Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik by Title
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Measuring Trust and the Value of Statistical Lives: Evidence from Bangladesh
(2005)This thesis includes five self-contained essays. The first three essays relate to the measurement of trust using both an experimental and a survey approach, and the other two essays relate to the measurement of the value ... -
Mining Booms in Africa and Local Welfare Effects: Labor Markets, Women’s Empowerment and Criminality
(2015-05-08)The role that extractive industries can play in processes of economic development is frequently described as, at best non-existent, or at worst, persistently negative. Extractive industries, while focusing on unearthing ... -
A non-stationary perspective on the european and swedish business cycle
(2007-05-25)Business cycles, the ups and downs observed somewhat simultaneously in numerous macroeconomic variables in an economy and often measured using real GDP, are important and, despite much economic research, still incom- pletely ... -
On Institutions, Economic Growth and the Environment
(2003)This thesis analyzes economic growth and the environment by including institutional aspects and specific innovation mechanisms. It contains an introduction and five separate studies. Paper 1: The Effect of Democracy on ... -
On Monetary Integration and Macroeconomic Policy
(2003)This thesis contains one general introduction and three separate papers. The papers are fairly heterogeneous with respect to the topics analysed, as well as to the methodologies used. Some common themes, though, are monetary ... -
On the Political Economy of Municipality Break-Ups
(2003)This thesis deals with politico-economic aspects of municipality break-ups. It consists of an introduction and three self-contained papers. Paper I: The Break-up of Municipalities – Voting Behavior in Local Referenda This ... -
Parallel Trade, Reference Pricing and Competition in the Pharmaceutical Market: Theory and Evidence
(2011-05-03)Paper I. Reference Pricing: Making Parallel Trade in Pharmaceuticals Work This paper shows that parallel trade makes pharmaceutical manufacturers reduce their prices in the home (importing) country more when it is combined ... -
Post-Harvest Losses, Intimate Partner Violence and Food Security in Tanzania
(2017-05-02)High levels of food losses occurring after harvesting offset the effort to increase food production. This situation increases the risk of food insecurity and low incomes among smallholder farmers. But, my project finds ... -
Power Outages, Increasing Block Tariffs and Billing Knowledge
(2017-09-16)Preferences for Improved Electricity Services in Developing Countries: Household’s Defensive Behavior and Willingness to Pay Access to electricity has received much attention but its reliability has been given less focus. ... -
Predictability in Equity Markets: Estimation and Inference
(2019-05-08)The thesis consists of three chapters dealing with predictability in equity markets. The first chapter analyses predictive regressions in a predictive system framework, where the predictor is an imperfect proxy for the ... -
Pricing of Some Path-Dependent Options on Equities and Commodities
(2006)This thesis brings together three papers about the pricing of European and Bermudan path-dependent options, and one paper about the stochastic modelling of a futures price curve. Paper one proposes a fast numerical ... -
Pricing portfolio credit derivatives
(2007-08-31)This thesis consist of four papers on dynamic dependence modelling in portfolio credit risk. The emphasis is on valuation of portfolio credit derivatives. The underlying model in all papers is the same, but is split in ... -
Primary healthcare interventions and social ties in Kenya
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Providers and Profiteers: Essays on Profits and Competition in the Provision of Public Services
(2021-12-16)Public services, such as education and health care, are provided by both public and private actors. In some countries, such as Sweden, these include for-profit organizations. In systems allowing the users to choose freely, ... -
Retirement Planning: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors
(2008-05-22)This thesis consists of four papers. Common to the first three papers is the framework for analy- sis; a life-cycle model of a borrowing-constrained individuals consumption and portfolio choices in the presence of ... -
Risk, Time and Land Management under Market Imperfections: Applications to Ethiopia
(2004)This Ph.D. thesis addresses both theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to land management decisions of farm households in developing countries working under an imperfect market and institutional setting (with case ...