Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Eli Heckscher Today: A Bibliometric Picture
(2004)The citations of Heckscher (1879-1952) in journals included in the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index do not, of course, give a complete picture of his significance as a scholar and ... -
Measuring marginal values of noise disturbance from air traffic: Does the time of the day matter?
(2004)This paper analyzes the marginal willingness to pay for changes in noise levels related to changes in the volume of flight movements at a city airport in Stockholm, Sweden, by using a choice experiment. When estimating ... -
Geography, Biogeography and Why Some Countries are Rich and Others Poor
(2004)The most important event in human economic history before the Industrial Revolution was the Neolithic transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to sedentary agriculture, beginning about 10,000 years ago. The ... -
Can Japan Make a Comeback?
(2004)Since the beginning of the 1990s Japan has experienced economic stagnation. This paper discusses its causes and the prospects for recovery. It considers both the macroeconomic problems and the viability of the Japanese ... -
From Welfare to Work: Evaluating a Proposed Tax and Benefit Reform Targeted at Single Mothers in Sweden
(2003)In this paper we propose a tax and benefit reform to increase the working hours and to decrease the welfare participation of single mothers in Sweden. We have access to high-quality tax and income data, and use a ... -
Wicksell versus Brisman: A Dispute on Capital between Generations
(2003)After Wicksell in 1911 had published the second Swedish edition of his Lectures on Political Economy, a debate began in the Ekonomisk Tidskrift between Wicksell and his opponent Sven Brisman. The controversy was mainly ... -
Reference-Dependent Utility in an Industrial Cluster
(2003)This article tries to explain the exceptional levels of knowledge creation in certain industrial clusters, levels that are seemingly higher than what is implied by the usual models of atomistic agents who do not internalize ... -
The Effects of Economic and Political Freedom on CO2 Emissions
(2003)In this paper we investigate the effects of political and economic freedom on CO2 emissions. As far as we know this is the first cross-country study of the relationship between economic freedom and environmental quality. ... -
On Monetary Integration and Macroeconomic Policy
(2003)This thesis contains one general introduction and three separate papers. The papers are fairly heterogeneous with respect to the topics analysed, as well as to the methodologies used. Some common themes, though, are monetary ... -
On the Political Economy of Municipality Break-Ups
(2003)This thesis deals with politico-economic aspects of municipality break-ups. It consists of an introduction and three self-contained papers. Paper I: The Break-up of Municipalities – Voting Behavior in Local Referenda This ... -
Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific Revival
(2003)This paper reviews evidence on the evolution of international economic integration of Asia-Pacific countries, and discusses the extent to which this explains their recent growth success. It starts with a review of some ... -
Using stated preference methods to evaluate the impact of water on health: the case of metropolitan Cairo
(2003)This paper analysis the impact of better water quality on health improvements using two stated preference methods: choice experiments and the contingent valuation method. These methods were administered to a random sample ... -
Unequal Provision of Local Public Services under the Threat of Secession
(2003)This paper studies to what extent it is possible to discriminate between two municipality parts by unequal public service provision when there is a threat of secession. The objective of the local politicians is to maximize ... -
Has Sweden’s government budget policy been too discretionary? Evidence from a generalization of the tax smoothing hypothesis
(2003)Barro's (1979) tax smoothing hypothesis (TSH) assumes that the government is always subject to an "optimal" degree of discretion in budget policy, i.e., optimal in the sense that the welfare costs from taxation are ... -
The Effect of Addiction on Environmental Taxation in a First and Second-best world
(2003)We examine the effect of addictive behavior on a socially optimal environmental tax. If utility in part depends on past consumption and individuals are time-consistent, the socially optimal environmental tax is shown to ... -
Habit Formation in the Environmental Quality: Dynamic Optimal Environmental Taxation
(2003)In this article we propose a model in which individuals experience habit formation in environmental quality. Further, a consumption good causes a negative external effect on the environment. The intertemporal utility ... -
Geography and Institutions: A Review of Plausible and Implausible Linkages
(2003)In recent years, empirical investigations have shown that various aspects of physical geography are closely related to the quality of a country’s economic institutions. For instance, distance from the equator in latitude ... -
Farm Animal Welfare - testing for market failure
(2003)Our increasingly heterogeneous food is at least partly due to concerns over conventional production of farm livestock. Some of these new products have been demand driven while others are a result of politically decided ... -
The effect of water and sanitation on child mortality in Egypt
(2003)This paper assesses water and sanitation’s impacts on child mortality in Egypt. The analysis is conducted using a three-part model specification, comprising discrete choice to model the child prospects of dying during ... -
Technological Opportunities and Growth in the Natural Resource Sector
(2003)Both technological and natural resource possibilities seem to evolve in cycles. The “Resource Opportunity Model” in this paper introduces the technological opportunity thinking into natural resource modeling. The natural ...