School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Anonymity, Reciprocity, and Conformity: Evidence from Voluntary Contributions to a National Park in Costa Rica
(2007-02-21)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 ... -
Structural Change in the Swedish economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century – The role of import substitution and export demand
(2007-02-21)The paper presents input-output tables for the Swedish economy for 1885, 1898 and 1913. These tables are used to explore structural change and to decompose Swedish economic growth in 1885–1898 and 1898–1913 into different ... -
Kartellen som sprängdes. Svensk bryggeriindustri under institutionell och strukturell omvandling 1945–1975
(2006)Kartellen som sprängdes. The Swedish brewing industry during institutional and structural change 1945 – 1975. (Publications of the Department of Economic history, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, ... -
Om nationalekonomisk imperialism och idéutveckling
(2006)Nationalekonomiska metoder och modeller tillämpas inom de mest skiftande områden som kriminalitet, barnuppfostran och drogmissbruk. Ett skäl till ämnets framgång är dess användning av matematik. Nationalekonomins formalisering ... -
The increment ratio statistic
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Does openness reduce wage inequality in developing countries? A panel data analysis
(2006)This paper provides panel data evidence on trade liberalization and wage inequality in Bangladesh. Using several standard econometric models, wage equations for skilled and unskilled workers in the formal manufacturing ... -
Second Order Approximation for the Average Marginal Effect of Heckman's Two Step Procedure
(2006)In this paper we discuss the differences between the average marginal effect and the marginal effect of the average individual in sample selection models, estimated by Heckman's two step procedure. We show that the bias ... -
Economic Performance of Turkish Immigrant Men in the European Labour-Market: Evidence from Sweden
(2006)This paper uses eleven waves of panel-data to analyse the earnings assimilation of first-generation Turkish immigrant men in Sweden. Employment-probabilities and earnings are estimated in a fixed-effects sample selection ... -
Hur mäta produktivitet och hur produktiva är svenska professorer i nationalekonomi? Forskningsutvärdering med hjälp av kvantitativa och kvalitativa indikatorer
(2006)Publicering av forskningsresultat gör det möjligt för forskare att dela med sig av sina kunskaper och att kommunicera med resten av världen. Nästan lika viktig som forskningen är för samhället är utvärderingen av denna ... -
The Politicization of Growth Theory
(2001)In this essay I review the main features of neoclassical growth theory, with an eye to seeing what it has to say about the causes of wealth and poverty among nations. I argue that outside the OECD and a comparatively small ... -
Airline choice, switching costs and frequent flyer programs
(2004)Switching costs are costs that customers face when switching from one firm to another. In markets such as the airline market where repeated purchases are common, switching costs may be substantial. In this paper we ... -
Users' Perception of Human Resource Disclosures - A Comparison of Annual Report Users of Two Corporations
(2004)This paper is concerned with users’ perception of human resources disclosure in corporate annual reports. The disclosure of intangibles and human resource disclosure in particular, are often described and thought of as ... -
Mot en respektens etik för servicemötet
(2004)Servicemötet handlar oftast om ett möte mellan människor. I detta avseende är det inte bara legitimt utan även nödvändigt att betrakta det utifrån ett etiskt perspektiv och ställa sig frågan: vilken moral kräver servicemötet? ... -
Performance of the Swedish Real Estate Sector 1998-2002
(2004)In this paper, we analyze the performance of the Swedish real estate sector by various profitability measures. We use an unbalanced panel of 781 non-listed companies from 1998 to 2000 with 3421 observations. There exists ... -
Heterogeneous preferences for marine amenities: A choice experiment applied to water quality
(2004)The marine environment provides many goods and services dependent upon the quality of coastal waters. In this paper, we represent water quality by three different attributes, fish stock level, bathing water quality, and ... -
On Time, Space, and Action Nets
(2004)Laboratory studies, especially those by Latour and Woolgar (1979/1986) and Knorr Cetina (1981) proved to be an invaluable source of inspiration for students of organizing. Laboratories, however, are mostly reminiscent of ... -
Articulation of principles on the micro level - observing argumentation in a merger process
(2004)The merging process between a Swedish and a Norwegian manufacturing company has been studied using interviews, video recordings and comments explaining video recorded events at meetings. It is assumed that sensemaking ... -
Skolan och informationstekniken – en fallstudie av grundskolan i Tingsryd
(2004)This paper is the third of six case studies in a research project, “The school and in-formation technology (IT)”. This one is taking place in the compulsory school in the municipality of Tingsryd. The results of the study ... -
Measuring marginal values of noise disturbance from air traffic: Does the time of the day matter?
(2004)This paper analyzes the marginal willingness to pay for changes in noise levels related to changes in the volume of flight movements at a city airport in Stockholm, Sweden, by using a choice experiment. When estimating ... -
"Integration" - a polyphonic concept in merging companies
(2004)In this study a new method for researching the qualitative differences in meaning making of a concept is introduced to clarify how managers in two merger cases differ in the way they make sense of the ongoing process. A ...