School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Nudging to reduce meat consumption: Immediate and persistent effects of an intervention at a university restaurant
(2017-11)Changing dietary habits to reduce the consumption of meat is considered to have great potential to mitigate food-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To test if nudging can increase the consumption of vegetarian food, ... -
Tax Morale and Policy Intervention
(2017-11)This paper deals with tax morale and how norms may evolve over time. The special focus is on buying black-market services. I apply mechanisms from social psychology to explain how personal norms may evolve due to one's own ... -
Rätten till biträde – Om biträdeskostnaders hantering vid svenska domstolar
(2017-11-06)The term “Access to Justice” (AtJ) refers to the fundamental notion that all people – even disadvantaged groups of society – should enjoy effective legal/judicial protection, ultimately through the courts. Accordingly, the ... -
Scholasticism, Fair Value and Ursury, According to Odd Langholm
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2017-10-31)Odd Langholm, a prominent Scandinavian scholar of early economic thought, provides us with cues on how to re-consider the fundamental assumptions that go into economic valuation and modelling. “Fair value” was not ... -
Consumption and Investment Demand when Health Evolves Stochastically
(2017-10)The health capital model of Grossman (1972) is extended to account for uncertainty in the rate at which a stock of health depreciates. Two versions of the model are contemplated, one with a fully functioning financial ... -
Regulating Vessel-Source Air Pollution - Standard-Setting in the Regulation of SOx Emissions
(2017-10-11)Emissions of sulphur oxides (SOx) cause considerable global environmental and human health impacts including acidification, climate change, and increased premature deaths in human populations due to serious heart and lung ... -
I Can’t Sleep! Relative Concerns and Sleep Behavior
(2017-10)We investigate the effect of relative concerns with respect to income on the quantity and quality of sleep using a long panel dataset on the sleep behavior of people in Germany. We find that relative income has a substantial ... -
The Internet of Things: Projects-Places-Policies
(2017-10-03)The ongoing transition from the Internet age to the Internet of Things age is a paradigm shift of knowledge production and interactions: information and knowledge can be produced and disseminated either without or with ... -
Contract Choice and Trust in Informal Groundwater Markets
(2017-09-29)Contract Choice and Trust in Informal Groundwater Markets Yashodha Yashodha AKADEMISK AVHANDLING som med vederbörligt ... -
Negotiating the Value(s) of Design(ing): An Organisational Inquiry
(2017-09-29)Organisations are increasingly calling upon design as a strategic asset to generate innovation as part of a wider fascination with ‘design thinking’ in business. Recent scholarship has tended to emphasise design’s many ... -
Essays on behavioral economics: Nudges, food consumption and procedural fairness
(2017-09-22)Decreasing meat consumption holds significant potential for the reduction of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions and the mitigation of climate change. Fostering behavioral change to reduce climate emissions related to ... -
Power Outages, Increasing Block Tariffs and Billing Knowledge
(2017-09-16)Preferences for Improved Electricity Services in Developing Countries: Household’s Defensive Behavior and Willingness to Pay Access to electricity has received much attention but its reliability has been given less focus. ... -
‘Fair’ Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
(2017-09)Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To opera- tionalize this approach, preference heterogeneity ... -
Reducing the gap between stated and real behavior in transportation studies: The use of an oath script
(2017-09)We investigate whether taking an oath in a survey situation affects respondent behavior in choice experiments with a focus on travel time, comfort, and cost. We conduct two studies in Beijing: one with car commuters and ... -
Birth Weight, Neonatal Intensive Care Units, and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Macrosomic Babies
(2017-09)Using a regression discontinuity design, this study estimates the effect of extra medical care on the short-run health of babies born at the high end of the birth weight distribution. Consistent with the notion that neonatal ... -
Competitive Neutrality and the Cost and Quality of Welfare Services
(2017-08)Competition between private and public firms can increase service quality and reduce public costs in markets for tax-financed welfare services with non-contractible quality. Synergies arise from combining high-powered ... -
Essays in Environmental Management and Economics: Public Health, Risk and Strategic Environmental Assessment
(2017-08-18)Abstract Current large-scale environmental and climate change leads to the emergence of new and potentially dramatic risks for individuals and societies. The welfare costs associated with these risks largely depend on our ... -
Ownership or donorship? Results and ownership in Swedish international development cooperation
(2017-08-16)This thesis is a critical investigation of how the increased demand for results in international development cooperation has influenced relations between donors and partner countries. The increased demand for results, ... -
Media visibility and social tolerance: Evidence from USA
(2017-07)I study the impact of media visibility of people of colour on the rate of hate crimes motivated by race or ethnicity in the United States. To do so, I construct a novel measure of state-level media visibility of people of ...