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Environmental Policy and the Size Distribution of Firms
(2015-02)In this paper we analyze the effects of environmental policies on the size distribution of firms. We model a stationary industry where the observed size distribution is a solution to the profit maximization problem of ... -
Refugee immigration and public finances in Sweden
(2015-02)This study estimates the fiscal cost of refugee immigration. This is done by calculating the total value of economic resources that are redistributed through the public sector in Sweden in 2007 to the population of immigrants ... -
Disclosures and judgment in financial reporting – Essays on accounting quality under International Financial Reporting Standards
(2015-02-19)As capital markets become more integrated and globalized, standard setting in financial accounting faces multiple challenges. Financial accounting standards must adapt and change in ways that make them usable to firms in ... -
’Året utomlands’ och det unga vuxenlivets geografi -En studie av utlandsflyttningar, vuxenblivande och transnationell rörlighet bland unga
(2015-02)Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka betydelsen av ungdomars tillfälliga utlandsflyttningar för den tidiga livsbanans utveckling och särskilt för den fortsatta transnationella rörlighetens omfattning och ... -
Personalförsörjning och validering inom Försvarsmakten
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2015)Inom ramen för forskningsprojektet Personalförsörjning och validering inom Försvarsmakten vid GRI (Gothenburg Research Institute, Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet) har intervjuer gjorts med i huvudsak officerare ... -
Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?
(2015-02)We investigate the efficiency and distributional consequences of a corruptionfighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam ... -
Sustainability objects as performative definitions of sustainability: The case of food waste-based biogas and biofertilizers
(2015-02)This article introduces the notion of sustainability objects to label objects that come with a claim to promote a more sustainable mode of living. The purpose is to show that organizations that develop such objects contribute ... -
Nedskrivning av fartyg – En studie av hur IAS 36 har tillämpats i Europeiska rederier
(2015-02-12)national Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are principle-based accounting standards that rely on management judgment and the use of private information. For this reason, it cannot be assumed that the harmonization of ... -
Geografisk tillgänglighet
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Securing Customary Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Back To Bentham: Should We? Large‐Scale Comparison of Decision versus Experienced Utility for Income‐Leisure Preferences
(2015-02)Subjective well‐being (SWB) is increasingly used as a way to measure individual well‐being. Interpreted as "experienced utility", it has been compared to "decision utility" using specific experiments (Kahneman et al., 1997) ... -
Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance: Essays on the contracting role of accounting and the effects of monitoring mechanisms
(2015-02-05)The governance and transparency in firms constitute the major concerns in today’s business. Contracts are fundamental aspects of corporations and in order to be efficient they should be designed and monitored using high ... -
On The Strategic Effect of International Permits Trading on Local Pollution: The Case of Multiple Pollutants
(2015-02)We introduce a model of strategic environmental policy where two firms compete à la Cournot in a third market under the presence of multiple pollutants. Two types of pollutants are introduced, a local and a transboundary ... -
Carbon Pricing: Transaction Costs of Emissions Trading vs. Carbon Taxes
(2015-01)In this paper we empirically compare the transaction costs from monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of two environmental regulations directed to cost-efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions: a carbon dioxide ... -
The Harrington Paradox Squared
(2015-01)Harrington (1988) shows that state-dependent enforcement based on past compliance records provides an explanation to the seemingly contradictory observation that firms' compliance with environmental regulations is high ... -
Social Democracy and the Swedish welfare model. Ideational analyses of attitudes towards competition, individualization, privatization
(2015-01-12)ABSTRACT Social Democracy and the Swedish welfare model: Ideational analyses of attitudes towards competition, individualization, privatization Gothenburg Studies in Economic History 13 (2015) ISBN 978-91-86217-12-9 ... -
Konsumtionsrapporten 2014
(2014-12)I Konsumtionsrapporten 2014 sammanfattas och analyseras hushållens privata konsumtion i Sverige under 2013. Rapporten består av två delar. I den första delen, ”Basfakta”, ges en helhetsbild av hushållens konsumtion som ... -
Ports, dock workers and labour market conflicts
(2014-12-02)ABSTRACT Ports, dock workers and labour market conflicts Gothenburg Studies in Economic History 12 (2014) ISBN : 978-91-86217-11-2 http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37421 Author: Jesper Hamark Doctoral Dissertation in ... -
A marketing design approach to destination development
(Göteborgs universitet, 2014-10-17)