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The collection of essays included herein studies different forms of reciprocal behavior, voluntary contributions towards a public project, and price setting and trading behavior in monopolistic asset markets. In paper ...

This thesis presents three previously published case studies and a new summary article, with the overall aim of improving our understanding of the use of natural experiments in studying causal relationships in social ...

In this doctoral dissertation, I explore the determinants of aggregate productivity. The essays in the field of macroeconomics examine how the business environment and firms’ actions shape aggregate outcomes such as output, ...

This doctoral dissertation explores the challenges that lead to underutilisation of welfare products and policies in credit and health, among the poor in developing countries. The essays in the area of Applied Microeconomics ...

This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter and three empirical essays that examine the linkages between economic activity and mental disorders. I examine two separate themes: the effect of migration on long-term ...

This thesis studies the additional value introduced by different machine learning methods to economic forecasting. Flexible machine learning methods can discover various complex relationships in data and are well-suited ...

This compilation dissertation investigates empirically questions related to public policy and political economy, using microeconometric methods and various large datasets including administrative, survey, and text data. ...

This dissertation consists of introductory part and four essays each covering certain aspects to regional development. Three of the essays are research reports from joint and multi-disciplinary research efforts. The main ...

This doctoral dissertation investigates how tax administration and tax and social protection policies impact citizens’ income and tax authorities’ revenue collection in the developing world. Two of the essays use impact ...