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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...