School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Trust, Trust Games and Stated Trust: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
(2005)Levels of trust are measured by asking standard survey questions on trust and by observing the behaviour in a trust game using a random sample in rural Bangladesh. Follow-up questions and correlations between the sent ... -
Omstrukturering, omställning och kompetensväxling
(2005)Svenska företag har under 90-talet omstrukturerat sin verksamhet i snabbt tempo. Det finns många orsaker till detta. Avreglering av marknader, teknikutveckling, globalisering, värderingsförskjutningar hos kunder är några ... -
Endogenous Institutional Change After Independence
(2005)A key event in economic history was the independence of nearly ninety former colonies after World War II. On the basis of qualitative and quantitative evidence, we argue that independence often constituted an institutional ... -
Tax avoidance and intra-family transfers
(2005)To what extent do people avoid taxes on intra-family transfers (bequests and gifts), and how would integration (unification) of the different transfers taxes affect tax avoidance? These issues are important for families ... -
Are Vietnamese Farmers Concerned with their Relative Position in Society?
(2005)This paper examines the attitude towards relative position or status among rural households in Vietnam. On average, the respondents show weaker preferences for relative position than in comparable studies in Western ... -
Demand for Coffee: The Role of Prices, Preferences and Market Power
(2005)The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of prices in determining demand for roasted coffee in Sweden. This is of interest because many believe that consumer prices are high relative to green coffee-bean prices, ... -
Income Generation in the African and Coloured Population: Three essays on the origins of household incomes in South Africa
(2005)The dissertation comprises three empirical analyses focusing on the origins of South African households’ income sources. The income sources are categorized to reflect the households’ varying extent of economic core sector ... -
Community-based customer involvement for improving packaged software development
(2004)Noting the widespread use of virtual communities for interacting with customers, this thesis explores the role of virtual communities for involving distributed customers in packaged software development (psd) and the ... -
Essays on Information and Conflicts of Interest in Stock Recommendations
(2005)This thesis brings together three separate empirical essays on the information and conflicts of interest in stock recommendations. The first essay analyzes stock-price reactions to recommendations published in printed ... -
The evolution of a new(s) genre
(2004)This thesis describes and analyzes how the online newspaper genre has evolved since its inception on the Internet in the mid-nineties. The overall research question is: What characterizes the online newspaper genre evolution? ... -
Predictive regressions with panel data
(2005)This paper analyzes econometric inference in predictive regressions in a panel data setting. In a traditional time-series framework, estimation and testing are often made diffcult by the endogeneity and near persistence ... -
Volatility of the Stochastic Discount Factor, and the Distinction between Risk-Neutral and Objective Probability Measures
(2005)This paper derives a measure that characterizes the distance between the risk-neutral and the objective probability measures for any candidate asset pricing model. We formally show that the distance metric is equal to the ... -
Child-care quality and fee structure: Effects on labor supply and leisure composition
(2005)This paper studies the effects of public child-care subsidies on parental time allocation. We develop a model where parents are allowed to utilize subsidized care during both working and leisure hours. The model distinguishes ... -
Does Benefit Transfer Always Work: a Multi-country Comparison
(2005)This paper analyzes the welfare effects of a 50 percent reduction in air pollution caused by road traffic in both Cairo (Egypt) and Rabat-Salé (Morocco) using a contingent valuation method with identical elicitation ... -
On the Predictability of Global Stock Returns
(2005)Stock return predictability is a central issue in empirical finance. Yet no comprehensive study of international data has been performed to test the predictive ability of lagged explanatory variables. In fact, most stylized ... -
Four Essays on the Measurement of Productive Efficiency
(2004)This collection of essays contains two kinds of contributions. All four essays include applications of the existing DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) toolbox on real world datasets. But the main contribution is that they ... -
Modeller för internprissättning: Re-analys av experimentella tester
(2004)Dejong et.al. (1989) and Avila & Ronen (1999 conduct experimental tests of various transfer pricing mechanisms. The resulting quantity data is transformed to efficiency measures which the authors analyse primarily through ...