School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Kunskapsintegration i fusioner
(2004)To what extent knowledge synergy is developed in mergers and acquisitions depends on the ambitions of the parties, the relations between the knowledge spheres of both sides, and the methods used for knowledge integration. ... -
Swedish Stock Recommendations:Information Content or Price Pressure?
(2004)The paper analyzes stock-price reactions to stock recommendations published in printed Swedish media and also trading volumes at and around the publication day, bid/ask spreads, and the post-publication drift in recommended ... -
Are Underwriter-Analysts More Informed? Scandinavian Evidence
(2004)Excess returns for Scandinavian IPO-firm initial buy recommendations registered on the First Call database from underwriter analysts (informed analysts) for 1996-2002 were compared to those of non-underwriter analysts ... -
Stock Recommendations in Swedish Printed Media: Leading or Misleading?
(2004)This paper analyzes the initiated and changed recommendations published in six well-known Swedish newspapers and business magazines for the period 1996-2000 using a buy-and-hold abnormal returns (BHARs) approach. The results ... -
Preferences With and Without Prices - does the price attribute affect behavior in stated preference surveys?
(2004)The experimental as well as the nonmarket valuation literature include several examples of how an introduced price can affect behavior in otherwise not expected ways. It has become standard to include a price vector as an ... -
Contingent valuation of community plantations in Ethiopia: a look into value elicitation formats and intra-household preference variations
(2004)This paper is an application of the contingent valuation method on community plantations in the highlands of Ethiopia. A discrete-continuous elicitation format was applied. It was found that there is a problem in applying ... -
Consumer willingness to pay for farm animal welfare - transportation of farm animals to slaughter versus the use of mobile abattoirs
(2004)This study employed a choice experiment (CE) to ascertain consumer preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for non-market food product quality attributes. Data were obtained from a large mail survey and estimated with a ... -
Evaluation of Strategic IT Platform Investments
(2004)Quantitative evaluation of strategic IT investments remains a challenging task in most organisations today. An important element of the problem is that though some investments appear to have little direct benefits, they ... -
Trade Reform and Wage Inequality in Kenya, 1964-2000
(2004)This paper analyses the evolution of wage inequality in Kenya between 1964 and 2000. Our measure of wage inequality is the ratio of wages in manufacturing to wages in agriculture, which can be seen as an indicator of ... -
Risk, Time and Land Management under Market Imperfections: Applications to Ethiopia
(2004)This Ph.D. thesis addresses both theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to land management decisions of farm households in developing countries working under an imperfect market and institutional setting (with case ... -
The Political Economy of Refunded Emissions Payment Programs
(2004)Lobbying by pollution firms is commonly viewed as having a negative impact on the stringency of environmental policy. We ask whether lobbying instead can bring about stricter environmental policy, and how imperfect property ... -
Web Woman: The On-line Construction of Corporate and Gender Images
(2004)One of the many interesting applications of information technology is 'business on the net' and, within this trend, the appearance of virtual females whose job it is to assist customers by giving advice and delivering ... -
Årsberättelse 2003
(2004)Det gångna året kommer att bli svårt att slå. Forskningsinstitutet GRIs 14:e verksamhetsår har präglats av ett kraftfull erkännande i omvärlden för institutets anseende som forskningsinstitution. -
Unbundling Ex-Colonies: A Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 2001
(2004)In this comment on AJR (2001), we argue that a bundling of all former colonies into one ‘colonial’ theory of comparative development is problematic for several reasons. During the mercantilist wave of mainly Latin American ... -
Essays on Voting Power, Corporate Governance and Capital Structure
(2004)This dissertation is divided into 4 essays. Each focuses on different aspect of firm risk and corporate governance issues. It mainly deals with corporate governance issues in the context of strong owner control and its ... -
Two Essays on Valuation of Marine Resources: Applications to Sweden
(2004)Paper 1: Historical records show that the stock density of coastal cod (Gadus morhua) in the waters off the Swedish west coast is extremely low. In 2001 the stock size was two percent of the size in the 1970s. Scarce fish ... -
Essays on Immigrants' Economic Integration
(2004)This thesis consists of five papers, related to each other in terms of study-sample, study-subject or methods used. The first paper is concerned with second-generation immigrants' educational attainments, using the ... -
Monopolreglering med nätnyttomodellens princip – modellkalibrering och incitament
(2004)Revenue capping is a common way to regulate monopolistic utilities. A common suggestion when the revenue cap is cost based is that the regulator needs to determine the revenue cap so that both fixed and variable cost ... -
Identifying central bank’s preferences: the case of Poland
(2004)We seek to test the hypothesis that the weight on output gap variability in the central bank’s loss function is equal to zero in Poland. To that end we derive monetary policy reaction function from the central bank’s ... -
The Effect of Past Sickness on Current Earnings in Sweden
(2004)This paper examines whether sickness history affects annual earnings and/or hourly wages in Sweden, using a unique longitudinal database. If poor health makes people less productive, previous sickness is expected to have ...