School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Mother’s Time Allocation, Child Care and Child Cognitive Development
(2017-02)This paper analyzes the effects of maternal employment and non-parental child care on child cognitive development, taking into account the mother's time allocation between leisure and child-care time. I estimate a behavioral ... -
How long do you think it will take? Field Evidence on Gender Differences in Time Optimism
(2017-02)Evidence from ten natural field studies comparing long-distance runners' incentivized predictions of race finishing time with their actual finishing time is reported. A modest but regular bias is found. Male runners are ... -
Healthy by Association: The effect of social participation on self-rated physical and psychological well-being
(2017-02)This paper investigates the effect of active social participation on individual self-rated physical and psychological well-being. The theoretical model shows that individual's health investment increases if he invests time ... -
The ecological footprint of early-modern commodities Coefficients of land use per unit of product
(2017-02)Land availability and overseas trade have been central topics in economic history. The current paper contributes to this literature by setting the empirical foundations necessary for the calculation of the direct ecological ... -
Real-Estate Agent Commission Structure and Sales Performance
(2017-02)Do higher real-estate agent fees imply better performance? This study uses a nation-wide dataset of residential real-estate transactions in the Netherlands from 1985 to 2011 to provide evidence against this. Brokers with ... -
Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance
(2017-02)We test whether different empirical methods give different results when evaluating job-search assistance programs. Budgetary problems at the Dutch unemployment insurance (UI) administration in March 2010, caused a sharp ... -
Nudging à la carte – A field experiment on food choice
(2017-02)We test the effect of framing of a menu on the choice of ordering climate friendly dishes in a randomized controlled experiment. Rearranging the menu in favor of vegetarian food has a large and significant effect on the ... -
Would I lie to you? Strategic deception in the face of uncertain penalties
(2017-01)Using an experiment we investigate the effect of different centralised punishment mechanisms on deception and beliefs about deception in a principal-agent interaction that resembles many everyday expert advisor - client ... -
A Spatial Analysis of Foreign Aid and Civil Society
(2017-01)We use a Spatial Durbin Model to examine the relationship between civil society aid projects and measures of civil society including membership and participation in community groups and satisfaction with democracy in Nigeria ... -
Prices versus Standards and Firm Behavior: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
(2017-01)We conduct an artefactual field experiment in which 164 managers and senior advisors recruited from Swedish industry were presented with a task of maximizing net revenue from abatement investments under three different ... -
The effect of land lease on house prices
(2017-01)In Amsterdam, houses located on private land and houses with various land-lease contracts coexist. In this paper, we investigate the impact of future land-lease payments on the house price. We look at the impact on house ... -
CDS INDEX OPTIONS UNDER INCOMPLETE INFORMATION
(2016-12)We derive practical formulas for CDS index spreads in a credit risk model under incomplete information. The factor process driving the default intensities is not directly observable, and the filtering model of Frey & Schmidt ... -
Optimal Environmental Road Pricing and Integrated Daily Commuting Patterns
(2016-12)Road pricing can improve air quality by reducing and spreading traffic flows. Nevertheless, air quality does not depend only on traffic flows, but also on pollution dispersion. In this paper we investigate the effects of ... -
Corrupt Bureaucrats: The Response of Non-Elected Officials to Electoral Accountability
(2016-12)Modern state bureaucracies are designed to be insulated from political interference. Successful insulation implies that politicians' electoral incentives do not affect bureaucrats' corruption. I test this prediction by ... -
Cooperation under risk and ambiguity
(2016-12)The return from investments in public goods is almost always uncertain, in contrast to the most common setup in the existing empirical literature. We study the impact of natural uncertainty on cooperation in a social dilemma ... -
How Policy Legitimacy Affects Policy Support Throughout the Policy Cycle
(2016-12)We analyze the importance of legitimacy and compare how drivers of public policy attitudes evolve across the policy process consisting of the input (i.e. the processes forgoing acquisition of power and the procedures ... -
Interactions among High-Frequency Traders
(2016-12)Using unique transactions data for individual high-frequency trading (HFT) firms in the U.K. equity market, we examine the extent to which the trading activity of individual HFT firms is correlated with each other and the ... -
Konsumtionsrapporten 2016 - Hållbarhetens illusion
(Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2016)Hushållens totala konsumtion uppgick till 1826 miljarder kronor under 2015. Hushållen konsumerade 2,8 % mer jämfört med 2014 och 23 % mer jämfört med 2005. Mellan 2014 och 2015 ökade konsumtionen i stort sett på alla ... -
Understanding recreational landscapes. Developing a knowledge base on outdoor recreation monitoring in Swedish coastal and marine areas.
(2016-12-16)This PhD thesis concerns the role and importance of outdoor recreation monitoring in the management of coastal and marine areas in Sweden – a topic that in spite its importance has eluded attention, both in research circles ... -
Career in Swedish retail
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2016)A career in retailing is to a large extent a boundaryless career. A career in retail does not limit the individual to a single organisation, to a single role/position, or to a hierarchical rung on the organisational ladder. ...