School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Contested legitimacy: The shrimp sustainability case in Sweden
(2020-09-01)The world faces a plethora of serious challenges. The current SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic, Australian bushfires of 2019−2020 and rapid decline in global fish stocks are just a few of numerous recent events which highlight the ... -
Why are firms conducting entrepreneurial actions?
(2020-09-01)This dissertation is concerned with the concept of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and, more specifically, the question ‘Why are firms conducting entrepreneurial actions?’ This question rests upon two premises. First, ... -
Jordnaturernas fördelning i Sveriges län år 1700. En rekonstruktion, samt en jämförelse med förhållandena vid 1500-talets mitt
(2020-08)From the mid-16th to the early 20th century, Swedish farms were divided in three cadastral categories: tax, crown and exempt land. In 1700, each category made up for about a third of the farms, but precise information ... -
Determinants of Economies of Scope in Retail
(2020-08)This paper studies the determinants of economies of scope and quantifies their impact on the extensive and intensive product margins in retail. We use a framework based on a multiproduct technology to model stores’ incentives ... -
Convergence rate of estimators of clustered panel models with misclassification
(2020-08)We study kmeans clustering estimation of panel data models with a latent group structure and N units and T time periods under long panel asymptotics. We show that the group-speci c coe cients can be estimated at the ... -
Assessing the Performance of Alternative Water and Sanitation Tariffs: The Case of Nairobi, Kenya
(2017-12)Policy makers and utility managers can use a variety of tariff structures to calculate customers’ bills for water and sanitation services, ranging from a simple flat monthly fee to complicated multipart tariffs with seasonal ... -
The Impact of Micro Hydroelectricity on Household Welfare Indicators
(2017-12)The use of small-scale off-grid renewable energy for rural electrification is now seen as one sustainable energy solution. The expectations from such small-scale investment include meeting basic household energy needs and ... -
Evaluating Rural Electrification: Illustrating Research Gaps with the Case of Bhutan
(2017-12)Electrification, especially rural electrification (RE), is a core component of the Sustainable Development Goals and a major focal point of the global development community. Despite this focus, more than one billion people ... -
Chinese Local Residents’ Attitudes toward Shale Gas Exploitation: The Role of Energy Poverty, Environmental Awareness, and Benefit and Risk Perceptions
(2017-12)This study investigates Chinese local residents’ attitudes toward shale gas exploitation through an interview of 730 local residents in two counties of Sichuan Province (Weiyuan County and Gong County) and explores the ... -
One-Off Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption: Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal
(2017-11)Free technology distribution can be an effective development policy instrument if adoption is socially inefficient and hampered by affordability constraints. Yet, policy makers often oppose free distribution, arguing that ... -
:Social Norms Information Treatments in the Municipal Water Supply Sector Some New Insights on Benefits and Costs
(2017-11)Social norms comparisons are tools that are being used more and more often by energy and water utilities all over the world in order to induce households to conserve resources. Such conservation programs are appealing to ... -
Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
(2017-11)The cost of providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is significant. High hopes are pinned on market-based dissemination of off-grid technologies to complement the expensive ... -
Risk Preferences and the Poverty Trap: A Look at Farm Technology Uptake amongst Smallholder Farmers in the Matzikama Municipality
(2017-10)This study looks at the determinants of farm technology uptake, with attention to farmers’ risk preference and income. We use a field experiment to elicit measures of risk aversion, loss aversion, and non-linear weights ... -
Households’ Risk Perceptions in Response to Shale Gas Exploitation: Evidence from China
(2017-10)In 2014, China became the world’s third country to realize shale gas commercial development, following the United States and Canada. So far, there has been a lack of comprehensive discussion on risk perception related to ... -
Closing wells; fossil exploration and abandonment in the energy transition
(2020-08)Despite ambitious climate goals and already substantial stocks of developed fossil energy reserves, development of new fossil energy reserves continues to be high. This raises concerns, as it reinforces the fossil industry’s ... -
Determinants of Successful Collective Management of Forest Resources: Evidence from Kenyan Community Forest Associations
(2017-10)Participation of local communities in management and utilization of forest resources through collective action has become widely accepted as a possible solution to failure of centralized, top-down approaches to forest ... -
Determinants of Adoption and Impacts of Sustainable Land Management and Climate Smart Agricultural Practices (SLM-CSA) :Panel Data Evidence from the Ethiopian Highlands
(2017-08)This paper analyzes the factors affecting adoption of sustainable land management and climate smart agricultural (SLM-CSA) practices (in particular tree planting, soil conservation and intercropping) and the effects of ... -
Interaction between Crop Insurance and Technology Adoption Decisions: The Case of Wheat Farmers in Chile
(2017-08)This paper examines relationships between crop insurance participation and input technology decisions among Chilean wheat farmers. Using nation-wide farm-level data from the National Agriculture and Forestry Census (INE ... -
High Daytime and Nighttime Temperatures Exert Large and Opposing Impacts on Winter Wheat Yield in China
(2017-07)We analyzed a provincial-scale data set of observed winter wheat yield, together with fine-scale daily weather outcomes from 1979 to 2011, to assess the responses of winter wheat yield in China to changes in the daytime ...