Today, public and private organizations have increasingly turned to management and leadership development, seeking to advance their respective organizations under the assumption that leadership development programmes (LDPs) enable participants to develop their leadership capacity. As such, this...

This is a paper-based dissertation, consisting of a 'cape' and three articles, one of which is singleauthored. The topic is servitization at work. Servitization is a competitive strategy that, typically, Western industrial manufacturing companies implement in order to secure their continued...

This PhD dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters that all study separate aspects of firms' expansion in export markets. Although the three projects study different questions, and do so using different approaches, they share a common focus on how firms grow in foreign markets and...

This dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters. Each chapter can be read independently but jointly they contribute to the understanding of the interactions between parental behavior and public policies in shaping child development. I use natural experiments, quantitative methods and...

This PhD dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters in the field of macroeconomics. The first two chapters rely a large scanner data set from the United States. The data set contains detailed pricing and sales information from retail stores as well as comprehensive information on...

This PhD dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters in the field of development economics. The topic of the first three chapters is human capital in East Africa, whereas the topic of the fourth chapter is measurement of sub-national state capacity. The first chapter studies the effect...

Interest rates vary with time horizons. This relationship, known as the term structure of interest rates or the yield curve, contains information about market expectations on future interest rates, inflation, and economic activity; risk attitudes; and recession probabilities. Understanding yield...