Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Positional Concerns with Multiple Reference Points: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods in an OLG Model
(2008-05-19)This paper concerns optimal income taxation and provision of a state-variable public good under asymmetric information in a two-type overlapping generations model, where people care about their relative consumption. Each ... -
Individual Preferences, Choices, and Risk Perceptions - Survey Based Evidence
(2008-05-14)Paper 1 investigates how birth order and having siblings affect positional concerns in terms of success at work and of income. We find that only-children are the most positional, but that number of siblings increases the ... -
Essays on Microeconometrics and Immigrant Assimilation
(2008-05-02)Paper I. Asymptotic bias reduction for a conditional marginal effects estimator in sam- ple selection models. In this article we discuss the differences between the average marginal effect and the mar- ginal effect ... -
Firm Productivity and Exports: Evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing
(2008-04-30)This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. ... -
Globalization and Inter-occupational Inequality in a Panel of Countries: 1983-2003
(2008-04-23)How does globalization affect inter-occupational wage inequality within countries? This paper empirically examines this issue by focusing on two dimensions of globalization, openness to trade and openness to capital, using ... -
Panel Cointegration of Chinese A and B Shares
(2008-04-21)In this paper we study market segmentation and information flows in China's stock markets. By using panel data methods we test for a unit root in the price premium of domestic investors' A shares over foreign investors' B ... -
Executive Compensation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
(2008-04-21)Macroeconomic fluctuations affect corporations’ performance through demand and cost conditions. Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic ... -
Money and Success –Sibling and Birth-Order Effects on Positional Concerns
(2008-04-18)Survey data is used to investigate how birth order and having siblings affect positional concerns in terms of success at work and of income. We find that only-children are the most concerned with relative position, but ... -
Do EPA administrators recommend environmental policies that citizens want?
(2008-04-14)We investigate whether Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator preferences regarding improvements in environmental quality differ from citizen preferences. The scope and significance of the possible ... -
Who visits the museums? A comparison between stated preferences and observed effects of entrance fees
(2008-04-09)This study investigates whether the introduction of an entrance fee affects visitor composition at a state funded museum in Sweden. While entrance to the museum was still free, we conducted a survey to collect information ... -
Searching for a better deal - on the influence of group decision making, time pressure and gender in a search experiment
(2008-04-07)We study behavior in a search experiment where sellers receive randomized bids from a computer. At any time, sellers can accept the highest standing bid or ask for another bid at positive costs. We find that sellers stop ... -
Stylebook:Tips on Organization, Writing, and Formatting
(2008-04-07)Fifteen years of copy-editing experience – with theses (both in economics and in several medical fields), journal articles, book chapters and books, conference presentations, government reports, etc. – are distilled here. ... -
Non Utility Maximizing Behaviour: Probabilistic Choice in a Budget Set “Box”. Properties of Expected Demand Functions
(2008-03-18)In this paper we use some(even a convex) probabilistic frequency functions in two choice variables defined over the budget set” box” and calculate the expected demand to study its properties The expected demands have own ... -
A Model of Dynamic Balance among the Three Spheres of Society – Markets, Governments, and Communities – Applied to Understanding the Relative Importance of Social Capital and Social Goods
(2008-03-10)This paper revisits old questions of the proper subject and bounds of economics: Does economics study “provisioning”? or markets? or a method of reasoning, self-interested rational optimization? A variety of scholars and ... -
Equalization of paid working hours in the dual-earner household: Does it increase women's double burden?
(2008-03-10)By using a sample of Swedish dual-earner households, this paper investigates how a transfer of time spent on paid work from the man to the woman influences their allocation of unpaid household work. It is found that their ... -
"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine". An analysis of multiple spells of sickness
(2008-03-06)This paper analyzes the long-term sickness absences in Sweden using a longitudinal database that contains all compensated sickness spells for 2,789 persons during 1986-1991. Given the political focus on the improved ... -
When does Heckman’s two-step procedure for censored data work and when does it not?
(2008-02-22)Heckman’s two-step procedure (Heckit) for estimating the parameters in linear models from censored data is frequently used by econometricians, despite of the fact that earlier studies cast doubt on the procedure. In this ... -
What Explains the International Location of the Clothing Industry?
(2008-02-21)The clothing sector has been a driver of diversification and growth for countries that have graduated into middle income. Using a partial adjustment panel data model, this study tries to explain the international location ... -
Explaining Earnings and Income Inequality in Chile
(2008-02-21)The focal point of all papers in this thesis is income inequality in Chile. In some of them household income is analyzed, in others monthly earnings or the wage rate are used. In the first and fourth paper a long-run ... -
After Work - Investing for Retirement
(2008-02-21)The first three papers are the result of work on various aspects of pension savings. The framework for analysis and common to all papers; is a life-cycle model of a borrowing-constrained individual's consumption- and ...