Essays about: "social utility"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 119 essays containing the words social utility.

  1. 1. Shifting focus from yields to food supply : an evaluation of the ‘number of people fed per hectare’ indicator at farm and national level

    University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

    Author : Ida Ekqvist; [2024]
    Keywords : Land use efficiency; Sustainability indicators; Agricultural productivity; Food production;

    Abstract : The challenge of feeding a growing global population while reducing the pressure on climate and ecosystems has gained much attention in research over the last decades. A crucial yet often overlooked aspect in research addressing this complex challenge is the efficiency of food production in meeting nutritional needs within the constraints of global cropland resources. READ MORE

  3. 2. Social media and reference points: How people are affected by watching high economic status

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Filhage Wahlström Elias; [2023-06-29]
    Keywords : Social media; Reference points; Desires consumption; Labor supply; Life satisfaction;

    Abstract : This paper presents an experimental survey study investigating the potential effects of social media usage on economic perceptions and life satisfaction by influencing reference points. The prediction is that watching people with high economic status on social media raises reference points, resulting in increased preferences for consumption and salary. READ MORE

  4. 3. Optimal taxation by two-agent reinforcement learning

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap

    Author : Erik Lindau; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : An economy’s tax policy is one of the vital moments for, on the one hand, stimulating economic growth and labor, and, on the other hand gaining revenues from economic performance. A sufficient level of tax revenues is further important to keep up with governmental obligations and social welfare. READ MORE

  5. 4. Constructing a Social Profitability Index: Socially Responsible Investing in Electric Utilities

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Odessa Bäckfors; Ebba Jernmark Burrows; [2023]
    Keywords : Socially responsible investing; Social Profitability Index; Sustainability ratings; Shareholder activism; Renewable electricity;

    Abstract : Building on a theory about the Social Profitability Index (SPI), this paper is the first to construct an SPI in practice ranking investment opportunities based on social and financial returns within the electric utility industry. The social return is the investor-preference weighted social gain from avoiding carbon emissions by changing to renewable production technology in a firm. READ MORE

  6. 5. Labor market reforms and optimal unemployment insurance : Policy experiment on the Swedish labor market

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Author : Sofia Björkman; [2023]
    Keywords : Unemployment; employment protection legislation; optimal unemployment insurance; welfare effect; Sweden.;

    Abstract : This paper examines how a reduction in EPL affects the utility of older workers, by changing the probability of re-employment as well as the risk of becoming unemployed. I generalize the Bailey-Chetty framework and make a one-period model that shows maximizing search behavior of the agent. READ MORE