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  1. 31. Risk matters : studies in finance, trade and politics

    Författare :Jonas Vlachos; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained empirical essays. In the first essays "Markets for Risk and Openness to Trade: How are They Related?" (with Helena Svaleryd), we ask if there is an empirical relationship between financial development and openness to trade. LÄS MER

  3. 32. Essays on Smallholder Diversification, Industry Location, Debt Relief, and Disability and Utility

    Författare :Sven Tengstam; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Zambia; agriculture; income diversification; structural change; poverty; global clothing industry; new economic geography; comparative advantages; industrial agglomeration; HIPC; debt relief; debt overhang; investment; incentives; disability; mobility impairment; marginal utility; hypothetical lotteries; risk.;

    Sammanfattning : Essay 1 Smallholder Income Diversification in Zambia: The Way Out of Poverty? This paper investigates the relationship between income diversification (combinations of farm income, agricultural wage work, non-agricultural wage work, and own-business income) and income within Zambian smallholder households. Shifting to a higher degree of diversification is found to be associated with getting higher income per laborer. LÄS MER

  4. 33. From Personal to Impersonal Exchange in Ideas : Experimental Study of Trade in Organized Markets for Patents

    Författare :Eskil Ullberg; Björn Hårsman; Thomas W. Hazlett; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; experimental economics; patent markets; patents; mechanism design; linear contracts; institutional design; patent system design; economic system design; development policy; Business and economics; Ekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : The patent system has developed over a period of over 500 years. The initial motivation was a desire to import privately held technology to advance economic development, offering excluding and transferrable rights through licensing to “inventors” for the disclosure and perfection of their “contrivance” (invention). LÄS MER

  5. 34. Healthcare financing challenges and opportunities to achieving universal health coverage in the low- and middle-income country context

    Författare :Sayem Ahmed; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Background: In Bangladesh, on an average 62% of total healthcare spending was borne by households through out-of-pocket (OOP) payments annually during 2000- 2015. Because of such high OOP payments, a sizable proportion of households (15.7%) faced catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and a number of them fell into poverty in 2010. LÄS MER

  7. 35. De sjukskrivna i rehabiliteringsprocessen : hinder och möjligheter

    Författare :Ulla Gerner; Eva Jeppsson Grassman; Rafael Lindqvist; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Rehabilitation; motivation; return to work; long-term sick leave.;

    Sammanfattning : The background to the thesis is the high rate for sickness absence in Sweden since the end of the 1990s. In an international perspective, the Swedish sickness absence appears exceptionally high. LÄS MER