School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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The Role of Corporate social disclosure -Trust, reputation or fashion tool?
(2010)Motivation: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure can be used as a device by companies to communicate accountability, by showing their vision for the future and account for past performances. If companies are ... -
Reputation Management in CSR reports - mapping theoretical perspectives
(2010)From a societal point of view environmental accounting can fill the role of information- provider in the struggle for sustainability. On the one hand, CSR reporting is used by companies to account for their social and ... -
HR-utveckling på sjukhus
(2012)In this report, the HR development at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, initiated by the ideas Human Resource Transformation, is presented. The process is analysed from three perspectives: HRT, organisational development, ... -
Dynamic Investment Models, Employment Generation and Productivity – Evidence from Swedish Data
(2012-09-28)Paper 1: Effects of shocks and uncertainty on capital and labor in a real options model with variable capacity utilization This study analyzes the effects of uncertainty on investment, capital use and labor demand, in ... -
From Boom to Bust and Back Again: A dynamic analysis of IT services
(2012-09)Aggregate shocks in demand such as the burst of the 2001 dot-com bubble affect firms’ behavior and, therefore, the market structure. This paper proposes a fully dynamic oligopoly model to evaluate the impact of aggregate ... -
Do people avoid opportunities to donate? A natural field experiment on recycling and charitable giving
(2012-09)We use a natural field experiment to investigate the hypothesis that generosity is partly involuntary, by examining whether individuals tend to avoid opportunities to act generously. In Sweden, new recycling machines for ... -
Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries
(2012-09)Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we ... -
Judgment in accounting:The case of credit losses in banks
(2012)Principles-based accounting standards require the application of profes- sional judgment in the production of nancial statements. In recent years, the bene ts of such judgment has been debated, for example in relation ... -
Do Option-like Incentives Induce Overvaluation? Evidence from Experimental Asset Markets
(2012-11 (r)One potential reason for bubbles evolving prior to the financial crisis was excessive risk taking stemming from option-like incentive schemes in financial institutions. By running laboratory asset markets, we investigate ... -
Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality, I: A Theory of Domino Effects
Numerous empirical studies show that unions reduce wage differences. But surprisingly few attempts have been made to understand why. Swedish unions reveal that the reason is both ideological and strategic. Relying on ... -
When Samuelson met Veblen abroad: National and global public good provision when social comparisons matter
(2012-09)This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. ... -
Intra-household decisions making on intertemporal choices: An experimental study in rural China
(2012-09)In this paper, we conduct a high stake experiment in rural China to investigate the determinants of individual and joint decisions regarding intertemporal choices, and estimate the relative influence of spouses on the joint ... -
Costs of misspecification in break-model unit-root tests
(2012-08)This paper examines power issues for the ADF and four break models (Perron 1989, Zivot and Andrews 1992) when the DGP corresponds to one of the break models. Choosing to test an incorrect break model can but need not ... -
Members in Tourism Settings – their motivations, behaviours and roles
(2012-08-14)Membership programs are widely-used marketing tools. Many customers belong to a number of different membership programs across a variety of organizations and contexts. Memberships are based on the idea of mutual benefits ... -
GPMS Proceedings 2011
(2012-07-03)Denna artikel presenterar resultat från en undersökning av prekvalificering i arkitekttävlingar. Avsikten är att utveckla kunskap om hur arrangörer utser arkitektkontor/team till inbjudna tävlingar. Prekvalificering är ett ... -
The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption: Evidence from a "Xeroxed" Exam
(2012-06)This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. ... -
Trade and Resources: Welfare effects of the Lake Victoria fisheries boom
(2012-05)In this paper we examine the welfare implications of the Tanzanian fisheries boom following from the increase in quantities and prices of the Lake Victoria Nile perch export during 1993-2008. We use the theoretical model ... -
The appropriate banker and the need for ontological re-positioning
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2012)It is obvious that the bankers of this world have failed miserably. Top managers have failed to know what was going on in their organization (or worse). At lower levels of bank the employees have failed to realize that ... -
Svenska arbetsgivareföreningen och arbetskraftsinvandringen 1945-1972
(2012-05-09)Labour migration to Sweden is analysed from an employer perspective. The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to determine how the Swedish Employer Confederation (SAF) and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) ...