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E-bio och mobilkamera. Elefanter och myror i digital visuell kultur.
(2009)E-bion och mobilkameran är exempel på nya former för bildskapande och visning av visuellt material – samtidigt som de utgör fortsättningar och omvandlingar av invanda analoga apparater. De utgör parallella fenomen, noder ... -
e-ducation
(1999)e-ducation is a study of information technology use in higher education. The aim of the research is to improve educational practice with information technology. The modern educational system was developed to teach the ... -
E-handel med resor Bokning och köp av resor på Internet – konsumenters attityder och upplevda risker
(2003)The travel industry is one of the few industries where there is an increased interest among consumers for on-line reservations. The purpose of this study is to explore and describe consumers’ attitudes towards travel ... -
Early warnings for turns in business cycles and finance
(University of Gothenburg, 2003-06-01)In many areas, it is important to detect turning points in time series early and without faults. Turns in business cycles and financial time series are discussed here. A variety of approaches for analyzing the turns in ... -
Earthquakes and Civil War
(2009-10-05)Natural disasters claim thousands of lives each year and can be a heavy burden for already vulnerable societies. Are natural disasters also a cause of violent con- flict? While most studies based on systematic empirical ... -
East African Community: Pre-conditions for an Effective Monetary Union
(2011-12)Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda signed the Treaty for the establishment of the East African Community (EAC) in 1999, which entered into force in July 2000. In 2007 it was signed by Burundi and Rwanda. According to the Treaty, ... -
Easy come, easy go - The role of windfall money in lab and field experiments
(2009-08-11)A growing number of experimental studies focus on the differences between the lab and the field. Important in this issue is the role of windfall money. By conducting a dictator game, where the recipient is a charity ... -
Eating out practices among Swedish youth. Gothenburg Area Foodscapes
(2010)The aim of this field report is to show how different foodscapes map and intersect in a big city centre in order to get a grip of how youth interact with fast food in their local environment. Or, to somehow formulate the ... -
Echoes of Violent Conflict: The Effect of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Hate Crimes in the U.S.
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-05)Do social identity ties facilitate the spread of violent conflict? We assess whether the Israeli-Palestinian conflict causes hate crime towards Jews and Muslims in the U.S using daily data between 2000-2016. We measure 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, ... -
Economic and Intergenerational Decision-Making in Families
(2020-03-02)This thesis studies economic decision-making and preferences within the family, household and close social environment. Within these social units, individuals often make decisions on the use and allocation of resources ... -
Economic Determinants and Consequences of Political Institutions
(2015-10-15)This thesis is comprised of four empirical essays on the economic determinants and consequences of political institutions. It opens with a broad perspective on the link between the state throughout history and the past ... -
Economic Determinants of Public Opinion. About Joining the EMU: The Case of Sweden
(2002)A potential Swedish membership in the third stage of the EMU (the currency union) will be determined in a referendum. The opinion polls preceding this referendum show strong variability in the Swedish public opinion ... -
The Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Swedish Shrimp Fishers
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)This paper explores the effect of the perceived risk of the Swedish people of Covid-19 on daily auctioned shrimp prices from the start of the pandemic to the end of the year 2021. This topic is of interest to see whether ... -
Economic Freedom and Growth:Decomposing the Effects
(2001)Most studies of the relation between economic freedom and growth of GDP have found a positive relation. One problem in this area is the choice of economic freedom measure. A single measure does notreflect the complex ... -
Economic Growth and Clean Water in the Göta River - A Pilot Study of Collective Action and the Environmental Kuznets Curve 1895-2000
(2011-10)Because of a growing population and industrialization, total pollution levels in many water-courses around the world have increased considerably for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. In the last few decades, however, ... -
Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
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Economic Performance of Turkish Immigrant Men in the European Labour-Market: Evidence from Sweden
(2006)This paper uses eleven waves of panel-data to analyse the earnings assimilation of first-generation Turkish immigrant men in Sweden. Employment-probabilities and earnings are estimated in a fixed-effects sample selection ... -
The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition
(2009-03-02)Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment ...