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To Be or Not to Be… - Brand Affiliaton in the Hotel Industry
(2017-11-28)
A large proportion of any business’s value comprises intangible assets, and
for many businesses a considerable part of these assets' value is attributable
to brands with which businesses affiliate. In light of increasing ...
The Logics of Healthcare – In Quality Improvement Work
(2017-03-17)
Quality improvement (QI) has become a cornerstone in contemporary healthcare
organizations with the aim of enabling management that facilitates efficiency and
effectiveness, while providing a consistent correlation between ...
The Impact of Reproductive and Birth Technologies on Health, Fertility and Labor Outcomes
(2017-12-19)
Access to reproductive health including care during pregnancy and childbirth is paramount for mothers, children and families worldwide. Despite the rapid use of reproductive and birth technologies, multiple questions ...
Credit, Insurance, and Farmers’ Liability
(2017-03)
To cope with losses from extreme hydro-meteorological events, governments typically implement disaster relief programs and offer debt relief to affected parties. Governments in developing countries have made extensive use ...
Do Gender Preference Gaps Impact Policy Outcomes?
(2017-11)
A large body of evidence documents systematic gender differences in a variety of important economic preferences, such as risk-taking, competition and pro-sociality. One potential
implication of this literature is that ...
Gränsöverskridande insolvens – En studie av den internationella domsrätten för insolvensförfaranden inom EU
(2017-04-18)
Questions regarding cross-border insolvency have become the subject of increasing interest in recent years. This is partly due to the ever ongoing globalization as well as the economic crisis in 2008. The thesis investigates ...
‘Fair’ Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
(2017-09)
Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures
based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To opera-
tionalize this approach, preference heterogeneity ...
Incentives and Forest Reform: Evidence from China
(2017-05-24)
Chapter I: Forest Devolution Reform in China: A Trigger for Investment or Deforestation?
I investigate whether and how the devolution of forestland to households in China triggered investment in forestland, and its effect ...
Nudging à la carte – A field experiment on food choice
(2017-02)
We test the effect of framing of a menu on the choice of ordering climate friendly dishes in a
randomized controlled experiment. Rearranging the menu in favor of vegetarian food has a
large and significant effect on the ...
Attitudes towards nanomaterials and nanotechnology among Swedish expert stakeholders: Risk, benefit and regulation
(2017-12-06)
The aim of this study is to investigate attitudes towards nanomaterials and nanotechnology
among Swedish expert stakeholders. The study explores the views of these experts on a number
of topics in connection to nanotechnology ...