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6. Financial Applications of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four empirical studies on financial economics. The first chapter contains a short summary of the thesis. LÄS MER
7. Empirical Essays in Labor and Development Economics
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained empirical essays in labor and development economics.Diverse Expertise, Peer Effects, and Research Productivity: Does diversity in idea space matter? We empirically explore whether the cognitive distance between collaborators affects peer effects and productivity in creating knowledge. LÄS MER
8. An Institutional Analysis of Insurance Regulation - The Case of Sweden
Sammanfattning : The thesis is a broad attempt to analyse economic forces behind, and economic rationales for, institutions that constrain the organisation and operation of insurance companies. The basic task is threefold: (i) to develop institutional theory by providing an outline of a transaction cost explanation of the origin of, and the rationale for, institutions that constrain the organisation and the operation of insurance organisations; (ii) to apply our institutional theory and explain recorded institutional structures in order to make them intelligible with respect to the contractual context in which they have been nested; and (iii) to appraise the explanatory power of our institutional theory with respect to conventional economic theories on the economics of public regulation. LÄS MER
9. Roadmap for teleoperation and automation of forwarding
Sammanfattning : Annually, about two billion m3 of industrial roundwood is harvested worldwide. For a mature forest industry like the Swedish, the next technological development leaps regarding harvest operations are likely to involve increased level of tele-operation and automation. LÄS MER
10. Portfolio Selection and the Analysis of Risk and Time Diversification
Sammanfattning : This thesis is devoted to the analysis of three important issues in financial economics in general and portfolio selection in particular: the risk measure, estimation risk and time diversification. Besides a short introductory chapter the thesis consists of four empirical essays. LÄS MER