School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Soil Properties and Soil Conservation Investments in Agricultural Production - a Case study of Kenya’s Central Highlands
(2009-01-27)This paper integrates traditional economic variables, soil properties and variables on soil conservation technologies in order to estimate agricultural output among small-scale farmers in Kenya’s central highlands. The ... -
Human capital disclosures and management practices
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between annual report human capital disclosures and human capital management practices. Methodology - The paper used two sets of data. Disclosure ... -
The Impact of Competition and Uncertainty on the Adoption of Target Costing
(Elsevier, 2008)In recent years factors which may influence firms´ decisions to adopt target costing have been presented in the literature. These studies generally argue that target costing adoption rates positively correlate with the ... -
Anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity: Evidence from voluntary contributions to a national park in Costa Rica
(Springer, 2008)We investigate the role of anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity for voluntary contributions, based on a natural field experiment conducted at a national park in Costa Rica. Contributions made in public in front of the ... -
Does it matter when a power outage occurs? — A choice experiment study on the willingness to pay to avoid power outages
(Elsevier, 2008)Using a choice experiment survey, the marginal willingness to pay (WTP) among Swedish households for reductions in power outages is estimated. The results from the random parameter logit estimation indicate that the marginal ... -
Does context matter more for hypothetical than for actual contributions? Evidence from a natural field experiment
(Springer, 2008)We investigated the importance of the social context for people’s voluntary contributions to a national park in Costa Rica, using a natural field experiment. Some subjects make actual contributions while others state their ... -
Benefits of Organic Agriculture as a Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategy in Developing Countries
(2009-01-20)Organic agriculture as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability is a concrete and promising option for adaptation in rural communities. Organic agriculture has additional potential as a mitigation strategy. ... -
A Case-Study on Project-Level CO2 Mitigation Costs in Industrialised Countries - The Climate Cent Foundation in Switzerland
(2009-01-20)We analyse CO2 emissions reduction costs based on project data from the Climate Cent Foundation (CCF), a climate policy instrument in Switzerland. We draw four conclusions. First, for the projects investigated, the CCF ... -
Accounting and Stock Markets. A Study of Swedish Accounting for International Investors and Analysts
(1998)The empirical motivation of this dissertation is the increasing importance and internationalization of stock markets, combined with accounting systems that historically are national in scope. At this time, there is incomplete ... -
Is aid the capital component making countries efficient?
(2009-01-12)Cross country regressions on aid effectiveness have failed to provide substantial evidence on the effects of foreign aid. This study focuses on country performance in a production theory context. By means of the ... -
Intergovernmental grants and fiscal competition
(2009-01-08)This theoretical paper shows how a central government can induce a policy concerning a municipal matter through a package of a policy requirement and a grant. We find that, due to fiscal competition and the possibility ... -
Does Fertilizer Use Respond to Rainfall Variability? Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia
(2009-01-05)In this paper we use farmers' actual experiences with changes in rainfall levels and their responses to these changes to assess if patterns of fertilizer use are responsive to changes in rainfall patterns. Using plot and ... -
Streta emot eller sträva tillsammans? Om samverkan, brukarmedverkan och komplexitet i Miltonprojekten i Västra Götalands län
(2008-12-18)Regeringen tillsatte hösten 2003 en nationell psykiatrisamordnare med det breda strategiska uppdraget att se över frågor som rör arbetsformer, samverkan, samordning, resurser, personal och kompetens inom vård, social omsorg ... -
Projects as policy tools in implementing metropolitan policy – a case from Sweden
(2008-12-18)Implementing public policy is a complicated task. Aside from almost self- applying public policy, for instance new duties on gasoline, spirits and tobacco which resound through society via price signals, policy implementation ... -
They seek it here, they seek it there, they seek it everywhere. But where is employment found?
(2008-12-16)This paper uses a unique possibility to link unemployed individuals’ stated willingness to move with administrative data, giving us the possibility to analyse the effects of mobility on labour market outcome. Furthermore, ... -
Adoption of Organic Farming Technologies: Evidence from Semi-Arid Regions of Ethiopia
(2008-12-16)In the wake of resource constraints faced by farmers in developing countries in using external farm inputs, sustainable agricultural production practices that rely on local or farm renewable resources present desirable ... -
Organic Farming Technologies and Agricultural Productivity: The case of Semi-Arid Ethiopia
(2008-12-16)Organic farming practices, in as far as they rely on local or farm renewable resources, present desirable options for enhancing agricultural productivity for resource-constrained farmers in developing countries. In this ... -
Intertwined Coordination Mechanisms in Interorganizational Relationships with Dominated Suppliers
(Elsevier, 2008)Contemporary business society shows many examples of industrial customers that manage their smaller, dependent suppliers by using bureaucratic mechanisms. The restrictions these control processes put on the suppliers´ ...