Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Essays on Social Distance, Institutions, and Economic Growth
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Essays on Epistemology and Evolutionary Game Theory
(2008-05-27)This thesis has two parts, one consisting of three independent papers in epistemology (Chapters 1-3) and another one consisting of a single paper in evolutionary game theory (Chapter 4): (1) “Knowing who speaks when: A ... -
Four Essays on Interhousehold Transfers and Institutions in Post-Communist Romania
(2008-05-27)This thesis consists of four essays related to different social and economic aspects in post-communist Romania: Paper 1: Motives for Private Gift Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Romania In many developing and ... -
Retirement Planning: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors
(2008-05-22)This thesis consists of four papers. Common to the first three papers is the framework for analy- sis; a life-cycle model of a borrowing-constrained individual’s consumption and portfolio choices in the presence of ... -
Individual Preferences, Choices, and Risk Perceptions - Survey Based Evidence
(2008-05-14)Paper 1 investigates how birth order and having siblings affect positional concerns in terms of success at work and of income. We find that only-children are the most positional, but that number of siblings increases the ... -
Essays on Microeconometrics and Immigrant Assimilation
(2008-05-02)Paper I. Asymptotic bias reduction for a conditional marginal effects estimator in sam- ple selection models. In this article we discuss the differences between the average marginal effect and the mar- ginal effect ... -
Explaining Earnings and Income Inequality in Chile
(2008-02-21)The focal point of all papers in this thesis is income inequality in Chile. In some of them household income is analyzed, in others monthly earnings or the wage rate are used. In the first and fourth paper a long-run ... -
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 ... -
Essays on Globalization and Occupational Wages
(2008-02-21)This thesis evaluates empirically how globalization has affected occupational wages in both developing and developed countries. Three aspects of globalization – openness to trade, openness to capital and offshore-outsourcing ... -
Social Dilemmas: The Role of Incentives, Norms and Institutions
(2008-02-14)The subject of this dissertation is social dilemmas. In a social dilemma situation, there is a clear incentive not to cooperate. However, if nobody cooperates, then everybody is worse off than if they had cooperated. The ... -
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, ... -
Essays on Performance and Growth in Swedish Banking
(2007-12-05)This thesis deals with performance and growth in the Swedish banking sector, in an era following important changes such as the globalisation of financial markets, the harmonisation of legislation (e.g. the EU banking ... -
Essays on the skill premium
(2007-10-12)The thesis consists of three separate essays about wage inequality in industrialized countries. In the first essay, it is shown that an increased supply of high-skill workers can increase the wage rate and increase the ... -
Pricing portfolio credit derivatives
(2007-08-31)This thesis consist of four papers on dynamic dependence modelling in portfolio credit risk. The emphasis is on valuation of portfolio credit derivatives. The underlying model in all papers is the same, but is split in ... -
A non-stationary perspective on the european and swedish business cycle
(2007-05-25)Business cycles, the ups and downs observed somewhat simultaneously in numerous macroeconomic variables in an economy and often measured using real GDP, are important and, despite much economic research, still incom- pletely ... -
Essays on Land Lease Markets, Productivity, Biodiversity, and Environmental Variability
(2007-05-09)This thesis consists of four papers. The titles and abstracts of the various essays are as follows. Paper 1: Tenure Insecurity, Transaction Costs in the Land Lease Market and Implications for Gendered Productivity ... -
Fairness, Reciprocity and Inequality: Experimental evidence from South Africa
(2007-05-09)This thesis consists of six papers, related to artifactual field experiments, conducted in South Africa. The main focus of the thesis is the effect of different forms of heterogeneity on cooperation and punishment within ... -
Essays on Asymmetric Information and Environmental Regulation through Disclosure
(2007-05-09)This dissertation delves into different aspects of a relatively new policy approach for industrial pollution control: the public dissemination of information by regulators regarding the environmental performance of firms. ... -
Experimental Studies on Risk, Inequality and Relative Standing
(2006)This thesis consists of four separate experimental studies that concern individuals’ preferences and choices on issues of risk, inequality and relative standing. In the first paper, individuals' aversion to risk and ... -
On Monetary Integration and Macroeconomic Policy
(2003)This thesis contains one general introduction and three separate papers. The papers are fairly heterogeneous with respect to the topics analysed, as well as to the methodologies used. Some common themes, though, are monetary ...