As energias renováveis tornaram-se uma fonte substancial de energia em quase toda a Europa devido ao ambiente limpo e livre de poluição em comparação com os combustíveis fósseis que são usados principalmente para a geração de energia. Por estas razões também em Portugal a atençã…
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A experiência turística é uma combinação complexa de fatores da qual resulta a formação de uma perceção holística e pessoal. A literatura descreve a experiência em sítios patrimoniais como um processo influenciado pela ação de elementos de natureza cognitiva e emocional do qual …
1.1 Overview Many traits of economic agents are well studied and understood by psychologists that are yet to be captured by economic theory. This thesis, in the field of behavioral economics, is yet another attempt at unifying the different approaches of the two well-established…
This dissertation examines the production and consumption of nature in middle-class American holidays. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it follows the creation of new symbols and practices associated with Easter, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.…
This study surveys a century of commercial opium production in Iran, from 1850 to 1955. From an insignificant contributor to the global opium market, Iran became within a few decades an important exporter, turning to the market between 5-10% of the entire global production of op…
Changing Chapultepec: Construction, Consumption, and Cultural Politics in a Mexico City Forest, 1934-1944 asks to whom does the forest belong? A study about how Chapultepec Forest in Mexico City became an emblematic space filled with didactic institutions, it argues that actors …
This dissertation argues that the French political doctrine of integrationism, which acted as a palliative to Algerian nationalist demands for independence in the final years of the colonial war, survived the fall of formal empire in 1962. Just as the policy of integration provi…
Models of economic sanction efficacy range from studies of GDP and price changes to qualitative examinations. The present model examines changes in macroeconomic welfare caused by economic sanctions. Intertemporal substitution and wealth effects change the welfare of the target …
This dissertation presents a new way to study financial crises. The traditional approach uses macroeconomic statistics. While useful, this has serious limitations. By contrast, this dissertation reveals the personal story behind the big picture for one such case using a unique, …
The dissertation explores the consumption practices of economic elites in Amman, Jordan, with elites defined as those individuals possessing both the means and the inclination to enjoy the luxuries of a consumer lifestyle. The reciprocal influences of the purchase and use of a w…
This thesis has two objectives. The first is to analyse the consumption, saving and borrowing behaviour of agricultural households. Specifically, by using the permanent income hypothesis (PIH) as a theoretical framework, and secondary data sources, this thesis argues that consum…
The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the past two decades has become increasingly more important in Malaysia's economy. FDI was a distinct characteristic in that it represents an equity investment that is directly related to the creation of real new capacity and the or…
This thesis estimates a dynamic model of the Nigerian current account over the period 1970–1999 using the permanent income hypothesis as a guiding principle. Our model augments the classical consumption smoothing model, which relates the current account to changes in net output …
This dissertation relaxes the traditional assumption used in consumer theory, which takes preferences as fixed. I propose a model of immigrants' consumption behavior based on habit formation, incorporating past experiences, other consumers' consumption patterns, availability of …
This Thesis applies one of the most popular household models to the allocation of resources within poor rural households. Based on Browning and Goertz (2007) seminal Collective Household Model, the first Chapter conducts a literature review and derives conditions for identifying…
Since its invention nearly 150 years ago, margarine has proven itself adaptable to multiple ingredients and techniques whilst continuing to mimic the fatty tastes familiar to eaters in Northern Europe. In this thesis I argue that it this malleability that makes margarine a usefu…
This thesis, set against the background of accounts of globalisation, aims to figure out the consumer orientation of the middle class in contemporary China, in particular how the new elements in consumer orientation operate in the Chinese context. It focuses on the contemporary …
With a few notable exceptions, British painters from the late Victorian and Edwardian periods have suffered from the modernist bias which deemed them 'insular' and unworthy of study. Recent developments in art history have generally revised such scathing opinion and have sought …