Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Essays on Globalization and Occupational Wages
(2008-02-21)This thesis evaluates empirically how globalization has affected occupational wages in both developing and developed countries. Three aspects of globalization – openness to trade, openness to capital and offshore-outsourcing ... -
Dealing with ignored attributes in choice experiments on valuation of Sweden’s environmental quality objectives
(2008-02-20)In this paper we use follow-up questions to investigate whether attributes have been ignored in a choice experiment on environmental goods. This information is subsequently used in the estimation of the model by restricting ... -
The Baltic Exchange: Mutual Influences between Economists in the German and Swedish Language Areas
(2008-02-15)In the 19th and 20th centuries economists of the German and Swedish language areas strongly influenced each other and made significant contributions to the development and critique of neoclassical economics. In our paper, ... -
Social Dilemmas: The Role of Incentives, Norms and Institutions
(2008-02-14)The subject of this dissertation is social dilemmas. In a social dilemma situation, there is a clear incentive not to cooperate. However, if nobody cooperates, then everybody is worse off than if they had cooperated. The ... -
A choice experiment on coca cropping
(2008-02-13)Between 1997 and 2005, 5.2 billion USD were invested to reduce cocaine production in Colombia, the world’s main cocaine producer. However, little is known about the effectiveness of policies targeting coca cultivation, ... -
Conformity and the demand for environmental goods
(2008-02-13)We test the hypothesis that people conform to certain social norms, i.e. that some individuals may be willing to pay a higher price premium for green products the more widespread green consumerism is in society. To ... -
Introduction to financial surveillance
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Sexual Orientation and Earnings in Sweden
(2008-02-06)This paper presents a study of earnings differentials between homosexual individuals who are living in civil unions and married heterosexual individuals based on register data from Sweden. The results show that gay men ... -
HIV/AIDS, Adult Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from Malawi
(2008-02-05)The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Malawi. The future course of fertility will have an impact on both macroeconomic variables, such as GDP per capita, and various socioeconomic ... -
On curve estimation under order restrictions
(2008-02-04)Robust regression is of interest in many problems where assumptions of a parametric function may be inadequate. In this thesis, we study regression problems where the assumptions concern only whether the curve is increasing ... -
Unimodal regression in the two-parameter exponential family with constant or known dispersion parameter
(2008-02-04)In this paper we discuss statistical methods for curve-estimation under the assumption of unimodality for variables with distributions belonging to the two-parameter exponential family with known or constant dispersion ... -
Social divisions and institutions: Assessing institutional parameter variation
(2008-02-01)This paper investigates the hypothesis that the association between property rights institutions and income is weaker in countries with high social divisions. It argues that social divisions should have a negative effect ... -
The persistence of urban poverty in Ethiopia: A tale of two measurements
(2008-01-08)This paper investigates dynamics of poverty in urban Ethiopia using both subjective and objective definitions of poverty. The two sets of estimates of persistence and recurrence of poverty are similar, suggesting that ... -
Explorative analysis of spatial aspects on the Swedish influenza data
(2007-12-20)The spatial aspects on the Swedish influenza data are analyzed. During the influenza period, reports on laboratory diagnosed cases and influenza-like-illness are obtained from viral and microbiological laboratories and ... -
The Roots of Ethnic Diversity
(2007-12-14)The level of ethnic diversity is believed to have significant consequences for economic and political development within countries. In this article, we provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of the determinants ... -
Why Are Market Economies Politically Stable? A Theory of Capitalist Cohesion
(2007-12-14)The present paper documents that political stability is positively associated with the extent of domestic trade. In explaining this reg- ularity, we provide a model where political cohesion is linked to the emergence ... -
Evaluations of likelihood based surveillance of volatility
(2007-12-13)The volatility of asset returns are important in finance. Different likelihood based methods of statistical surveillance for detecting a change in the variance are evaluated. The differences are how the partial likelihood ... -
Similarities and differences between statistical surveillance and certain decision rules in finance
(2007-12-13)Financial trading rules have the aim of continuously evaluating available information in order to make timely decisions. This is also the aim of methods for statistical surveillance. Many results are available regarding ... -
Predictions by early indicators of the time and height of yearly influenza outbreaks in Sweden
(2007-12-13)Aims: Methods for prediction of the peak of the influenza from early observations are suggested. These predictions can be used for planning purposes. Methods: In this study, new robust methods are described and applied ... -
Economic Analysis of Soil Capital, Land Use and Agricultural Production in Kenya
(2007-12-11)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate economic and natural science aspects of soil management and agricultural production in a developing country context. It does so by theoretical as well as empirical investigation, ...