Sökning: "the dynamic of institutions"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 52 avhandlingar innehållade orden the dynamic of institutions.
1. Institutions, Political Cycles and Corruption : Essays on Dynamic Political Economy of Government
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three essays in Political Economy:“China’s Political Business Cycle” uncovers the fact that the timing of China’s business cycle correlates to the timing of the Communist Party’s Congress and constructs a theory to explain the mechanism of the political business cycle. An empirical test of the theory derives a result consistent with the predictions of the theory. LÄS MER
2. Who is in the driver's seat? : Insights into the mixed outcomes of renewable policy instruments in the electricity industry
Sammanfattning : There is consensus about a need to reduce the amount of green-house gas emission in the electricity industry to be able to deal with the probable consequences of climate change. This necessitates extensive investments in technologies used to generate electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E). LÄS MER
3. An Institutional Analysis of Insurance Regulation - The Case of Sweden
Sammanfattning : The thesis is a broad attempt to analyse economic forces behind, and economic rationales for, institutions that constrain the organisation and operation of insurance companies. The basic task is threefold: (i) to develop institutional theory by providing an outline of a transaction cost explanation of the origin of, and the rationale for, institutions that constrain the organisation and the operation of insurance organisations; (ii) to apply our institutional theory and explain recorded institutional structures in order to make them intelligible with respect to the contractual context in which they have been nested; and (iii) to appraise the explanatory power of our institutional theory with respect to conventional economic theories on the economics of public regulation. LÄS MER
4. Politics of Contemporary Education Policy : The case of programming in the Swedish curriculum
Sammanfattning : In recent years, computer programming has been introduced into school curricula in several national education systems across the world making it a key issue on the education policy agenda. In March 2017, the Swedish Government announced their decision to introduce programming as a mandatory teaching element as of the first grade of primary school. LÄS MER
5. Småstadens dynamik. Skänninges och Vadstenas befolkning och kontaktfält ca 1630-1660
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to modify the image of pre-industrial towns as towns of minor importance, i.e. passive and with low population and agrarian economical structure. The questions linked to the theoretical problem of this study are derived from these arguments. LÄS MER
