School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
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Vad händer efter ett förändringsprojekt? - Enkätstudie av organisationer som deltog i W2T-projektet
(2009-12-22)De senaste 25-30 åren har många insatser gjorts för att förändra jämställdheten i såväl privata som offentliga organisationer i Sverige. Satsningar har gjorts i form av olika program eller projekt. Resultaten från den ... -
Renewed Growth and Poverty Reduction in Zambia
(2009-12-21)The Zambian economy has grown relatively fast over the last decade up to the current global financial crisis. This paper discusses the challenge of using these growing resources effectively to improve the welfare of the ... -
What Explains the International Location of Industry? -The Case of Clothing
(2009-12-21)The clothing sector has been a driver of diversification and growth for countries that have graduated into middle income. Using a partial adjustment panel data model for 61 countries 1975-2000, we investigate the global ... -
On blending mandates, border tax adjustment and import standards for biofuels
(2009-12-09)The transport sector is a major contributor to green house gas (GHG) emissions and its share is increasing. Biofuels may pro- vide an option to replace fossil fuels and generate an increasing worldwide interest. Rich ... -
Contracting Under Reciprocal Altruism
(2009-12-09)I show that a simple formal model of reciprocal altruism is able to predict human behavior in contracting situations, puzzling when considered within selfishness assumption. For instance, motivation and performance ... -
Adam Smith om språket
(2009-12-09)Adam Smith on language. Like most 18th century scholars, Adam Smith was not restricted to one field. One of his interests, besides economics, was language, which may partly be a consequence of his Scottish origin and the ... -
Discrimination in Scientific Review - A natural field experiment on blind versus non-blind review
(2009-12-09)This paper analyzes the impacts of gender, as well as other author characteristics, on reviewers’ grading of papers submitted to an international conference in economics in Sweden in 2008. Correcting for other variables, ... -
Design of stated preference surveys: Is there more to learn from behavioral economics?
(2009-12-09)We discuss the design of stated preference (SP) surveys in light of findings in behavioral economics such as context dependence of preferences, learning, and differences between revealed and normative preferences. More ... -
Ethnic Cleansing or Resource Struggle in Darfur? An empirical analysis
(2009-12-09)The con ict in Darfur has been described both as an ethnic cleansing campaign, carried out by the Sudanese government and its allied militias, and as a local struggle over dwindling natural resources between African ... -
Climate Change in a Public Goods Game: Investment Decision in Mitigation versus Adaptation
(2009-12-08)We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of climate change: the potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of ... -
Public Disclosure of Industrial Pollution: The PROPER Approach for Indonesia?
(2009-12-08)This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the Program for Pollution Control Evaluation and Rating (PROPER) in Indonesia. PROPER, the first major public disclosure program in the developing world, was launched in June ... -
Output and Abatement Effects of Allocation Readjustment in Permit Trade
(2009-12-08)In permit trading systems, free initial allocation is common practice. A recent example is the European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). We investigate effects of different free allocation schemes ... -
Natural Resource Dependency and Quality of Government
(2009-12-04)This paper introduces quality of government rather than regime type as dependent variable in studies of the political effects of natural resources. It consists of two parts. First, it theorizes the role of fiscal dependency ... -
Have Countries with Lax Environmental Regulations a Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries?
(2009-12-04)We aim to study whether lax environmental regulations induce comparative advantages, causing the least-regulated countries to specialize in polluting industries. The study is based on Trefler and Zhu’s (2005) definition ... -
Corporate environmental management in transition economies: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
(2009-12-04)We use firm-level data to study the adoption of Environmental Management Practices (EMPs) in the most polluting industrial sectors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia during the 1990 – 1998 ... -
Bioeconomic Model of Community Incentives for Wildlife Management Before and After CAMPFIRE
(2009-12-03)This paper formulates a bioeconomic model to analyze community incentives for wildlife management under benefit-sharing programs like the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) in Zimbabwe. ... -
Agricultural Risk Management through Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Rural Zimbabwe
(2009-12-03)This paper investigates whether the risk faced by rural farmers in Zimbabwe could poten- tially be managed by using community-based wildlife conservation. Community-based wildlife conservation could be an additional asset ... -
Jens Warming (1931) on Open Access, Pigovian Tax, and Property Rights
(2009-12-01)This article summarizes the contribution in fisheries economics by the Danish economist Jens Warming and gives a translation of his article “Aalegaardsretten” (The Danish Right to Eel Weir, 1931). Warming, provides an early ...