• Breaking the trap? : hybrid maize for household food security : a counterfactual analysis from Southern and Central Malawi 

  Juniwaty, Kartika Sari (Master thesis, 2008)

  Malawi has changed her position from one of the most food insecure countries to one that is now able to export and donate maize for her neighbors. Subsidy of agriculture inputs and favorable rainfall in 2006/2007 growing ...

• Lean i den offentlige tannhelsetjenesten i Vest-Agder 

  Hammer, Maria Aune; Stokke, Trygve Rosseland (Master thesis, 2019)

  Dette studiet undersøker hvilke verktøy, kunnskaper og resultater de ansatte i den offentlige tannhelsetjenesten i Vest-Agder sitter igjen med etter implementeringen av Lean i 2016/2017. Ifølge en rapport om den offentlige ...

• Persistent miscoordination : an economics of Amazon fires 

  Cammelli, Federico (PhD Thesis;2018:16, Doctoral thesis, 2018)

  This thesis analyzes micro-level causes of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon, and the impact of policies and droughts on smallholders’ decisions to use and control fires. Fires in the Brazilian Amazon are an important ...

• Aquaculture in Bangladesh : essays on production variability, consumer preferences and market integration 

  Alam, Md Akhtarul (PhD Thesis;2018:15, Doctoral thesis, 2018)

  The main objective of this thesis is to increase knowledge about production, consumer and market issues related to aquaculture in Bangladesh. This is done by investigating (1) production risk and technical efficiency, (2) ...

• What does affect firm profitability? : revisiting firm, industry and country effects on firm profitability 

  Johansen, Michell Russell (Master thesis, 2018)

  The purpose with this thesis is to examine the relevance of firm, industry and country effects on firm profitability under macroeconomic turbulence such as recessions. Despite years of research in the field of strategic ...

• Hvilke faktorer påvirker den samfunnsøkonomiske lønnsomheten av vindkraft i Norge? 

  Ullah, Khadija Inam (Master thesis, 2019)

  Denne masteroppgave undersøker om hvilke faktorer som påvirker den samfunnsøkonomiske lønnsomheten i Norge for vindenergi. Samtidig om vindenergien er konkurransedyktig forhold til oppgradert vannkraftverk. For å kunne ...

• Hvordan påvirkes selskaper notert på Oslo Børs av endringer i oljeprisen? : en analyse av de 25 største selskapene notert på Oslo Børs i perioden 01.01.2010 til 31.08.2019 

  Heggen, Ingrid (Master thesis, 2019)

  Formålet med denne oppgaven er å undersøke hvordan de 25 største selskapene notert på Oslo Børs påvirkes av endringer i oljeprisen generelt, om det eksisterer asymmetri avhengig av om endringene i oljepris er positive eller ...

• Digitalt Førstevalg i Trondheim kommune : en kvalitativ studie av prosjektgjennomføring og gevinstrealisering i digitaliseringprosjektet «Kunstbasen Trondheim» 

  Woll, Johanne Marie (Master thesis, 2019)

  I denne studien er målet å belyse hvordan styring og implementering av digitaliseringsprosjekter påvirker realiseringen av digitaliseringsgevinster i offentlige digitaliseringsprosjekter. Jeg har utført en kvalitativ ...

• Effektivisering av verdikjeden til VESO Apotek og Grossist 

  Piperud, Kristine Huuse (Master thesis, 2019)

  VESO Apotek og Grossist distribuerer vaksiner, legemidler, handelsvarer og hygieneprodukter til veterinærer og den norske landbruk- og oppdrettsnæringen. Bedriften har tre ulike produktområder; dyrehelse, fiskehelse og CID ...

• Doing well by doing good? : an empirical study of 69 S&P Dow Jones ESG Indices 2009-2019 

  Iversen, Mads Erik (Master thesis, 2019)

  This thesis discusses whether one sacrifices returns by investing in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) screened portfolios. Assuming that the ESG investments are channelled into funds that are trading one of the ...

• Learning cooperation from the commons 

  Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;2/19, Working paper, 2019)

  The paper discusses the link between commons as they might have been used in prehistoric Norway and the rules concerning the exploitation of the commons as found in the oldest known legislation for regions of Norway, ...

• Prestasjonsanalyse av etisk screenede indekser : kan investorer oppnå alfa ved å investere i etiske indekser sammenlignet med konvensjonelle indekser? 

  Sharif, Attia (Master thesis, 2019)

  Denne masterrapporten drøfter om hvorvidt investorer kan oppnå alfa ved å investere etisk og bærekraftig. Oppgaven analyserer 16 etiske indekser fra velkjente indekstilbydere over flere markeder mot deres konvensjonelle ...

• The economics of fertilizer subsidies 

  Holden, Stein (CLTS Working paper;9/18, Working paper, 2018)

  Fertilizer and other input subsidies have been a prominent component of agricultural policies in many Asian and African countries since the 1960s. Their economic and political rationale is scrutinized with emphasis on the ...

• How related are risk preferences and time preferences? 

  Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;4/19, Working paper, 2019)

  Risk and time preferences are fundamentally important for financial decisions. We study such preferences for business group members based on field experiments in Ethiopia. The relationship between risk preferences and time ...

• Demand versus supply side climate policies 

  Mutua, Munyaka (Master thesis, 2019)

  So far discussion and implementation of climate policies has predominantly aimed at reducing consumption of fossil fuels through demand-side climate policies, for example, under the European Union Emission Trading System ...

• Land rental as a complementary income source for land-poor youth 

  Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;6/18, Working paper, 2018)

  Continued high population growth in already densely populated rural areas in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa makes it harder for youth to choose agriculture as their main source of income. We investigate whether near landless ...

• How do social preferences and norms of reciprocity affect generalized and particularized trust? 

  Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;8/19, Working paper, 2019)

  We study how social preferences and norms of reciprocity are related to generalized and particularized trust among members of youth business groups in northern Ethiopia. Members of these groups are recruited among land-poor ...

• Transaction costs and land rental market participation in Malawi 

  Tione, Sarah E.; Holden, Stein T. (CLTS Working paper;9/19, Working paper, 2019)

  We assess the extent of access and degree of participation by smallholder tenants in the land rental market in Malawi. Our study is based on three rounds of nationally representative Living Standards Measurement Surveys ...

• Gender assessment of youth business groups : female participation and characteristics 

  Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;6/19, Working paper, 2019)

  This working paper is an output from the research project “Youth Business Groups for Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Ethiopian Model” that is funded by Research Council of Norway under the NORGLOBAL2 research ...

• Grunnvassforvaltning: om Elinor Ostrom si tilnærming til forvaltning av grunnvatn 

  Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;8/18, Working paper, 2018)

  The paper discusses the challenges present in the management of groundwater. The theoretical approach of Elinor Ostrom is presented and her study of the management of groundwater in Southern California in the 1960ies is ...

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