Sökning: "household heterogeneity"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade orden household heterogeneity.
1. Growth, Inflation, and Household Heterogeneity
Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation presents three self-contained essays in macroeconomics. Endogenous Technological Change Along the Demographic Transition analyzes how the demographic shift associated with rising old-age population shares affects output per capita. LÄS MER
2. Rental housing markets in Chinese megacities : Heterogeneity, Mobility, and Interconnectivity
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to develop an in-depth understanding of the rental housing market in Chinese megacities. To achieve this purpose, this thesis mainly focuses on three aspects: heterogeneity, mobility, and interconnectivity. LÄS MER
3. 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
4. Essays in Macroeconomics and Household Finance
Sammanfattning : Experience-based Learning, Stock Market Participation and Portfolio ChoiceRecent evidence suggests that lifetime experiences play an important role in determining households' investment choices. I incorporate these findings and the fact that household portfolios are underdiversified into an otherwise standard life-cycle model and examine to what extent they can help resolve long-standing puzzles in the literature regarding stock market participation and the fraction of financial wealth invested in risky assets. LÄS MER
5. Essays on heterogeneity and uncertainty in climate policy and development
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four papers focusing on the role of heterogeneity and uncertainty in the context of climate change policy and agricultural development. By using intra-household data, the first paper illustrates differences in spouses’ perception of climatic risks and its effect on household’s adoption of climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa. LÄS MER