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Collective versus individual property : tenure security and forest tenure reforms in China
(CLTS Working paper;2011:4, Working paper, 2011)This study assesses the determinants of forest land allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005 using data from three provinces in Southern China; Fujian, Jiang Xi and Yunnan. ... -
A comment on changes in the Norwegian Land Consolidation Act
(CLTS Working paper;7/18, Working paper, 2018)The Land Consolidation Act has recently been revised. The changes came into force on 1 July 2006 and 1 January 2007. The main changes in the Act are that the land consolidation court now has formal jurisdiction to handle ... -
Commodity market investments and behavioral finance : the case of coffee
(Master thesis, 2015-11-06)In this thesis I test for whether strategies that are constructed to exploit possible price patterns that are created by cognitive biases described by behavioral finance are able to earn excess returns in the Arabica futures ... -
Commodity markets : an updated study of the "timed momentum" trading strategy
(Master thesis, 2016-08-25)This thesis provides the reader with an updated study of the “timed momentum” strategy proposed by Miffre and Basu (2008). Their article shows that this commodity trading strategy is able to achieve significant mean returns, ... -
Commodity prices and market institutions in Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2010:14, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This PhD Thesis comprises five chapters including an introduction and four separate papers. The overall objective of the thesis is to evaluate the performance of agricultural commodity markets in Ethiopia. Economists have ... -
Consequences of green certificate and volatility in green certificate price : a case study of Norway
(Master thesis, 2017)In last two decades national governments have increased their support to renewable energy sources (RES). The European Union (EU) has been considered as a pioneer in this area. The Norwegian governmental policies have also ... -
Conservation agriculture, livelihoods and deforestation in Zambia
(PhD Thesis;2016:102, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Conservation agriculture (CA) practices such as minimum tillage have been promoted for about two decades as a way to conserve soils and increase agricultural productivity and farm incomes in sub-Saharan Africa, including ... -
Consumer preferences for animal welfare : what can we learn from restaurant, store and web experiments?
(PhD Thesis;2014:60, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis uses experimental methods to test Norwegian consumers’ preferences for animal welfare. First, it investigates the benefits of using such methods in consumer studies of credence goods in general, and in the case ... -
Consumer willingnes to pay for renewable energy : a meta analysis
(Master thesis, 2016-08-25)The electricity generated from renewable source i.e. wind, solar, hydro and biomass are considered to be environmentally stable from the point of Co2 emission and resource depletion. According to International Panel of ... -
Consumers and bioenergy : the effects of behavioural factors in households' heating consumption choice in Norway
(PhD Thesis;2013:63, Doctoral thesis, 2013)How energy consumers behave, namely, what type and how much of different energy products and services they consume, direct and indirect affects the environment, as well as personal (and collective) well-being. Understanding ... -
Controller eller endringsagent?
(Master thesis, 2023)I dagens samfunn er det en økende etterspørsel etter bærekraftig forretningsdrift, og norske bedrifter følger denne trenden. Som svar på denne etterspørselen har mange bedrifter etablert stillinger som bærekraftsansvarlig ... -
The Corona pandemic among university students in Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;06/21, Working paper, 2022)This study provides the initial survey data from a sample of 764 students at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Lilongwe, Malawi. It aims to provide evidence on the extent of exposure ... -
Cost gain of implementing load shifting in residential buildings
(Master thesis, 2019)There is a clear trend today that we use more and more appliances with a higher power demand, something that is a real challenge for the electricity grid. Also, the shift towards electrification of the transport system ... -
Country Socio-economic Development and Disparity in School Children's Reading Skills Learning in Africa
(CLTS Working paper;08/23, Working paper, 2023-12)To achieve the overarching goal of "education for all," there is a growing interest in understanding school learning outcomes and disparities among school children from disadvantaged backgrounds in Africa. This study employs ... -
Covid-19 pandemien og hjemmekontor : en deskriptiv studie av pandemiens effekt på bruk av hjemmekontor i norsk arbeidsliv
(Master thesis, 2021)Ulike versjoner av fjernarbeid har blitt stadig mer vanlig de siste årene. 12. mars 2020 ble over natten hele Norge stengt ned og hjemmekontor innført for svært mange. Dette ble starten på et enormt naturlig eksperiment ... -
COVID-19 vaccine demand and hesitancy among university students in Malawi
(Master thesis, 2022)To deal with the spread of the coronavirus and thereby the adverse consequences related to the pandemic, reaching high levels of vaccine uptake has been of utmost importance. As of January 1. 2022, only around 8% of the ... -
Crack Spread and its forecasting analysis. An empirical analysis using VAR and ARIMA model.
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis strives to describe crack spread which refers to the difference between the price of crude oil and the price of refined products extracted from it. It has a stable price movement throughout the last decade. But ... -
Creditworthiness and economic development in the Norwegian electric utility industry from 2007- 2016
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis consists of three parts. In the first part we implement five models of bankruptcy prediction, namely three versions of Altman Z-score, Ohlson O-score and Zmijewski’s model. We rank the electric utilities and ... -
Crop choices and land productivity on rented land in Northern Ethiopian Highlands
(Master thesis, 2011-10-31)The study assesses the effect of risk aversion and crop choices on land productivity on rented land. The analysis uses panel household and farm-plot level data collected in Tigray, the northern part of Ethiopia (2006-2010) ... -
Crowd Sourced Delivery i Oslo - fremtidens løsning på klima- og miljøbelastningen i Last Mile?
(Master thesis, 2023)I dagens globale samfunn med økende netthandel og behov for levering, har det oppstått problemer knyttet til bærekraftig transport og varelevering. Klimagassutslipp, trafikkbelastning og støy er noen av årsakene, og det ...