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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 in Institutional and Development Economics
(2006)
Paper 1: “Congo: The Prize of Predation”
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The article analyzes the war against Mobutu (1996–97) and the more recent war (1998– ) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with particular attention to greed and ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Essays on Poverty, Risk and Consumption Dynamics in Ethiopia
(2006)
Paper 1. This paper analysed the state of poverty and income distribution in rural and urban Ethiopia during 1994-2000. Poverty declined from 1994 to 1997, and then increased to 2000. This finding is consistent with major ...
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 ...
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 ...