School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Policies for second generation biofuels: Current status and future challenges
(2011-05)This report reviews the current status of second generation biofuels. First generation biofuels continue to be substantially subsidized, and this has contributed to the increasing use of such fuel. However, recent studies ... -
Parallel imports and mandatory substitution reform: A kick or a muff for price competition in pharmaceuticals
(2011-04)What has been the effect of competition from parallel imports on prices of locally-sourced onpatent drugs? Did the 2002 Swedish mandatory substitution reform increase this competition? To answer these questions, we carried ... -
The Past of Present Livelihoods. Historical perspectives on modernisation, rural policy regimes and smallholder poverty - a case from Eastern Zambia
(2011-05-11)This study is an enquiry into the processes shaping rural livelihoods in peripheral areas. The study is situated in the field of livelihood research and departs in the persistent crisis within African smallholder agriculture ... -
Professionals and the New Public Management - Multi professional teamwork in psychiatric care
(2011-05-09)This study examines the cooperative work of several professions in Swedish multi-professional teams in child and adolescent psychiatric open care units in an environment of strong economic and efficiency controls resulting ... -
Parallel Trade, Reference Pricing and Competition in the Pharmaceutical Market: Theory and Evidence
(2011-05-03)Paper I. Reference Pricing: Making Parallel Trade in Pharmaceuticals Work This paper shows that parallel trade makes pharmaceutical manufacturers reduce their prices in the home (importing) country more when it is combined ... -
The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap Revisited: The Role of Emotions and Moral Satisfaction
(2011-04)While many earlier studies have found that people’s maximum willingness to pay for having a good is often substantially lower than their minimum willingness to accept not having it, more recent experimental evidence suggests ... -
Essays on Shocks, Welfare, and Poverty Dynamics: Microeconometric Evidence from Ethiopia
(2011-04-20)Five self-contained papers constitute this thesis. Paper 1: Does fertilizer use respond to rainfall variability? Panel data evidence from urban Ethiopia In this article, we use farmers’ actual experiences with changes ... -
Gender, Work, and Attitudes
(2011-04-19)Abstract The thesis consists of four self-contained papers. Paper 1: The long term effect of own and spousal parental leave on mothers’ earnings We take advantage of the introduction of a Norwegian parental leave reform ... -
Essays on Economic Behaviour: HIV/AIDS, Schooling, and Inequality
(2011-04-14)Paper 1: Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi To analyze if the spread of HIV is related to economic inequality we estimate multilevel models of the individual probability of HIV infection among young Malawian women. We ... -
Does a Diversification Motive Influence Children’s School Entry in the Ethiopian Highlands?
(2011-03)Household-level diversification of human capital investments is investigated. A simple model is developed, followed by an empirical analysis using 2000-2007 data from the rural Amhara region of Ethiopia. Diversification ... -
The Effect of Older Siblings’ Literacy on School Entry and Primary School Progress in the Ethiopian Highlands
(2011-03)The effects of older sisters’ and brothers’ literacy on the annual school entry and primary school grade progress probabilities of boys and girls are estimated using within-household variation. Older siblings’ literacy has ... -
INFERENCE PRINCIPLES FOR MULTIVARIATE SURVEILLANCE
(2011-03-29)Multivariate surveillance is of interest in industrial production as it enables the monitoring of several components. Recently there has been an increased interest also in other areas such as detection of bioterrorism, ... -
Do Microloan Officers Want to Lend to the Less Advantaged? Evidence from a Choice Experiment.
(2011-02)The mission of microfinance is generally perceived as compensation for the failure of the mainstream financial institutions to deliver access to finance to the poor. Microloan officers have significant influence on microloans ... -
Common ground for effort sharing? Preferred principles for distributing climate mitigation efforts
(2011-03)This paper fills a gap in the current academic and policy literature concerning how parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change find common ground when distributing commitments and responsibilities ... -
Bioeconomic model of spatial fishery management in developing countries
(2010-02)Fishers in developing countries do not have the resources to acquire advanced technologies to exploit offshore fish stocks. As a result, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea requires countries to sign ...