School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Mining Booms in Africa and Local Welfare Effects: Labor Markets, Women’s Empowerment and Criminality
(2015-05-08)The role that extractive industries can play in processes of economic development is frequently described as, at best non-existent, or at worst, persistently negative. Extractive industries, while focusing on unearthing ... -
En industriell reservarmé i välfärdsstaten - Arbetslösa socialhjälpstagare i Sverige 1913-2012
(2015-05-08)This economic history dissertation explores a central contradiction within the Swedish welfare state, the contradiction of the welfare state’s goal to decommodify its citizens from market fluctuations and the constant need ... -
Determinants of Health Capital at Birth: Evidence from Policy Interventions
(2015-05-07)Paper I: Austerity Measures and Infant Health. Lessons from an Unexpected Wage Cut Policy We investigate the effects on health at birth of a shock generated by a major (25%) and unexpected wage cut austerity measure that ... -
Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
(2015-05)This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature ... -
Keeping up with the Joneses, the Smiths and the Tanakas: On International Tax Coordination and Social Comparisons
(2015-05)Much evidence suggests that between-country social comparisons have become more important over time due to globalization. This paper analyzes optimal income taxation in a multi-country economy, where consumers derive utility ... -
New directions for management and organization studies on waste
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2015)This article presents a research agenda about waste management from the perspective of management and organization studies. The agenda suggests that scholars should draw upon research on waste governance, lean management, ... -
Long-Run Cultural Divergence: Evidence From the Neolithic Revolution
(2015-05)This paper investigates the long-run infuence of the Neolithic Revolution on contemporary cultural norms and institutions as reflected in the dimension of collectivism-individualism. We outline an agricultural origins-model ... -
Sustainable Intermodal Supply of Biofuels
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Testing preference formation in learning design contingent valuation (LDCV) using advanced information and repetitive treatments
(2015-04)Policymakers have largely replaced Single Bounded Discrete Choice (SBDC) valuation by the more statistically efficient repetitive methods; Double Bounded Discrete Choice (DBDC) and Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE). ... -
Spending time together? Effects on the retirement decision from partner’s labour market status
(2015-03)In this paper we study retirement decisions and more specifically, the influence of a partner’s labour market status on this decision. We use information from three waves of the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in ... -
Intuitive cooperation refuted: Commentary on Rand et al. (2012) and Rand et al. (2014)
(2015-03)We show that Rand et al. (2012) and Rand et al. (2014)—who argue that cooperation is intuitive—provide an incorrect interpretation of their own data. They make the mistake of inferring intuition from relative decision times ... -
Pushed into Unemployment, Pulled into Retirement: Facing Old Age in Gothenburg, 1923-1943
(2015-02)Along with rapid growth and improved standards of living, the first decades of the twentieth century saw the introduction of new technology and new ways to organize production. There are contrasting views on what impact ... -
The Gothenburg Population Panel 1915-1943: GOPP Version 6.0
(2015-02)This paper presents the Gothenburg Population Panel (GOPP), a random sample of individuals who were living in Gothenburg at some point in time during the period 1915-1943. The individuals in the GOPP were searched for ... -
Skrivhandledning: För doktorander i ekonomisk historia vid Göteborgs universitet
(2015-02)This is a guide to writing a doctoral thesis at the Department for Economy and Society, specifically directed at the unit for Economic History, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. It is written in Swedish but also ... -
Stationers roll för utveckling av mindre orter och dess omland -Kunskapssammanställning och forskningsbehov
(2015-03-12)Denna rapport är resultatet av ett uppdrag från Kollektivtrafiksekretariatet i Västra Götalandsregionen till undertecknad. Rapporten är en del av projektet ”Stationers roll för utveckling av mindre orter och dess omland”, ... -
Divergence in Stakeholders’ Preferences: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on Forest Landscapes Preferences in Sweden
(2015-03)A great deal of biodiversity can be found in private forests, and protecting it requires taking into consideration the preferences of key stakeholders. In this study, we examine and compare the valuation of forest attributes ... -
Taking work home: Labour dynamics of women industrial homeworkers in Sweden during the second industrial revolution
(2015-03-05)The papers in this dissertation explore women’s labour market decisions in the context of an industrializing economy by focusing on female industrial homeworkers in Sweden during the second industrial revolution. Three ... -
Cooperation and paradoxes in climate economics
(2015-03-04)Paper I: Strategic Carbon Taxation and Energy Pricing: The Role of Innovation. This paper uses a dynamic game to investigate the strategic interactions between carbon taxation by a coalition of resource consumers and ... -
Unfolding Evolutionary Growth Within a Subsidiary: The Case of a Sales Subsidiary in the Middle East
(2015-02-24)Subsidiaries are important entities in multinational corporations and are typically established with predetermined business responsibilities. A subsidiary responds to actors in the internal network (e.g., HQs and other ... -
Are Fairtrade Prices Fair? An Analysis of the Distribution of Returns in the Swedish Coffee Market
(2015-02)Consumers pay a premium for Fair Trade coffee, often assuming that it mainly benefits poor coffee farmers. However, several studies report that most of the premium accrues to actors in the consumer countries, such as ...