Sökning: "Alternative credit"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden Alternative credit.
1. Essays on Household Finance
Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of three self-contained essays on household finance. “Pawn Credit and the Importance of Financial Exclusion” explores the importance of access to regular credit to the demand for pawn credit. LÄS MER
2. Essays on Financial Risks and Derivatives with Applications to Electricity Markets and Credit Markets
Sammanfattning : Contracts traded on international financial and commodity markets are associated with complex risk structures. In this dissertation we are concerned with two specific types of risks; market risks and credit risks. The first chapter investigates market risks in the context of the Nordic electricity market. LÄS MER
3. Alternative agriculture and rural development: A case study of sugar beet cultivation in Kenya
Sammanfattning : Land use change has been observed to cause profound impacts on sustainability, particularly when the change is not well planned and co-coordinated. In Kenya the government is promoting diversification of crops to embrace high value crops and drought resistant crop varieties in efforts to reduce poverty in rural areas. LÄS MER
4. Empirical studies in money, credit and banking : the Swedish credit market in transition under the silver and gold standards 1834-1913
Sammanfattning : The empirical results reached in this thesis contradict the traditional theoretical view of money as being exogenously introduced into an economy as a medium of exchange intended to reduce the transactions costs associated with barter. Instead money was endogenously created in the form of credit. LÄS MER
5. Expectations, Financial Markets and Monetary Policy
Sammanfattning : Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Regulations. We investigate the desirability of macroprudential regulations in a DSGE model with collateral and income borrowing constraints. LÄS MER