School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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The internationalization Process of Online Service Providers – Geographical Perspectives on the Emerging Online Economy
(2016-12-08)This study is a compilation thesis consisting of an introduction and five separate articles. It explores the process of internationalization for Online Services Providers (OSPs) and its effect on the economic geography ... -
Regional wages and labour market integration in Sweden, 1732–2009
(2016-11-25)This dissertation consists of an introduction, four research papers and two papers that describe the data collected. Three county-specific data sets were constructed: one wage data set for the manufacturing sector, one ... -
Inclusive place branding – What it is and how to progress towards it
(2016-11-24)In recent years, scholars have called for a reconceptualisation of place branding. Due to the complex nature of places, the involvement of multiple stakeholders, not least residents, is critical. There is a need for several ... -
Mortality among European settlers in pre-colonial West Africa: The “White Man’s Grave” revisited
(2016-08)We have created the first longitudinal dataset following European employees of the English Royal African Company during their time in West Africa, 1683–1766. The mortality was catastrophically high with limited geographical ... -
Tolling on the River: Trade and Informal Taxation on the Congo
(2016-11)It is by now generally agreed that government corruption is a serious impediment to economic growth. An intensive use of informal tolls and bribes on roads and waterways still prevail in several developing countries, ... -
Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
(2016-11)Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level ... -
Where’s it at tonight? Discovering an urban jazz festival in Gothenburg, Sweden
(2016)This report is the result of a close study of the organization behind the GMLSTN JAZZ music festival. It comes out of a participatory study of the week-long GMLSTN JAZZ festival, which was held in Gothenburg, Sweden between ... -
Does increasing compulsory education decrease or displace adolescent crime? New evidence from administrative and victimization data
(2016-10)This paper estimates the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the implementation a reform that increases the school leaving age in Italy by one year. We find that the Reform increases the ... -
Do you trust me? – Go Fish! A Study on Trust and Fisheries Management
(2016-10)This paper investigates trust among stakeholders in fisheries management. We asked the general public, environmental bureaucrats, and recreational and commercial fishers whether they believed various stakeholders have ... -
The Fall of Capital Punishment and the Rise of Prisons: How Punishment Severity Affects Jury Verdicts
(2016-10)This paper studies the effect of punishment severity on jury decision-making using a large archival data set from the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London from 1715 to 1900. We take advantage of three natural experiments ... -
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Inequality Aversion and Marginal Income Taxation
(2016-10)This paper deals with tax policy responses to inequality aversion by examining the first-best Pareto-efficient marginal tax structure when people are inequality averse. In doing so, we distinguish between four different ... -
Social Identity and Role Models
(2016-09)We present a lab-in-the-field experiment and surveys of marginalised Roma children in Slovakia to examine whether reminding Roma of their ethnicity reduces their performance in a cognitive task. Research on social identity ... -
The rise of China: Competing or complementary to DAC aid flows in Africa?
(2016-09)This study investigates if the relationship between bilateral DAC aid and Chinese aid allocation is better described as competing aid flows, or if Chinese aid has been mainly a complement to DAC aid in Africa between the ... -
Hållbarhetsredovisningens innehåll. Vad har en inverkan på hur hållbarhetsredovisningens innehåll upprättas?
(2016-09-20)Hållbarhetsredovisningens innehåll Vad har en inverkan på hur hållbarhetsredovisningens innehåll upprättas? Sustainability accounting has the potential to help companies drive their sustainability work forward. To reach ... -
Intergenerational wealth mobility and the role of inheritance: Evidence from multiple generations
(2016-08)This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth generation, and examines how much of the parent-child association that can be explained by inheritances. ...