Sökning: "market failures"

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1. 1. The Visible Palm: Market Failures, Industrial Policy and the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry

   Författare :Fredrik Gustafsson; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic history; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ; Contemporary history since 1914 ; developmental state; dynamic efficiency; ; ; tariff protection; government intervention; palm oil; industrial policy; Malaysia; market failure; Ekonomisk och social historia; Economics of development; Utvecklingsekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : What role the state should and can play in bringing about economic development is one of the longest standing debates in the economic sciences. Yet, previous research has mostly focused on how a variety of industrial policies affect static efficiency. LÄS MER

3. 2. Green growth and rapid decarbonisation? : Assessing policy objectives, instrument choice and behavioural mechanisms

   Författare :Jonas Sonnenschein; Internationella miljöinstitutet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Climate change; Mitigation; Policy; Carbon pricing; Green growth; Market failures; Behavioural insights;

   Sammanfattning : After the 2008/2009 global financial crisis, significant policy and scientific attention has been given to ‘green growth’, which aims at the concurrent achievement of economic growth and GHG emissions reductions via de-coupling. Despite ambitious aims, there is a lack of empirical knowledge about the effects and the potential of green growth climate mitigation policies. LÄS MER

4. 3. Information, Markets and Conflict : Essays on Development and Political Economics

   Författare :David Yanagizawa Drott; Jakob Svensson; La Ferrara Eliana; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information; Mass Media; Propaganda; Market Information; Conflict; Genocide; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of four essays.The first essay, “The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War”, uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the strategic value of these countries. LÄS MER

5. 4. Essays on Determinants of Individual Performance and Labor Market Outcomes

   Författare :Olof Rosenqvist; Oskar Nordström Skans; Lena Hensvik; Ghazala Azmat; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Confidence; success; failure; performance; regression discontinuity design; golf; gender differences; glass ceiling; voting age; political knowledge; civic interest; dynamic effects; sickness absence; production disruption; coworker substitutes; hiring decisions; separations; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Essay 1 (with Oskar Nordström Skans): This paper provides field evidence on the causal impact of past successes on future performances. Since persistence in success or failure is likely to be linked through, potentially time-varying, ability it is intrinsically difficult to identify the causal effect of succeeding on the probability of performing well in the future. LÄS MER

7. 5. A Stochastic Control Approach to Include Transfer Limits in Power System Operation

   Författare :Magnus Perninge; Lennart Söder; Christopher DeMarco; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Frequency control; power regulating market; power system operation; power system security; stochastic impulse control; transfer capacity; transfer limit;

   Sammanfattning : The main function of the power grid is to transfer electric energy from generating facilities to consumers. To have a reliable and economical supply of electricity, large amounts of electric energy often have to be transferred over long distances. LÄS MER