Search for dissertations about: "the rules of the game"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 46 swedish dissertations containing the words the rules of the game.

  2. 1. F. A. Hayek's Critique of Legislation

    Author : Cyril Holm; Torben Spaak; Pauline Westerman; Wennström Bo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Hayek; legislation; rules; law; rationality; rational action; rational social order; equilibrium; utilitarianism; method of deliberation; criterion of correctness; Elinor Ostrom; Avner Greif; Vernon Smith; Joshua Epstein; complexity; knowledge; social cooperation; information; know-how; the Hayek problem; the invisible hand; Adam Smith; Mises; Keynes; Marx; welfare state; Gilbert Ryle; Michael Polanyi; theory of legislation; legisprudence; jurisprudence; Neo-Kantianism; historicism; cognitive closure; theory of prices; competition; syntax grammar; game theory; generative social science; agent-based computational modeling; institutional policy analysis; normative; primacy of economics; primacy of politics; Sheri Berman; constructivist rationalism; socialism; social democracy; Nozick; Rawls; distribution; justice; freedom; Kant; polycentric government; process of experimentation; speculative philosophy; analytical philosophy; freedom under the law; liberty; philosophy of mind; consequentialist; Jurisprudence; Allmän rättslära;

    Abstract : The dissertation concerns F. A. Hayek’s (1899–1992) critique of legislation. The purpose of the investigation is to clarify and assess that critique. READ MORE

  4. 2. Changing the Rules of the Game : A Market Microstructure Perspective on the Effects of Regulating Financial Markets

    Author : Ester Félez Viñas; Björn Hagströmer; Caihong Xu; Mathijs van Dijk; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Market fragmentation; liquidity; resiliency; short selling ban; commonality in liquidity; financial contagion; call auction; market integrity; auction attractiveness; price efficiency; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : This dissertation contains four articles that examine the effects brought about by the implementation of new regulations and changes in the trading landscape on different facets of market quality and integrity.Article I studies how the fragmentation of equity markets affects the speed of recovery of the market, both under normal market conditions and in times of stress. READ MORE

  5. 3. Controlling the Swedish state : Studies on formal and informal bodies of control

    Author : Isabel Schoultz; Tove Pettersson; Åström Karsten; Penny Green; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Parliamentary Ombudsman; Chancellor of Justice; United Nations; European Court of Human Rights; NGOs; control of the state; accountability; state crime; Sweden; techniques of neutralizations; problem representations; immigration; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : The dissertation aims to develop an understanding of the outcomes and limitations of formal and informal control of the Swedish state, and of the positions and strategies of the social agents involved in this field. The dissertation contributes with new perspectives on controls directed at the state, comparing various control organs (the Parliamentary Ombudsman, the Chancellor of Justice, the United Nations, the European Court of Human Rights and NGOs) and focusing on a wide range of wrongs and harms by the Swedish state. READ MORE

  6. 4. Sequences and games generalizing the combinatorial game of Wythoff Nim

    Author : Urban Larsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Blocking manoeuvre; Beatty sequence; Combinatorial game; Complementary sequences; Impartial game; Interspersion array; Muller twist; Nim; Permutation of the natural numbers; Stolarsky array; Wythoff Nim; Beatty sequence;

    Abstract : One single Queen is placed on an arbitrary starting position of a (large) Chess board. Two players alternate in moving the Queen as in a game of Chess but with the restriction that the $L^1$ distance to the lower left corner, position $(0,0)$, must decrease. The player who moves there wins. Let $\phi =\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2}$, the golden ratio. READ MORE

  7. 5. Do Non Player Characters dream of electric sheep? : A thesis about Players, NPCs, Immersion and Believability

    Author : Magnus Johansson; Henricus Verhagen; Robert Ramberg; Ernest Adams; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social norms; MMOGs; MORPGs; FPS; Clans; Guilds; Rules; NPCs; Games AI; Game Design; Game evaluation tools; Immersion; Believability; Computer and Systems Sciences; data- och systemvetenskap;

    Abstract : This is a thesis that deals with the norms and rules of players playing online games together. It is also a thesis about believability, the current capabilities of non-player characters (NPCs) and the attitudes amongst game developers towards dynamic and systemic games AI. READ MORE