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Unpacking inscriptions – A sociomateriality perspective on the design process of a milk package
(2019-05-24)Today’s trend of fast-paced innovation in the field of, for example, information technology results in an acclaim of quick changes. At the same time, product innovation is only one facet of market offerings as industry ... -
Förvaltning som verksamhet – bidrag till offentligrättens allmänna läror
(2019-05-22)The thesis gives a contribution to the general theory of administrative and public law in order to develop a systematic and conceptual framework for better and more realistic descriptions of public administration. The ... -
Essays on Bank Funding Strategies
(2019-05-20)According to the European financial crisis database from July 31, 2017, there are 18 European countries that still have not got their systems back to normal. Despite crisis management being implemented in very few countries, ... -
Behind the Scenes of Transparency – A Study of a Swedish Denim Company
(2019-05-17)During recent decades, a call for increased transparency has been a reaction to the increasing complexity and opaqueness of contemporary society, where information about simple items, e.g. the origin of our everyday products, ... -
Exploring the (re-)configuration of environmentally unsustainable practices
(2019-05-15)This thesis explores how to (re-)configure environmentally unsustainable practices into more sustainable forms in the empirical context of leisure boat antifouling. Current antifouling practices predominantly involve the ... -
The Impact of Upper Secondary School Flexibility on Sorting and Educational Outcomes
(2019-05)This paper estimates the causal impact of an upper secondary curriculum reform in Sweden that increased students' course-taking flexibility in year 2000. In the most popular upper secondary program, it led to a significant ... -
To educate a woman and to educate a man: Gender-specific sexual behaviour and HIV responses to an education reform in Botswana
(2019-05)Education has been suggested as a ‘vaccine’ against HIV infection, but there is not much causal evidence behind this claim. Moreover, the few studies that exist on the impact of education on HIV infection and related ... -
Predictability in Equity Markets: Estimation and Inference
(2019-05-08)The thesis consists of three chapters dealing with predictability in equity markets. The first chapter analyses predictive regressions in a predictive system framework, where the predictor is an imperfect proxy for the ... -
Who is willing to stay sick for the collective? – Individual characteristics, experience, and trust
(2019-05)This paper deals with the collective action dilemma of antibiotic resistance. Despite the collective threat posed by antibiotic resistance, there are limited incentives for individuals to consider the contribution of their ... -
Att förstå och undersöka hållbar tillgänglighet
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Essays on Environmental and Behavioral Economics
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Chinese aid and local ethnic identification
(2019-04)Recent empirical evidence suggests that Chinese development finance may be particularly prone to elite capture and patronage spending. If aid ends up in the pockets of political elites and their ethno-regional networks, ... -
Charity, Status, and Optimal Taxation: Welfarist and Paternalist Approaches
(2019-04)This paper deals with tax policy responses to charitable giving, defined in terms of voluntary contributions to a public good, to which the government also contributes through public revenue; the set of tax instruments ... -
Can the environment be an inferior good? A theory with context-dependent substitutability and needs
(2019-04)Theoretical models often assume the environment to be a normal good, irrespective of one’s income. However, a priori, nothing prohibits an environmental good from being normal for some individuals and inferior for others. ... -
Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
(2019-04)We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables ... -
Optimal Prosocial Nudging
(2019-04)While nudges are still mostly associated with affecting individual choices for their own long-run interest, i.e. dealing with internalities, they are increasingly used in order to reduce externalities, such as environmental ... -
Nudging as an Environmental Policy Instrument
(2019-04)We discuss the use of green nudges – nudges intended to reduce negative externalities – as an environmental policy instrument. A review of empirical studies reveals that green nudges can have a sizeable impact on behavior ... -
Foreign aid and structural transformation: Micro-level evidence from Uganda
(2019-03)History tells us that sustained economic growth, necessary to alleviate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, requires growth in the fundamentals, such as infrastructure and human capital, but also structural transformation, i.e., ... -
Essays in trade financing and trade relationships
(2019-03-20)In this dissertation, I examine the factors affecting trade financing and trade relationships mainly from the perspective of information asymmetry. In particular, I analyze how levels of information asymmetry affect trade ... -
A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Sierra Leone
(2019-03-20)In the present dissertation, social stratification in colonial Sierra Leone is discussed, with the aim of providing novel evidence on the association between ideals, institutions and inequality. The case study of Sierra ...