School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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SWEtaxben: A Swedish Tax/benefit Micro Simulation Model and an Evaluation of a Swedish Tax Reform.
(2009-02-24)The purpose of SWEtaxben is to evaluate the impact of changes in the tax/benefit systems on households as well as the central governmental budget. Relating to the micro simulation literature this model can be labeled a ... -
Inflation Dynamics and Food Prices in an Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ethiopia
(2009-02-23)Ethiopia has experienced a historically unprecedented increase in inflation, mainly driven by cereal price inflation, which is among the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using monthly data over the past decade, we estimate ... -
Why do you want lower taxes? Preferences regarding municipal income tax rates
(2009-02-23)The factors shaping people’s preferences for municipal labour income tax rates in Sweden were assessed, using survey data. The tax rate actually faced by the respondents had explanatory power for their attitudes towards ... -
Unintended Impacts of Multiple Instruments on Technology Adoption
(2009-02-23)There are many situations where environmental authorities use a mix of environmental policy instruments, rather than one single instrument, to address environmental concerns. For example, one instrument may be used to ... -
Competition in the Swedish coffee market, 1978–2002
(Elsevier, 2007)Are multinationals exploiting their market power in national coffee markets by keeping consumer prices too high and thereby limiting demand for imports of coffee beans? The purpose of this study is to address this issue ... -
Demand for coffee in Sweden: The role of prices, preferences and market power
(Elsevier, 2007)There is a widespread belief that consumer coffee prices are high relative to bean prices and that lower consumer prices would lead to substantial increases in bean exports from Third-World countries. This issue is evaluated ... -
A Dynamic Model of Inflation in Kenya
(Oxford University Press, 2001)This paper analyses the dynamics of inflation in Kenya during 1974 –1996, a period characterised by external shocks and internal disequilibria. By developing a parsimonious and empirically constant model we find that the ... -
Statistiska varningssystem för hälsorisker
(2009-02-17)Varningssystem behövs t.ex. vid intensivövervakning, smittskydd, miljörisker och kvalitetskontroll av vården. Statistiska varningssystem signalerar när det skett en väsentlig ändring och man vet vilka egenskaper systemet ... -
Explorative analysis of spatial patterns of influenza incidences in Sweden 1999—2008
(2009-02-17)Information about the spatial spread of epidemics can be useful for many purposes. In this paper, the spatial aspect of Swedish influenza data is analyzed with the main aim of finding patterns that could be useful for ... -
On statistical surveillance of the performance of fund managers
(2009-02-17)The aim of this report is to describe if and how statistical surveillance methods for monitoring of the performance of fund managers has been used. Statistical surveillance is a methodology for on-line monitoring, in which ... -
Properties and Use of the Shewhart Method and Its Followers
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)After the Shewhart method was suggested for industrial applications, other applications, such as surveillance for bioterrorism and financial transactions, came into focus. Other methods for surveillance have also followed. ... -
Optimal Surveillance Based on Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)Statistical surveillance is used to detect an important change in a process as soon as possible after it has occurred. The EWMA method is used in industry, economics and medicine. Three optimality criteria of surveillance ... -
Assessing the employment effects of vocational training using a one-factor model
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2006)Matching estimators use observed variables to adjust for differences between groups to eliminate sample selection bias. When minimum relevant information is not available, matching estimates are biased. If access to data ... -
What Contributes to Life Satisfaction in Transitional Romania?
(Blackwell, 2006)This paper analyzes life satisfaction in Romania in 2001, 12 years after the collapse of communism and the beginning of the transition into a market economy. Using a survey of 1770 individuals, we find that our results are ... -
'Never on a Sunday': Economic incentives and short-term sick leave in Sweden
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2005)Using a longitudinal data for about 1800 persons observed between 1986 and 1991, this study investigates the incentive effects on short-term sickness spells of two important regime changes in the social insurance system ... -
First Exits from the Swedish Labor Market Due to Disability
(Springer, 2008)Nowadays, with an increasingly aging population, an increasing size of the population on disability benefits, and an implicitly lower level of economic output and foregone tax revenue, disability has become a major public ... -
Long-term absenteeism due to sickness in Sweden. How long does it take and what happens after?
(Springer, 2008)In this paper, we analyze exits from long-term sickness spells in Sweden. Using spell data for more than 2500 people, aged 20-64 years during 1986-1991, and who had at least one sickness spell of at least 60 days during ... -
Bundling and diffusion of management accounting innovations— the case of the balanced scorecard in Sweden
(Elsevier, 2005)Most changes in accounting are the direct or indirect consequences of diffusion processes. A study of how management accounting innovations are being adjusted and bundled together with other ideas to facilitate entry into ... -
Determinants of Soil Capital
(2009-01-28)This paper combines knowledge from soil science and economics to estimate economic determinants of soil capital. Explaining soil capital facilitates a better understanding of constraints and opportunities for increased ... -
Muddy Waters: Soil Erosion and Downstream Externalities
(2009-01-27)Soil erosion and fertilizer run-off cause serious flow externalities in downstream environments through-out the world. Social costs include e.g. loss of health, life and production due to pollution and eutrophication of ...