Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Essays on Economics of Natural Resource Management and Experiments
(2006)This thesis has five self-contained essays. The titles and the abstracts of the various essays are as follows. Paper 1: Natural Resource use Conflict: Gold Mining in Tropical Rainforest in Ghana: Gold is frequently mined ... -
Essays on Unemployment Duration and Programme Evaluation
(2006)The process of labour market transformation in the 1990s attracted a lot of attention from economists and policy makers. Unprecedented changes, like rapid reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and later the expansion of ... -
Essays on Labor Supply and Poverty: A microeconometric application
(2006)This thesis consists of four papers in applied micro econometrics. The first paper evaluates the discrete choice labor supply Model by Monte Carlo experiment. The 2nd paper investigates the relationships between participation ... -
Three Essays on Electricity Spot and Financial Derivative Prices at the Nordic Power Exchange
(2006)Essay I examines the market efficiency issues at the Nord Pool power exchange in the September 1995 – July 2002 period. A unique characteristic of this electricity exchange is the high hydropower proportion in the traded ... -
Essays on Firm Turnover, Growth, and Investment Behavior in Ethiopian Manufacturing
(2006)This thesis analyses the dynamics and investment behavior of Ethiopian manufacturing firms in post-reform period using establishment level industrial census panel data from 1996 to 2003. Three related topics such as firm ... -
Pricing of Some Path-Dependent Options on Equities and Commodities
(2006)This thesis brings together three papers about the pricing of European and Bermudan path-dependent options, and one paper about the stochastic modelling of a futures price curve. Paper one proposes a fast numerical ... -
Four Essays on Technology, Productivity and Environment
(2006)The main subject of this thesis is the relationship between economic growth and environmental effects when the interaction between firms' behaviour and regulations are taken into account. In the first three papers I discuss ... -
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 ... -
Essays on the Political Economy of Land Use Change
(2005)This thesis consists of three articles. The two first ones construct theoretical models for land use change between agriculture and forestry in the presence of lobbies representing both sectors. The third article tests ... -
Essays on Soil Conservation, Social Capital and Technology Adoption
(2006)Erosion of agricultural land remains a major constraint to agricultural development in Kenya, which has a complex topography. Government and donor institutions are promoting soil and water conservation practices. Several ... -
Measuring Trust and the Value of Statistical Lives: Evidence from Bangladesh
(2005)This thesis includes five self-contained essays. The first three essays relate to the measurement of trust using both an experimental and a survey approach, and the other two essays relate to the measurement of the value ... -
Income Generation in the African and Coloured Population: Three essays on the origins of household incomes in South Africa
(2005)The dissertation comprises three empirical analyses focusing on the origins of South African households’ income sources. The income sources are categorized to reflect the households’ varying extent of economic core sector ... -
Essays on Information and Conflicts of Interest in Stock Recommendations
(2005)This thesis brings together three separate empirical essays on the information and conflicts of interest in stock recommendations. The first essay analyzes stock-price reactions to recommendations published in printed ... -
Four Essays on the Measurement of Productive Efficiency
(2004)This collection of essays contains two kinds of contributions. All four essays include applications of the existing DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) toolbox on real world datasets. But the main contribution is that they ... -
Risk, Time and Land Management under Market Imperfections: Applications to Ethiopia
(2004)This Ph.D. thesis addresses both theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to land management decisions of farm households in developing countries working under an imperfect market and institutional setting (with case ... -
Essays on Voting Power, Corporate Governance and Capital Structure
(2004)This dissertation is divided into 4 essays. Each focuses on different aspect of firm risk and corporate governance issues. It mainly deals with corporate governance issues in the context of strong owner control and its ... -
Essays on Immigrants' Economic Integration
(2004)This thesis consists of five papers, related to each other in terms of study-sample, study-subject or methods used. The first paper is concerned with second-generation immigrants' educational attainments, using the ... -
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 ... -
The Economics of Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Zimbabwe
(2003)THE ECONOMICS OF COMMUNITY-BASED WILDLIFE CONSERVATION IN ZIMBABWE This thesis deals with the economics of community-based wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe. It consists of an introductory chapter and four self-contained ...