Sökning: "Ali M. Ahmed"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Ali M. Ahmed.

  1. 1. Essays on the Behavioral Economics of Discrimination

    Författare :Ali M. Ahmed; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  3. 2. Empirical Studies on Economic and Financial Spillovers : Asymmetric Risk and Dependence Modeling

    Författare :Axel Hedström; Gazi Salah Uddin; Ali M. Ahmed; Ugur Soytas; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Spillovers; systemic risk; risk modeling; risk dependence; asymmetric risk; energy finance; Spillovers; systemisk risk; riskmodellering; risk påverkan; asymmetrisk risk; energifinans;

    Sammanfattning : Financial assets are volatile, and volatility becomes more intense in terms of size and rate of recurrence when markets are uncertain and growing rapidly. The fact that the recurrence rate increased during crisis periods, such as the IT bubble in the early 2000 and the global financial crisis that started in 2007, is a key finding in the literature. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Financial literacy, motivated reasoning, and gender : essays in behavioral economics

    Författare :Thérèse Lind; Ali M. Ahmed; Gustav Tinghög; Daniel Västfjäll; Morten Lau; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Financial Literacy; Financial Behavior; Financial Well-being; Motivated Reasoning; Gender Differences; Behavioral Economics; Experiments;

    Sammanfattning : I wrote this thesis to create a better understanding of how individual characteristics influence our feelings, our behavior and our way of interpreting information. My focus is on financial behavior and financial information, however I also consider a political context. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Organizing Language Interpreting Services in Elderly and Emergency Healthcare

    Författare :Christina Lundin; Katarina Hjelm; Emina Hadziabdic; Ali M. Ahmed; Maria Jirwe; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Communication; Emergency healthcare; Elderly healthcare; Interpreting practices; Organizing; Qualitative methods; Transcultural nursing.;

    Sammanfattning : With an increasing migrant population there is a growing need to organize interpreting practices in healthcare in order to deliver equitable high-quality care.This thesis focuses on healthcare institutions’ organization of interpreting services. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Short- and Long-Term Influences of Education, Health Indicators, and Crime on Labor Market Outcomes : Five Essays in Empirical Labor Economics

    Författare :Elisabeth Lång; Ali M. Ahmed; Judy Rich; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; health indicators; crime; labor market outcomes; family background; twins; field experiments;

    Sammanfattning : The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding of how several individual characteristics, namely education (years of schooling), health indicators (height, weight, smoking, alcohol consumption, and exercise), criminal behavior, and crime victimization, influence labor market outcomes in the short and long run. The first part of the thesis consists of three studies in which I adopt a within-twin-pair difference approach to analyze how education, health indicators, and earnings are associated with each other over the life cycle. LÄS MER