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After Work - Investing for Retirement
(2008-02-21)The first three papers are the result of work on various aspects of pension savings. The framework for analysis and common to all papers; is a life-cycle model of a borrowing-constrained individual's consumption- and ... -
Analysis of Mining Investments in Zimbabwe
(2003)The papers in this thesis investigate issues related to investment with particular reference to the mining sector in Zimbabwe. Issues analysed are the levels of risk premia that attract investment in minerals in developing ... -
Aspects of Macroeconomic Saving
(2003)This thesis deals with various aspects of macroeconomic saving. It consists of an introduction and four self-contained papers. Paper I, "From closed to open door policy: An empirical study of China's international capital ... -
Bitter divisions: inequality, identity and cooperation
(2017-04-25)Overriding inequality Group identity, beliefs and cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas Heterogeneity reduces cooperation. Understanding why can help mitigate the problem. As salient interpersonal differences reduce ... -
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 ... -
Climate Policy and Financial Markets
(2020-01-07)Climate change represents a serious, as-yet-unresolved global commons problem. After decades of international climate negotiations, 195 nations adopted the Paris climate agreement in December 2015. The subsequent election ... -
Contract Choice and Trust in Informal Groundwater Markets
(2017-09-29)Contract Choice and Trust in Informal Groundwater Markets Yashodha Yashodha AKADEMISK AVHANDLING som med vederbörligt ... -
Cooperation and paradoxes in climate economics
(2015-03-04)Paper I: Strategic Carbon Taxation and Energy Pricing: The Role of Innovation. This paper uses a dynamic game to investigate the strategic interactions between carbon taxation by a coalition of resource consumers and ... -
Corporate Governance and the Design of Board of Directors
(2015-09-11)Paper 1: “The Effects of Board Independence on Busy Directors and Firm Value: Evidence from Regulatory Changes in Sweden.” I use an exogenous change to the rules of corporate governance for Swedish firms in 2005 to ... -
Determinants of Health Capital at Birth: Evidence from Policy Interventions
(2015-05-07)Paper I: Austerity Measures and Infant Health. Lessons from an Unexpected Wage Cut Policy We investigate the effects on health at birth of a shock generated by a major (25%) and unexpected wage cut austerity measure that ... -
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 ... -
Economic Analysis of Soil Capital, Land Use and Agricultural Production in Kenya
(2007-12-11)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate economic and natural science aspects of soil management and agricultural production in a developing country context. It does so by theoretical as well as empirical investigation, ... -
Economic and Intergenerational Decision-Making in Families
(2020-03-02)This thesis studies economic decision-making and preferences within the family, household and close social environment. Within these social units, individuals often make decisions on the use and allocation of resources ... -
Economic Determinants and Consequences of Political Institutions
(2015-10-15)This thesis is comprised of four empirical essays on the economic determinants and consequences of political institutions. It opens with a broad perspective on the link between the state throughout history and the past ... -
Efficiency, Risk and Regulation Compliance: Applications to Lake Victoria fisheries
(2005)This thesis deals with artisanal fishers in Lake Victoria fisheries. The thesis consists of an introductory chapter and three self-contained papers, which make up the rest of the thesis chapters. The first paper relates ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Empirical Essays on Education and Health Policy Evaluation
(2020-05-13)Chapter 1: Impact of School Peers from the Same Region-of-Origin on Endogamy and Work Segregation: Evidence from Sweden This study estimates how the quasi-random variation in the proportion of school peers from the same ... -
Empirical tests of exchange rate and stock return models
(2021-03-31)Abstracts to ”Empirical tests of exchange rate and stock return models” Order flow in the Foreign Exchange Market Price discovery in foreign exchange markets is explored using Swedish data including trades from both the ...