School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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On the Political Economy of Municipality Break-Ups
(2003)This thesis deals with politico-economic aspects of municipality break-ups. It consists of an introduction and three self-contained papers. Paper I: The Break-up of Municipalities – Voting Behavior in Local Referenda This ... -
Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific Revival
(2003)This paper reviews evidence on the evolution of international economic integration of Asia-Pacific countries, and discusses the extent to which this explains their recent growth success. It starts with a review of some ... -
Using stated preference methods to evaluate the impact of water on health: the case of metropolitan Cairo
(2003)This paper analysis the impact of better water quality on health improvements using two stated preference methods: choice experiments and the contingent valuation method. These methods were administered to a random sample ... -
Unequal Provision of Local Public Services under the Threat of Secession
(2003)This paper studies to what extent it is possible to discriminate between two municipality parts by unequal public service provision when there is a threat of secession. The objective of the local politicians is to maximize ... -
Svenska företag i deckarromaner 1943-2001
(2003)Fiction offers many interesting insights to students of management. In the first place, many novels contain elements of historical ethnographies, portraying the ways of life – and organizing – that vanished in the past. ... -
Has Sweden’s government budget policy been too discretionary? Evidence from a generalization of the tax smoothing hypothesis
(2003)Barro's (1979) tax smoothing hypothesis (TSH) assumes that the government is always subject to an "optimal" degree of discretion in budget policy, i.e., optimal in the sense that the welfare costs from taxation are ... -
Human Resource Disclosures
(2003)ABSTRACT Although several corporations proclaim their employees as being thecorporation’s most valuable resource, only a few corporations have utilised models and concepts of measuring human resources in their corporate ... -
The entrepreneurial process: An institutional perspective
(2003)The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of development of the firm in interaction with its institutional environment, which I call “the entrepreneurial process”. This can be studied in three phases, i.e. initiating ... -
The Effect of Addiction on Environmental Taxation in a First and Second-best world
(2003)We examine the effect of addictive behavior on a socially optimal environmental tax. If utility in part depends on past consumption and individuals are time-consistent, the socially optimal environmental tax is shown to ... -
Habit Formation in the Environmental Quality: Dynamic Optimal Environmental Taxation
(2003)In this article we propose a model in which individuals experience habit formation in environmental quality. Further, a consumption good causes a negative external effect on the environment. The intertemporal utility ... -
Processes of accountability. Experience from the operative level in Swedish local government
(2003)This study is about social and institutional practices of accountability. Firstly, the study develops a framework of accounts. Based on this framework it is argued that accountability arises from practices of using accounts ... -
Geography and Institutions: A Review of Plausible and Implausible Linkages
(2003)In recent years, empirical investigations have shown that various aspects of physical geography are closely related to the quality of a country’s economic institutions. For instance, distance from the equator in latitude ... -
Nätverksorganisering och kulturell styrning av marknaden Studie av den iranska traditionella ”Bazaaren”.
(2003)In this paper I will describe the Iranian traditional market, the so called ”Bazaar”. The Bazaar has during the latest centuries been the only major actor and played a crucial role in the countries socio-economical life. ... -
Farm Animal Welfare - testing for market failure
(2003)Our increasingly heterogeneous food is at least partly due to concerns over conventional production of farm livestock. Some of these new products have been demand driven while others are a result of politically decided ... -
The effect of water and sanitation on child mortality in Egypt
(2003)This paper assesses water and sanitation’s impacts on child mortality in Egypt. The analysis is conducted using a three-part model specification, comprising discrete choice to model the child prospects of dying during ... -
Skolan och informationstekniken - en fallstudie av grundskolan i Stenungsund
(2003)This paper is the first of six case studies in a research project ”The school and information- and communication technology (ICT)”. This one is taking place in the municipality of Stenungsund. The results from the study ... -
Technological Opportunities and Growth in the Natural Resource Sector
(2003)Both technological and natural resource possibilities seem to evolve in cycles. The “Resource Opportunity Model” in this paper introduces the technological opportunity thinking into natural resource modeling. The natural ... -
The open economy excess sensitivity hypothesis: Theory and Swedish evidence
(2003)This paper extends the theory of open economy consumption behavior by applying Flavin's (1993) excess sensitivity hypothesis (ESH) to the current account. The ESH can be interpreted as a generalization of the open economy ... -
Managerial Positions and Generational Change. A study in the Health Care Sector of the Västra Götaland County
(2003)The study highlights a number of circumstances that constitutes as incentives for changing the management within the health care sector. Today the physicians and the medical competence are not necessarily regarded as "the ...