Essays about: "economist"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 39 essays containing the word economist.

  1. 6. BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY: A TRUST OR CONTROL MACHINE? Theory and Experimental Evidence

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Đorđe Milosav; [2019-06-25]
    Keywords : Blockchain technology; Trust; Reciprocity; Control; Experiments;

    Abstract : After the introduction of Bitcoin in 2008, there has been a proliferation of interest in digital technology called Blockchain. It has been argued that Blockchain can sustain any transaction of value, be it monetary or information, in a manner that is secure and completely independent of interpersonal trust. READ MORE

  3. 7. CAPABILITIES INSIDE FOUR WALLS : A qualitative field study on the capabilities and freedoms for women in a developing context challenging the approach of Amartya Sen

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Olivia Jakobsson; Talvin Kaur Logani; [2019]
    Keywords : Amartya Sen; Martha Nussbaum; Feminism; Power; Capabilities; India; Women;

    Abstract : The ‘’capability approach’’, developed by the Indian economist Amartya Sen, has been widely used in the field of development and has contributed a perception of development that is different from the traditional understanding of it. Despite this, the theory has received a great amount of feminist critique and it has been concluded that the field lacks empirical data on how women in developing countries can be fully understood from the approach of Sen. READ MORE

  4. 8. Reference Dependent Preference towards Risk : Evidence from the U.S. Professional Golf Tour

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Ström Isak; [2019]
    Keywords : Behavioral Economics; Prospect Theory; Risk Preferences; Beteendeekonomi; Prospect Theory; Riskpreferenser;

    Abstract : The standing debate regarding how preferences should be defined is still evident in research today. Are they invariant to current endowment as a neoclassical practitioner would proclaim, or reference dependent as a behavioural economist would state? This theoretical discrepancy, regarding how preferences should be defined, when agents are experienced at what they do is found by List (2003) to be non-existing. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Price Dynamics of Regional Family Houses in Sweden : Ripple Effect or Not?

    University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

    Author : Alexander Dahlin; [2019]
    Keywords : VAR; Impulse response function; ripple effects; Variance decomposition; interregional; VAR; Impuls respons funktion; rippel effects; Varians dekomposition; interregional;

    Abstract : This paper builds on the study Prices on the Second-hand Market for Swedish Family Housesconducted by Lennart Berg, economist and associate professor emeritus from UppsalaUniversity in 2002. This study attempts to identify inter-and intraregional pricedependencies in Sweden for the second hand market for family houses. READ MORE

  6. 10. Breaking the 'glass ceiling' : A Critical Discourse Analysis of how powerful businesswomen are portrayed in The Economist online

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Julie Risbourg; [2018]
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