Sökning: "revenue"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 171 avhandlingar innehållade ordet revenue.
1. Revenue Maximization in Resource Allocation : Applications in Wireless Communication Networks
Sammanfattning : Revenue maximization for network operators is considered as a criterion for resource allocation in wireless cellular networks. A business model encompassing service level agreements between network operators and service providers is presented. LÄS MER
2. The Money of Monarchs : The Importance of Non-Tax Revenue for Autocratic Rule in Early Modern Sweden
Sammanfattning : According to a venerable argument about the formation of political regimes in historical Europe, taxation goes hand in hand with representation, as financial needs forced rulers to trade rights for revenue. In this dissertation I explore the reverse assumption, asking whether it is the case that non-taxation went hand in hand with non-representation? I argue that early modern rulers who had access to what I conceptualize as ‘proprietary revenue’—including profits from landownership, natural resource extraction, state-owned enterprise, and colonial plunder—could use such revenue to concentrate political authority in their own hands and rule as autocrats. LÄS MER
3. Essays on Debts and Constitutions
Sammanfattning : This thesis includes two essays on sovereign debt and one on subnational governments' debts within a federation. In the two first essays, simple constitutional rules - that define how economic interactions unfold - are found to influence the outcome in important ways. LÄS MER
4. Towards a Business Model for Viable City Logistics Initiatives : The role of financial continuity, externalities and stakeholders
Sammanfattning : Viable city logistics are built on a sound business model that considers the financial viability and performance, and the role of externalities and stakeholders. To this end, the purpose of this dissertation is to increase understanding of how a business model can contribute to achieving viable city logistics initiatives. LÄS MER
5. Essays on environmental and development economics : Public policy, resource prices and global warming
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained papers, which are all related to important environmental and natural resource issues from a developing country perspective.Paper [I] concerns climate policy and addresses the potential welfare gains of introducing a technology transfer from the North (richer countries) to the South (poorer countries). LÄS MER
