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The ecological footprint of early-modern commodities Coefficients of land use per unit of product
(2017-02)Land availability and overseas trade have been central topics in economic history. The current paper contributes to this literature by setting the empirical foundations necessary for the calculation of the direct ecological ... -
The Economic Impact of Increased Access to Commercial Banks in Ethiopia
(2020-07-02)Savings rates are strongly predictive of future economic growth and, for several reasons, it is difficult to save in areas where resources are scarce. Increasing access to financial services is crucial to efficiently ... -
The Economics of Coercive Institutions, Conflict, and Development
(2020-05-26)This dissertation is a compilation of three papers that put together my research interests on the effects of institutions on development outcomes with inequality as the connecting thread. The first chapter concerns ... -
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 ... -
The Economy, the War in Iraq and the 2004 Presidential Election
(2006)In this paper I apply the Bread and Peace model of voting in US presidential elections to analyze the sources of George W. Bush’s narrow re-election victory in 2004. The aggregate election outcome is readily explained by ... -
THE EDUCATION EFFECT – GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN DISGUISE? A longitudinal comparative study examining reasons for the liberalizing effect of education on socio-cultural attitudes
(2021-07-20)The rise of a socio-cultural political dimension in post-industrial societies has substantially changed former patterns of political conflicts. Prior research has established that the level of education is the most predictive ... -
The effect of 5-HT on the sustained afferent excitability induced by epidural direct current stimulation
(2021-05-19)Om man skickar en svag ström genom en vävnad bildas det olika elektriska laddningar i vävnaden. Eftersom signaler inom nervceller fortleds med hjälp av elektriska strömmar, kan man öka eller minska sannolikheten för att ... -
The Effect of a Major Catastrophe on Unrelated Charity Donations
(2017-07-28)The 9/11 attacks claimed many lives and caused severe damages, but people responded with great support to the victims, among other things through financial contributions. This paper investigates whether donations to ... -
The Effect of Addiction on Environmental Taxation in a First and Second-best world
(2003)We examine the effect of addictive behavior on a socially optimal environmental tax. If utility in part depends on past consumption and individuals are time-consistent, the socially optimal environmental tax is shown to ... -
The effect of an increased excise tax on alcohol consumption
(2021-02-09)In September 2020, the Swedish government announced the ambition to further raise the tax on alcohol and tobacco products. The new policy, planned to be enacted in January 2023, aims to adjust for inflationary measures ... -
The Effect Of An Unexpected Wealth Shock On Willingness To Takes Risks
(2017-07-28)In this thesis we investigate how an exogenous wealth shock in the form of an unexpected inheritance or gift affects individuals' self-reported willingness to take risks. We apply a quasi fixed effects ordered probit ... -
The Effect of Bond Convexity in Abnormal Volatility
(2016-07-06)According to earlier empirical studies, convexity in the U.S. treasury market is arbitrage-free priced. This paper study whether the arbitrage-free pricing of convexity held even in the financial crisis and the volatile ... -
The Effect of Budget Support on Private Sector Credit in Malawi
(2017-07-28)In order to study the impact of budget support disbursement on credit to the private sector in Malawi, I use an error correction framework and apply it to monthly data. I first identify a cointegrating vector including ... -
The Effect of Capital on Profitability in Nordic Banks
(2018-07-04)This thesis explores the relationship between capital and profitability in Nordic banks. Bank capital can have either profitable or adverse effects and the Nordic countries have recently straightened their capital ... -
The Effect of Capital Requirements on Bank Lending to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
(2017-07-25)This thesis examines the effect of strengthened capital requirements on the supply-side of bank lending to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. The thesis further assesses the effect of capital buffers on ... -
The effect of Chinese culture on equal opportunities in the Chinese labour market - A case study about gender equality in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
(2020-10-27)Gender stereotypes still exist in the current society, Chinese career women suffer from gender descrimination in their career life in various walks of life. Therefore, this thesis aims to use gender and organizational ... -
THE EFFECT OF CIGARETTE PRICES AND ANTISMOKING POLICIES ON THE AGE OF SMOKING INITIATION
(2001)This study differs from most previous studies on smoking initiation by studying the age of smoking onset, and not merely smoking initiation. We apply duration analysis to estimate the determinants of the age of smoking ... -
The Effect of Circular Economy on Global Value Chains – Evidence from Changing Business Models in the Food Industry
(2021-06-28)The aim of this thesis was to contribute to the scientific literature on circular business models and global value chains. Specifically, this thesis has investigated the effects that changing towards circular business ... -
The Effect of Commission Based Wages -A Case Study of the Real-Estate Industry
(2014-06-24)Background and problem Within the real-estate industry, commission based wages has been the tradition for a very long time. This wage system demands a person to be motivated by money. At the same time, recent studies shows ... -
The Effect of Corruption on Firm Performance. A case study of Brazil
(2015-07-13)This thesis investigates the effect of corruption on firm performance for enterprises in Brazil. Corruption is measured by the amount of bribe payments and corporate performance by the amount of total annual firm sales. ...