School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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En dag på Andra Långgatan - Resultat från en stadssittning
(Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2016) -
Difference in Preferences or in Preference Orderings? Comparing Choices of Environmental Bureaucrats, Recreational Anglers, and the Public
(2016-08)Do Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bureaucrats represent the general public or are they more in line with an interest group? We study preferences for environmental policy using a choice experiment (CE) on three ... -
Identitet i arbete(t) – Chefers reflektioner om arbetets dimensioner
(2016-08-18)Managers’ reflections about dimensions at work The purpose of this thesis is to identify, describe and develop the understanding of what aspects at work are important for individuals' identity construction. In this ... -
The Green Paradox and Interjurisdictional Competition across Space and Time
(2016-06)This paper demonstrates that unintended effects of climate policies (Green Paradox effects) also arise in general equilibrium when countries compete for mobile factors of production (capital and resources/energy). Second, ... -
Gold mining and education: a long-run resource curse in Africa?
(2016-06)We provide micro-level evidence on an important channel through which mineral resources may adversely affect development in the long-run: lower educational attainment. Combining Afrobarometer survey data with geocoded data ... -
Chinese aid and local corruption
(2016-06)Considering the mounting criticisms concerning Chinese aid practices, the present paper investigates whether Chinese aid projects fuel local-level corruption in Africa. To this end, we geographically match a new geo-referenced ... -
Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Weather Variability: An Instrumental Variables Probit Analysis
(2016-06)There is solid scientific evidence predicting that a large part of the developing world will suffer a greater incidence of extreme weather events, which may increase the incidence of displacement migration. We draw on the ... -
Why (field) experiments on unethical behavior are important: Comparing stated and revealed behavior
(2016-06)Understanding unethical behavior is essential to many phenomena in the real world. We carry out a field experiment in a unique setting that varies the levels of reciprocity and guilt in an ethical decision. A survey more ... -
Mind, Behaviour and Health - a Randomised Experiment
(2016-06)Behavioural attitudes toward risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt to explore the possibility ... -
On-the-job search and city structure
(2016-06)This paper investigates an equilibrium search model in which search frictions are increasing with the distance to a city’s central business district, allowing for on-the-job search and endogenous wage formation and land ... -
The Impact of Abortion Legalization on Fertility and Maternal Mortality: New Evidence from Mexico
(2016-06)We examine the effect of a large-scale, free, elective abortion program implemented in Mexico City in 2007. Prior to this program, all states and districts in Mexico had very limited, or no, access to elective abortion. ... -
Still unemployed, what next? Crime and unemployment duration
(2016-06)In this paper, I study the relationship between unemployment benefits, labour market conditions and crime in the light of increasing unemployment durations and temporary benefit extensions in the US. First, I find a ... -
Because of you I did not give up - How peers affect perseverance
(2016-06)Various empirical papers have shown that peers affect productivity and behavior in the workplace. However, the mechanisms through which peers influence each other are still largely unknown. In this laboratory experiment ... -
Social Comparisons and Optimal Taxation in a Small Open Economy
(2016-05)Almost all previous studies on optimal taxation and status consumption are based on closed model-economies. This paper analyzes how international capital mobility – which may constrain the use of capital income taxation ... -
Evaluation of the Impact of Forest Certification on Environmental Outcomes in Sweden
(2016-05)Voluntary forest certification is an increasingly popular tool allowing producers who meet stringent environmental standards to label their products in the marketplace and potentially achieve greater market access and ... -
Hide and Seek - What enables and hinders households’ battery recycling?
(Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2016) -
Banks and their world view contexts
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2016) -
Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics – Cooperation, Emotions and Health
(2016-05-25)This thesis consists of four self-contained papers that explore issues in human behavior and their implications for policy design. The main method used in all four papers consists of lab experiments, a method that facilitates ... -
Artificiell styrning av resultat – Om ekonomi, politik och tjänstemän
(2016-05-12)The subject of this thesis is artificial earnings management in municipalities. Its occurrence is linked to the premise that politicians act in a political market and therefore have incentives to affect the picture of the ... -
Organisationsformens betydelse för kvaliteten i personlig assistans
(Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2016)Syftet med denna studie är att jämföra kvaliteten mellan tre typer av assistansanordnare; brukarkooperativ, privata bolag och kommunen. En kvantitativ undersökningsansats har tillämpats med postenkät som insamlingsmetod. ...