Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Bitter divisions: inequality, identity and cooperation
(2017-04-25)Overriding inequality Group identity, beliefs and cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas Heterogeneity reduces cooperation. Understanding why can help mitigate the problem. As salient interpersonal differences reduce ... -
Essays on Behavioral Economics and Fisheries: Coordination and Cooperation
(2017-04-25)Kapitel 1: Samarbete under risk och sann osäkerhet (ambiguity). ... -
Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa
(2017-04)Chinese firms operating in Africa are often accused of violating international labour standards and not adhering with national labour laws. Considering China’s tendency to maintain control over development projects throughout ... -
An empirical model of dyadic link formation in a network with unobserved heterogeneity
(2017-03)In this paper I study a fixed effects model of dyadic link formation for directed networks. I discuss inference on structural parameters as well as a test of model specification. In the model, an agent's linking decisions ... -
Cost Pass-Through in the Swedish Coffee Market
(2017-03)Cost pass-through to retail prices shows how changes in marginal costs are allocated between producers and consumers, and it is therefore closely related to market structure and competition. This paper uses Swedish data ... -
Outmigration and income assimilation during the first post-EU-enlargement migrants’ first decade in Sweden
(2017-03)This study follows a random sample of 20% of the earliest post-EU-enlargement immigrants during their first decade in Sweden, studying their patterns of outmigration and income assimilation. The results show that ... -
Mother’s Time Allocation, Child Care and Child Cognitive Development
(2017-02)This paper analyzes the effects of maternal employment and non-parental child care on child cognitive development, taking into account the mother's time allocation between leisure and child-care time. I estimate a behavioral ... -
How long do you think it will take? Field Evidence on Gender Differences in Time Optimism
(2017-02)Evidence from ten natural field studies comparing long-distance runners' incentivized predictions of race finishing time with their actual finishing time is reported. A modest but regular bias is found. Male runners are ... -
Healthy by Association: The effect of social participation on self-rated physical and psychological well-being
(2017-02)This paper investigates the effect of active social participation on individual self-rated physical and psychological well-being. The theoretical model shows that individual's health investment increases if he invests time ... -
Real-Estate Agent Commission Structure and Sales Performance
(2017-02)Do higher real-estate agent fees imply better performance? This study uses a nation-wide dataset of residential real-estate transactions in the Netherlands from 1985 to 2011 to provide evidence against this. Brokers with ... -
Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance
(2017-02)We test whether different empirical methods give different results when evaluating job-search assistance programs. Budgetary problems at the Dutch unemployment insurance (UI) administration in March 2010, caused a sharp ... -
Nudging à la carte – A field experiment on food choice
(2017-02)We test the effect of framing of a menu on the choice of ordering climate friendly dishes in a randomized controlled experiment. Rearranging the menu in favor of vegetarian food has a large and significant effect on the ... -
Would I lie to you? Strategic deception in the face of uncertain penalties
(2017-01)Using an experiment we investigate the effect of different centralised punishment mechanisms on deception and beliefs about deception in a principal-agent interaction that resembles many everyday expert advisor - client ... -
A Spatial Analysis of Foreign Aid and Civil Society
(2017-01)We use a Spatial Durbin Model to examine the relationship between civil society aid projects and measures of civil society including membership and participation in community groups and satisfaction with democracy in Nigeria ... -
Prices versus Standards and Firm Behavior: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
(2017-01)We conduct an artefactual field experiment in which 164 managers and senior advisors recruited from Swedish industry were presented with a task of maximizing net revenue from abatement investments under three different ... -
The effect of land lease on house prices
(2017-01)In Amsterdam, houses located on private land and houses with various land-lease contracts coexist. In this paper, we investigate the impact of future land-lease payments on the house price. We look at the impact on house ... -
CDS INDEX OPTIONS UNDER INCOMPLETE INFORMATION
(2016-12)We derive practical formulas for CDS index spreads in a credit risk model under incomplete information. The factor process driving the default intensities is not directly observable, and the filtering model of Frey & Schmidt ... -
Optimal Environmental Road Pricing and Integrated Daily Commuting Patterns
(2016-12)Road pricing can improve air quality by reducing and spreading traffic flows. Nevertheless, air quality does not depend only on traffic flows, but also on pollution dispersion. In this paper we investigate the effects of ... -
Corrupt Bureaucrats: The Response of Non-Elected Officials to Electoral Accountability
(2016-12)Modern state bureaucracies are designed to be insulated from political interference. Successful insulation implies that politicians' electoral incentives do not affect bureaucrats' corruption. I test this prediction by ... -
Cooperation under risk and ambiguity
(2016-12)The return from investments in public goods is almost always uncertain, in contrast to the most common setup in the existing empirical literature. We study the impact of natural uncertainty on cooperation in a social dilemma ...