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This study explores the persistence of guilds in early 20th century China, contrasting their fate with European guilds. While most European guilds were abolished after the French Revolution, Chinese guilds were reorganized as industrial associations (tongye gonghui) under government oversight. Using constitutions from 29 Shanghai associations and thematic analysis, this research examines their org

This thesis examines Catalan railway companies between 1856 and 1866 as spaces of economic and social transformation. Using Social Network Analysis, it studies the relationships between shareholders, company directors and major investors in order to analyze to what extent railway companies reflected and shaped the transformation of Catalan capitalism. The results show that railway investment was n

High levels of alcohol consumption in the UK impose substantial economic and social costs. To reduce alcohol‑related harm, the Welsh Government introduced Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) on 2 March 2020. This paper evaluates the impact of MUP on alcohol consumption in Wales using a difference‑in‑differences (DID) design applied to individual‑level AUDIT‑C data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (

This thesis builds a new dataset on the composition and evolution of credit portfolios for Latin America’s six largest economies between 2000-2025. The new dataset was built by manually compiling credit information from local regulators and central banks. Its objective is to improve empirical analysis by (i) allowing to study the interaction between different credit segments and economic outcomes,

This thesis examines fiscal dependence under conditions of partial sovereignty through a comparative political economy analysis of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, two autonomous territories within the Danish Realm. Drawing on theories of fiscal federalism, soft budget constraints, and the political economy of autonomy, it explores whether the relationship between fiscal dependence and selected ec

Can a country created from three different territories achieve economic integration within two decades? The results of this paper, examining the domestic market integration in interwar Poland, indicate that, with some caveats, the feat is possible. Using a new dataset with unprecedented detail, price dispersion dynamics, the importance of old borders, and the impact of railway expansion on price g

Previous studies of the economic long-term effects of the US bombing of Cambodia (1965--1973) find divergent results, ranging from persistent poverty traps to poverty alleviation and improved economic development. To reconcile these, I propose and test a novel two-stage mechanism: first, unexploded ordnance (UXO) constrains households' effectively cultivable land, depressing the marginal produ

This thesis examines how early twentieth-century Swedish tax records were shaped by the interaction between progressive taxation, taxpayer behaviour and local assessment institutions. It does so by bringing a modern bunching framework, rarely applied in historical studies, to 20,830 individual-level observations from Swedish taxation lists for 1915, 1919, 1927 and 1935, including 7,942 observation

This thesis examines which institutional dimensions, capital-market integration, regulatory density, single-market incompleteness, and regional decentralization, are most strongly associated with European productivity and firm-dynamism performance over 2000–2020. Using panel data for 17–31 European countries and a multi-protocol fixed-effects framework robust to cross-sectional dependence and smal

Quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are important low-dimensional semiconductor systems because of their strong excitonic response, tunable emission properties, and improved structural stability compared with conventional three-dimensional (3D) perovskites. In these materials, the inorganic layer thickness and the molecular structure of the organic spacer can modulate

Denna uppsats behandlar och diskuterar yttrandefrihet i relation till brottet hets mot folkgrupp i Sverige och Tyskland i ett komparativt perspektiv. Undersökningen består i en genomgång av de regler som garanterar yttrandefrihet i Sverige och Tyskland samt straffbudet hets mot folkgrupp i Sverige och totalt tre brott i Tyskland som kan sägas motsvara hets mot folk-grupp i Sverige. I Sverige har

Uppsatsen undersöker hur den inhibitionsordning som infördes den 1 juni 2026 förhåller sig till rätten till rörelse i det fjärde tilläggsprotokollet till Euro-pakonventionen. För den personkrets som omfattas av 12 kap. 17 a § Utlän-ningslagen hanteras tillfälliga verkställighetshinder inte längre som huvudregel genom tidsbegränsade uppehållstillstånd, utan genom inhibition av verkstäl-ligheten. OrThis thesis examines how the new stay-of-enforcement system introduced on 1 June 2026 is compatible with the right to freedom of movement under Pro-tocol No. 4 to the European Convention on Human Rights. For persons fall-ing under Chapter 12, Section 17a of the Swedish Aliens Act, temporary im-pediments to enforcement are, as a general rule, no longer addressed through temporary residence permits

Uppsatsen är en komparativ rättsdogmatisk jämförelse av de finländska och svenska regelverken angående patienträttigheter inom hälso- och sjukvården. Analysen har gjorts i ljuset av de fjorton patienträttigheter som formuleras i European Charter of Patients’ Rights (ECPR), framtaget av Active Citizenship Network tillsammans med 15 andra medborgarrättsorganisationer inom EU, och ECPR används som en

This thesis examines how blended finance shapes approaches to refugee economic inclusion within contemporary development cooperation. Using qualitative document analysis and thematic analysis, the study explores three refugee-focused blended finance initiatives in Jordan, Uganda and Kenya. The findings demonstrate that refugees are increasingly framed as economic actors within market-based and inv

This study examines the relationship between lagged precipitation shocks and fertility outcomes among rural women in the Peruvian highlands, using individual-level data from the Demographic and Health Survey (ENDES) merged with department-year Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) records from SENAMHI for the period 2009–2018. Exploiting within-department rainfall variation in a two-way fixed eff

This thesis estimates the dynamic macroeconomic effects of climatic disasters on GDP per capita and human capital, using local projections on a panel of 173 countries from 1970 to 2022. The analysis focuses on droughts, floods, and storms, three unambiguously climate-driven disaster types. The main finding is a divergence between output and human capital responses. GDP per capita rises cumulativel

Fertility in France has been rapidly declining in the last years, moving far from replacement levels despite the country’s historically high fertility and family-support policies. Using data from the second round Wave 1 of the French Generations and Gender Survey and building on the Second Demographic Transition theory (Lesthaeghe and van de Kaa, 1986), according to which population decline needs

This paper explores the self-making process of young Chinese women studying in Sweden who live alone, an aspect which remains rarely explored in international student mobility research. This study is based on semi-structured interviews conducted with 11 young Chinese women, all students between 22 to 27 years old at Lund University, Sweden. This thesis investigates how these women balance student