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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden Lars Ask.
1. Cost-effectiveness of the promotion of physical activity in health care
Sammanfattning : Introduction Physical inactivity is a major cause of reduced quality of life, as well as many common diseases and even premature death. Most people, globally, are scarcely or rarely physically active. Consequently, physical inactivity influences the burden of disease, and increases its societal costs. LÄS MER
2. Off-exchange Trading in Modern Equity Markets : A Market Microstructure Perspective on Systematic Internalizers
Sammanfattning : Off-exchange trading has become a feature of the equity markets. This dissertation contains three articles that examine how off-exchange trading through systematic internalizers (SIs) affects inter-market competition and various features of market quality.Article I studies SIs' characteristics and the impact of SI operations on price efficiency. LÄS MER
3. Essays on Derivatives and Liquidity
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contains four essays in which derivatives markets are studied in relation to three related topics in financial economics: asset pricing, market microstructure and risk management.Essay I studies the role of relative option liquidity in explaining the volatility smile. LÄS MER
4. Towards sustainable energy consumption : Electricity demand flexibility and household fuel choice
Sammanfattning : Paper [I] investigates household heterogeneity in valuing electricity contract attributes that include various load controls and information sharing to induce demand flexibility. Using a stated preference choice experiment conducted with Swedish households, this paper shows that, although a large proportion of households ask for substantial compensation, some households are willing to share their electricity consumption information and require relatively lower compensation to allow load controls. LÄS MER
5. Plan-Based Configuration of a Group of Robots
Sammanfattning : Imagine the following situation. You give your favorite robot, named Pippi, the task to fetch a parcel that just arrived at your front door. While pushing the parcel back to you, she must travel through a door opening. Unfortunately, the parcel she is pushing is blocking her camera, giving her a hard time to see the door to cross. LÄS MER