Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik by Title
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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 ... -
Self-control and altruism
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Social Dilemmas: The Role of Incentives, Norms and Institutions
(2008-02-14)The subject of this dissertation is social dilemmas. In a social dilemma situation, there is a clear incentive not to cooperate. However, if nobody cooperates, then everybody is worse off than if they had cooperated. The ... -
Studies on Household Labor Supply and Home Production
(2003)This thesis consists of four self-contained empirical studies on different topics in labor economics based on the Swedish data. Short summaries on each paper are given below: Paper [1]: The aim is to construct models ... -
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, ... -
Sustainable policy for energy, land and natural resources
(2017-11-10)This thesis consists of four papers which are related to critical natural resource issues from a developing and emerging country perspective. All four papers demonstrate the importance of financial incentives in ... -
Telling Talent: Essays on Discrimination and Promotion Contests
(2024-03-11)Many of our interactions are shaped by the beliefs we hold about the people we interact with. Because of this, we often try to gather information about others. This information shapes our beliefs, which then inform the ... -
The Economics of Coercive Institutions, Conflict, and Development
(2020-05-26)This dissertation is a compilation of three papers that put together my research interests on the effects of institutions on development outcomes with inequality as the connecting thread. The first chapter concerns ... -
The Economics of Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Zimbabwe
(2003)THE ECONOMICS OF COMMUNITY-BASED WILDLIFE CONSERVATION IN ZIMBABWE This thesis deals with the economics of community-based wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe. It consists of an introductory chapter and four self-contained ... -
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 ... -
The Place of Conventional Economics in a World with Communities and Social Goods
(2012-05-09)Paper 1: Should Deliveries of Used Clothes to LDCs Be Supported? This is the journal version of a study of the worldwide used-clothes trade – with focus on Sweden’s participation in it – undertaken for Sida (the Swedish ... -
The Poor and Their Neighbors: Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2013-09-24)This thesis comprises of seven self-contained papers. While the papers are quite distinct in the questions they address and each is based on its own dataset, there are some relations between them either in the topic ... -
Three Essays on Electricity Spot and Financial Derivative Prices at the Nordic Power Exchange
(2006)Essay I examines the market efficiency issues at the Nord Pool power exchange in the September 1995 – July 2002 period. A unique characteristic of this electricity exchange is the high hydropower proportion in the traded ... -
Univariate and multivariate surveillance of outbreaks
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Water and Health in Egypt: An Empirical Analysis
(2003)This thesis is an empirical work dealing with water issues in Egypt where the emphasis is put on the analysis of the relationship: inadequate water quality and health impacts. The first chapter includes a general discussion ... -
Water Demand and Financing in Rwanda: An Empirical Analysis
(2013-08-23)Abstracts Paper 1: Water demand by unconnected households in urban districts of Rwanda In this paper, we analyse water demand by households in urban districts in Rwanda who currently lack a piped connection into their ...