Essays about: "relative preferences"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 54 essays containing the words relative preferences.

  1. 6. Employee representation on the board of directors and its implications on corporate risk- A quantitative study on diverging stakeholder preferences

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Filip Engelholm; Lukas Nyström; [2022-06-30]
    Keywords : Board level employee representation; Codetermination; Risk preferences; Stakeholder incentives; Agency conflict; Corporate governance;

    Abstract : This study investigates how board-level employee representation (BLER) impacts the risk profile of a firm. More specifically, it investigates whether the binary presence of employees in the board room, or the relative ratio of votes allocated to employees, leads to reduced total, idiosyncratic, or systematic risk. READ MORE

  3. 7. An online study of L2 relative clause processing: Evidence from self-paced reading in Persian learners of English

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Abdolnoor Khaleghi; [2022]
    Keywords : relative clause; online L2 processing; second language comprehension; attachment preference; self-paced reading; heuristic processing; good-enough approach; working memory span.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study examines relative clause (RC) processing in Persian learners of English and native speakers of English to explore whether or how different task demands, referential context information with three potential RC antecedents along with the variables noun type (definite, indefinite), RC length (short, long) and RC type (extraposed, non-extraposed) affect their processing, using both an online non-cumulative self-paced reading task and an offline questionnaire. In the self-paced reading task, the online processing of RC attachment resolution was examined when participants read temporarily ambiguous sentences with RCs preceded by one clause or two clauses containing three NPs followed by comprehension questions to explore L2 RC attachment preferences. READ MORE

  4. 8. CHOOSING POLICY OVER VALENCE - A conjoint experiment on vote choice

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Josefine Magnusson; [2021-02-12]
    Keywords : vote choice; trade-offs; valence politics; spatial politics; conjoint experiment;

    Abstract : In a representative democracy elections constitute the main channel for individuals to express their will. In each election voters are typically asked to make a single choice on the basis of multiple political preferences. The nature of this process entails that some voters need to choose between preferences. READ MORE

  5. 9. What do Swedish demonstratives encode? : A study of exophoric demonstrative preferences

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Balder Ask Zaar; [2021]
    Keywords : Swedish demonstratives; den här; den där; semantics of demonstratives; semantic analysis of demonstratives; David Wilkins demonstrative questionnaire; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Swedish exophoric demonstratives have often been seen as words that encode distance-based concepts. Based on the studies of demonstrative systems of several other languages the view of demonstratives as distance-oriented has recently been put into question. READ MORE

  6. 10. Housing and Populism

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Rebekka Andersson; Gabriel Nelsson Vedung; [2021]
    Keywords : housing market dynamics; populism; political geography;

    Abstract : In the last half-decade, populism has become a trademark of western politics. Much literature has been devoted to explaining the rise in populism and most researchers tend to focus on macroeconomic shifts and trends, often overlooking the impact of house price developments on populist appeal at the individual level. READ MORE