School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Maximum Likelihood Ratio based small-sample tests for random coefficients in linear regression
(2003)Two small-sample tests for random coefficients in linear regression are derived from the Maximum Likelihood Ratio. The first test has previously been proposed for testing equality of fixed effects, but is here shown to ... -
Skolan och informationstekniken - en fallstudie av grundskola och gymnasium i Alingsås
(2003)This paper is the second of six case studies in a research project ”The school and information- and communication technology (ICT)”. This study is taking place in the municipality of Alingsås. The results of the study show ... -
On Institutions, Economic Growth and the Environment
(2003)This thesis analyzes economic growth and the environment by including institutional aspects and specific innovation mechanisms. It contains an introduction and five separate studies. Paper 1: The Effect of Democracy on ... -
On the problem of optimal inference for time heterogeneous data with error components regression structure
(2003)Time heterogeneity, or the fact that subjects are measured at different times, occurs frequently in non-experimental situations. For time heterogeneous data having error components regression structure it is demonstrated ... -
The Role of Trust in Accounting Research
(2003)The purpose of this paper is to present a review of the knowledge about the trust concept and its application within the accounting research context. This is done by examining the different ontological and epistemological ... -
The Break-Up of Municipalities- Voting Behavior in Local Referenda
(2003)This paper examines the economic and political conditions that influence people’s attitudes regarding a municipality break-up. The theoretical model predicts intra-municipal differences in tax bases, political preferences, ... -
Gunnar Westin Silverstolpe – folkbildare, poet och naivistisk nationalekonom
(2003)Denna text handlar om Gunnar Westin Silverstolpe, den förste professorn i nationalekonomi vid Göteborgs Handelshögskola. En kortfattad bakgrund tecknas i form av Göteborgs Högskolas tillkomst 1891 som en kompromiss mellan ... -
SELF IMAGE AND CHOICE EXPERIMENTS: HYPOTHETICAL AND ACTUAL WILLINGNESS TO PAY
(2003)This paper proposes that people derive utility from a positive self-image, influenced by ethical views, internal honesty, and consistency between sequential choices. A model is tested by conducting the same choice-experiment ... -
What contributes to life satisfaction in transitional Romania?
(2003)This paper analyzes life satisfaction in Romania in 2001, 12 years after the collapse of communism and the beginning of the transition into a market economy. Using a survey of 1770 individuals, we find that our results ... -
Language and Scientific Publication Statistics: a Note
(2003)The number of contributions to scientific journals by authors from various OECD countries in 1998-2000 according to the commonly used ISI databases SSCI, A&HCI, and SCI Expanded is in focus. The number of contributions per ... -
Investment in Electronic Commerce − A Real Options Approach
(2003)In recent years substantial investments have been made in eCommerce projects. Some of them seem to have been profitable. In other cases there has not yet been enough demand to generate a cash flow large enough to guarantee ... -
Leveransalternativ för e-handel med dagligvaror
(2003)In order to attain sustainability for the industry, the inhabitants and the environment, it is important to study city goods transportation systems. Reasons for focusing on e-grocery (groceries shopped over the Internet) ... -
Studies on Household Labor Supply and Home Production
(2003)This thesis consists of four self-contained empirical studies on different topics in labor economics based on the Swedish data. Short summaries on each paper are given below: Paper [1]: The aim is to construct models ... -
The Fisher Effect and The Long- Run Phillips Curve --in the case of Japan, Sweden and Italy
(2003)The object of the paper is to attempt to assess the two classical long-run neutrality; the Fisherian link between inflation rate and nominal interest rate, and the natural rate hypothesis proposed by Friedman(1968) and ... -
Human Resource Disclosures - A Comparison of Information, Providers and Users in Two Corporations
(2003)Abstract: This paper is concerned with the relationship between information, providers and users of human resources disclosure in advanced annual reporting practice. Opposing prior disclosure research the focus of this ... -
Should policy be concerned with objective or subjective risks?
(2003)Much psychological evidence suggests that people’s risk-perceptions are biased. This paper assumes that public policy should intrinsically be concerned with people’s expected welfare, rather than their preferences, which ... -
Sju porträtt av chefer inom Västra Götalands regionen
(2003)In the study three themes characterising management in the health care sector have emerged: Generation, Power, and Gender. These three themes are closely inter-connected, and in the managerial and power positions we can ... -
Ungdomars användning av dator, internet och mobiltelefon - Konsekvenser för vardagslivets geografiska dimensioner
(2002)SAMMANFATTNING Syftet med denna rapport är att undersöka hur ungdomar i sin vardag använder sig av olika former av informations- och kommunikationsteknologi (IKT: dator, internet, mobil och fast telefon) och hur användningen ... -
Action towards time structures in product development processes - observations on the micro level
(2003)In product development processes conventional wisdom has it that structure is provided by strict specifications of product properties, budgets and time schedules that are followed up (Womack et al 1990, Clark & Fujimoto, ...