Sökning: "World War II economics"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden World War II economics.
1. Radical Right, Identity, and Retaliation
Sammanfattning : Economic Distress and Support for Far-right Parties – Evidence from Sweden. This paper studies the effects of economic distress on support for far-right parties. LÄS MER
2. Insurance and cartels through wars and depressions : Swedish Marine insurance and reinsurance between the World Wars
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
3. Land, Power and Technology : Essays on Political Economy and Historical Development
Sammanfattning : Land Ownership and Development: Evidence from Postwar JapanThis paper analyzes the effect of land ownership on technology adoption and structural transformation. A large-scale land reform in postwar Japan enforced a large number of tenant farmers who were cultivating land to become owners of this land. LÄS MER
4. Essays in historical finance
Sammanfattning : This dissertation concentrates on the interplay between politics and financial markets using various empirical tools applied on historical financial statistics. The first essay examines the effect of stock transaction taxation on trading activity and asset prices, specifically focusing on the case of early 20th century Sweden. LÄS MER
5. Markets, Interventions and Externalities : Four Essays in Applied Economics
Sammanfattning : This Ph.D. thesis contains four independent essays summarized as follows. Effects of Competition between Healthcare Providers on Prescription of AntibioticsThe introduction of antibiotics as a medical treatment after World War II helped to dramatically increase life expectancy in the industrialized world. LÄS MER