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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 145 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Futures.
21. After Space Utopia : Post-Soviet Russia and Futures in Space
Sammanfattning : Since the early 2000s, new projects of space expansionism have emerged, including the commercial-, military-driven and scientific projects to colonize the Moon and Mars. The new space expansionism followed a period of comparatively lower attention to space in international politics, and it is sometimes called the New Space Race by analogy to the 20th century Space Race between the USSR and the US. LÄS MER
22. Sustainable Goals : Feasible Paths to Desirable Long-Term Futures
Sammanfattning : The general aim of this licentiate thesis is to analyze the framework in which long-term goals are set and subsequently achieved. It is often claimed that goals should be realistic, meaning that they should be adjusted to known abilities. LÄS MER
23. What is the Point of IT? : Backcasting urban transport and land-use futures
Sammanfattning : Sustainable development, future studies, informationtechnology, urban land-use and passenger transport. These arethe five concepts upon which this thesis and the eight papersit contains are based. LÄS MER
24. Essays on Market Design and Market Quality
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contains four studies on different market structures and their impact on market quality.Article I studies the effect of introducing stock index futures contracts on the underlying stocks. The results indicate a lower liquidity level in the underlying stocks. LÄS MER
25. Essays in mathematical finance : modeling the futures price
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four papers dealing with the futures price process. In the first paper, we propose a two-factor futures volatility model designed for the US natural gas market, but applicable to any futures market where volatility decreases with maturity and varies with the seasons. LÄS MER