School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Retirement Planning: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors
(2008-05-22)This thesis consists of four papers. Common to the first three papers is the framework for analy- sis; a life-cycle model of a borrowing-constrained individual’s consumption and portfolio choices in the presence of ... -
“Institutions and Inequality”
(2008-05-20)This paper investigates the hypothesis that the association between property rights institutions and economic performance is weaker in countries with high social divisions, as measured in terms of ethnic fractionalisation ... -
The Behavioural Economics of Climate Change
(2008-05-19)This paper attempts to bring some central insights from behavioural economics into the economics of climate change. In particular, it discusses (i) implications of prospect theory, the equity premium puzzle and time ... -
Positional Concerns with Multiple Reference Points: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods in an OLG Model
(2008-05-19)This paper concerns optimal income taxation and provision of a state-variable public good under asymmetric information in a two-type overlapping generations model, where people care about their relative consumption. Each ... -
Individual Preferences, Choices, and Risk Perceptions - Survey Based Evidence
(2008-05-14)Paper 1 investigates how birth order and having siblings affect positional concerns in terms of success at work and of income. We find that only-children are the most positional, but that number of siblings increases the ... -
Essays on Microeconometrics and Immigrant Assimilation
(2008-05-02)Paper I. Asymptotic bias reduction for a conditional marginal effects estimator in sam- ple selection models. In this article we discuss the differences between the average marginal effect and the mar- ginal effect ... -
Firm Productivity and Exports: Evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing
(2008-04-30)This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. ... -
Kan du strunta i P/e-talet? –P/e-talets användbarhet för prediktion av aktiers avkastning: En studie på den svenska aktiemarknaden under perioden 1979-2006
(2008-04-25)For stock analysis, the P/e ratio has always played a prominent part. Is it, then, a good method for finding “incorrectly” evaluated stocks? Earlier research mainly based on the situation in North America has given some ... -
Globalization and Inter-occupational Inequality in a Panel of Countries: 1983-2003
(2008-04-23)How does globalization affect inter-occupational wage inequality within countries? This paper empirically examines this issue by focusing on two dimensions of globalization, openness to trade and openness to capital, using ... -
Panel Cointegration of Chinese A and B Shares
(2008-04-21)In this paper we study market segmentation and information flows in China's stock markets. By using panel data methods we test for a unit root in the price premium of domestic investors' A shares over foreign investors' B ... -
Executive Compensation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
(2008-04-21)Macroeconomic fluctuations affect corporations’ performance through demand and cost conditions. Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic ... -
Money and Success –Sibling and Birth-Order Effects on Positional Concerns
(2008-04-18)Survey data is used to investigate how birth order and having siblings affect positional concerns in terms of success at work and of income. We find that only-children are the most concerned with relative position, but ... -
Do EPA administrators recommend environmental policies that citizens want?
(2008-04-14)We investigate whether Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator preferences regarding improvements in environmental quality differ from citizen preferences. The scope and significance of the possible ... -
Who visits the museums? A comparison between stated preferences and observed effects of entrance fees
(2008-04-09)This study investigates whether the introduction of an entrance fee affects visitor composition at a state funded museum in Sweden. While entrance to the museum was still free, we conducted a survey to collect information ... -
Searching for a better deal - on the influence of group decision making, time pressure and gender in a search experiment
(2008-04-07)We study behavior in a search experiment where sellers receive randomized bids from a computer. At any time, sellers can accept the highest standing bid or ask for another bid at positive costs. We find that sellers stop ... -
Stylebook:Tips on Organization, Writing, and Formatting
(2008-04-07)Fifteen years of copy-editing experience – with theses (both in economics and in several medical fields), journal articles, book chapters and books, conference presentations, government reports, etc. – are distilled here. ... -
Non Utility Maximizing Behaviour: Probabilistic Choice in a Budget Set “Box”. Properties of Expected Demand Functions
(2008-03-18)In this paper we use some(even a convex) probabilistic frequency functions in two choice variables defined over the budget set” box” and calculate the expected demand to study its properties The expected demands have own ... -
The Corporate Social Performance Dilemma: Organising for Goal Duality in Low-Income African Markets
(Greenleaf Publishing: Sheffield, 2006)