Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik by Title
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Empirical Essays on Education and Health Policy Evaluation
(2020-05-13)Chapter 1: Impact of School Peers from the Same Region-of-Origin on Endogamy and Work Segregation: Evidence from Sweden This study estimates how the quasi-random variation in the proportion of school peers from the same ... -
Empirical tests of exchange rate and stock return models
(2021-03-31)Abstracts to ”Empirical tests of exchange rate and stock return models” Order flow in the Foreign Exchange Market Price discovery in foreign exchange markets is explored using Swedish data including trades from both the ... -
Entry, Competition and Productivity in Retail
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Environmental Taxation - Empirical and Theoretical Applications
(2003)This thesis consists of five self-contained articles, and hence each paper can be read independently. Still, all five papers have one important feature in common: environmental taxation. Paper 1: The Phase-Out of Leaded ... -
Essays in Climate Change and Forest Management
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Essays in Environmental Management and Economics: Public Health, Risk and Strategic Environmental Assessment
(2017-08-18)Abstract Current large-scale environmental and climate change leads to the emergence of new and potentially dramatic risks for individuals and societies. The welfare costs associated with these risks largely depend on our ... -
Essays in Institutional and Development Economics
(2006)Paper 1: “Congo: The Prize of Predation” Abstract: The article analyzes the war against Mobutu (1996–97) and the more recent war (1998– ) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with particular attention to greed and ... -
Essays in Political Economy of Development
(2012-11-05)Paper 1: Social Conflict, Fractionalization, and Polarization We develop a Conflict model linking Conflict intensity to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest ... -
Essays on Asymmetric Information and Environmental Regulation through Disclosure
(2007-05-09)This dissertation delves into different aspects of a relatively new policy approach for industrial pollution control: the public dissemination of information by regulators regarding the environmental performance of firms. ... -
Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics – Cooperation, Emotions and Health
(2016-05-25)This thesis consists of four self-contained papers that explore issues in human behavior and their implications for policy design. The main method used in all four papers consists of lab experiments, a method that facilitates ... -
Essays on Behavioral Economics and Fisheries: Coordination and Cooperation
(2017-04-25)Kapitel 1: Samarbete under risk och sann osäkerhet (ambiguity). ... -
Essays on Behavioral Economics and Policies for Provision of Ecosystem Services
(2013-04-30)Abstract Paper 1: Incentives, Impacts, and Behavioural Issues in the Context of Payment for Ecosystem Services Programmes: Lessons for REDD+ Payment for environmental services (PES) aims to increase the provision of ... -
Essays on behavioral economics and policy design
(2015-05-08)Chapter 1: Social norms and information diffusion in water-saving programs: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in Colombia This paper investigates spillover effects of a social information campaign aimed at ... -
Essays on behavioral economics and the effects of the colonial rule on Java
(2018-03-01)This thesis consists of four chapters. While the first chapter is in the field of development economics, chapter two, three and four are in the field of behavioral economics using laboratory experiments. The first chapter ... -
Essays on behavioral economics: Nudges, food consumption and procedural fairness
(2017-09-22)Decreasing meat consumption holds significant potential for the reduction of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions and the mitigation of climate change. Fostering behavioral change to reduce climate emissions related to ... -
Essays on Conflict, Institutions, and Ethnic Diversity
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Essays on Culture, Institutions, and Economic Development
(2020-05-18)Culture and institutions are important to understand individual behaviors and economic development. In this thesis, I study the origins of cultural divergence across societies, the emergence of private property rights, and ...