School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Essays on ownership and control: Shareholder wealth effects in takeovers and the measurement of ownership concentration
(2012-02-01)The dissertation consists of three essays, two on takeovers and one on the measurement of ownership concentration. Cross-border acquisitions and insider ownership studies whether there is a cross-border effect in returns ... -
Motivated Agents with Career Concerns: Signalling skills and organizational involvement
(2012-01)The paper studies the interaction between two kinds of incentives: career concerns and intrinsic motivation emerging from agent’s alignment with organization’s objectives or another source of organizational involve- ment. ... -
Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
(2012-01)We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger ... -
From formal employment to street vending: Women’s room to maneuver and labor market decisions under conditions of export-orientation – the case of Penang, Malaysia.
(2012-01-09)This study is a compilation thesis consisting of an introduction and four separate papers. It is an inquiry into women‟s working lives in Penang, Malaysia. The export-oriented development model adopted in Malaysia stimulated ... -
How Category Reporting Can Improve Fundraising
(2011-12)Many fundraisers report donations using categories such as more than £ 1000, more than £ 10,000 etc. One naturally wonders how we should categorise donations and whether category reporting can raise more funds than simple ... -
Why Do Environmental Taxes Work Better in Developed Countries?
(2011-12)We compare of the performance of emission taxes between Colombia and Sweden in an experimental setting where subjects are regulated through environmental taxes and had to decide on emission levels, compliance behavior, and ... -
Disclosure on Investor Relations Websites
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Att skapa familj i en värld av pengar. Julklappsköp som överflödshantering
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East African Community: Pre-conditions for an Effective Monetary Union
(2011-12)Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda signed the Treaty for the establishment of the East African Community (EAC) in 1999, which entered into force in July 2000. In 2007 it was signed by Burundi and Rwanda. According to the Treaty, ... -
The industrial exporter-distributor trade relationship - A portrayal of the development path derived from diverging agendas
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Konsumtionsrapporten 2011
(2011)I Konsumtionsrapporten 2011 sammanfattas och analyseras hushållens privata konsumtion i Sverige under 2010. Rapporten inleds med en översikt av offentlig statistik om hushållens utgifter och välbefinnande. Därefter analyseras ... -
Group Decision Making Under Risk: An experiment with student couples
(2011-12)In an experiment, we study risk-taking of cohabitating student couples, finding that couples’ decisions are closer to risk-neutrality than single partners’ decisions. This finding is similar to earlier experiments with ... -
From Cost Accounting to Customer Accounting in the Hospitality Industry - a Constructive Approach
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Operational freight transport efficiency - a critical perspective
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Loss evasion and tax aversion
(2011-11)The objective of this paper is to study if taxpayers behave in a loss averse manner when filing their tax returns. This is important for tax design but also for understanding human behavior in general. The predictions of ... -
Should we tax or let firms trade emissions? An experimental analysis with policy implications for developing countries
(2011-09)In this paper we use laboratory experiments to test the theoretical predictions derived by Villegas-Palacio and Coria (2010) about the effects of the interaction between technology adoption and incomplete enforcement. They ... -
Kreativa individers bostadsområden och arbetsställen – Belysta mot bakgrund av näringslivets omvandling och förändringar i bebyggelsestrukturen i Göteborg
(2011-11-18)Creative individuals’ residential areas and places of work In light of economic transformation and changes in the urban structure in Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden. This thesis studies the residential areas and places ...