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A NOTE ON ROTATABILITY
(University of Gothenburg, 1994-10-01)
The need of a measure of rotatability is discussed and exemplified through some examples. The examples also shows the difficulties with measuring rotatability. A graphical technique for exploring the variance function is ...
Science for sale – build or criticize science as trademark
(2008-10-21)
Over history science has, in a more and more agnostic world, come to replace religion as the most important hegemonic factor how to decide what is correct and what is incorrect, what is necessary and what may not be done, ...
Are Natural Disasters Good for Economic Growth?
(2013-02)
Natural disasters plague the populations of many countries, and the international commu-
nity often seeks to alleviate the human suffering by means of humanitarian aid. Do natural disasters also have negative effects on ...
Personalförsörjning och validering inom Försvarsmakten
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2015)
Inom ramen för forskningsprojektet Personalförsörjning och validering inom Försvarsmakten vid GRI (Gothenburg Research Institute, Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet) har intervjuer gjorts med i huvudsak officerare ...
Conditional Cooperation: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
(2010-07)
When facing the opportunity to allocate resources between oneself and others, individuals may experience a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and preferences to act pro-socially. We explore the domain of ...
Competition in the Swedish Coffee Market
(2004)
It is a widespread belief that multinationals are exploiting their market power in national coffee markets by keeping consumer prices too high and thereby limiting demand for coffee beans. The purpose of this study is to ...
The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap Revisited: The Role of Emotions and Moral Satisfaction
(2011-04)
While many earlier studies have found that people’s maximum willingness to pay for having a good is often substantially lower than their minimum willingness to accept not having it, more recent experimental evidence suggests ...
General Properties of Expected Demand Functions: Negativity (No Giffen Good) and Homogeneity - A Descriptive Non Utility Maximizing Approach
(2010-09)
In this paper we assume that choice of commodities at the individual (household) level is made in the budget set and that the choice can be described by a probability density function. We prove that negativity (()0xExp∂<∂) ...
Gender, Risk and Stereotypes
(2006)
This paper reports results from an economic experiment where respondents are asked to make choices between risky outcomes for themselves and others. In addition, we elicit information about the respondents’ perception of ...