School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Introduktionen av ett försök att förnya sjukhusvården - ringar skrivna på vattnet
(2013-09-06)Introducing an effort to reform hospital care – ripples on water This study deals with organizational change in the health care sector. Can a hospital change itself? Previous studies have pointed to difficulties. The ... -
Lock-in as make-believe – Exploring the role of myth in the lock-in of high mobility systems
(2013-09-06)All human practices are, ultimately, set and defined by limits; be they social, economic, physical, or environmental. Yet even in the face of such realities, practices which transgress the confines of possibility remain ... -
Essays on Environmental Taxation and Climate Policy
(2013-08-23)Paper I: Greenhouse gas taxes on animal food products - rationale, tax scheme and climate mitigation effects Agriculture is responsible for 25–30% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but has thus far ... -
Water Demand and Financing in Rwanda: An Empirical Analysis
(2013-08-23)Abstracts Paper 1: Water demand by unconnected households in urban districts of Rwanda In this paper, we analyse water demand by households in urban districts in Rwanda who currently lack a piped connection into their ... -
Adult Mortality, AIDS and Fertility in Rural Malawi
(2013-08)The impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa has received attention recently, since changes in population structure can impact on future economic development. We analyze the effect of AIDS on actual and ... -
Corruption along ethnic lines: A study of individual corruption experiences in 17 African countries
(2013-08)While a growing literature relates macro variation in corruption to ethnic divisions, existing studies have paid little attention to the possible existence of systematic micro variation in corruption along ethnic lines. ... -
Intertemporal choice shifts in households: Do they occur and are they good?
(2013-06)We examine whether and to what extent joint choices are more or less patient and time-consistent than individual choices in households. We use data from an artefactual field experiment where both individual and joint time ... -
Resilience in Transport Services - Focus on Constraints
(2013-06-14)The Swedish industry needs fast and reliable goods transport services. In this study, data from transport buying companies are analysed to assess if Transport Providers are able to keep up with industrial Buyers’ demands ... -
Tangible Temptation in the Social Dilemma: Cash, cooperation, and self-control
(2013-05)The social dilemma may contain, within the individual, a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and better judgment to cooperate. Examining the argument from the perspective of temptation, we pair the public ... -
Rejection Probabilities for a Battery of Unit-Root Tests
(2013-05)If the researcher tests each model in a battery at the a % significance level, the probability that at least one test rejects is generally larger than a %. For five unit-root models, this paper uses Monte Carlo simulation ... -
Styrelsens användning av ekonomistyrning i entreprenöriella processer
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Essays on trade unions and functional income distribution
(2013-05-27)This dissertation consists of four research papers and an introduction. The overarching theme for the four papers is the relationship between employers and employees in the labour market, or in more macroeconomic terms the ... -
Essays on the Economics of Air Quality Control
(2013-05-23)Abstracts. This thesis consists of five self-contained chapters: Chapter 1: Effects of driving restrictions on air quality and car use in Bogota Rationing car use at certain times of the day based on license plate numbers ... -
Spatial Policies and Land Use Patterns: Optimal and market allocations
(2013-05)Environmental conditions and pollution levels have been proven to affect firms and households location decisions in various ways. In this paper, we study the opti- mal and equilibrium distribution of industrial and ... -
Household Decision Making, Time Preferences, and Positional Concern: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
(2013-05-14)Paper I: Intra-household Decisions Making on Intertemporal Choices: An Experimental Study in Rural China. In this paper, we conduct an artefactual field experiment in rural China to investigate ... -
Vidta alla åtgärder som behövs – en rättvetenskaplig studie av arbetsgivarens ansvar att förebygga stressrelaterad ohälsa och uppnå en god psykosocial arbetsmiljö
(2013-05-14)Prevention of stress related ill-health is one of the most important occupational health and safety issues of our time. The Swedish Work Environment Act imposes extensive requirements regarding the psychosocial work ... -
Essays on Behavioral Economics and Policies for Provision of Ecosystem Services
(2013-04-30)Abstract Paper 1: Incentives, Impacts, and Behavioural Issues in the Context of Payment for Ecosystem Services Programmes: Lessons for REDD+ Payment for environmental services (PES) aims to increase the provision of ...