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Payment Types and Participation in Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs: Stated Preferences of Landowners
(2014-04)Because the effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs depends on landowners’ engagement, understanding the relationship between the type of payment and participation is a key issue. This paper reports ... -
Strategic Carbon Taxation and Energy Pricing: The role of Innovation
(2014-04)This paper investigates the strategic interactions between carbon taxation by a resource-consumers’ coalition and (wellhead) energy pricing by a producers’ cartel under possible innovation in a cheap carbon-free technology ... -
Non-monotonic health behaviours - implications for individual health-related behaviour in a demand-for-health framework
(2014-03)A number of behaviours influence health in a non-monotonic way. Physical activity and alcohol consumption, for instance, may be beneficial to one’s health in moderate but detrimental in large quantities. We develop a ... -
Individual technologies for health - the implications of distinguishing between the ability to produce health investments and the capacity to benefit from those investments
(2014-03)People differ in their ability to produce health investments and in their capacity to benefit from such efforts. In this paper, we assume (1) that the individual’s health-investment production function exhibits diminishing ... -
Ethno-regional favouritism in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2014-03)Studies of political favouritism in Africa often treat ethnic and regional favouritism as interchangeable concepts. The present paper distinguishes between the two and investigates their relative influence in Sub-Saharan ... -
Diffusion of NOx abatement technologies in Sweden
(2014-01)This paper studies how different NOx abatement technologies have diffused under the Swedish system of refunded emissions charges and analyzes the determinants of the time to adoption. The policy, under which the charge ... -
The Fiscal Consequences of Unrestricted Immigration from Romania and Bulgaria
(2014-01)When Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007 Sweden was one of two EU15 countries that did not restrict access to its labor market and welfare systems for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens. This article evaluates the net ... -
Competition and Cooperation in Network Games
(2014-01)We consider games where agents are embedded in a network of bilateral relationships and have multivariate strategy sets. Some components of their strategies correspond to individual activities, while the other strategic ... -
Too Much or Too Little? Price-Discrimination in a Market for Credence Goods
(2014-01)This article studies second-degree price-discrimination in markets for credence goods. Such markets are affected by asymmetric information because expert sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality ... -
The Intermediary role of microloan officers: Evidence from Ethiopia
(2013-12)Microfinance institutions are key financial intermediaries between donors and borrowers in developing countries. Loan officers are crucial for establishing and maintaining the relationship between borrowers and microfinance ... -
System GMM estimation of panel data models with time varying slope coefficients
(2013-12)We highlight the fact that the Sargan-Hansen test for GMM estimators applied to panel data is a joint test of valid orthogonality conditions and coefficient stability over time. A possible reason why the null hypothesis ... -
Poverty Persistence and Intra-Household Heterogeneity in Occupations: Evidence from Urban Ehtiopia
(2013-12)Previous studies of poverty in developing countries have to a great extent focused on the characteristics of the household head and used these as proxies for the underlying ability of the household to generate income. This ... -
Relative Standing and Life-Satisfaction: Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter?
(2013-12)Unlike most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries, we use a fixed effects regression on three rounds of rich panel data to investigate the impact of relative standing on life satisfaction of respondents ... -
Optimal Expectations and the Welfare Cost of Climate Variability
(2013-12)Uncertainty about the future is an important determinant of well-being, especially in developing countries where financial markets and other market failures result in ineffective insurance mechanisms. However, separating ... -
U.S. versus Sweden: The Effect of Alternative In-Work Tax Credit Policies on Labour Supply of Single Mothers
(2013-10)An essential difference between the design of the Swedish and the US in-work tax credit systems relates to their functional forms. Where the US earned income tax credit (EITC) is phased out and favours low and medium ... -
Investing in children's education: Are Muslim immigrants different?
(2013-10)Using a unique data set on immigrants living in France in 2003, we investigate whether Muslims invest differently in their children’s education compared to non-Muslims. In particular, we want to assess whether educational ... -
Austerity Measures and Infant Health. Lessons from an Unexpected Wage Cut Policy
(2013-10)We investigate the effects on health at birth of a shock generated by a major (25%) and unexpected wage cut austerity measure that affected all public sector employees in Romania in 2010. Our findings suggest an overall ... -
On Refunding of Emission Taxes and Technology Diffusion
(2013-09)We analyze diffusion of an abatement technology in an imperfectly competitive industry under a standard emission tax compared to an emission tax which is refunded in proportion to output market share. The results indicate ... -
Air Pollution Dynamics and the Need for Temporally Differentiated Road Pricing
(2013-09)In this paper we investigate the effects of the temporal variation of pollution dispersion, traffic flows and vehicular emissions on pollution concentration and illustrate the need for temporally differentiated road pricing ...