School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Vänskapens kunskap och kraft. En rättsvetenskaplig studie av vänskapen omkring unga målsägande i sexualbrottmål.
(2023-09-28)This thesis delves into the theoretical and practical legal aspects of friends and friendships among young victims of child sexual abuse. The study examines these friendships and their impact on victims of sexual abuse, ... -
Risk management of stock portfolios with jumps at exogenous default events
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-09)In this paper we study equity risk management of stock portfolios where the individual stock prices have downward jumps at the defaults of an exogenous group of defaultable entities. The default times can come from any ... -
Conditional Persistence? Historical Disease Exposure and Government Response to COVID-19
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-08)In this paper, we investigate differences in government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the theory of the Behavioral Immune System and the Parasite Stress Theory, we hypothesize that a higher historical ... -
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914
(2023-07)In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for a full population in ... -
Wetland Mitigation Banking in the United States
(2023-08-24)In this thesis, I study market-based biodiversity conservation policies in the context of the wetland compensatory mitigation program under the US Clean Water Act. The program requires developers to compensate for adverse ... -
Konsumtionsrapporten 2023
(Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs Universitet, 2023)I Konsumtionsrapporten 2023 sammanfattas och analyseras konsumtionen i Sverige under 2022. I den första delen, ”Hushållens konsumtion” ges en översikt över den privata konsumtionen i Sverige och hur den förändrats. Här ... -
Sustainable Consumption and Prosocial Actions
(2023-06-21)The influence of a single individual's actions on many societal issues is often small, but individual efforts can have a significant impact when combined. Several potential policies could attempt to encourage these actions, ... -
Decentralized Finance and Central Bank Communication
(2023-05-25)This dissertation investigates two distinct areas within the financial literature: Decentralized finance (DeFi) and central bank communication. Both areas have experienced significant changes in the past decade, posing new ... -
TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE – IS THAT THE QUESTION? A critical study of how the Swedish migration courts handle their responsibility to judge in asylum cases
(2023-05-08)In this dissertation, the Swedish migration courts’ handling of the risk responsibility of judging in asylum cases is studied. An empirical study of cases from the migration courts is followed by a critical analysis of the ... -
Sustainable Economic Growth: A Critical Assessment of SDG 8.1
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)In this report, we focus on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 8.1, stipulating that countries should pursue real GDP per capita growth rates that are in accordance with their national circumstances and that ... -
Locus of Control and Economic Decision-Making: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)We study psychological impediments that make it difficult to change be- haviour. In particular, we evaluate the impact of a randomised psychological intervention designed to target locus of control{an individual's belief ... -
Drought and Political Trust
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)Droughts can affect people’s political trust positively, through rallying effects, or negatively, through blame attribution. We examine how drought conditions affect political trust in the context of Africa. We link ... -
Changing local customs: Long-run impacts of the earliest campaigns against female genital cutting
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-03)This paper investigates the long-run impacts of Christian missionary expansion on the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical analysis draws on historical data on the locations of early ... -
Choices among Doctors, Students and Primary Care Providers: Empirical Evidence from Sweden
(2023-02-21)This thesis consists of three independent chapters. The setting for the first and the third chapter is the primary care sector in Sweden. The second chapter focuses on the consequences of a reform implemented in the Swedish ... -
Urbaniseringen av det regionala musiklivet
(2023-01)This report seeks to explore the geographical spread of music in Sweden during the last pre-pandemic year 2019. Statistics from the 1980s are also presented. It was found that in many regions there has been a reluctance ... -
Konsumtionsrapporten 2022
(2022)I Konsumtionsrapporten 2022 sammanfattas och analyseras konsumtionen i Sverige under 2021 och merparten av 2022. I den första delen, ”Hushållens konsumtion” ges en översikt över den privata konsumtionen i Sverige, hur ... -
From Global to Local: Trade Shocks and Regional Growth in Italy During the First Globalization
(DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, 2022-11)Globalization can create winners and losers at the spatial level within national economies. 1bis paper examines the economic impact of international trade on local economies in the case of late nineteenth-century Italy. ... -
Aid and child health: Local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-11)Abstract: Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, ... -
From sedentary behaviors to sedentary moments: what constitutes and shapes children's activities and performances at home
(2022-11-07)The study of children’s sedentary behavior has grown exponentially in the last few decades due to the associations between sedentary behavior and various negative health outcomes and to concerns about children’s increasing ... -
Why known unknowns may be better than knowns, and how that matters for the evolution of happiness
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)Rayo and Becker (2007) model happiness as an imperfect measurement tool: It provides a partial ordering of alternative courses of actions. In this note, decisionmakers use their inability to rank two actions, to infer ...