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Blackouts in Nepal & Dynamic pricing
(Master thesis, 2017)This paper mainly analyzes the power shortage in Nepal by using the system dynamics (SD) tools. From the last ten years, Nepal has been facing the challenge of load shedding and it is increasing year by year because the ... -
Building Organizational Resilience Through Strategy, Risk and Business Continuity Planning: A System Dynamics Approach
(Master thesis, 2021-06-04)The world has experienced and witnessed many disasters both natural and man-made in history. Such type of events have happened before and will certainly occur in the future. The implications of these events go beyond the ... -
Business Strategy Deltares' Delft3D. How to adjust business strategy of the company according to the changes in the organizational policies
(Master thesis, 2014-07-02)A research institute in the field of coastal life and infrastructure has changed its strategy from licensing to the open-source code for the Delft3D modelling software - the company decided to use dare to share" concept. ... -
Carbon capture utilization and storage market dynamics: Matching CO2 supply and demand for enhanced oil recovery
(Master thesis, 2014-08-15)This thesis describes the project, which is a part of a wider collaboration between the University of Bergen, Norway and the University of North Dakota (UND) and the Institute for Energy Studies (IES), US established in ... -
Commuting, a choice or a necessity? A system dynamic simulation model for intra urban migration
(Master thesis, 2013-05-30)The number of commuters is one of the main determinants of traffic and pollution problems. In a growing city like Bergen, the number of commuters has been increasing dramatically. A simulation model has been built to explain ... -
A comparative, simulation supported study on the diffusion of battery electric vehicles in Norway and Sweden
(Master thesis, 2017-08-29)We are living at a point in history where global cost dynamics and specific political choices may lead to an integral transformation of the mobility system as we know it. After a century where the internal combustion engine ... -
Corruption - Can Brazil win this war?
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)Corruption in Brazil is endemic and has increased since the end of the military transition regime in 1985, a year marked by an indirect presidential election, which was followed by the 1988 Constitutional Reform. The present ... -
COVID’s Dynamic Impact on Consumer Behavior in the US: A System Dynamics Approach to Understanding People’s Perception, Cognition, and Reaction to COVID-19
(Master thesis, 2021-06-04)COVID-19 has instigated sweeping and universal changes in how people carry on their day to day lives as they are forced to adjust to a constantly evolving pandemic. This research project investigates how general behavior ... -
Developing an ASD Macroeconomic Model of the Stock Approach - With Emphasis on Bank Lending and Interest Rates -
(Master thesis, 2017-08-23)The financial crisis in 2008 evidenced an over-simplification of the role of banks made in the majority of macroeconomic models. Based on Accounting System Dynamics (ASD) modeling approach, the current research presents a ... -
Development of a system dynamics framework for analysing regional economies: The Sunshine coast case
(Master thesis, 2014-07-03)Policy Makers and stakeholders of the Sunshine Coast are aware of the significance of the current juncture, in which the performance of the economy has been deteriorating over the last years. Consequently, the status quo ... -
Development of Smoking Behavior in Adolescence: the Case of North Dakota
(Master thesis, 2015-07-16)This thesis describes a modeling project, performed by Oleksandr Ivanov, a student enrolled in European Master Program in System Dynamics, in cooperation with assistant professor Arielle Selya (University of North Dakota) ... -
Disease eradication and the challenges of global resource mobilization. An experimental approach to understand the perception of the benefits of polio eradication
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)The global effort to eradicate polio began in 1988. The target of the effort was to eradicate the disease by the year 2000, a target which was not attained. The annual number of polio cases has been reduced from 350,000 ... -
Does Stock and Flow diagrams lead to a better management of credit card ? The case of exponential growth bias. An experimental study
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)Abstract Exponential growth bias is the tendency to linearize exponential functions. It means that people underestimate the future value of a growing debt in case of borrowing and future value of a growing investment in ... -
Dynamic Analysis of Policy Options for Decarbonisation of Road Passenger Transportation in the United Kingdom
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The Dynamic Ecological footprint. Endogenizing the Ecological Footprint of Forestry in the Threshold21 Model of Senegal
(Master thesis, 2012-07-11)Many countries in the world are in ecological overshoot. That is the message that the Ecological Footprint calculated by the Global Footprint Network sends us. Since many developing countries may not be in overshoot yet, ... -
Dynamics and cost of insurgency: the Maoist insurgency in Nepal
(Master thesis, 2014-10-01)Nepal faced a ten year long Maoist insurgency problem when the Communist Party of Nepal, CPN (Maoist) declared war in 1996 by rejecting the fundamental premises of Nepal's constitutional monarchy and parliamentary system ... -
The dynamics of female labour force participation: How family policy influences women's work behaviour
(Master thesis, 2017-08-23)Female labour force participation (FLFP) in the UK has stagnated in recent decades in spite of policies that have tried to increase the number of women in the labour force. This thesis uses system dynamics to investigate ...