School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Essays on Institutions and Economic Growth
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Statistical Implications of the Stability and Growth Pact: Creative accounting and the role of Eurostat
(2007-10-03)This study covers the relation between the political and accounting implications of the Stability and Growth Pact, which entered into force in 1996. It describes the underlying legal framework and accounting rules and ... -
The Persistence of Welfare Participation
(2007-09-28)Welfare persistence is estimated in and compared between Swedish-born and foreignborn households. This is done within the framework of a time-stationary dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial condition ... -
Does Job Loss Shorten Life?
(2004-12-01)This paper examines the causal effect of job loss on overall and cause-specific mortality. Using linked employer-employee register data, we identified the job losses due to all establishment closures in Sweden in 1987 ... -
Reglering med intäktstak - incitament på kort och lång sikt
(2007-09-19)I denna rapport konstateras att intäktstak är en regleringsmodell som dras med två mycket allvarliga långsiktiga problem. För det första måste regleraren bestämma parametrarna i modellen med omsorg, så att den inte ger ... -
Växeln, hallå hallå? - samordning och integrerad vård för äldre
(2007-09-14)This paper reports the findings of a case study of the creation of a one-stop callcenter. The callcenter helped older people living in the community by forwarding requests, giving advice on whom to call and informing about ... -
Shutdown Threats, Firm Fragmentation and the Skill Premium
(2007-09-12)This essay investigates the interaction between demand uncertainty and non-competitive labor markets where firm owners have the option to shut down and relocate. Workers cannot find new jobs instantly and therefore accept ... -
Market Imperfections and Wage Inequality
(2007-09-10)This paper investigates the relationship between various market imperfections and the skill premium. The model in this paper assumes perfectly competitive labor markets but distorted product and financial markets. The ... -
Risk, Occupational Choice, and Inequality
(2007-09-10)This essay presents a new theory explaining increased wage inequality. A standard endogenous growth model is augmented with occupational choice of highskill workers. Depending on the occupational choice, high-skill workers ... -
Varor och märken – om att vara och märkas
(2007-09-07)Studien undersöker utifrån ett varumärkeskulturellt perspektiv vilka roller konsumtion av, och tal om, varumärken spelar i unga svenska konsumenters identitetskonstruktion. Det innebär att studien ontologiskt problematiserar ... -
Fisheries Economics and 20 years with Marine Resource Economics: A Citation Analysis
(2007-09-05)This paper reviews the impact of articles published in the Marine Resource Economics and within the field of fisheries economics in general over the period 1954-2004. Specific attention is given to the years 1984-2004, ... -
Motives for Private Gift Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Romania
(2007-09-04)In many developing and transitional countries with limited public income redistribution, inter-household transfers in general, and gifts in particular, are sizable and very important. We use unique Romanian survey data ... -
Occupational gender composition and wages in Romania: from planned equality to market inequality
(2007-09-04)In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its ... -
Pricing portfolio credit derivatives
(2007-08-31)This thesis consist of four papers on dynamic dependence modelling in portfolio credit risk. The emphasis is on valuation of portfolio credit derivatives. The underlying model in all papers is the same, but is split in ... -
Poverty dynamics in Ethiopia: state dependence
(2007-08-29)This paper focuses on the persistency of poverty in rural and urban households in Ethiopia by estimating dynamic probit models. Unobserved heterogeneity, first order state dependence and serially correlated error component ... -
A Dynamic Tobit Model of Female Labor Supply
(2007-08-29)A dynamic Tobit model is applied to longitudinal data to estimate the hours of work of married women in Sweden during 1992-2001. Hours of work are found to be negatively related to fertility. Other characteristics of married ... -
Preferences for redistribution - a cross-country study in fairness
(2007-08-01)This paper seeks to explain within as well as between country variation in preferences for redistribution in terms of self interest concerns, and an input based concept of fairness captured by the effects of beliefs about ... -
Island Status, Country Size and Institutional Quality in Former Colonies
(2007-06-19)The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of island status and country size on institutional quality, and to determine if these institutional effects can explain the relatively strong economic performance of ... -
The Determinants of Rural Child Labor: An Application to India
(2007-06-19)There are several factors that may contribute to the decision to send a child to work, such as poverty, market imperfections and parental preferences. The aim of this paper is to determine empirically the relative importance ... -
Efficient communication, common knowledge, and consensus
(2007-06-18)We study a model of pairwise communication in a finite population of Bayesian agents. We show that, in contrast with claims to the contrary in the existing literature, communication under a fair protocol may not lead to ...