Search for dissertations about: "risk behavior"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 596 swedish dissertations containing the words risk behavior.

2. 21. Risk, Relative Standing and Property Rights: Rural Household Decision-Making in China

   Author : Ping Qin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Choice experiment; China; Field experiment; Forestry; Household decision-making; Inequality; Ignoring attributes; Investment; Relative standing; Risk; MWTP; Property rights.;

   Abstract : Paper 1 examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We used a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about their relative income and found that the respondents cared to a high degree. READ MORE

4. 22. Understanding the relationships between bank-customer relations, financial advisory services and saving behavior

   Author : Cecilia Hermansson; Kent Eriksson; Lars Engwall; KTH; []
   Keywords : Saving behavior; consumer finance; consumer financial decision making; financial services; relationship marketing; exchange forms; saving motives; risk attitudes; financial literacy; Företagsekonomi; Business Studies;

   Abstract : While the saving environment has become more complex in recent years, so has the demand for individual activity. Important impetuses include financial deregulation, globalization, technological change, and reformed pension systems. READ MORE

5. 23. Redundancy and Robustness Quantification of Bridge Systems based on Reliability and Risk Approaches

   Author : Silvia Sarmiento; Gabriel Sas; Jaime Gonzalez-Libreros; Robert Hällmark; Thomas Blanksvärd; Sebastian Thöns; John Leander; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Existing bridges; reliability; risk; metamodel; Finite Element Modeling; Model tests; Byggkonstruktion; Structural Engineering;

   Abstract : Over the last few decades, evaluating the performance of existing structures has become increasingly important, particularly as the number of bridges reaching their design life continues to rise. As a result, there is a growing need for effective and accurate procedures to guide the assessment of the current structures' capacity and safety levels to implement appropriate maintenance and rehabilitation strategies. READ MORE

6. 24. What do you expect? : individual investors' subjective expectations, information usage, and social interactions in financial decision-making

   Author : Oscar Stålnacke; Jörgen Hellström; Rickard Olsson; Anders Anderson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Behavioral finance; Beliefs; Confidence; Expectations; Financial information; Financial risk-taking; Household finance; Individual investors; Panel data; Portfolio choice; Portfolio return; Return; Risk; Social interaction; Sophistication; Stock market; Subjective probability; Survey research; företagsekonomi; Business Studies;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of an introductory part and four self-contained papers related to individual investors’ subjective expectations and their financial behavior. Paper [I] analyzes multiple measures of individual investors’ expectations of risk and return using survey data on a random sample of individual investors in Sweden. READ MORE

7. 25. Self-Control and Altruism

   Author : Conny Wollbrant; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Self-Control; Temptation; Game Theory; Experiment; Pro-Social Behavior; Conditional Cooperation; Altruism; Public Goods; Trust; Risk;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of two theoretical papers on self-control (Chapters 1-2) and four empirical papers (3-6) of which two (Chapter 5 and 6) explore determinants of pro-social behavior, while the other two (Chapters 3-4) examine the relationship between self-control and prosocial behavior. (1) “A Theory of Self-Control-Conflict: The Pyrrhic Motions of Reason and Passion. READ MORE