School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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The Sustainability and Competitiveness of European Short-Sea Shipping
(2020-03-27)Several factors could improve the environmental performance of European short-sea shipping (SSS) and enhance its competitiveness, and in this thesis, some of those factors are explored. The purpose of this thesis is to ... -
Audit regulation and auditor disclosures: Essays on the consequences of ISA 701
(2020-03-19)Auditing regulations have changed over time, with the aim of increasing the quality of the audit process and audit report that assist stakeholders in decision-making. Such changes include the recent revisions and introduction ... -
Kontrollägande och uppköpsreglering - Likabehandling vid offentliga uppköpserbjudanden och effekterna i bolagsstyrningen
(2020-03-19)A question of growing importance in the corporate governance debate is shareholder engagement in listed companies, and in a legal context, what regulatory interventions that can be made to increase shareholder engagement. ... -
Economic and Intergenerational Decision-Making in Families
(2020-03-02)This thesis studies economic decision-making and preferences within the family, household and close social environment. Within these social units, individuals often make decisions on the use and allocation of resources ... -
Labour market conflicts in Scandinavia, c. 1900–1938: The scientific need to separate strikes and lockouts
(2020-02)Research on labour markets conflicts has come a long way. Today we know that conflicts vary over business cycles and with the design of labour market institutions; they tend to cluster around wars and return in longer ... -
Does teaching school children about recycling reduce household waste?
(2020-02)Reduced waste generation is a prioritized environmental policy objective in the EU as well as worldwide. We perform a randomized controlled trial in Sweden with school children aged 10-16 to evaluate an intervention ... -
Climate Policy and Financial Markets
(2020-01-07)Climate change represents a serious, as-yet-unresolved global commons problem. After decades of international climate negotiations, 195 nations adopted the Paris climate agreement in December 2015. The subsequent election ... -
TOWARDS A SOCIO-POLITICAL THEORISING OF THE CORPORATION (FIRM) – A PROBLEM STATEMENT
(Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, 2019-12)Economies and corporations are increasingly being characterized as financialized. The separation of ownership and control is at the core of this development and we depart from an understanding that Jensen & Meckling’s ... -
The role of information technology in supporting management control systems for corporate social responsibility
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Konsumtionsrapporten
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Samverkan eller allas krig mot alla. Nationella och internationella kartellsamarbeten i nordisk skogsindustri under 1900-talet
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Pharaoh´s Cage: Environmental Circumscription and Appropriability in Early State Development
(2019-11)What explains the origins and survival of the first states around five thousand years ago? In this research, we focus on the role of productivity shocks for early state development in a single region: ancient Egypt. We ... -
Exchangification of art: transforming street art into market products
(2019-11-27)Art markets are filled with tensions, often explained as an inevitable dichotomy between arts and commerce. During the last century, this phenomenon has been defined as the commodification of art. Crucial for the commodification ... -
Too LATE for Natural Experiments: A Critique of Local Average Treatment Effects Using the Example of Angrist and Evans (1998)
(2019-11)There has been a fundamental flaw in the conceptual design of many natural experiments used in the economics literature, particularly among studies aiming to estimate a local average treatment effect (LATE). When we use ... -
Sustainable Supplier Selection in the Logistics Industry: A Comparison of Alternative Approaches
(2019-11-04)Supplier selection has become one of the most crucial tasks in supply chain management, especially in the procurement function. In recent years, the importance of selecting the best possible suppliers has been enhanced due ... -
Son Preferences and Education Inequalities in India
(2019-10)We investigate the impact of son preferences in India on gender inequalities in education. We distinguish the impact of preferential treatment of boys from the impact of gender-biased fertility strategies (gender-specific ... -
The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime
(2019-10)This paper evaluates how the introduction of professional police forces affected crime using two natural experiments in history: the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police (the first police force ever tasked ... -
The Persistence of the Criminal Justice Gender Gap: Evidence from 200 Years of Judicial Decisions
(2019-10)We document persistent gender gaps favoring females in jury convictions and judge sentences in nearly 200 years of London trials, which are unexplained by case characteristics. We find that three sharp changes in punishment ... -
Political Economy of Listing of Substances of Very High Concern in the European REACH Regulation
(2019-10)The Candidate List of the European Union regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals—known as REACH— gives advanced information to industry and other stakeholders about substances ...