Essays about: "government policies for business"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 106 essays containing the words government policies for business.

  1. 21. Happiness is the same price as red bottoms? Welfare Cost of Business Cycle with Consumption Disasters

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Zhiheng Xu; [2020]
    Keywords : welfare cost; business cycles; heterogeneous agents; Sweden; income disparity;

    Abstract : This paper constructs a model, calibrated towards the Swedish economy, with heterogeneous agents in the economy who make decisions to maximize their expected utilities, subjected both to aggregate risks and idiosyncratic risks. In setting up the model, I try to match the unit-root nature of total factor of productivity and the unit-root component in the aggregate consumption time series, with rare consumption disasters incorporated. READ MORE

  2. 22. Organizational Learning for the Development of Sustainability Culture in Life Science Organizations in Oresund Region

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Amankwa Baptiste; Krishma Eloise Jean-Baptiste; Sevgi İlgezdi; [2019]
    Keywords : organizational learning; organizational culture; sustainability culture; learning organization;

    Abstract : This research sought to understand the role of organizational learning and the experience of the use of organizational learning for the development of sustainability culture in life science companies. Therefore, the study utilized a phenomenological qualitative approach to find out the perspectives of life science companies and life science non-governmental organizations (NGOs) about the subject matter. READ MORE

  3. 23. Policy responses to capital inflows: in emerging Asia and Europe markets

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Shixuan Li; [2019]
    Keywords : Capital inflow; Emerging markets; Surge episodes; Policy responses;

    Abstract : This thesis identified large net private capital inflows to emerging markets over last three decades and studied four policy responses towards these inflows, the policies are exchange rate policy, sterilization policy, fiscal policy and capital controls on inflows and outflows. Regions show different pattern in policy evolvement over time, emerging Asia keeps high intervention in exchange rate and high control over capital throughout time, emerging Europe originally had high foreign exchange market intervention and capital control but loosened them over the early 2000s, Nordic countries as sample for small and open advanced economy, remained their autonomy in exchange intervention, and have the lowest growth in government spending and lowest capital control. READ MORE

  4. 24. The Technical Innovation System of Self-Driving Vehicles in Road Freight Transport : Towards an understanding of Actor Dynamics, Sustainability Outcomes & New Competencies

    University essay from KTH/Lärande

    Author : Anna Björkman; Yuri Joelsson; [2019]
    Keywords : SDV; Node-to-node; Freight transport; TIS; Sustainability; Knowledge; Competencies; Självkörande lastbilar; Nod-till-nod; Godstransport; TIS; Hållbarhet; Kunskap; Kompetens;

    Abstract : Over the last decade, advancements in connectivity, driving automation technology and electrification in combination with changing customer demands have started to rapidly transform the way in which goods are being transported. Following this fast rate of development, self-driving vehicles (SDVs) in road freight transport are anticipated to operate on public streets within the next couple of decades. READ MORE

  5. 25. Public-Private Sector Wage Gap in Ghana: Single Spine Pay Policy to the Rescue?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Albert Duodu; [2019]
    Keywords : Wage Policy; Wage-Gap; Quantile treatment effect; Difference-in-Difference; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper exploits the adoption of Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP) as a natural experiment to investigate the potency of wage policies in addressing the pay differentials between the public and private sector in Africa. The Government of Ghana in 2010, implemented the SSPP to tackle the long-standing wage gap between the public and private sector and consequently improve productivity in the public sector. READ MORE