Essays about: "Sector-level"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 21 essays containing the word Sector-level.

  1. 6. Connecting the dots - mapping the use of conservation records for quantification and research

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

    Author : Maria Norefors; [2020-08-05]
    Keywords : conservation records; information retrieval; data mining; epidemiology; quantification; conservation document;

    Abstract : This study addresses the potential use of information from conservation records for research and quantification purposes. The aim of this study is to map out the information types and documentation methods in Swedish museum databases. And to explain how the structure and the quality of data entry enable or obstruct scalability of information. READ MORE

  3. 7. Baumol’s Cost Disease in the Second Machine Age

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Erik Nelsson; [2019]
    Keywords : unbalanced growth computerization digitization employment; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Baumol argued that technologically stagnant sectors with relatively low productivity growth over time will experience relatively higher prices and increased shares of total labor, and thereby slow aggregate growth. This theory, known as ‘the cost disease’, also claims that services, predominantly found in the public sector, generally are stagnant due to their perceived dependence on human labor as an input. READ MORE

  4. 8. Private Company Adaptation to Climate Change

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Christina Bengtsen; Ásdís Ólafsdóttir; [2019]
    Keywords : Private company; Private sector; Adaptation; Climate Change; national adaptation plan; Denmark; Singapore; Annual Report; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Despite climate risks posing a serious threat to business and business continuity, empirical research has shown little active involvement of the private sector in climate change adaptation (CCA). National plans of governments, as well as global agreements and reports, highlight the need for collaborative climate action on a global scale, placing special emphasis on private sector involvement as critical to the adaptation progress. READ MORE

  5. 9. Household Hedging Motives and Financial Risk Taking: Evidence from Europe

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Azar Aliyev; [2019]
    Keywords : Household Finance; Risk-Taking; Hedging Motives; Human Capital; Real Estate;

    Abstract : Financial economists have suggested how hedging motives related to human capital and real estate should affect financial risk-taking of a utility maximizing household. Using rich cross-sectional data from the second wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey, I analyze how such motives relate to the propensity to participate in the markets for risky assets and the risky share - portion of financial portfolio allocated to the risky assets. READ MORE

  6. 10. Herd Behaviour Myopia: Problems with assessing market rationality on the US stock market based on conventional herding measures.

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Carl Lexner; Martin Svensson; [2018]
    Keywords : Herd Behaviour; Excessive homogenous dispersion; Excessive heterogeneous dispersion; Sector-level;

    Abstract : This paper aims to test the presence of herd behaviour in the seemingly rational US stock market by observing the behavioural tendencies at a sectoral-level. A model developed by Chang et al. (2000), where the measurement for herding is the dispersion between individual portfolio returns relative to the market return, is used. READ MORE