electric power supply market, Nord Pool. READ MORE

  4. 2. Constructing Invisible Hands : Market Technocrats in Sweden 1880–2000

    Author : Gabriel Söderberg; Maths Isacson; Lars Magnusson; Janken Myrdal; Deirdre McCloskey; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Markets; technocrats; central banks; agricultural science; Nobel prize; economics and society; asymmetric information; Social Democracy; neoliberalism; social engineering; market history; market engineering; market design; performativity; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Abstract : Dominant market theories analyze markets as ahistorical entities without the need for professional groups that manage crucial functions within them. This thesis, in contrast, approaches markets as historical systems that develop over time and that can be constituted in many different ways because of different historical trajectories. READ MORE

  5. 3. Valuation in Welfare Markets : The Rule Books, Whiteboards and Swivel Chairs of Care Choice Reform

    Author : Linus Johansson Krafve; Claes-Fredrik Helgesson; Teun Zuiderent-Jerak; Steve Woolgar; Tiago Moeira; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Welfare state; Market reform; Care choice reform; Market practice; Valuation practice; Science and technology studies; Economic sociology; Valuation studies; Välfärdsstaten; marknadsreform; vårdvalsreform; marknadspraktik; värderingspraktik; teknik- och vetenskapsstudier; ekonomisk sociologi; värderingsstudier;

    Abstract : This thesis takes an interest in how values attain a specific meaning in market reforms of welfare provision. The study builds on exploring how values are enacted rather than treating them as universal and stable. READ MORE

  6. 4. Labour Market Policies : Structure and Content, Space and Time

    Author : John Brauer; Anders Bruhn; Björn Johansson; Daniel Clegg; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labour market policies; activation; unemployment; multi-level governance; local governance; social work; institutional change; scale;

    Abstract : Labour market policies has two aims: cushioning the economic hardship caused by unemployment and increasing employment rates. In many welfare states, responsibilities for such policies are divided between different political-administrative levels. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Rule-Governed State : China's Labor Market Policy, 1978–1998

    Author : Mattias Burell; Christer Gunnarsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; China; economic reform; employment; governance; labor policy; law; legality; market transition; workers; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; statskunskap; statskunskap;

    Abstract : Max Weber (1864–1920) suggested that capitalism and free markets tend to produce a characteristic form of governance – the rational-legal bureaucracy. In view of China's transition from central planning to a market economy, we should ask ourselves how these changes have affected its governance. READ MORE