Sökning: "Aversion"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 113 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Aversion.

  1. 11. Das Human-Kapital : Emerging Patterns in the Class Structure

    Författare :Danial Ali Akbari; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Income inequality; Human capital accumulation; Progressive income taxation; Ambiguity aversion; Skill premium; Technology adoption; Labor immiseration; Job market polarization; Task-based framework; Fat tails;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained papers in theoretical and computational macroeconomics and growth theory with income inequality and human capital accumulation as common themes. The first paper investigates what level of income tax progressivity is welfare-optimal given modern patterns of income inequality in the US. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Emotions in Game Theory: Fear, friendliness and hostility

    Författare :Lina Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; emotions; fear; risk aversion; psychological game theory; cooperation; repeated prisoners dilemma; stochastic games; experience goods; asymmetric information; information sharing; product quality; pricing; online reviews;

    Sammanfattning : How do emotions affect our interactions with each other? And how do our interactions with each other affect our emotions? As an adult, one makes thousands of decisions each day, decisions often influenced by our emotional state of mind. We are not oblivious to the relationship between emotions and behavior, but can, to some extent, predict how own and others' emotional states affect actions and how our actions may affect others' emotions. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Efficiency, Risk and Regulation Compliance: Applications to Lake Victoria fisheries

    Författare :Razack B. Lokina; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Incentives; Lake Victoria; remuneration; skipper skill; stochastic frontier; technical efficiency; Risk aversion; artisanal fishers; Tanzania; Nile perch; Dagaa; compliance; legitimacy; normative; deterrence.;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with artisanal fishers in Lake Victoria fisheries. The thesis consists of an introductory chapter and three self-contained papers, which make up the rest of the thesis chapters. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Risk and Rationality : Effects of contextual risk and cognitive dissonance on (sexual) incentives

    Författare :Andréa Mannberg; Karl-Gustaf Löfgren; Magnus Johannesson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HIV AIDS; Health risk; Uncertainty; Risk aversion; Self-Control; Time-inconsistency; Cognitive dissonance; Regret; Norms; Social identity; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Paper [I] theoretically analyzes how the level and uncertainty of future prospects affect incentives to abstain from sexual risk taking in the presence of HIV. The results suggest that, for individuals with limited access to HIV treatment, uncertainty of future health may be an important factor driving unsafe sex practices and support the empirical finding of a weak link between sexual behavior, HIV prevalence, and HIV knowledge in poor countries; therefore suggesting that AIDS policy needs to be calibrated in order to fit within different social contexts. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Cost-Benefit Analysis of climate policy and long term public investments

    Författare :Disa Thureson; Lars Hultkrantz; Jan-Eric Nilsson; Robert Lundmark; Disa Asplund; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Cost of Carbon; Greenhous Gases; Distributional weights; Discounting; Cost benefit analysis; Elasticity of Marginal Utility of Consumption; Risk aversion; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Qa Economics and finance;

    Sammanfattning : This compilation dissertation consists of four essays with the common theme of welfare analysis of long-term public investments. The first two essays focus on analysis of climate change mitigation, i.e., the social cost of carbon dioxide. LÄS MER