Sökning: "Externality"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 29 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Externality.
1. Electricity externality studies : do the numbers make sense?
Sammanfattning : During the 1980s and 1990s a number of studies have addressed the problem of valuing the externalities arising from electricity production. The main objective of these studies has been to guide decision-making with respect to future fuel choices. LÄS MER
2. Essays on Economics of Natural Resource Management and Experiments
Sammanfattning : This thesis has five self-contained essays. The titles and the abstracts of the various essays are as follows. Paper 1: Natural Resource use Conflict: Gold Mining in Tropical Rainforest in Ghana: Gold is frequently mined in rainforests that can provide either gold or forest benefits, but not both. LÄS MER
3. Natural Resource Use Conflict: Gold mining in tropical rainforest in Ghana
Sammanfattning : Extraction of gold in many tropical countries is done in rainforests that provide non-timber forest benefit flows. Our model is the first attempt at modelling this conflict in a developing country in the tropics where capital for mining is from foreign direct investment (FDI). LÄS MER
4. Weapons of Mass Destruction: Financial Crises from a Philosophical Perspective
Sammanfattning : Financial crises are severely destructive events. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 sent sovereign states into a spiral of political unrest and caused millions of people to lose their homes, their jobs, their life savings, their health, and in many cases even their lives. But financial crises are not unavoidable natural events. LÄS MER
5. Essays on Environmental Economics
Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of four self-contained essays.Essay IThis essay reports on an experimental study of how voluntary contributions in a public good game are affected by framing. In the public good context, average wealth improves from contributions. In the defensive contexts, the voluntary contributions prevent reductions in average wealth. LÄS MER