Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Performance
(2009-06-11)This paper studies the link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and economic performance of companies. Acknowledging the argument that companies might behave socially responsible strategically, i.e. favoring ... -
Get Shorty? - Market Impact of the 2008-09 U.K. Short Selling Ban
(2009-06-11)In September 2008, during one of the most intense periods of the financial crisis, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) decided to ban short-selling in financial stocks during four months in the U.K. market. The aim of ... -
The Impact of the EU Emissions Trading System on CO2 Intensity in Electricity Generation
(2009-06-09)Prior to the launch of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in 2005, the electricity sector was widely proclaimed to have more low-cost emission abatement opportunities than other sectors. If this were true, effects ... -
Economics vs. Physical-based Metrics for Relative Greenhouse Gas Valuations
(2009-06-02)A range of alternatives to the Global Warming Potential (GWP) have been suggested in the scientific literature. One of these alternative metrics that has received significant attention is the cost-effective relative valuation ... -
Family-Size Effects on Earnings – Definitions Matter
(2009-05-20)Number of siblings has previously been found to adversely affect earned income. However, we still lack understanding of whether nature or nurture drives this effect. We examine in detail the effects of having different ... -
Evaluation of multivariate surveillance
(2009-05-15)Multivariate surveillance is of interest in many areas such as industrial production, bioterrorism detection, spatial surveillance, and financial transaction strategies. Some of the suggested approaches to multivariate ... -
Attitudes to Personal Carbon Allowances: The effect of trust in politicians, perceived fairness and ideology
(2009-05-04)The idea of Personal Carbon Allowances (PCAs) was presented by the British Environment Secretary David Miliband in 2006. Although no state is seriously developing proposals for them, they have been heavily debated within ... -
Pricing basket default swaps in a tractable shot-noise model
(2009-04-27)We value CDS spreads and kth-to-default swap spreads in a tractable shot noise model. The default dependence is modelled by letting the individual jumps of the default intensity be driven by a common latent factor. The ... -
Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter
(2009-04-21)Previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure comparisons. This paper considers a two-type optimal nonlinear income tax model where people care both about their ... -
Farmers' Preferences for Crop Variety Traits: Lessons for On-Farm Conservation and Technology Adoption
(2009-04-20)Although in-situ conservation is increasingly considered an efficient way of conserving plant genetic resources, little is known about the incentives and constraints that govern conservation decisions among small farm ... -
Household decision making and the influence of spouses’ income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
(2009-04-20)We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses’ ... -
Robust Control in Global Warming Management: An Analytical Dynamic Integrated Assessment
(2009-04-17)Knightian uncertainty in climate sensitivity is analyzed in a two sec- toral integrated assessment model (IAM), based on an extension of DICE. A representative household that expresses ambiguity aversion uses robust ... -
POSITIONAL CONCERNS IN AN OLG MODEL: OPTIMAL LABOR AND CAPITAL INCOME TAXATION
(2009-04-16)This paper concerns optimal income taxation under asymmetric information in a two-type overlapping generations model, where people care about their relative consumption compared to others. The appearance of positional ... -
Effects of informal eldercare on female labor supply in different European welfare states
(2009-04-06)Using advanced panel data methods on ECHP (European Community Household Panel) data, female labor force participation at both the intensive and extensive margin is found to be negatively associated with informal caregiving ... -
Do attitudes toward gender equality really differ between Norway and Sweden?
(2009-04-06)Using survey data from Norway and Sweden, we assess people’s attitudes toward gender equality. Previous studies argue that these attitudes are more egalitarian in Sweden than in Norway. Similar to previous research, we ... -
Risk Aversion and Expected Utility of Consumption over Time
(2009-04-06)The calibration theorem by Rabin (2000) implies that seemingly plausible smallstake choices under risk imply implausible large-stake risk aversion. This theorem is derived based on the expected utility of wealth model. ... -
What explains attitudes toward prostitution?
(2009-04-03)Using a larger and more representative sample than previous studies, we assess people’s attitudes toward prostitution in Norway and Sweden. Compared to previous statistical analyses in this field, the present study is ... -
A Note on the Cost-Benefit Ratio in Self-Enforcing Agreements
(2009-04-03)Since the analysis of a self-enforcing agreement by Barrett (1994) it has been clear that the ratio between the slopes of the marginal cost and marginal benefit functions is conclusive for stability of self-enforcing ... -
Does it Matter When a Power Outage Occurs? - A Choice Experiment Study on the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Power Outages
(2009-03-17)Using a choice experiment survey, the marginal willingness to pay (WTP) among Swedish households for reductions in power outages is estimated. The results from the random parameter logit estimation indicate that the ... -
Willingness to Pay among Swedish Households to Avoid Power Outages - A Random Parameter Tobit Model Approach
(2009-03-17)Using a contingent valuation survey, we elicit Swedish households’ willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid power outages. In the study respondents are asked to state their WTP for avoiding nine different types of outages. We ...