Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Effects of Economic Freedom on Growth and the Environment - Implications for Cross-Country Analysis
(2003)The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effects of specific economic freedom categories on both economic growth and the environment, and present some important considerations for cross-country regressions. First, ... -
Child mortality, wealth and education: direct versus indirect effects
(2003)Controlling for the Egyptian household choice of health infrastructure (i.e., sanitation facility and water accessibility) is done by means of a discrete choice approach consistent with the random utility model. Evidence ... -
Are Commercial Fishers Risk Lovers?
(2003)Empirical studies of fishers’ preferences have found that most fishers are risk-averse, while expected-utility theory predicts risk neutrality even for sizable stakes. We test this prediction using data from a stated choice ... -
Anyone for Higher Speed Limits? - Self-Interested and Adaptive Political Preferences
(2003)Swedish survey-evidence indicates that variables reflecting self-interest are important in explaining people’s preferred speed limits, and that political preferences adapt to technological development. Drivers of cars ... -
Congo: The Prize of Predation
(2003)The article analyzes the war against Mobutu (1996-97) and the more recent war (1998-) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with particular attention to greed and grievance as motivating factors in these two wars. Whereas ... -
Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Evidence from Household Panel Surveys
(2002)The paper investigates the poverty impact of growth in Ethiopia by analysing panel data covering the period 1994 to 1997, a period of economic recovery driven by good weather, peace, and much improved macro economic ... -
Temporary work agencies and equilibrium unemployment
(2002)A striking feature of OECD labor markets in the 1990s has been the very rapid increase of temporary agency work. We augment the equilibrium unemployment model as developed by Pissarides and Mortensen with temporary work ... -
Price and Frequency Choice under Monopoly and Competition in Aviation Markets
(2002)Using data on 172 city-pair markets in eight European countries, we investigate the effect of the market structure on airlines choices of frequency and prices. Applying an address model, we show that equilibrium prices ... -
Partisan differences in Swedish macroeconomic policy
(2002)The purpose of this paper is to trace partisan differences among Swedish governments during the period 1958-1998. According to the Partisan Theory of macroeconomic policy left-wing governments are relatively more ... -
Nominal Wage Flexibility in a Monetary Union
(2002)Membership in a monetary union reduces the possibilities to counteract fluctuations in productivity by monetary policy. One condition for entrance not to lead to adverse unemployment performance is that wages are flexible ... -
Is Globalisation Good for Africa?
(2002)Globalisation or market integration in Sub-Saharan Africa is closely linked to the structural adjustment programmes. In this paper we focus on their dependence on politics and institutional characteristics of the countries ... -
Essays on Insurance Economics
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Income Effects from Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden During the 80's and 90's
(2002)Swedish labor market programs appear large from an international perspective, yet their consequences are not fully investigated and understood. In this paper we estimate a switching regression model with training effect ... -
Is Transport Safety More Valuable in the Air?
(2002)Using a contingent valuation survey, people’s willingness to pay for a given risk reduction is found to be much larger when traveling by air compared to by taxi. Follow-up questions revealed that an important reason for ... -
Essays on discrimination, welfare and labor supply
(2002)This thesis consists of five papers in applied labor economics. The first two papers are related to wage discrimination between males and females, whereas the next two papers are related to labor supply and welfare ...