Essays about: "Rational actor model"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Rational actor model.

  1. 1. "We face neither East nor West; We face forward" : A study about policy implementation to receive Chinese Foreign Direct Investments in Ghana

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik

    Author : Ida Hansson; Emma Osbakk Malmström; [2019]
    Keywords : Foreign Direct Investment FDI ; Liberal International Political Economy IPE ; Rational Actor Model RAM ; Ghana; China;

    Abstract : This Bachelor thesis focuses on examining the Ghanaian state's policies regarding inward Foreign Direct Investments and furthermore the policy implementation to attract and receive FDI, the question asked is What policy choices have been implemented by Ghana to attract Chinese FDI? This thesis employs a single case study design with a qualitative approach as it seeks to draw upon Liberal IPE and RAM to understand the policy choices in attracting FDI, more specifically how Ghana has shaped their policies. When conducting the analysis, the thesis assembles documents, both primary and secondary data to be able to answer the research question. READ MORE

  2. 2. Emergent Routing Strategies in the Lightning Network

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : John-John Markstedt; [2019]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In payment channel networks, such as the Bitcoin native Lightning Network, the routing nodes receive a fee as compensation for displaced liquidity, time value of money and operational costs. Currently this fee is manually set procuring sub optimal profits to the node operator. READ MORE

  3. 3. Global Talent Flow as 'Musical Chairs' : Driving Forces of Young Talents:An Examination of Italy and Lithuania

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

    Author : Jonas Hoerstel; Patrick Jaeger; [2018]
    Keywords : Global Talent Flow; Migration; Mobile Workforce; Push-Pull-Mooring; ERASMUS Programme;

    Abstract : This Master thesis examines the impact of the individual driving forces of young highly educated talents from Italy and Lithuania to apply for a job abroad after the graduation. By investigating the motivations and influences during this decision-making process, we clarify the role of different impulses on the individual’s decision to become part of the phenomenon known as the global talent flow. READ MORE

  4. 4. The paradox of anarchy : Why anarchy is a rational choice

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Martin Lundqvist; [2017]
    Keywords : World government; anarchy; security dilemma; rational choice realism; delegation constraint;

    Abstract : A central paradox in neorealism is that the absence of world government is assumed to imply a dangerous security dilemma, and yet few realists have argued in favor of world government while great powers have historically resisted delegation of military force to supranational institutions. If international anarchy causes costly security competition and war, powerful states should have a strong incentive to unify and neorealist explanations for why states resist peaceful unification are either underdeveloped or implicit. READ MORE

  5. 5. Why the bear kicked the hornet’s nest : Causal processes of Russian foreign policy on Syria

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sebastian Avenäs; [2017]
    Keywords : Russia; Syria; military intervention; rational choice theory; rational actor model; bounded rationality; process-tracing; causal process;

    Abstract : This paper examines causal mechanisms of the process leading up to the Russian military intervention in Syria that began in September 2015. It aims to concretize the causal processes of three different hypotheses that are based on commonplace assumptions of Russian foreign policy on Syria. READ MORE