Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Climate Policy and Financial Markets
(2020-01-07)Climate change represents a serious, as-yet-unresolved global commons problem. After decades of international climate negotiations, 195 nations adopted the Paris climate agreement in December 2015. The subsequent election ... -
Pharaoh´s Cage: Environmental Circumscription and Appropriability in Early State Development
(2019-11)What explains the origins and survival of the first states around five thousand years ago? In this research, we focus on the role of productivity shocks for early state development in a single region: ancient Egypt. We ... -
Son Preferences and Education Inequalities in India
(2019-10)We investigate the impact of son preferences in India on gender inequalities in education. We distinguish the impact of preferential treatment of boys from the impact of gender-biased fertility strategies (gender-specific ... -
The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime
(2019-10)This paper evaluates how the introduction of professional police forces affected crime using two natural experiments in history: the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police (the first police force ever tasked ... -
The Persistence of the Criminal Justice Gender Gap: Evidence from 200 Years of Judicial Decisions
(2019-10)We document persistent gender gaps favoring females in jury convictions and judge sentences in nearly 200 years of London trials, which are unexplained by case characteristics. We find that three sharp changes in punishment ... -
Political Economy of Listing of Substances of Very High Concern in the European REACH Regulation
(2019-10)The Candidate List of the European Union regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals—known as REACH— gives advanced information to industry and other stakeholders about substances ... -
Not for you! The cost of having a foreign-sounding name in the Swedish private housing market
(2019-10)Both immigration and a troubling housing deficit have increased rapidly in Sweden over the past 20 years. Today, up to 33 percent of the people living in the largest Swedish cities are immigrants. In this Internet-based ... -
Past and present outage costs – A follow-up study of households’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages
(2019-10)Households’ demand for electricity continues to increase. This trend per se should indicate increased disutility from power outages. On the other hand, batteries and other back-up systems have been improved and the frequency ... -
Charity as Income Redistribution: A Model with Optimal Taxation, Status, and Social Stigma
(2019-09)Our framework integrates (i) public and private redistribution, (ii) the warm glow of giving and stigma of receiving charitable donations, and (iii) status concerns emanating from social comparisons with respect to charitable ... -
The informational value of environmental taxes
(2019-09)We propose informational spillovers as a new rationale for the use of multiple policy instruments to mitigate a single externality. We investigate the design of a pollution standard when the firms’ abatement costs are unknown ... -
Standing in Others’ Shoes: Empathy and Positional Behavior
(2019-09)Studies show that people are concerned with other people’s consumption position in a varying degree with respect to the type of goods consumed and individual characteristics. Using both survey experiments and a large survey ... -
Non-Life-Threatening Ailments and Rational Patience
(2019-08)The time at which a rational patient might choose an elective medical procedure for a non-life-threatening ailment is contemplated. The resulting model is purposely uncomplicated but general, and accounts for several basic ... -
Child Human Capital – The Importance of Parenting Style
(2019-08)Investments in the human capital of children during their upbringing determine the opportunities available in adulthood. Recognizing that the parent-child interaction plays a significant role in the accumulation of child ... -
Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
(2019-06)We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three ... -
The Impact of Abortion on Crime and Crime-Related Behavior
(2019-06)The 1966 abolition and 1989 legalization of abortion in Romania immediately doubled and decreased by about a third the number of births per month, respectively. To isolate the link between abortion access and crime while ... -
Testing Return Predictability with the Dividend-Growth Equation: An Anatomy of the Dog
(2019-06)The dividend-growth based test of return predictability, proposed by Cochrane [2008, Review of Financial Studies 21, 1533-1575], is similar to a likelihood-based test of the standard return-predictability model, treating ... -
Compound Returns
(2019-06)We provide a theoretical basis for understanding the properties of compound re-turns. At long horizons, multiplicative compounding induces extreme positive skewness into individual stock returns, an effect primarily driven ... -
Essays on the Design of Public Policies and Regulations
(2019-06-05)Government policies intervene in many areas of economic and social environment. Most often the aim is to address market failures that hinder efficiency or lead to undesirable socioeconomic outcomes. However, it is important ... -
Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from China
(2019-06)Experimental evidence from both the lab and the field shows that women on average have a lower propensity to enter a competitive environment. In this paper, we investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a ... -
Experimental Evidence on Cooperation, Political Affiliation, and Group Size
(2019-05)The main objective of this paper is to strengthen the knowledge about the relationship between cooperation and political affiliation. For this purpose, I carry out an incentivized N-person prisoner’s dilemma experiment. I ...