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Land Certification and International Migration: Evidence from Mexico
(2010-04-19)In this paper we ask whether there is a relationship between property rights and international migration. In order to identify the impact of property rights, we consider a country-wide land certi cation program, which ... -
A systems view of the intermodal transport system
(2010-04-08)This report is a part of the project MINT - Model and decision support system for evaluation of intermodal terminal networks. The project is a joint strategic and tactic trans-national project researching a new and improved ... -
Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment: Comment
(2010-03-31)Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than ... -
Risk-taking middle-borns: A study on birth- order and risk preferences
(2010-03-29)We analyze the impacts of birth order and presence/absence of siblings on risk preferences with respect to economic, health/safety, and sport/lifestyle related risks. We study both the answer to a hypothetical lottery ... -
Is Fairness Blind? - The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
(2010-03-29)By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens’ preferences for effort-sharing rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not rank the rule favoring their own ... -
Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services – Theory and Experiment
(2010-03-17)We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price ... -
Pre-School Education and School Performance The Case of Public Schools in Montevideo
(2010-03-17)In this paper we try to explain the academic performance of a sample of children starting their first year at public schools in 1999 in Montevideo, Uruguay. We are mainly interested in the effect of pre-school education ... -
Wages and Immigrant Occupational Composition in Sweden
(2010-03-17)This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes in proportion of immigrant workers in different occupations on the wage levels of both natives and ... -
Bolagsrevisorn - En studie av revisionsverksamhet under sent 1800-tal och tidigt 1900-tal. Från frivillighet till lagreglering och professionalisering.
(2010-03-16)The development of Swedish auditing, in light of the increase in legislation of limited liability companies and the international history of audit at the turn of the 20th century, is investigated. An important factor is ... -
Ethnic diversity, economic performance and civil wars
(2010-03-03)We develop a conflict model linking dissipation to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest version of the model by Esteban and Ray (1999) to include a mixed ... -
Household Tree Planting in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Tree Species, Purposes, and Determinants
(2010-02-18)Trees have multiple purposes in rural Ethiopia, providing significant economic and ecological benefits. Planting trees supplies rural households with wood products for their own consumption, as well for sale, and decreases ... -
Bio-economics of Conservation Agriculture and Soil Carbon Sequestration in Developing Countries
(2010-02-15)Improvement in soil carbon through conservation agriculture in developing countries may generate some private benefits to farmers as well as sequester carbon emissions, which is a positive externality to society. Leaving ... -
Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games
(2010-02-01)We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in oneshot normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their firstand second-order beliefs. We find that ... -
After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in Darfur
(2010-01-29)In this article, we use a unique database on 542 villages in southwestern Darfur to analyze patterns of population growth and land reallocation that have emerged as a consequence of the recent conflict. Our analysis ... -
First International Research Forum on Guided Tours - Proceedings
(2010-01-22)Since the empirical phenomenon of Guided tours involves several aspects, such as tourism, sustainable spatial planning, cultural heritage, the mediation of place through technologies, place marketing and management, Guided ... -
Essays on institutions and economic outcomes
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The Futile Quest for a Grand Explanation of Long-Run Government Expenditure
(2010-01-22)This paper carries out a critical reappraisal of the two contending theories purporting to explain long-run government spending: Wagner’s Law and different variants of the ratchet effect. We analyze data spanning from ... -
POSITIONAL PREFERENCES IN TIME AND SPACE: IMPLICATIONS FOR OPTIMAL INCOME TAXATION
(2010-01-22)This paper concerns optimal nonlinear taxation in an OLG model with two ability-types, where people care about their own consumption relative to (i) other people’s current consumption, (ii) own past consumption, and (iii) ... -
Altruism and Career Concerns
(2010-01-22)The paper studies the impact of altruism on Agent’s motivation in the career concerns model. I show that career concerns incentive is lessened by altruism. As a consequence, altruism can decrease effort, though conventional ...