Search for dissertations about: "price fluctuations"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the words price fluctuations.
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1. Apartment price determinants : A comparison between Sweden and Germany
Abstract : Similar development of economic fundamentals in Germany over the last two decades did not lead to the same dramatic house price increases as it is in Sweden. What can explain this house price stability over a long period? This thesis attempts to find the answer this question. READ MORE
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2. Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Microeconomic Adjustments : Wages, Capital, and Labor market Policy
Abstract : Essay 1 (with Henrik Jordahl) investigates how the degree of central bank conservatism affects the government's incentives to reform the labor market. An increase in conservatism triggers two opposite effects. It reduces the inflation bias of discretionary monetary policy and hence the benefits of a reform. READ MORE
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3. An agent-based approach to supply side modeling of agricultural and power systems
Abstract : This thesis deals with the modeling of economic systems in the context of agricultural and power systems, and some aspects of the difference between the standard economics equilibrium approach and the agent-based approach. We model the supply side, where agents make decisions on what to produce or in what to invest. READ MORE
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4. Insurance and cartels through wars and depressions : Swedish Marine insurance and reinsurance between the World Wars
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to enhance our understanding of Swedish marine insurers' choices of business strategies under the potentially difficult business circumstances of the interwar period 1918-1939. Little previous research exists on marine insurance during the interwar period. READ MORE
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5. Price responses to changes in costs and demand
Abstract : A large theoretical and empirical literature has studied the response in prices to changes in demands and costs. Three of the essays in this thesis are empirical studies of price-setting. The most important reason for studying the properties of price adjustments is the possible link between pricing and the business cycle. READ MORE