Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Aid and child health: Local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-11)Abstract: Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, ... -
Why known unknowns may be better than knowns, and how that matters for the evolution of happiness
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)Rayo and Becker (2007) model happiness as an imperfect measurement tool: It provides a partial ordering of alternative courses of actions. In this note, decisionmakers use their inability to rank two actions, to infer ... -
Leading by example? EU citizens’ preferences for climate leadership
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)For global problems like climate change, strong international agreements are difficult to achieve. Alternative solutions might therefore be necessary. In this paper, we study the support for climate leadership in seven ... -
Isolating nature from nurture: Does exposure to business and economics education make students more selfinterested?
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)Does exposure to business and economics education make students more self-interested and less interested in a career that would contribute to a better society? Using a panel dataset of more than 900 individuals from a ... -
Det ekonomiska tänkandets historia
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Electoral Cycles, Conflict, Crime, and Pro-environmental Behavior
(2022-08-19)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters. The first two focus on violent conflicts: international collective action to mitigate them and their violent and international spill-over effects. The third chapter ... -
Sustainability preferences and financial decision-making among mutual fund investors
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)In our representative sample of Swedish mutual fund investors, those who are sustainability motivated perceive investment choices more difficult than other investors. Of those who are sustainability motivated, 38 percent ... -
The Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Swedish Shrimp Fishers
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)This paper explores the effect of the perceived risk of the Swedish people of Covid-19 on daily auctioned shrimp prices from the start of the pandemic to the end of the year 2021. This topic is of interest to see whether ... -
Sexual objectification of women in media and the gender wage gap: Does exposure to objectifying pictures lower the reservation wage?
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)Using an online experiment, we investigate the influence of sexual objectification in media on economic decision making. In the experiment, subjects are asked to evaluate advertisements in women’s magazines. In the treatment ... -
Saddlepoint approximations for credit portfolios with stochastic recoveries
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)We study saddlepoint approximations to the tail-distribution for different credit portfolio losses in continuous time intensity based models which stochastic recoveries, under conditional independent homogeneous settings. ... -
Individual Carbon Footprint Reduction: Evidence from Pro-environmental Users of a Carbon Calculator
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-05)We provide the first estimates of how pro-environmental consumers reduce their total carbon footprint using a carbon calculator that covers all financial transactions. We use data from users of a carbon calculator that ... -
Specification of the Health Production Function and its Behavioral Implications
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-05)The health production function of the canonical health-capital model is generalized to allow the state of health to affect the total and marginal products of health investment. If the total and marginal products of health ... -
Emotions in Game Theory: Fear, friendliness and hostility
(2022-04-28)How do emotions affect our interactions with each other? And how do our interactions with each other affect our emotions? As an adult, one makes thousands of decisions each day, decisions often influenced by our emotional ... -
Conflicts of Interest, Ethical Standards, and Competition in Legal Services
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-04)We study how the legal profession manages representational conflicts of interest. Such conflicts arise when the same law firm represents clients with adverse interests. They may compromise the legal process, ultimately ... -
Fear and Economic Behavior
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-02)Fear is an important factor in decision-making under risk and uncertainty. Psychology research suggests that fear influences one’s risk attitude and fear may have important consequences for decisions concerning for example ... -
Is there a diminishing value of urban amenities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic?
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-01)We investigate whether the Covid-19 pandemic decreased the willingness to pay for urban amenities such as restaurants, cinemas and theaters. We do this by using a hedonic pricing model in combination with a time-gradient ... -
Carpe Diem or Seize your Health? The Economics of Time Preferences, Health, and Education
(2022-01-20)Who is more likely to follow medical recommendations, invest in their health and pursue higher degrees of schooling? Behavioral economic theory provides a clear answer to this question: more patient individuals (who discount ... -
Providers and Profiteers: Essays on Profits and Competition in the Provision of Public Services
(2021-12-16)Public services, such as education and health care, are provided by both public and private actors. In some countries, such as Sweden, these include for-profit organizations. In systems allowing the users to choose freely, ... -
Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
(2021-12): Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both ... -
Sustainable food: can food labels make consumers switch to meat substitutes?
(2021-12)Using a stated preference survey, we investigate whether the introduction of a set of food labels affects consumers´ willingness to make costly shifts from meat products to meat substitutes. We investigate the role of food ...