Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Marshall’s Influence on Swedish Economic Thought
(2006)Alfred Marshall was by no means ignored, but his influence on Swedish economic thought at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century was limited. On the general level, science and culture in Sweden were more ... -
Trends in the pattern of lifelong learning in Sweden: towards a decentralized economy
(2006)This essay offers an overview and discussion about the conditions for Swedish workers to obtain lifelong learning. It studies how the Swedish schooling system and the institutions for adult training have influenced ... -
Speculative Attacks on Nordic Exchange-Rates, 1971-1992
(2005)This paper analyzes the relationship between economic fundamentals and balance-ofpayments crises for the three Nordic countries, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, during 1971- 1992. To identify periods of balance-of-payments ... -
Speculative Attacks on Nordic Exchange Rates, 1971-1992
(2005)This paper analyzes the relationship between economic fundamentals and balance-of-payments crises for the three Nordic countries, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, during 1971-1992. To identify periods of balance-of-payments ... -
Biodiversity Conservation under an Imperfect Seed System: the Role of Community Seed Banking Scheme
(2005)The study is an empirical investigation of agrobiodiversity conservation decisions of small farmers in the central highlands of Ethiopia. The primary objective is to measure the effectiveness of Community Seed Banking ... -
Are Agricultural Extension Packages What Ethiopian Farmers Want? A Stated Preference Analysis
(2005)There is an evident dichotomy in many rural development policies in the world between extension driven adoption of modern inputs and community driven local public goods. However, the target populations of these policies ... -
Natural Resource use Conflict: Gold Mining in Tropical Rainforest in Ghana
(2005)Gold is frequently mined in rainforests that can provide either gold or forest benefits, but not both. This conflict in resource use occurs in Ghana, a developing country in the tropics where the capital needed for mining ... -
Utveckling och spridning av forskning: fallet effektivitetsforskning
(2005)Recent availability of electronically accessible database of journal articles makes studies of the diffusion of papers through citations possible. Citation peaks have been found to be typically five to seven years, with a ... -
Crowding Out in Blood Donation: Was Titmuss Right?
(2005)In his seminal 1970 book, The Gift Relationship, Richard Titmuss argued that monetary compensation for donating blood might crowd out the supply of blood donors. To test this claim we carry out a field experiment with ... -
The Dark Side of Wage Indexed Pensions
(2005)This paper investigates some welfare effects of forced saving through a mandatory pension scheme. The framework for the analysis is a life-cycle model of a borrowing constrained individual´s consumption and portfolio choice ... -
Tax Evasion and the Importance of Trust
(2005)Unless people pay the taxes they are obliged to pay, a general welfare state will eventually collapse. Thus, for the welfare state to survive in the long run, tax compliance is of utmost importance. Using Swedish individual ... -
Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015? The Case for a Pro-Poor Growth Strategy
(2005)This study uses simulations to explore the possibility of halving the percentage of people living in extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. A pro-poor growth-scenario and a constant-inequality scenario are compared. It is shown ... -
Regulatory Compliance in Lake Victoria Fisheries
(2005)This paper analyzes the causes for regulatory compliance using traditional deterrence variables and potential moral and social variables. We use self-reported data from Tanzanian artisanal fishers in Lake Victoria. The ... -
Property Rights and Corporate Finance
(2005)We examine a central result in corporate finance – the Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance proposition – from a Coasian property rights perspective. Building upon the work of Coase, Demsetz and Cheung, we develop ... -
Institutions, Corruption and Tax Evasion in the Unofficial Economy
(2005)In this paper we propose a model of how institutional benefits, taxation and government regulations affect the productive activity of private enterprises. We consider an environment in which public officials enforcing tax ... -
Keeping Up with the Vaishyas: Caste and Relative Standing
(2005)We investigate the importance of relative income within the Indian Caste system, using a choice experiment. We find that slightly more than half of the marginal utility of income comes from some kind of relative income ... -
Measuring Trust and the Value of Statistical Lives: Evidence from Bangladesh
(2005)This thesis includes five self-contained essays. The first three essays relate to the measurement of trust using both an experimental and a survey approach, and the other two essays relate to the measurement of the value ... -
Entry into Local Retail Food Markets in Sweden: A Real-Options Approach
(2005)A real-options approach was used, incorporating uncertainty and irreversibility of investments, to study the number of stores entering the Swedish retail food market during the period 1994-2002. It was found that uncertainty ... -
Contingent Valuation of Mortality Risk Reduction in Developing Countries: A Mission Impossible?
(2005)Using the contingent valuation method in developing countries to value mortality risk reduction is particularly challenging because of the low level of education of the respondents. In this paper, we examine the effect of ... -
Optimal Environmental Road pricing
(2005)An optimal first-best road charge should not only be differentiated with respect to factors that affect the direct external environmental and time costs from the road-user himself. Indirect effects, such as the fact that ...