Search for dissertations about: "political business 2011"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words political business 2011.
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1. How do Small Firms Manage their Political Environment? : - A Network Perspective
Abstract : To this point research on firms’ political behavior has contributed knowledge concerning large firms’ relationships and strategies with political actors and their surrounding environment. Less is known about small firms’ behavior towards political organizations. READ MORE
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2. Transatlantic defence industry integration : discourse and action in the organizational field of the defence market
Abstract : The integration of defence companies in Europe and the U.S. has in the defence market’s environment for a long time received considerable interest. Companies see business opportunities and attractive technology on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. READ MORE
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3. Empirical Essays in Political and Public Economics
Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays. Essay 1: Despite the key role played by political payoffs in theory, very little is known empirically about the types of payoffs that motivate politicians. The purpose of this paper is to bring light onto this. I estimate causal effects of being elected in a local election on monetary returns. READ MORE
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4. Essays on Industrial Development and Political Economy of Africa
Abstract : Paper 1: Returns to Capital and Informality. We study the pattern of returns to capital in the formal and informal manufacturing sectors in Ethiopia. We use a rich panel dataset of manufacturing firms in the formal sector for the period 1996-2006 and two rounds of repeated cross-sectional data of the urban informal sector firms. READ MORE
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5. Essays on Institutions, Inequality and Development
Abstract : The thesis consists of four self-contained papers. Paper 1: Social divisions and institutions: Assessing institutional parameter variation This paper investigates the hypothesis that the association between property rights institutions and income is weaker in countries with high social divisions. READ MORE