School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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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 effect of water and sanitation on child mortality in Egypt
(2003)This paper assesses water and sanitation’s impacts on child mortality in Egypt. The analysis is conducted using a three-part model specification, comprising discrete choice to model the child prospects of dying during ... -
Nätverksorganisering och kulturell styrning av marknaden Studie av den iranska traditionella ”Bazaaren”.
(2003)In this paper I will describe the Iranian traditional market, the so called ”Bazaar”. The Bazaar has during the latest centuries been the only major actor and played a crucial role in the countries socio-economical life. ... -
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 ... -
Farm Animal Welfare - testing for market failure
(2003)Our increasingly heterogeneous food is at least partly due to concerns over conventional production of farm livestock. Some of these new products have been demand driven while others are a result of politically decided ... -
Geography and Institutions: A Review of Plausible and Implausible Linkages
(2003)In recent years, empirical investigations have shown that various aspects of physical geography are closely related to the quality of a country’s economic institutions. For instance, distance from the equator in latitude ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Järnets tid. Den svenska landsbygdsbefolkningens järninnehav och järnkonsumtion 1750-1870
(2003)Abstract The preeindustrial possession and consumption of iron in rural Sweden 1750- 1870. (Publications of the Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg university no 89) ISSN ...