Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Experimental Studies on Risk, Inequality and Relative Standing
(2006)This thesis consists of four separate experimental studies that concern individuals’ preferences and choices on issues of risk, inequality and relative standing. In the first paper, individuals' aversion to risk and ... -
Hypothetical bias in choice experiments: Within versus between subject tests
(2007-04-20)A choice experiment eliciting environmental values is set up in order to test for hypothetical bias based on both within and between sample designs. A larger hypothetical bias was found in the latter case, which explains ... -
Does context matter more for hypothetical than for actual contributions? Evidence from a natural field experiment
(2007-04-19)We investigate the importance of the social context for people’s voluntary contributions to a national park in Costa Rica, using a natural field experiment. Some subjects make actual contributions while others state their ... -
Maximum fee vs child benefit: A welfare analysis of Swedish child-care fee reform
(2007-04-03)The effects of a recent Swedish child-care fee reform are compared with those of an alternative reform, increased child benefits. The fee reform implied considerably decreased fees and was intended to increase both labor ... -
Using Ex Post Data to Estimate the Hurdle Rate of Abatement Investments - An Application to the Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry and Energy Sector
(2007-03-21)We propose a method for estimating hurdle rates for firms’ investments in pollution abatement technology, using ex post data. The method is based on a structural option value model where the future price of polluting ... -
What do friends and media tell us? How different information channels affect women’s risk perceptions of age-related female infertility
(2007-03-16)Based on a survey given to a random sample of Swedish 20-40 year old females, this paper investigates through which channels women receive information about the general risk levels of age-related female infertility and ... -
Social Capital vs Institutions in the Growth Process
(2007-03-08)Is social capital always important for economic growth? A number of recent micro studies suggest that interpersonal trust and social capital will have its greatest impact on economic performance when court institutions ... -
On the Institutional Legacy of Mercantilist and Imperialist Colonialism
(2007-03-07)The article features a temporal approach to modelling the social impact of Western colonialism. We collect a data set for all former colonies and dependencies that are regarded as countries today (143 observations). Our ... -
Does Migration Pay? Earnings effects from geographic mobility following job displacement
(2007-03-06)Displaced workers are followed for ten years in order to analyse the earnings effects from internal migration. We utilise a large dataset containing all workers in Sweden who were displaced during 1987 or 1988. Effects ... -
Anonymity, Reciprocity, and Conformity: Evidence from Voluntary Contributions to a National Park in Costa Rica
(2007-02-21)We investigate the role of anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity for voluntary contributions, based on a natural field experiment conducted at a national park in Costa Rica. Contributions made in public in front of the ... -
Om nationalekonomisk imperialism och idéutveckling
(2006)Nationalekonomiska metoder och modeller tillämpas inom de mest skiftande områden som kriminalitet, barnuppfostran och drogmissbruk. Ett skäl till ämnets framgång är dess användning av matematik. Nationalekonomins formalisering ... -
The increment ratio statistic
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Does openness reduce wage inequality in developing countries? A panel data analysis
(2006)This paper provides panel data evidence on trade liberalization and wage inequality in Bangladesh. Using several standard econometric models, wage equations for skilled and unskilled workers in the formal manufacturing ... -
Second Order Approximation for the Average Marginal Effect of Heckman's Two Step Procedure
(2006)In this paper we discuss the differences between the average marginal effect and the marginal effect of the average individual in sample selection models, estimated by Heckman's two step procedure. We show that the bias ... -
Hur mäta produktivitet och hur produktiva är svenska professorer i nationalekonomi? Forskningsutvärdering med hjälp av kvantitativa och kvalitativa indikatorer
(2006)Publicering av forskningsresultat gör det möjligt för forskare att dela med sig av sina kunskaper och att kommunicera med resten av världen. Nästan lika viktig som forskningen är för samhället är utvärderingen av denna ... -
Economic Performance of Turkish Immigrant Men in the European Labour-Market: Evidence from Sweden
(2006)This paper uses eleven waves of panel-data to analyse the earnings assimilation of first-generation Turkish immigrant men in Sweden. Employment-probabilities and earnings are estimated in a fixed-effects sample selection ... -
The Politicization of Growth Theory
(2001)In this essay I review the main features of neoclassical growth theory, with an eye to seeing what it has to say about the causes of wealth and poverty among nations. I argue that outside the OECD and a comparatively small ... -
Performance of the Swedish Real Estate Sector 1998-2002
(2004)In this paper, we analyze the performance of the Swedish real estate sector by various profitability measures. We use an unbalanced panel of 781 non-listed companies from 1998 to 2000 with 3421 observations. There exists ... -
Airline choice, switching costs and frequent flyer programs
(2004)Switching costs are costs that customers face when switching from one firm to another. In markets such as the airline market where repeated purchases are common, switching costs may be substantial. In this paper we ... -
Heterogeneous preferences for marine amenities: A choice experiment applied to water quality
(2004)The marine environment provides many goods and services dependent upon the quality of coastal waters. In this paper, we represent water quality by three different attributes, fish stock level, bathing water quality, and ...