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Architecture of the EU Emissions Trading System in Phase 3 and the Distribution of Allowance Asset Values
(2015-10)Recent changes to the EU Emissions Trading System introduce structural changes regarding the initial distribution of emissions allowances, which are worth tens of billions of euros. A key change is the expanding role for ... -
The Pioneers’ Arguments for Formulating Economic Problems Mathematically
(2015-10)The nineteenth century pioneers in formulating economic problems mathematically often felt that they needed to explain their reasons for using mathematics. We will look at the arguments of Cournot, Thünen, Gossen, Jevons, ... -
Grit Trumps Talent? An experimental approach
(2015-10)Perseverance to accomplish long-term goals, also know as grit, is a crucial determinant for success in life. In the present study we introduce an innovative laboratory design to elicit grit in an incentivized and controlled ... -
Land Certification and Schooling in Rural Ethiopia
(2015-09)This paper investigates the impact of a rural land certification program on schooling in two zones of the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Using the variation in the timing of the arrival of the program at the local level, we ... -
Strategic environmental regulation of multiple pollutants
(2015-09)We analyze the interplay between policies aimed to control global and local pollution such as greenhouse gases and particulate matter. The two types of pollution interact in the abatement cost function of the polluting ... -
Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence
(2015-09)The Dunning–Kruger effect states that the low skilled are overconfident while the high skilled are more accurate in assessing their skill. In apparent support of this effect, many studies have shown that low performers ... -
Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality, II: The Relation between Solidarity and Unity
(2015-09)This paper demonstrates that the decisions by workers of different skills to unite to form industry unions is closely linked to the egalitarian wage policies that such unions pursue. These results help interpret the stylized ... -
Do the land-poor gain from agricultural investments? Empirical evidence from Zambia using panel data
(2015-08)In the context of the global land rush, some portray large-scale land acquisitions as a potent threat to the livelihoods of already marginalized rural farming households in Africa. In order to avoid the potential pitfall ... -
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
(2015-08)The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of well-being functions to simultaneously ... -
Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
(2015-05)This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature ... -
Keeping up with the Joneses, the Smiths and the Tanakas: On International Tax Coordination and Social Comparisons
(2015-05)Much evidence suggests that between-country social comparisons have become more important over time due to globalization. This paper analyzes optimal income taxation in a multi-country economy, where consumers derive utility ... -
Long-Run Cultural Divergence: Evidence From the Neolithic Revolution
(2015-05)This paper investigates the long-run infuence of the Neolithic Revolution on contemporary cultural norms and institutions as reflected in the dimension of collectivism-individualism. We outline an agricultural origins-model ... -
Testing preference formation in learning design contingent valuation (LDCV) using advanced information and repetitive treatments
(2015-04)Policymakers have largely replaced Single Bounded Discrete Choice (SBDC) valuation by the more statistically efficient repetitive methods; Double Bounded Discrete Choice (DBDC) and Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE). ... -
Spending time together? Effects on the retirement decision from partner’s labour market status
(2015-03)In this paper we study retirement decisions and more specifically, the influence of a partner’s labour market status on this decision. We use information from three waves of the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in ... -
Intuitive cooperation refuted: Commentary on Rand et al. (2012) and Rand et al. (2014)
(2015-03)We show that Rand et al. (2012) and Rand et al. (2014)—who argue that cooperation is intuitive—provide an incorrect interpretation of their own data. They make the mistake of inferring intuition from relative decision times ... -
Divergence in Stakeholders’ Preferences: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on Forest Landscapes Preferences in Sweden
(2015-03)A great deal of biodiversity can be found in private forests, and protecting it requires taking into consideration the preferences of key stakeholders. In this study, we examine and compare the valuation of forest attributes ... -
Are Fairtrade Prices Fair? An Analysis of the Distribution of Returns in the Swedish Coffee Market
(2015-02)Consumers pay a premium for Fair Trade coffee, often assuming that it mainly benefits poor coffee farmers. However, several studies report that most of the premium accrues to actors in the consumer countries, such as ... -
Environmental Policy and the Size Distribution of Firms
(2015-02)In this paper we analyze the effects of environmental policies on the size distribution of firms. We model a stationary industry where the observed size distribution is a solution to the profit maximization problem of ... -
Refugee immigration and public finances in Sweden
(2015-02)This study estimates the fiscal cost of refugee immigration. This is done by calculating the total value of economic resources that are redistributed through the public sector in Sweden in 2007 to the population of immigrants ... -
Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?
(2015-02)We investigate the efficiency and distributional consequences of a corruptionfighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam ...