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Can adoption of improved maize varieties help smallholder farmers adapt to drought? : evidence from Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;2015:1, Working paper, 2015)This study used a three-year panel dataset for 350 Malawian farm households to examine the potential for widespread adoption of drought tolerant (DT) maize varieties, a technology that holds considerable promise for ... -
Can area measurement error explain the inverse farm size productivity relationship?
(CLTS Working paper;2013:12, Working paper, 2013)The existence of an inverse relationship (IR) between farm size and productivity in tropical agriculture remains a debated issue with policy relevance. Poor agricultural statistical data, including data on farm sizes and ... -
Can climate shocks make vulnerable subjects more willing to take risks?
(CLTS Working paper;03/23, Working paper, 2023-01)While economists in the past tended to assume that individual preferences, including risk preferences, are stable over time, a recent literature has developed and indicates that risk preferences respond to shocks. This ... -
Can Private Equity Enhance Value Creation by Integrating ESG Considerations Throughout the Investment Life Cycle?
(Master thesis, 2023)Despite the increasing recognition of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in public market investments, little is known about their impact on value creation in the private equity (PE) industry. This study ... -
Can rainfall shocks enhance access to rented land? Evidence from Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;05/20, Working paper, 2020)This study investigates whether and to what extent rainfall shocks recurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, that have been associated with distress land rentals, enhance short-term and medium-term access to rented land by tenant ... -
Can shipping freight rate risk be reduced using forward freight agreements?
(Master thesis, 2013-08-30)This thesis investigates the forecasting performance and hedge efficiency of 50 Forward Freight Agreements (FFA) in bulk shipping from 2005 to 2012. We find that the hedge ratios estimated with the conventional method ... -
Can simple technical trading rules be successful in the Norwegian stock market?
(Master thesis, 2014-08-15)In this analysis, two simple technical trading rules, moving average and trading-range breakout, are tested by utilizing OBX and OSESX from Oslo Stock Exchange in 1997-2013. To assess if the rules are successful, the ... -
Can the land rental market facilitate smallholder commercialization? : evidence from northern Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2017:10, Working paper, 2017)The paper utilizes household panel data to investigate whether the land rental market can facilitate improved access to land for land-poor tenant households over time and thereby facilitate expansion of their farming ... -
Can the Oil Price Predict the Wheat Price?
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the interrelationship between the oil and the wheat price, trying to establish if the oil price causes the wheat price (in the Granger sence). -
Can the risky investment game predict real world investments?
(CLTS Working paper;05/21, Working paper, 2022)The incentivized risky investment game has become a popular tool in lab-in-the-field experiments for its simplicity and ease of comprehension compared to some of the more complex Multiple Choice List approaches that have ... -
Canadian housing prices : a case study using macroeconomic variables and machine learning
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis uses cointegration methods to investigate the extent to which segmentation manifests in the Canadian housing markets. By applying the Johansen, Engel-Granger, and FMOLS models, inference on market segmentation ... -
Carbon fee dividend and public acceptance for increased climate taxes
(Master thesis, 2020)The failure of undervalue or unpriced externalities, such as emissions, have led us to an unsustainable path that threatens our environment, our overall welfare and economic growth. To make the transaction to a “green ... -
Caste discrimination, land reforms and land market performance in Nepal
(CLTS Working Paper;2011:01, Working paper, 2011)The caste system is an intricate part of the institutional structure as well as class formation, political instability and conflicts in Nepal. The most severely discriminated group in the caste system is the Dalits, the ... -
Caste discrimination, land tenure, and natural resource management in Nepal
(PhD Thesis;2011:03, Doctoral thesis, 2011)The dissertation investigates the issues related to land tenancy transactions, land productivity and land related investment with a due focus on caste discrimination in the Nepalese rural society. This study also explores ... -
Caste, land and labour market imperfections, and land productivity in rural Nepal
(CLTS Working paper;2011:6, Working paper, 2011)This paper provides new evidence on the caste-related land productivity differential and its explanations in rural Nepal using household plot panel data. Low-caste households are found to have significantly higher land ... -
Center for Land Tenure Studies 2022 Annual Report
(CLTS Report;03/23, Report, 2023-12)The Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS) published in 11 working papers and 14 peer reviewed journal articles. The published worked covered issues around land tenure policies, land markets, housing markets, environmental ... -
Centre for Land Tenure Studies 2019 Annual Report
(CLTS Report;2020:2, Report, 2020)In the year 2019, the Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS) has produced 9 working papers. These papers were circulated on both the CLTS webpage and the Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics (S-WoPEc) webpage. The papers ... -
Centre for Land Tenure Studies 2021 Annual Report
(CLTS Annual paper;01/22, Others, 2021)The work of the Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS) in 2021 included 6 working papers and 18 peer reviewed journal articles. The CLTS papers and reports are accessible through the CLTS webpage, the Scandinavian Working ... -
CHANGES IN THE EXPORT TRADE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VIETNAM AND THE US
(Master thesis, 2023)This study investigates the changes in the trade relationship between Vietnam and the US, with a focus on GDP, tariffs and distance, the impact of the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement, and the effects of diplomatic ... -
Charity donor attitudes and preference : an analysis of a questionnaire survey in Norway
(Master thesis, 2014-02-13)Since private donations take a large proportion in charitable giving, the meaning of study individual donors’ attitudes and preferences become important. There were some previous researches provided the evidence that donor’s ...