School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Effects of Economic Freedom on Growth and the Environment - Implications for Cross-Country Analysis
(2003)The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effects of specific economic freedom categories on both economic growth and the environment, and present some important considerations for cross-country regressions. First, ... -
Child mortality, wealth and education: direct versus indirect effects
(2003)Controlling for the Egyptian household choice of health infrastructure (i.e., sanitation facility and water accessibility) is done by means of a discrete choice approach consistent with the random utility model. Evidence ... -
Are Commercial Fishers Risk Lovers?
(2003)Empirical studies of fishers’ preferences have found that most fishers are risk-averse, while expected-utility theory predicts risk neutrality even for sizable stakes. We test this prediction using data from a stated choice ... -
Anyone for Higher Speed Limits? - Self-Interested and Adaptive Political Preferences
(2003)Swedish survey-evidence indicates that variables reflecting self-interest are important in explaining people’s preferred speed limits, and that political preferences adapt to technological development. Drivers of cars ... -
Congo: The Prize of Predation
(2003)The article analyzes the war against Mobutu (1996-97) and the more recent war (1998-) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with particular attention to greed and grievance as motivating factors in these two wars. Whereas ... -
Projects and core values
(2002)Premium products do not speak for themselves! We do! When we experience them. We give them meaning by putting the core values that the products exhibit in context. The brand values provide a bridge between customer values ... -
Temporary work agencies and equilibrium unemployment
(2002)A striking feature of OECD labor markets in the 1990s has been the very rapid increase of temporary agency work. We augment the equilibrium unemployment model as developed by Pissarides and Mortensen with temporary work ... -
Price and Frequency Choice under Monopoly and Competition in Aviation Markets
(2002)Using data on 172 city-pair markets in eight European countries, we investigate the effect of the market structure on airlines choices of frequency and prices. Applying an address model, we show that equilibrium prices ... -
Kvinnors hälsa – en fråga om medvetenhet, möjligheter och makt - Att öka förståelsen för människors livssammanhang genom tidsgeografisk analys
(2002)This thesis is an exploratory and action-oriented study, with a focus on the present societal problem of long-term sick leave. It deals with people’s efforts to keep their health when it is threatened and to regain it when ... -
Nordic Management & Business Administration Research - Quo Vadis?
(2002)This paper deals with the ongoing debate as to whether there is a Nordic research tradition in management and business administration. And if there is such a tradition, what are the characteristics of this way of academic ... -
Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Evidence from Household Panel Surveys
(2002)The paper investigates the poverty impact of growth in Ethiopia by analysing panel data covering the period 1994 to 1997, a period of economic recovery driven by good weather, peace, and much improved macro economic ... -
Partisan differences in Swedish macroeconomic policy
(2002)The purpose of this paper is to trace partisan differences among Swedish governments during the period 1958-1998. According to the Partisan Theory of macroeconomic policy left-wing governments are relatively more ... -
Software Practice Improvement
(2002)Software Process Improvement (SPI) is a systematic approach used to improve the capabilities of software organisations. One basic idea in SPI is to assess the organisations’ current practice and improve their software ...