Browsing Doctoral theses (HH) by Title
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Risk and irrigation investment in a semi-arid economy
(PhD Thesis;2008:49, Doctoral thesis, 2008)The thesis consists of an introduction and four independent papers. It investigates the role of production risk and irrigation investment on farm households’ production decisions, efficiency, and income. Paper I analyses ... -
Rural nonfarm employment in Ethiopia : participation, impacts and dynamics
(PhD Thesis;2010:20, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This thesis consists of four papers analyzing the different facets of rural nonfarm employment in Ethiopia. The analyses in this thesis are mainly based on panel data of more than 1400 rural household in Ethiopia. The ... -
Seed security in the presence of climate shocks and socioeconomic inequality in Africa
(PhD Thesis;2022:65, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Access to diverse and well-adapted seeds is vital in helping farmers raise crop yields, agricultural incomes, and food security, reducing poverty and inequalities, and improving human well-being. The realization of benefits ... -
Short term effects of long-term policies: climate policies in power markets
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SME growth : the role of collectively competence-based resources
(PhD Thesis;2014:10, Doctoral thesis, 2014)High-growth firms contribute disproportionately to job and value creation. Previous research on high-growth firms has shown that high-growth firms are characterized by innovative qualities, have important spillover effects, ... -
Social acceptance and external effects of offshore wind in the green transition
(PhD thesis;2024:7, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Increasing electricity production from offshore wind is pertinent to realizing net zero carbon emissions by 2050. However, integrating offshore wind in the transition to green energy is not without social challenges. ... -
Socioeconomic status and health : the role of lifestyle choices
(PhD Thesis;2012:4, Doctoral thesis, 2012)This thesis focuses on the relationship between socioeconomic status, health and related lifestyle choices. It uses repeated cross-section and stated preference data from Norway and consists of four papers. The first paper ... -
Sustainable use of minerals in the context of a digital and energy transition
(PhD Thesis;2023:46, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis examines the sustainable use of minerals in the context of a low-carbon and digital transition. Based on original research, this thesis contributes to designing policy interventions, namely market-based instruments ... -
Taxation of income and wealth in an imperfect world : rates matter, rules decide
(PhD Thesis;2023:66, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Rising inequality and tightening government budgets have brought taxation high up on the agenda, both in the public debate and in academia. In particular, this has spurred a renewed interest in wealth taxation. To raise ... -
Technology adoption, land rental contracts and agricultural productivity
(Dr.scient.;2005:20, Doctoral thesis, 2005)This dissertation explores the potential for adoption of agricultural technologies and how alternative land rental contracts and kinship influence agricultural productivity and input use. It contains an introduction and ... -
Tenure, forest use and policies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)
(PhD Thesis;2014:57, Doctoral thesis, 2014)The objectives of the thesis is to improve our understanding of what determine differences in access to and use of land and forest resources across households, introduce new methods to analyze this, and identify policy ... -
The economics of dairy production : effects of breeding and marketing quotas
(PhD Thesis;2012:22, Doctoral thesis, 2012)This dissertation compiles four articles investigating the effects of breeding and marketing quota in dairy production. Farm level panel datasets from Norway and Iceland were used for the analysis. In the first article, ... -
The environmental requirements of piglets and use of the creep area
(PhD Thesis;2010:47, Doctoral thesis, 2010)Around 15% of all liveborn piglets die during the lactation period, and this poses a major economical and welfare challenge for the pig production. It has been hypothesized that an increased use of the creep area early ... -
The flower markets : five essays on flower prices 1993-2008
(PhD Thesis;2010:40, Doctoral thesis, 2010)The thesis consists of an introduction and five independent, but related essays. The unifying theme is the challenge of production and marketing of cut flowers under price uncertainty. Essay I gives an overview of international ... -
Three Essays on Electricity Prices
(PhD Thesis 2022;41, Doctoral thesis, 2022)The thesis explores how the Nord Pool power market prices forward-looking information. Specifically, the thesis investigates the efficiency, or the biasedness, of the derivatives side of the power market, how temperature ... -
Time and money : a study of purchasing decisions
(PhD Thesis;2017:54, Doctoral thesis, 2017)A consumer does not just choose how much to purchase of each good on a shopping trip, but also how frequently he shops during a certain period of time. The first paper introduces a microeconomic model, which accounts for ... -
Treatment of undesirable outputs in production analysis : desirable modeling strategies and applications
(PhD Thesis;2011:38, Doctoral thesis, 2011)The thesis consists of an introduction and four related papers. Their common topic is production analysis when undesirable outputs are accounted for. The introduction establishes the research platform on which the following ... -
Unlocking the concept of capacity in modern fisheries management
(Dr.philos;2010:01, Doctoral thesis, 2010) -
Valuing ecosystem services to inform land use policies in Norway : methodological issues and applications of stated preference methods
(PhD thesis;2022:68, Doctoral thesis, 2022) -
Willingness to pay for quality in experimental auction markets and stated choice surveys
(Dr.scient.;2003:1, Doctoral thesis, 2003)The principal objective of this thesis is to investigate the willingness to pay for quality. The thesis consists of four papers exploring Norwegian consumer preferences for imported and hormone-treated beef. The first paper ...