Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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On Refunding of Emission Taxes and Technology Diffusion
(2013-09)We analyze diffusion of an abatement technology in an imperfectly competitive industry under a standard emission tax compared to an emission tax which is refunded in proportion to output market share. The results indicate ... -
Air Pollution Dynamics and the Need for Temporally Differentiated Road Pricing
(2013-09)In this paper we investigate the effects of the temporal variation of pollution dispersion, traffic flows and vehicular emissions on pollution concentration and illustrate the need for temporally differentiated road pricing ... -
The Poor and Their Neighbors: Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2013-09-24)This thesis comprises of seven self-contained papers. While the papers are quite distinct in the questions they address and each is based on its own dataset, there are some relations between them either in the topic ... -
Essays on Environmental Taxation and Climate Policy
(2013-08-23)Paper I: Greenhouse gas taxes on animal food products - rationale, tax scheme and climate mitigation effects Agriculture is responsible for 25–30% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but has thus far ... -
Water Demand and Financing in Rwanda: An Empirical Analysis
(2013-08-23)Abstracts Paper 1: Water demand by unconnected households in urban districts of Rwanda In this paper, we analyse water demand by households in urban districts in Rwanda who currently lack a piped connection into their ... -
Adult Mortality, AIDS and Fertility in Rural Malawi
(2013-08)The impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa has received attention recently, since changes in population structure can impact on future economic development. We analyze the effect of AIDS on actual and ... -
Corruption along ethnic lines: A study of individual corruption experiences in 17 African countries
(2013-08)While a growing literature relates macro variation in corruption to ethnic divisions, existing studies have paid little attention to the possible existence of systematic micro variation in corruption along ethnic lines. ... -
Intertemporal choice shifts in households: Do they occur and are they good?
(2013-06)We examine whether and to what extent joint choices are more or less patient and time-consistent than individual choices in households. We use data from an artefactual field experiment where both individual and joint time ... -
Tangible Temptation in the Social Dilemma: Cash, cooperation, and self-control
(2013-05)The social dilemma may contain, within the individual, a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and better judgment to cooperate. Examining the argument from the perspective of temptation, we pair the public ... -
Rejection Probabilities for a Battery of Unit-Root Tests
(2013-05)If the researcher tests each model in a battery at the a % significance level, the probability that at least one test rejects is generally larger than a %. For five unit-root models, this paper uses Monte Carlo simulation ... -
Essays on the Economics of Air Quality Control
(2013-05-23)Abstracts. This thesis consists of five self-contained chapters: Chapter 1: Effects of driving restrictions on air quality and car use in Bogota Rationing car use at certain times of the day based on license plate numbers ... -
Spatial Policies and Land Use Patterns: Optimal and market allocations
(2013-05)Environmental conditions and pollution levels have been proven to affect firms and households location decisions in various ways. In this paper, we study the opti- mal and equilibrium distribution of industrial and ... -
Household Decision Making, Time Preferences, and Positional Concern: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
(2013-05-14)Paper I: Intra-household Decisions Making on Intertemporal Choices: An Experimental Study in Rural China. In this paper, we conduct an artefactual field experiment in rural China to investigate ... -
Essays on Behavioral Economics and Policies for Provision of Ecosystem Services
(2013-04-30)Abstract Paper 1: Incentives, Impacts, and Behavioural Issues in the Context of Payment for Ecosystem Services Programmes: Lessons for REDD+ Payment for environmental services (PES) aims to increase the provision of ... -
Essays on Gender Issues, Food Security, and Technology Adoption in East Africa.
(2013-04-15)This thesis consists of five self-contained papers: Paper 1: Are there systematic gender differences in the adoption of joint sustainable intensification practices? Evidence from Kenya This paper uses household- and ... -
Immigration, Work, and Welfare
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The Effect of EU-ETS on Swedish Industry's Investment in Carbon Mitigating Technologies
(2013-04)The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) is so far the largest emissions trading system in the world. It covers about 12000 installations, representing approximately 45% of EU emissions of CO2, with the ... -
Social Information and Charitable Giving: An artefactual field experiment with young children and adolescents
(2013-03. U)A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a repeated dictator game with treatments that either provides participants with information about the ... -
Intimate Partner Violence and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2013-03 Re)We investigate the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV among married women using Demographic and Health Survey data from ten sub-Saharan African countries, and find a strong association. The ... -
Amenity Values of Proximity to National Wildlife Refuges: An analysis of urban residential property values
(2013-03)The National Wildlife Refuge system is a network of permanently protected open space encompassing more than 150 million acres across 50 states. Maintaining such a large network of permanently protected open space can put ...