Essays about: "Analysis of a change agent"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 62 essays containing the words Analysis of a change agent.

1. 26. Female Labor Supply and Earnings Inequality Under Skill-Biased Technological Change

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Jörn Onken; [2019]
   Keywords : Female Labor Supply; Skill-Biased Technological Change; Earnings Inequality; Family Economics; Aggregate Productivity;

   Abstract : The gender education gap has reversed, women today account for the majority of college graduates. At the same time, skill-biased technological change strongly rewards highly-educated workers through the increased skill premium. In this thesis, I analyze the implications of combining these two facts through a heterogeneous agent model using U.S. READ MORE

3. 27. AlphaZero to Alpha Hero : A pre-study on Additional Tree Sampling within Self-Play Reinforcement Learning

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Fredrik Carlsson; Joey Öhman; [2019]
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   Abstract : In self-play reinforcement learning an agent plays games against itself and with the help of hindsight and retrospection improves its policy over time. Using this premise, AlphaZero famously managed to become the strongest known Go, Shogi, and Chess entity by training a deep neural network from data collected solely from self-play. READ MORE

4. 28. Den frivilliga revisionen : en kvantitativ studie av effekten på lönsamhet och tillväxt hos små aktiebolag

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Rebecca Jerresand; Frida Karlsson; Therese Murén; [2019]
   Keywords : lönsamhet; tillväxt; revision; revisionsplikt; frivillig revision; små aktiebolag; principal-agentteorin; intressentterion; resursberoendeteorin;

   Abstract : Revision innebär att en oberoende part, revisorn, granskar företags årsredovisningar i syfte att försäkra externa aktörer om rapporternas riktighet samt att bidra med rådgivning till företaget som revideras. Revisionsplikten som har funnits sedan 1980-talet avskaffades för de små aktiebolagen 2010 med anledning av de höga kostnader detta innebar för dessa aktiebolag. READ MORE

5. 29. “I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole” The story of the war against climate change and how regulated capitalism can make the WTO a force of good

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Tina Markkula; [2019]
   Keywords : WTO; Paris Agreement; Keynes; Climate Change; Sustainability Science; Trade Policy; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Climate change is one of the most pressing issues researched in Sustainability Science. Even though risks and consequences have been shown, actions to reduce emissions have been unsuccessful. UNFCCC is the global center for climate change policy and the host of the greatest concerted will to fight climate change, the Paris Agreement. READ MORE

6. 30. Influence from long-distance transport, local sources and precipitation on black carbon concentrations at a rural background field station in southern Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kärnfysik; Lunds universitet/Fysiska institutionen

   Author : Kit Ming Yam; [2019]
   Keywords : Black carbon; black carbon concentrations; Hyltemossa station; Aethalometer; HYSPLIT; long-distance transport; local sources; precipitation; Physics and Astronomy; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : The year 2018 was the first complete year with aerosol observations at the rural background station Hyltemossa in southern Sweden. The aim of this thesis was to analyse and investigate the influence from long-distance transport (LDT) aerosols, local sources and precipitation on the black carbon (BC) mass concentration by utilising the Aethalometer and the HYSPLIT model, which estimated the BC mass concentration ([BC]) and simulated the origin of the LDT air masses to Hyltemossa, respectively. READ MORE