School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution
(2013-01)Common identity and peer punishment have been identified as important means to reduce free riding and to promote cooperation in teamwork settings. This paper examines the relative importance of these two mechanisms, as ... -
I förändringens tid - vardagsberättelser från Försvarsmakten
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2012-12)Inom ramen för forskningsprojektet Personalförsörjning och validering inom Försvarsmakten vid GRI (Gothenburg Research Institute, Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet) presenteras i denna rapport en sammanställning ... -
Integrating Soil Science into Agricultural Production Frontiers
(2012-12)This paper integrates soil science variables into an economic analysis of agricultural output among small-scale farmers in Kenya’s highlands. The integration is valuable because farmers’ choice of inputs depends on both ... -
The Persistence of Subjective Poverty in Urban Ethiopia
(2012-12)Using panel data spanning 15 years, this paper investigates the persistence and correlates of subjective and consumption poverty in urban Ethiopia. Despite the decline in consumption poverty in recent years, which has been ... -
Life Satisfaction in Urban Ethiopia: Trends and determinants
(2012-12)Most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity. In this paper, we use three rounds of panel data and ... -
Konsumtionsrapporten 2012
(Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2012-12)I Konsumtionsrapporten 2012 sammanfattas och analyseras hushållens privata konsumtion i Sverige under 2011. Rapporten består av två delar. I den första delen, ”Basfakta”, ges en helhetsbild av hushållens konsumtion som ... -
Lönsamhet och finansiell flexibilitet. Rederinäringen i Sverige 1997 - 2006
(2012-12-12)This study investigates if financial flexibility can explain firm performance in terms of profitability using financial data from all Swedish shipping companies during the period 1997-2006. Financial flexibility is the ... -
The Value of Cultural Institutions – Measurement and Description
(2012-11-30)Resources are invested to maintain cultural institutions and society has an interest in the efficient allocation of these resources. To understand efficiency, the costs incurred in monetary units need to be compared to the ... -
Essays on the Economics of Sustainable Agricultural Technologies in Ethiopia
(2012-11-30)Abstracts This thesis consists of five self-contained papers: Paper 1: Adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices in rural Ethiopia The adoption and diffusion of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) ... -
Vara och märkas – unga konsumenters relationer till klädindustrins varumärken
(2012-11-30)To brand and to be branded – Young consumers’ relations to clothing brands Brands – the logos of the global economy – have received attention both inside and outside marketing research as key symbols of our time and as ... -
Lobbying, konsensus och egenintresse. Användarrepresentanters upplevelser av standardiseringsprocessen
(Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2012-11)Rapporten presenterar resultatet av en undersökning om slutanvändarrepresentanters deltagande i standardiseringsprocesser på svensk och internationell nivå. Syftet är att redovisa och analysera hinder och framgångsfaktorer ... -
Households' income-generating activities and marginal returns to labor in rural Tanzania
(2012-11)This study uses detailed household-level data to investigate income and activity diversification among households in rural Tanzania. Unlike previous research on diversification, I explicitly evalutate marginal returns ... -
Platsen som resurs för små och medelstora företag
(2012-11-20)Studien handlar om utveckling i småföretag med hänsyn till resurser och platsbundenhet. Småföretagens ägare reinvesterar i sina företag och tar inte ut några övervinster utan driver sina verksamheter på ett långsiktigt ... -
Strategies for Environmental Sustainability of Municipal Energy Companies. Pathways of Sustainable Development between Business and Society.
(2012-11-12)Carbon emissions from energy production have a severe impact on the global climate. The slow transformation of the energy system towards low-carbon alternatives is thus a serious concern. Sweden is recognized as a forerunner ... -
Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services Provision: A Tale of Confused Objectives, Mulitple Market Failures and Policy Challenges
(2012-10)Most research and funding in conservation has been oriented toward biodiversity per se. Until recently there has been little tangible effort in linking conservation to ecosystem service provision. Nevertheless, this trend ... -
Essays in Political Economy of Development
(2012-11-05)Paper 1: Social Conflict, Fractionalization, and Polarization We develop a Conflict model linking Conflict intensity to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest ... -
Redovisning av immateriella tillgångar i samband med förvärvskalkylering - principbaserade redovisningsregler och relevans
(2012-10-26)In recent decades we have moved into an economy that is both knowledge-driven and technology-based. This has resulted in intangible assets representing an increasingly larger proportion of total investments carried out by ... -
A Markov Copula Model of Portfolio Credit Risk with Stochastic Intensities and Random Recoveries
(2012-10)In [4], the authors introduced a Markov copula model of portfolio credit risk. This model solves the top-down versus bottom-up puzzle in achieving efficient joint calibration to single-name CDS and to multi-name CDO ... -
The use of corporate responsibility reports – For managing legitimacy
(2011)Society acknowledge that companies’ operations have an impact on their surrounding, as a result companies are no longer only held responsible for maximizing shareholders’ value but also for their operations’ environmental ... -
Successful inflation targeting in Mozambique despite vulnerability to internal and external shocks
(2012-09)Inflation has proven to be an important obstacle to successful economic adjustment in many countries. Despite both internal and external shocks to the economy, Mozambique has succeeded in controlling the inflation to gain ...