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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 97 avhandlingar innehållade orden country size.

1. 21. En landsbygdens skolreform? : Den geografiska dimensionen i bygget av en enhetsskola

   Författare :Matts Dahlkwist; Guadelupe Francia; Esbjörn Larsson; Gunnar Berg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Geographic equalization; enhetsskola; centralization; local space; historical documentary analysis; micropolitics; conflict analysis; national uniformity.; Pedagogik; Education;

   Sammanfattning : A fundamental organizational idea in the construction of a nine-year coherent unit school in Sweden 1928–1972, with geographical equality as a subgoal, consisted of a national uniformity in terms and content, with centralization as an overall tool (strategy area 1). At the same time, this school would be designed after local needs and conditions (strategy area 2). LÄS MER

3. 22. Heterogeneity in oligopoly : theories and tests

   Författare :Rickard Sandin; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of five separate chapters, of which the three first three are empirical and the last two are theoretical. Chapter 1: Competition in Interrelated Markets: An Empirical Study. (Co-authored with Marcus Asplund.)This chapter studies competition in small, concentrated and interrelated markets. LÄS MER

4. 23. Essays in Institutional and Development Economics

   Författare :Heather Congdon Fors; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; institutions; property rights; resource rents; rent seeking; child labor;

   Sammanfattning : Paper 1: "Congo: The Prize of Predation" Abstract: The article analyzes the war against Mobutu (1996-97) and the more recent war (1998- ) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with particular attention to greed and grievance as motivating factors in these two wars. Whereas the authors' usage of the term "greed" simply reflects the desire to gain control of natural resource rents, they model "grievance" as deliberate institutional differences, implemented by the ruler, between the formal and informal sectors. LÄS MER

5. 24. Essays on Stock Market Integration - On Stock Market Efficiency, Price Jumps and Stock Market Correlations

   Författare :Yuna Liu; Tomas Sjögren; Jörgen Hellström; Mikael Bask; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Time-varying return predictability; Tests for jumps; International financial markets; Market structure; Common trading platform; Integration; Time-varying correlation; C-GARCH; Trust; Portfolio Diversification; Stock Market Participation; nationalekonomi; Economics;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained papers related to the change of market structure and the quality of equity market.In Paper [I] we found, by using of a Flexible Dynamic Component Correlations (FDCC) model, that the creation of a common cross-border stock trading platform has increased the long-run trends in conditional correlations between foreign and domestic stock market returns. LÄS MER

7. 25. Retail success : The impact of space and agglomeration

   Författare :Hanna Kantola; Johan Klaesson; Jönköping University; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : This licentiate thesis provides an economic analysis of the retail sector, focusing on the factors influencing sales and thus the retail performance of regions and shopping centers. The two essays presented in this thesis can be read independently of each other, but both rest on the theoretical framework of agglomeration economies in addition to consumer demand and supply theory. LÄS MER