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Fashioning a Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneur?
(2019-10-15)This PhD dissertation explores fashion design graduates as potential knowledge-intensive entrepreneurs through the relationship between knowledge and other resources, and different pathways post-graduation. Explorative ... -
Not for you! The cost of having a foreign-sounding name in the Swedish private housing market
(2019-10)Both immigration and a troubling housing deficit have increased rapidly in Sweden over the past 20 years. Today, up to 33 percent of the people living in the largest Swedish cities are immigrants. In this Internet-based ... -
Past and present outage costs – A follow-up study of households’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages
(2019-10)Households’ demand for electricity continues to increase. This trend per se should indicate increased disutility from power outages. On the other hand, batteries and other back-up systems have been improved and the frequency ... -
Omöjligt uppdrag. Om rättslig styrning och normkollisioner i skolans kompensatoriska uppdrag
(2019-09-30)The thesis aims to analyze how two ideological concepts, “the individual” and “the collective”, impact the Swedish school system from a legal point of view. On basis of the theoretical groundwork drawn up by professor ... -
Charity as Income Redistribution: A Model with Optimal Taxation, Status, and Social Stigma
(2019-09)Our framework integrates (i) public and private redistribution, (ii) the warm glow of giving and stigma of receiving charitable donations, and (iii) status concerns emanating from social comparisons with respect to charitable ... -
Innovationsarenor för turism – från ekosystem till labb
(2019-09-20)Det talas alltmer om turism som en del av ett hållbart samhällsbyggande. Olika aktörer måste bidra med sin kunskap för att skapa möjligheter och lösa problem som har ömsesidiga beroen-den, är motsägelsefulla och förändras ... -
Industrial wages in mid-1880s Sweden: estimations beyond Bagge’s Wages in Sweden. Data, source and methods
(2019-09)Most researchers interested in Swedish wages during early industrialization have used the seminal work Wages in Sweden from the 1930s as their point of departure. Whereas the material in Wages in Sweden solidly tracks ... -
The informational value of environmental taxes
(2019-09)We propose informational spillovers as a new rationale for the use of multiple policy instruments to mitigate a single externality. We investigate the design of a pollution standard when the firms’ abatement costs are unknown ... -
Organizing Creativity and Creative Organizing at a high tech company
(2019-09-04)In today’s society, creativity, in close collaboration with innovation, is considered key to the success of many businesses. On the one hand, organizations need to organize people’s efforts and to control the outcomes of ... -
Standing in Others’ Shoes: Empathy and Positional Behavior
(2019-09)Studies show that people are concerned with other people’s consumption position in a varying degree with respect to the type of goods consumed and individual characteristics. Using both survey experiments and a large survey ... -
Non-Life-Threatening Ailments and Rational Patience
(2019-08)The time at which a rational patient might choose an elective medical procedure for a non-life-threatening ailment is contemplated. The resulting model is purposely uncomplicated but general, and accounts for several basic ... -
Child Human Capital – The Importance of Parenting Style
(2019-08)Investments in the human capital of children during their upbringing determine the opportunities available in adulthood. Recognizing that the parent-child interaction plays a significant role in the accumulation of child ... -
The EU investment court system. A viable reform initiative?
(2019-08-21)This thesis studies the Investment Court System - the EU’s response to the backlash against investor-state arbitration, and its contribution to the ongoing multilateral reform initiative in UNCITRAL. It includes, on the ... -
Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
(2019-06)We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three ... -
The Impact of Abortion on Crime and Crime-Related Behavior
(2019-06)The 1966 abolition and 1989 legalization of abortion in Romania immediately doubled and decreased by about a third the number of births per month, respectively. To isolate the link between abortion access and crime while ... -
Testing Return Predictability with the Dividend-Growth Equation: An Anatomy of the Dog
(2019-06)The dividend-growth based test of return predictability, proposed by Cochrane [2008, Review of Financial Studies 21, 1533-1575], is similar to a likelihood-based test of the standard return-predictability model, treating ... -
Compound Returns
(2019-06)We provide a theoretical basis for understanding the properties of compound re-turns. At long horizons, multiplicative compounding induces extreme positive skewness into individual stock returns, an effect primarily driven ... -
Essays on the Design of Public Policies and Regulations
(2019-06-05)Government policies intervene in many areas of economic and social environment. Most often the aim is to address market failures that hinder efficiency or lead to undesirable socioeconomic outcomes. However, it is important ... -
Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from China
(2019-06)Experimental evidence from both the lab and the field shows that women on average have a lower propensity to enter a competitive environment. In this paper, we investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a ... -
Experimental Evidence on Cooperation, Political Affiliation, and Group Size
(2019-05)The main objective of this paper is to strengthen the knowledge about the relationship between cooperation and political affiliation. For this purpose, I carry out an incentivized N-person prisoner’s dilemma experiment. I ...