Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Dynamic Investment Models, Employment Generation and Productivity – Evidence from Swedish Data
(2012-09-28)Paper 1: Effects of shocks and uncertainty on capital and labor in a real options model with variable capacity utilization This study analyzes the effects of uncertainty on investment, capital use and labor demand, in ... -
From Boom to Bust and Back Again: A dynamic analysis of IT services
(2012-09)Aggregate shocks in demand such as the burst of the 2001 dot-com bubble affect firms’ behavior and, therefore, the market structure. This paper proposes a fully dynamic oligopoly model to evaluate the impact of aggregate ... -
Do people avoid opportunities to donate? A natural field experiment on recycling and charitable giving
(2012-09)We use a natural field experiment to investigate the hypothesis that generosity is partly involuntary, by examining whether individuals tend to avoid opportunities to act generously. In Sweden, new recycling machines for ... -
Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries
(2012-09)Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we ... -
Do Option-like Incentives Induce Overvaluation? Evidence from Experimental Asset Markets
(2012-11 (r)One potential reason for bubbles evolving prior to the financial crisis was excessive risk taking stemming from option-like incentive schemes in financial institutions. By running laboratory asset markets, we investigate ... -
Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality, I: A Theory of Domino Effects
Numerous empirical studies show that unions reduce wage differences. But surprisingly few attempts have been made to understand why. Swedish unions reveal that the reason is both ideological and strategic. Relying on ... -
When Samuelson met Veblen abroad: National and global public good provision when social comparisons matter
(2012-09)This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. ... -
Intra-household decisions making on intertemporal choices: An experimental study in rural China
(2012-09)In this paper, we conduct a high stake experiment in rural China to investigate the determinants of individual and joint decisions regarding intertemporal choices, and estimate the relative influence of spouses on the joint ... -
Costs of misspecification in break-model unit-root tests
(2012-08)This paper examines power issues for the ADF and four break models (Perron 1989, Zivot and Andrews 1992) when the DGP corresponds to one of the break models. Choosing to test an incorrect break model can but need not ... -
The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption: Evidence from a "Xeroxed" Exam
(2012-06)This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. ... -
Trade and Resources: Welfare effects of the Lake Victoria fisheries boom
(2012-05)In this paper we examine the welfare implications of the Tanzanian fisheries boom following from the increase in quantities and prices of the Lake Victoria Nile perch export during 1993-2008. We use the theoretical model ... -
The Place of Conventional Economics in a World with Communities and Social Goods
(2012-05-09)Paper 1: Should Deliveries of Used Clothes to LDCs Be Supported? This is the journal version of a study of the worldwide used-clothes trade – with focus on Sweden’s participation in it – undertaken for Sida (the Swedish ... -
Social Globalization and Child Labor
(2012-05)In recent years, a growing number of authors have turned their focus to the question of why children work. While much of the research focuses on household level factors, macroeconomic factors have gained increasing attention. ... -
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons
(2012-05)Since its first appearance in the late 1800s, the origins of the Sicilian mafia have remained a largely unresolved mystery. Both institutional and historical explanations have been proposed in the literature through the ... -
Social preferences are stable over long periods of time
(2012-04)We measure people’s prosocial behavior, in terms of voluntary money and labor time contributions to an archetypical public good, a bridge, and in terms of voluntary money contributions in a public good game, using the ... -
Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate and Local Air Pollution: Policies in Sweden
(2012-04)In this paper, we explore the synergies and tradeoffs between abatement of global and local pollution. We built a unique dataset of Swedish heat and power plants with detailed boiler-level data 2001-2009 on not only ... -
Reducing Global Warming and Adapting to Climate Change: The Potential of Organic Agriculture
(2012-04)Climate change mitigation is urgent, and adaptation to climate change is crucial, particularly in agriculture, where food security is at stake. Agriculture, currently responsible for 20-30% of global greenhouse gas emissions ... -
Essays on Development: Household Income, Education, and Female Political Participation and Representation
(2012-04-12)The thesis consists of four self-contained papers. Paper 1: The Push Towards UPE and the Determinants of the Demand for Education in Tanzania. This paper uses household data to investigate the determinants of demand for ... -
The Gender Gap in African Political Participation: Individual and contextual determinants
(2012-03)The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors underlying the gender gap in African electoral and inter-electoral political participation. Drawing on new data covering over 27,000 respondents from 246 regions in 20 emerging ...