Essays about: "contingent claims"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 20 essays containing the words contingent claims.

  1. 6. Farmers' willingness to adopt silvopasture practices : investigating compensation claims using a contingent valuation approach among Swedish cattle producers

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Harold Opdenbosch; [2021]
    Keywords : Silvopasture practices; willingness to adopt; compensation claims; contingent valutation method; survey; theory of planned behaviour; Heckman two-step model; factor analysis; cattle production; Sweden;

    Abstract : To mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss from cattle production in Sweden, it is particularly crucial to incentivize cattle producers to adopt silvopasture practices. To investigate cattle producers’ willingness to adopt silvopasture practices and the related compensation claims, a contingent valuation survey was conducted among cattle producers in Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 7. Relevance Lost: Are Johnson & Kaplan’s claims valid outside the U.S.? - A systematic literature review of over three decades

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Jessica-Kim Schmid; Tanvi Chauhan; [2020]
    Keywords : Relevance Lost; Accounting; Debate; Validity; Review; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper aims to give evidence on the external validity of Johnson and Kaplan’s claims of management accounting having become subservient to financial accounting. A mixed pattern of confirmation of validity has been identified. Nearly half of the countries agreed with Johnson and Kaplan (1987), while the other half did not. READ MORE

  4. 8. To know the self as a matrix of maybe : An account of the specialness of self-knowledge

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Konstantin Andreev; [2020]
    Keywords : the self; self-knowledge; self-reflection; selfhood; choice; Sartre; Being and Nothingness; participant perspective; nonfactual prospection; matrix of maybe; alternative futures; L’être et le néant;

    Abstract : The essay is an attempt to make sense of the apparently special relation between self-knowledge and agency. To achieve that goal, the essay translates the account of what it is like to be a human self offered by Sartre into the language of evolutionary psychology. READ MORE

  5. 9. Lost at the intersections: a postcolonial approach to the Swedish Sex Purchase Act

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Daniela Basto da Silva; [2020]
    Keywords : Sweden Sex Purchase Act; prostitution; sex workers; postcolonialism; intersectionality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the Swedish Sex Purchase Act and their claims of help and support to prostitutes, as outlined by two propositions: Kvinnofrid (proposition 1997/98:55) and in the 10-year evaluation of the Act (SOU 2010:49). It investigates these claims through an ethnography of law method and data collected from fieldwork is interpreted and reflected through the conceptual framework of postcolonial feminist legal theory and intersectionality. READ MORE

  6. 10. Stress-testing of the Russian Banking Sector: Contingent Claims Analysis Approach

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Anna Kulakova; [2019]
    Keywords : credit risk; stress-testing; contingent claims analysis; Merton model; vector autoregression; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This study aims to perform stress-testing of the Russian banking sector with a focus on credit risk measures derived by using contingent claims analysis, an extension of Black-Scholes and Merton option pricing theory. Risk exposure indicators are linked to a number of macroeconomic variables that describe global and domestic economic and financial development. READ MORE