Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: 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 ... -
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 ... -
Ecotourism and the Development of Indigenous Communities: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
(2011-02)A large part of the literature analyzing the links between biodiversity conservation and community development assumes that nature-based tourism managed by indigenous communities will result not only in conservation of ... -
STATISTICAL RANK METHODS FOR ORDINAL CATEGORICAL DATA
(University of Gothenburg, 1991-03-01)The aim of this paper is to present a new rank. method for analysing ordinal scale problems, and to give some of its basic properties. The method is suitable for the assessment of validity and reliability of health measurement ... -
ASPECTS OF MODELLING NONLINEAR TIME SERIES
(University of Gothenburg, 1992-01-01)It is common practice for economic theories to postulate non-linear relationships between economic variables, production functions being an example. If a theory suggests a specific functional form, econometricians can ... -
Exact Semiparametric Inference About the Within-Subject Variability in 2 x 2 Crossover Trails.
(University of Gothenburg, 1992-03-01)The comparison of primary interest in a 2 x 2 crossover trial typically concerns the effect of the treatments, say A and B, on the mean response level. This article deals with another important aspect, namely the within-subject ... -
SEPARATION OF SYSTEMATIC AND RANDOM ERRORS IN ORDINAL RATING SCALES
(University of Gothenburg, 1992-04-01)The aim of this paper is to introduce a new rank method which enables us to separate the inconsistency of repeated measurements into random and systematic differences and to quantify this lack of consistency in a few ... -
COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF SURVEILLANCE: EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE VS CUSUM
(University of Gothenburg, 1993-01-01)When control charts are used in practice it is necessary to know the characteristics of the charts in order to know which action is appropriate at an alarm. The probability of a false alarm, the probability of successful ...