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Institutions and GMOs : shaping perspectives and organisms
(PhD Thesis;2010:35, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This thesis is written within the contemporary classical institutional economics tradition. The intention has been to provide insight into how different institutions can enable us to avoid harmful effects and generate ... -
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 ... -
Policy reforms, soil fertility management, cash cropping and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2007:39, Doctoral thesis, 2007)This thesis consists of an introduction and four independent papers. The papers aim at investigating agricultural productivity and factors that affect the performance of agriculture and food security directly or indirectly. ... -
Essays on economic valuation of cultural and natural resources in Vietnam
(Dr.scient.;2007:9, Doctoral thesis, 2007)The thesis consists of five self-contained papers. The first four papers are concerned with the economic valuation of cultural heritage sites, while the last one estimates direct use values of coastal wetlands in Vietnam. In ... -
Land tenure in the highlands of Eritrea : economic theory and empirical evidence
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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 ... -
Bønder i Antarktis : hvalfangst og landbruk 1925 - 1940
(Dr.scient;2003:33, Doctoral thesis, 2003)The 100 years between 1868 and 1968 was the most exploitative but also the last period of whale hunting on a global scale. For almost seventy years, Norwegian dominance in this business resulted not only in large incomes ... -
Poverty, institutions, peasant behavior and conservation investment in northern Ethiopia
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Land rental markets, investment and productivity under customary land tenure systems in Malawi
(PhD Thesis;2009:3, Doctoral thesis, 2009)As customary land tenure remains the predominant model of landholding in rural Africa and land the cornerstone of rural livelihood security, improving land tenure security is often equated with integration of customary ... -
Essays on the multifunctionality of agruculture and policy options
(Dr.scient.;2008:5, Doctoral thesis, 2008)Jordbruket produserer mer enn bare varer som kan omsettes i markeder. I tillegg produseres en lang rekke goder, onder og tjenester som ikke kan omsettes i markeder. Jordbruket kan på grunn av dette gi bidra til ulike ... -
Poverty, resource use and intensification strategies of smallholders under population pressure in southern Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2007:37, Doctoral thesis, 2007)The dissertation investigates resource use and intensification strategies of smallholders facing poverty and population pressure. It comprises an introduction and four independent papers. Based on data collected from a ... -
Short term effects of long-term policies: climate policies in power markets
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Essays on contracts, risk coping and technology adoption in Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2010:18, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This dissertation consists of an introduction and four independent papers. The first two papers examine land and livestock rental contractual arrangements. The first paper provides detailed analysis of cost sharing contract ... -
Methodological issues in meta-analysis, benefit transfer and environmental valuation
(PhD Thesis;2008:18, Doctoral thesis, 2008)This thesis consists of four papers on methodological issues in meta-analysis (MA), benefit transfer (BT) and environmental valuation. The first paper presents a MA of stated preference studies valuing non-timber benefits ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Attaining secure rural livelihood : the role of household strategies and public interventions
(PhD Thesis;2014:93, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This dissertation uses survey data from Northern Ethiopia and Western Uganda to study the role of household strategies and public interventions in enabling households to attain secure rural livelihoods. The thesis composes ... -
Pathways to development
(PhD Thesis;2014:73, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis consists of four articles and an introduction. It contributes to the debate on development, development aid and poverty reduction, and identifies possible pathways to development. In particular, I study financing ... -
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 ...