Sökning: "currency crisis"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden currency crisis.
1. Insurance and cartels through wars and depressions : Swedish Marine insurance and reinsurance between the World Wars
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to enhance our understanding of Swedish marine insurers' choices of business strategies under the potentially difficult business circumstances of the interwar period 1918-1939. Little previous research exists on marine insurance during the interwar period. LÄS MER
2. Essays in international risk sharing : Currency strategies and credit cycles
Sammanfattning : In order to earn excess returns, investors must take on risk. For an international investor that risk can be characterized as either country-specific or global. While the former risks are contained within a given country, global risks are spread across economies and can potentially affect investors around the world. LÄS MER
3. Markov Regime Switching in Economic Time Series
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies statistical properties and applications of the Markov switching models for economic time series in five separate papers. The two main statistical themes are (i) the task of choosing the number of states to use in the model, and (ii) inference on time-varying transition probabilities. LÄS MER
4. Vad styr ledaren? : Om beslutsfattare och policyförändring i säkerhetspolitiska kriser
Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns the two-part question, “By what are leaders guided and by what means do leaders guide, when the direction of central decisions is to be determined?”. The dependent variable is the direction of the final, centrally-made decision which is related to the current policy. LÄS MER
5. Bruten brygga : Gunnar Myrdal och Sveriges ekonomiska efterkrigspolitik 1943-1947
Sammanfattning : The political project of Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden’s post-war planning is characterised and its application in different areas of economic policy in the first post-war years is analysed. His participation in the government, ending in 1947 at the time of a currency crisis, is generally regarded as a failure. LÄS MER