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Urbaniseringen av det regionala musiklivet
(2023-01)This report seeks to explore the geographical spread of music in Sweden during the last pre-pandemic year 2019. Statistics from the 1980s are also presented. It was found that in many regions there has been a reluctance ... -
Konsumtionsrapporten 2022
(2022)I Konsumtionsrapporten 2022 sammanfattas och analyseras konsumtionen i Sverige under 2021 och merparten av 2022. I den första delen, ”Hushållens konsumtion” ges en översikt över den privata konsumtionen i Sverige, hur ... -
From Global to Local: Trade Shocks and Regional Growth in Italy During the First Globalization
(DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, 2022-11)Globalization can create winners and losers at the spatial level within national economies. 1bis paper examines the economic impact of international trade on local economies in the case of late nineteenth-century Italy. ... -
Aid and child health: Local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-11)Abstract: Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, ... -
From sedentary behaviors to sedentary moments: what constitutes and shapes children's activities and performances at home
(2022-11-07)The study of children’s sedentary behavior has grown exponentially in the last few decades due to the associations between sedentary behavior and various negative health outcomes and to concerns about children’s increasing ... -
Why known unknowns may be better than knowns, and how that matters for the evolution of happiness
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)Rayo and Becker (2007) model happiness as an imperfect measurement tool: It provides a partial ordering of alternative courses of actions. In this note, decisionmakers use their inability to rank two actions, to infer ... -
Leading by example? EU citizens’ preferences for climate leadership
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)For global problems like climate change, strong international agreements are difficult to achieve. Alternative solutions might therefore be necessary. In this paper, we study the support for climate leadership in seven ... -
Isolating nature from nurture: Does exposure to business and economics education make students more selfinterested?
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)Does exposure to business and economics education make students more self-interested and less interested in a career that would contribute to a better society? Using a panel dataset of more than 900 individuals from a ... -
Det ekonomiska tänkandets historia
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Odla fisk rätt - en systemanalytisk undersökning av den rättsliga styrningen av svenskt vattenbruk
(2022-08-23)Undersökningen fokuserar på den rättsliga styrningen av den svenska vattenbruksnäringen – en näring som under lång tid har identifierats som en potentiellt central del i den svenska livsmedelsförsörjningen men som inte har ... -
Electoral Cycles, Conflict, Crime, and Pro-environmental Behavior
(2022-08-19)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters. The first two focus on violent conflicts: international collective action to mitigate them and their violent and international spill-over effects. The third chapter ... -
Sustainability preferences and financial decision-making among mutual fund investors
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)In our representative sample of Swedish mutual fund investors, those who are sustainability motivated perceive investment choices more difficult than other investors. Of those who are sustainability motivated, 38 percent ... -
The Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Swedish Shrimp Fishers
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)This paper explores the effect of the perceived risk of the Swedish people of Covid-19 on daily auctioned shrimp prices from the start of the pandemic to the end of the year 2021. This topic is of interest to see whether ... -
Sexual objectification of women in media and the gender wage gap: Does exposure to objectifying pictures lower the reservation wage?
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)Using an online experiment, we investigate the influence of sexual objectification in media on economic decision making. In the experiment, subjects are asked to evaluate advertisements in women’s magazines. In the treatment ... -
Saddlepoint approximations for credit portfolios with stochastic recoveries
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)We study saddlepoint approximations to the tail-distribution for different credit portfolio losses in continuous time intensity based models which stochastic recoveries, under conditional independent homogeneous settings. ... -
Autonomy and Beyond – Voluntariness in the Light of Lived Autonomy
(2021)In this article, we aim to introduce and discuss the use of an everyday life-based understanding of autonomy that recognises the fact that a person’s autonomy is constantly changing, rather than stuck in given categories. ... -
Spänning i offentlig upphandling - Om användande av ett strategiverktyg
(2022-05-17)Tension in Public Procurement - The usage of a strategy tool: Public procurement is about public purchases, but also about sale of goods and services to the public sector. In research, public procurement is usually ...
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