Doctoral theses (HH): Recent submissions
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On the supply side of the housing market
(PhD Thesis;2025:17, Doctoral thesis, 2025)This thesis investigates the supply side of the housing market, focusing on how regulatory frameworks and market conditions influence housing supply responsiveness in metropolitan areas. With high and rising house prices ... -
Regulations, government policies and the Norwegian housing market
(PhD Thesis;2025:18, Doctoral thesis, 2025)This thesis investigates the effects of specific regulations and policies in the Norwegian housing market at both national and regional levels. While grounded in the Norwegian context, the findings aim to contribute to the ... -
Essays on sustainable use of nature in a developing country context : the case of Kyrgyzstan
(PhD Thesis;2019:68, Doctoral thesis, 2019)The general topic of this thesis is the environment and its use by humans. This work focuses on the multifaceted natures of value, diversification strategies and clean fuel transition. The thesis contributes to the existing ... -
Regulation of electricity distribution utilities : empirical and theoretical aspects of incentive regulation
(PhD Thesis;2019:45, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Both developed and developing countries are restructuring the power sector and changing the regulatory regimes in attempts to improve the performance of sector and decrease the cost of electricity to the end-users. This ... -
Demand side implications for irrigation management and policies
(PhD Thesis;2020:54, Doctoral thesis, 2020)The thesis focuses on the demand side implications for irrigation management and policies based on survey and experimental data from Tigray region. It comprises four self-contained papers in two themes: 1) determining the ... -
The optimal economic management of catastrophic risk
(PhD Thesis;2019:63, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Society faces multiple catastrophic threats. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, climate change, species extinction, ecosystem collapse, technological singularity, and nuclear accidents are just some of them. There is ... -
Norwegian consumers’ acceptance of sustainable dietary alternatives
(PhD thesis;2025:21, Doctoral thesis, 2025)This thesis focuses on sustainable food consumption, consumer behaviour and food choice and contains four papers. The first paper uses data from an online survey conducted in Norway and the three remaining papers use data ... -
The economic performance of small-scale agriculture : measurement, drivers, and decomposition of productivity
(PhD Thesis;2018:30, Doctoral thesis, 2018)This doctoral thesis incorporates an integrated framework for the measurement and analysis of the performance of Norwegian farms, focusing on crop-producing and dairy farms. Farm-level datasets were used in the analysis. ... -
Educational outcomes for primary school children in Africa : with a focus on children with disabilities
(PhD Thesis;2025:45, Doctoral thesis, 2025)This doctoral dissertation addresses the critical issue of educational inequality for children with disabilities, a group often marginalized in educational systems, by examining school enrollment and learning outcomes for ... -
Mining, livelihoods and forest conservation in the DR Congo
(PhD Thesis;2025:35, Doctoral thesis, 2025)This doctoral thesis investigates the nexus of mineral extraction, livelihoods and forest conserva- tion in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in three papers. The first two papers are set in the eastern DRC that ... -
The dynamics of regional housing markets : topics : quality heterogeneity, sorting and housing affordability
(PhD Thesis;2025:3, Doctoral thesis, 2025)There are several reasons why housing markets are different from other economic markets. Housing markets are fundamentally local. The dynamics of these markets are significantly influenced by factors that vary spatially, ... -
Seller and buyer behavior in the housing market
(PhD Thesis;2025:7, Doctoral thesis, 2025)This thesis examines the behavior of sellers and buyers in the housing market across different scenarios and perspectives. Individuals engaging in the housing market are often inexperienced, therefore, they may potentially ... -
Crisis management in hospitals : an operations management perspective : learnings from the Covid-19 pandemic in Norway
(PhD Thesis;2025:2, Doctoral thesis, 2025)The Covid-19 pandemic of the years 2019 to 2021 can be characterized as a “creeping” crisis – evolving over time and space, resisting comprehensive and coordinated response – that challenged the global healthcare sector ... -
Power to the people : increasing electricity access, connectivity, and usage in Uganda
(PhD Thesis;2024:44, Doctoral thesis, 2024)The thesis is a collection of four empirical papers on energy-related issues in Uganda. They cover issues related to electricity demand, adoption of photovoltaic energy (PV), charcoal prices, and linkages between electricity ... -
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. ... -
Putting entrepreneurial competencies to work : an exploration of the early careers of entrepreneurship education graduates
(PhD Thesis;2024:14, Doctoral thesis, 2024)This thesis contributes to build knowledge about how entrepreneurship education (EE) prepares students for working life, how entrepreneurial competencies that are developed through EE are utilized in career trajectories ... -
Essays on salmon commodity markets
(PhD Thesis;2023:72, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis examines key aspects of the salmon industry, including financial effects of climate change, market volatility, price predictions, and the role of news on market prices. The work consists of four research ... -
Essays on predictive and prescriptive process monitoring
(PhD Thesis;2022:21, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This PhD thesis addresses problems related to proactive methods of decision support in business processes. These methods include predictive process monitoring, which aims to warn about potential problems before they occur, ... -
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 ... -
The green transition in the transport sector
(PhD thesis;2023:67, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Mobility is essential for ensuring human well-being. At the same time the transport sector is a large source of greenhouse gas emissions. To address climate change, it is imperative to accelerate the shift towards sustainable ...