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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, ...
Disclosure on Investor Relations Websites
(Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet, 2011)
Carbon Pricing: Transaction Costs of Emissions Trading vs. Carbon Taxes
(2015-01)
In this paper we empirically compare the transaction costs from monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of two environmental regulations directed to cost-efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions: a carbon dioxide ...
Why Do Environmental Taxes Work Better in Developed Countries?
(2011-12)
We compare of the performance of emission taxes between Colombia and Sweden in an experimental setting where subjects are regulated through environmental taxes and had to decide on emission levels, compliance behavior, and ...
Modelling the spatial patterns of influenza incidence in Sweden
(University of Gothenburg, 2010)
Information about the spatial spread of epidemics can be useful for many purposes. The spatial aspect of Swedish influenza data was analyzed with the main aim of finding patterns that could be useful for statistical ...
Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden
(2010-11)
We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase ...
Essays on ownership and control: Shareholder wealth effects in takeovers and the measurement of ownership concentration
(2012-02-01)
The dissertation consists of three essays, two on takeovers and one on the measurement of ownership concentration.
Cross-border acquisitions and insider ownership studies whether there is a cross-border effect in returns ...
Evaluation of the Impact of Forest Certification on Environmental Outcomes in Sweden
(2016-05)
Voluntary forest certification is an increasingly popular tool allowing producers who meet stringent environmental standards to label their products in the marketplace and potentially achieve greater market access and ...
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
(2010-05-17)
Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 ...
Wages, Inequality and Consequences for the Economy
(2014-04-03)
This dissertation consists of four research articles and an introductory chapter. The introduction gives an overview about the field of income inequality, an empirical overview of its development, a discussion of methodological ...