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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Sweden
De senaste decenniernas ökande förmögenhetsojämlikhet i utvecklade länder har lett till en debatt om motverkande och omfördelande skatter. I uppsatsen studeras förmögenhetsskattens effektivitet. Forsk…
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Quarterly Journal of Economics
Who Becomes A Politician?
Can a democracy attract competent leaders, while attaining broad representation? Economic models suggest that free-riding incentives and lower opportunity costs give the less competent a comparative a…
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Journal of Business Economics and Management
Global Sourcing and Technical Efficiency: A Firm–Level Study on the ICT Industry in Sweden
We analyse the relationship between international sourcing, measured as imports of intermediate inputs, and the technical efficiency of firms in the information and communications technologies (ICT) m…
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Economic Journal
Why Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects – But Still Not Risky Enough
Varför kan små oberoende entreprenörsföretag göra banbrytande innovationer? Vi visar att entreprenörsföretag med höga kommersialiseringskostnader har incitament att satsa på högriskprojekt – med stor…
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Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Direct and Cross Effects of Employment Protection: The Case of Parental Childcare
Studien visar att ett svagare anställningsskydd minskar föräldrars benägenhet att under arbetstid stanna hemma med sjukt barn. Det framgår även att när anställningsskyddet försvagas för en förälder så…
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Economic Journal
Pro–Competitive Rationing in Multi–Unit Auctions
Börser och auktioner där man handlar med multipla enheter, exempelvis el, aktier, räntepapper och utsläppsrätter, använder ransoneringsregler när budgivningen blir oavgjord. I denna uppsats presentera…
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Economic Journal
Dynastic Political Rents? Economic Benefits to Relatives of Top Politicians
We exploit close elections in Swedish municipalities to test whether relatives of politicians who become mayors obtain economic benefits. We find no benefits for the siblings of new mayors, but the av…
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Journal of the European Economic Association
Infant Health and Longevity: Evidence from A Historical Intervention in Sweden
Vilka är hälsoeffekterna av eftervård vid födslar? Forskarna använder historiska data över introduktionen av fri spädbarnsvård i Sverige på 1930-talet. De finner att detta gav betydande hälsoförbättri…
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Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
Swedish Lessons: How Important are ICT and R&D to Economic Growth?
Det svenska näringslivets tillväxttakt var bland de högsta i hela OECD mellan 1995 och 2010. Vi finner i denna studie att den höga tillväxttakten i hög grad är förknippad med höga investeringar i FoU…
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Experimental Economics
Subliminal Influence on Generosity
I studien undersöks om undermedvetna signaler kan påverka vår generositet. I ett experiment får deltagare skänka pengar till välgörenhet. Det visar sig att personer med altruistisk (osjälvisk) personl…
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Journal of Public Economics
Individual Risk Preferences and the Demand for Redistribution
Redistributive policies can provide an insurance against future negative economic shocks. This, in turn, implies that an individual's demand for redistribution is expected to increase with her risk av…
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Social Policy & Administration
Inequality in Social Insurance Participation and Generosity: Do Firm Characteristics Matter?
Income inequality in China has been much documented and debated. However, one important aspect of income inequality – social insurance inequality – has been largely understudied. We use a large nation…
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Public Choice
More Politicians, More Corruption: Evidence from Swedish Municipalities
Med hjälp av anonyma enkätsvar från högt uppsatta politiker och tjänstemän i Sveriges kommuner, visas att korruptionsproblem är relativt vanliga - trots att Sverige brukar rankas som ett av de minst k…
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Labour Economics
The Impact of Upper–Secondary Voucher School Attendance on Student Achievement. Swedish Evidence using External and Internal Evaluations
Med hjälp av både externa och interna bedömningar av samma nationella prov jämför vi resultatskillnader mellan elever på fristående och kommunala gymnasieskolor i Sverige. De externa bedömningarna vis…
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International Journal of Production Economics
Framing Maturity Based on Sustainable Operations Management Principles
En fungerande hållbar ekonomi kräver anpassning till både kompetens och rutiner mellan aktörer i en förädlingsprocess. I studien undersöks hur mognadsgraden i ett företag eller organisation påverkar h…
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Review of World Economics
Cross–Border Mergers & Acquisitions with Financially Constrained Owners
Det finns en föreställning att det är bättre för ett land att inhemska ägare är köpare istället för säljare i företagsfusioner eftersom ägare föredrar hemmamarknader vid framtida investeringar. Vi vis…
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American Economic Review
Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden
We develop a model where party leaders choose the competence of politicians on the ballot to trade off electoral success against their own survival. The predicted correlation between the competence of…
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Mathematical Social Sciences
Local and Consistent Centrality Measures in Parameterized Networks
Vi föreslår ett visst förhållningssätt för att karaktärisera olika centralitetsmått (det mest typiska värdet för en viss variabel) när olika måtts centralitet är länkade till varandra. I studien visar…
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Journal of Labor Economics
Private Equity, Layoffs, and Job Polarization
Riskkapitalinvesteringar har väckt debatt på senare tid. I denna studie undersöks vilka anställda som vinner och vilka som förlorar på dessa investeringar. Forskarna finner att personer som utför ruti…
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Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Segregation in Friendship Networks
Forskarna studerar nätverksbildning inom och mellan etniska grupper. Resultatet tyder på att reformer som syftar till att minska segregation är socialt önskvärda endast om dessa tillräckligt minskar h…
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Journal of Health Economics
Retirement Blues
Denna studie analyserar effekterna av pensionering på mental hälsa i tio europeiska länder, inklusive Sverige. Jag finner att pensionering har en kraftig negativ påverkan på mental hälsa i ett längre…
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Contemporary Economic Policy
Growth, Inequality and Economic Freedom: Evidence from the U.S. States
I denna studie visar Bjørnskov att tillväxt påverkas av en kombination av ekonomisk omfördelningspolitik och ojämlikhet. Han jämför 50 amerikanska delstater under 30 år. Det visar sig att ojämlikhet i…
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Social Indicators Research
What Aspects of Society Matter for the Quality of Life of a Minority? Global Evidence from the New Gay Happiness Index
Vad bestämmer hur lyckliga människor är? Vi använder oss av nya data om homosexuella mäns livskvalitet i 110 länder. Forskarna finner att lika rättigheter är viktigast för hög livskvalitet. Välstånd,…
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Southern Economic Journal
The Market–Promoting and Market–Preserving Role of Social Trust in Reforms of Policies and Institutions
Enligt tidigare forskning underlättar tillit människor emellan politiska reformer. I denna studie visar vi att tillit underlättar reformer genom att göra olika politiska hinder mindre bindande. Vi fin…
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Nordic Tax Journal
Taxation of Swedish Firm Owners: The Great Reversal from the 1970s to the 2010s
Skatten på företagsägande steg under lång period. I slutet av 1960-talet översteg den 100 %. En serie skatteförändringar har gjort ägarbeskattningen låg. Antalet personer som blivit förmögna på företa…
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Journal of Industrial Economics
Productivity Dynamics and the Role of ‘Big–Box’ Entrants in Retailing
Studien tar fram nya mått på produktivitet i dagligvaruhandeln. Forskarna studerar hur produktiviteten i befintliga butiker förändras efter att en stormarkand etableras i närområdet. Det visar sig att…
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Journal of Public Economic Theory
Design of Reforms with Time–Inconsistent Voters
Widespread agreement that a political reform is necessary is no guarantee that it is actually undertaken in a timely manner. There is often a delay before action is taken and reform packages that woul…
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Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
Bailing on the Car That Was Not Bailed Out: Bounding Consumer Reactions to Financial Distress
När konsumenter köper en bil vill de även senare kunna köpa reservdelar. Därför kan köplusten påverkas negativt om det finns risk för att biltillverkaren kan gå i konkurs. I motsats till tidigare stud…
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Experimental Economics
The impact of stress on tournament entry
Individual willingness to enter competitive environments predicts career choices and labor market outcomes. Meanwhile, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful. We use two laboratory e…
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IPPR Progressive Review
Reform of the Welfare State or Dreams about Universal Basic Income?
What does the future hold for the welfare state? An assessment of its ongoing viability in the years to come, and challenge to the idea that it would – or should – be replaced in the foreseeable futur…
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European Journal of Political Economy
Are OECD Policy Recommendations for Public Sector Reform Biased against Welfare States? Evidence from a New Database
OECD ger regelbundet råd till sina medlemsländer om ekonomisk politik och reformer. Denna artikel sammanfattar och kvantifierar dessa råd från 1980-talet fram till 2005. Reformbehovet i de flesta länd…
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Scandinavian Economic History Review
The Search for Seignorage: Periodic Re–Coinage in Medieval Sweden
Penningpolitiken i det medeltida Sverige analyseras. Sverige imiterade inte bara kontinentala mynttyper utan även den korresponderande myntningspolitiken. En monetär skattemetod − periodiska myntindra…
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European Economic Review
Cross–Border Acquisitions and restructuring: Multinational Enterprises and Private Equity Firms
En allt större andel av förvärv över gränser görs av private equity-fonder istället för av multinationella företag. Vi tar fram en ny analysram för internationella förvärv som visar att bl.a. svagare…
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Review of Economics and Statistics
Richer (and Holier) Than Thou? The Effect of Relative Income Improvements on Demand for Redistribution
We use a tailor-made survey on a Swedish sample to investigate how individuals’ relative income affects their demand for redistribution. We first document that a majority misperceive their position in…
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Renewable Energy
Wind Power Volatility and its Impact on Production Failures in the Nordic Electricity Market
Vindkraft är naturligt känslig, vilket innebär att andra kraftkällor måste stängas ned och startas upp för att den totala elproduktionen ska balanseras. Det leder till en ökad risk för tekniska fel. I…
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Migration Letters
Explaining the Labor Market Gaps between Immigrants and Natives in the OECD
I många OECD-länder har utlandsfödda högre arbetslöshet och lägre sysselsättning än inrikes födda. Artikeln undersöker elva förklaringar till varför dessa arbetsmarknadsgap varierar mellan länder. Det…
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American Economic Review
No Gender Difference in Willingness to Compete When Competing against Self
We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in the willingness to compete against oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found when competing against others…
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Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
The Entrepreneurial Rent: The Value of and Compensation for Entrepreneurship
I studien lanseras begreppet entreprenörsränta. Entreprenörsräntan är den avkastning utöver den riskjusterade räntan som uppstår i ett framgångsrikt entreprenörsdrivet företag. Enligt studien är förek…
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Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Revisiting the Relationship between Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Reply
Here, we respond to the comments raised by Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom on our paper Dahlberg et al. (2012, Journal of Political Economy 120, 41–76). We argue that our estimates are internally valid, b…
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Management Science
Does Gender Diversity Promote Nonconformity?
Failure to express minority views may distort the behavior of company boards, committees, juries, and other decision-making bodies. Devising a new experimental procedure to measure such conformity in…
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PNAS
Consequences of a Price Incentive on Free Riding and Electric Energy Consumption
This article shows that a simple monetary incentive can dramatically reduce electric energy consumption (EEC) in the residential sector and simultaneously achieve a more desirable allocation of EEC co…
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Leisure Studies
Location of Leisure: The New Economic Geography of Leisure Services
Utbudet av fritidsverksamhet växer. Här studerar forskarna hur efterfrågan styr detta utbud. De finner att variationer i efterfrågans räckvidd i hög grad styr utbudet. Exempelvis ser de en lokal ”hemm…
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Telecommunications Policy
Do R&D and ICT Affect Total Factor Productivity Growth Differently?
De senaste årens stora produktivitetsökningar har möjliggjorts genom omfattande investeringar i FoU och i informations- och kommunikationsteknologi (IKT). Denna studie visar att det tar sju till åtta…
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Journal of Economic History
Wealth–Income Ratios in a Small, Developing Economy: Sweden, 1810–2014
I denna studie analyseras Sveriges nationalförmögenhet under 200 år. Resultaten visar att svenskarna var fattiga under 1800-talet och tvingades låna utomlands för att finansiera industrialiseringen. U…
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Journal of Economic Literature
The Economic Consequences of Social–Network Structure
Forskarna studerar varför nätverk uppstår och analyserar beteenden inom dessa, med fokus på nätverkens struktur. Med modellerna förklaras varför sjukdomar sprider sig i nätverk eller varför många indi…
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Journal of Business Ethics
Resistance to Change in the Corporate Elite: Female Directors’ Appointments onto Nordic Boards
In this empirical study, we investigate the variation in firms’ response to institutional pressure for gender-balanced boards, focusing specifically on the preservation of prevailing practices of dire…
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Heterogeneous Peer Effects in Education
Genom att använda longitudinella data (över en längre tid) om studenter och deras vänner visar forskarna att ett starkt grupptryck påverkar utbildningen. Vänner tycks dock bara vara inflytelserika när…
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European Economic Review
Intergenerational Correlation and Social Interactions in Education
We propose a dynastic model where individuals are born into an educated or uneducated environment that they inherit from their parents. We study the impact of social interactions on the correlation in…
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Journal of Public Economics
The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It
Vi finner att högerpolitiker ser bättre ut än vänsterpolitiker i Europa, USA och Australien. Då människor som ser bra ut tjänar mer motsätter de sig omfördelning och sympatiserar med högern. Högerpoli…
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Spatial Economic Analysis
Retail City: The Relationship between Place Attractiveness and Accessibility to Shops
I denna uppsats studeras hur konsumtionsmöjligheter hänger samman med kommuners attraktionskraft. Det visar sig att tillgången till butiker är viktig för städers attraktionskraft men inte för landsbyg…
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Journal of Income Distribution
Inequality and the Super–Rich
Over the recent decades there has been a dramatic rise in top income shares in most Western countries. Several explanations have been proposed to explain this phenomenon, some pointing at the role of…
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Management Science
Person–Organization Fit and Incentives: A Causal Test
We investigate the eects of organizational culture and personal values on performance under individual and team contest incentives. We develop a model of regard for others and in-group favoritism that…
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Journal of Urban Economics
The Role of Social Networks in Cultural Assimilation
Forskarna utvecklar en modell där enskilda som tillhör en minoritet väljer om de vill assimileras till majoritetskulturen. Studien visar att tongivande personer i ett socialt nätverk assimileras oftar…
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Journal of Air Transport Management
Managing Turnaround Performance through Collaborative Decision Making
Kortare tider mellan landning och start är avgörande för flygplatsers hantering av trafik. Studien bygger på 6 500 observationer av flygplans omloppstider på en internationell flygplats där ett övergr…
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SAGE Open Medicine
Does Increased Standardisation in Health Care Mean Less Responsiveness Towards Individual Patients’ Expectations? A Register–Based Study in Swedish Primary Care
Objective: We explore whether standardisation in health care based on evidence on group level and a public health perspective is in conflict with responsiveness towards individual patient’s expectatio…
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Journal of Human Resources
The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities
Det har länge varit känt att kognitiva förmågor – intelligens i dagligt tal – i stor utsträckning överförs från föräldrarna till barnen. Den här studien visar att även föräldrarnas andra personlighets…
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International Review of Entrepreneurship
Status Quo Institutions and the Benefits of Institutional Deviations
Ett samhälles lagar, regler och normer – dess institutioner – är viktiga eftersom de skyddar den rådande ekonomiska ordningen, men kan samtidigt hindra entreprenörskap och innovationer. Vi belyser hur…
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Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship and Institutions: A Bidirectional Relationship
Samspelet mellan entreprenörskap och institutioner är centralt för ekonomisk utveckling, men institutioner avgör inte alltid huruvida entreprenörskap är produktivt. Vi finner att orsakssambandet är du…
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Journal of World Trade
The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995–2016: A Data Set and Its Descriptive Statistics
Denna rapport uppdaterar en tidigare version av detta dokument och ger en översiktlig beskrivning av några centrala aspekter av WTO-systemet, uppdelad på tre områden: Hur lång tid arbetet tar för de o…
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European Journal of Political Economy
Tolerance in the United States: Does Economic Freedom Transform Racial, Religious, Political and Sexual Attitudes?
Tolerance is a distinguishing feature of Western culture. Still, it varies between and within countries, as well as over time, and irrespective of whether one values it for its own sake or for its ben…
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European Journal of Political Economy
Economic Freedom and Economic Crises
In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crises. After of…
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World Economy
Aggregation Issues of Foreign Direct Investment Estimation in an Interdependent World
This paper attempts to understand foreign direct investment (FDI) heterogeneity and offers useful insights about aggregation issues in FDI estimations by carrying out a spatial econometric analysis us…
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Economic History Review
Periodic Recoinage as a Monetary Tax: Conditions for the Rise and Fall of the Bracteate Economy
Scholars in the fields of archaeology and numismatics have long been familiar with the phenomenon of periodic recoinage (renovatio monetae), which dominated monetary taxation in medieval Europe for al…
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European Economic Review
Bend it Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes: cultural distinction and cultural conformity. Under cultural co…
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Economic History Review
Inheritance Taxation in Sweden, 1885–2004: The Role of Ideology, Family Firms and Tax Avoidance
This article studies the evolution of Swedish inheritance taxation since the late nineteenth century to its abolition in 2004. The contribution of this article is twofold. First, the annual effective…
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Economics Letters
Illegal Migration and Policy Enforcement
Workers from a source country consider whether or not to illegally migrate to a host country. This decision depends crucially on the proportion of workers who migrate and on whether or not the host co…
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Quantitative Economics
Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and social influences. We find that parental investment in transmitting religious val…
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Political Communication
The Impact of News Photos on Support for Military Action
Drawing on two experiments embedded in online surveys, this article examines the impact of news photos on support for military action. In 2011, respondents were asked about support for ongoing militar…
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European Economic Review
Hierarchies and Entrepreneurship
We establish a correlation between the hierarchical structure of a firm and the likelihood of business creation among its former employees, using a sample of 16 million observations of Swedish workers…
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Critical Review
A Left/Right Convergence on the New Public Management? The Unintended Power of Diverse Ideas
While it might appear self-evident that the trend toward the New Public Management (NPM) in the public administration systems of many Western countries is an outgrowth of neoliberalism, the case of Sw…
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Journal of the European Economic Association
Risk Aversion Relates to Cognitive Ability: Preferences or Noise?
Recent experimental studies suggest that risk aversion is negatively related to cognitive ability. In this paper we report evidence that this relation may be spurious. We recruit a large subject pool…
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Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Lifetime versus Annual Tax–and–Transfer Progressivity: Sweden, 1968–2009
In this paper, we analyze the evolution of tax-and-transfer progressivity in Sweden over both annual and lifetime horizons. Using a rich micro panel covering the period 1968–2009, we calculate tax rat…
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Scandinavian Journal of Economics
The Headmaster Ritual: The Importance of Management for School Outcomes
We estimate the impact of individual principals on school outcomes by using panel data that allow us to track principals over time. We find that individual principals have a substantive impact on scho…
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Government and Opposition
Distrust in Utopia? Public Perceptions of Corruption and Political Support in Iceland before and after the Financial Crisis of 2008
In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century Iceland was ranked as the least corrupt country in the world by Transparency International and enjoyed top positions in most comparative i…
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Labour Economics
One Size Fits All? The Effects of Teachers' Cognitive and Social Abilities on Student Achievement
We document a substantial decline in cognitive and social interactive abilities and in GPAs among entering teachers. Then, using matched student-teacher data, we find that teacher abilities have a negl…
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
Employment Protection Reform, Enforcement in Collective Agreements and Worker Flows
We analyze a reform of notice periods for employer-initiated separations in Sweden, which reduced the notice periods for newly hired older workers substantially but implied minor or no changes in the…
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Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
Mixed Integer Programming Revealed Preference Tests of Utility Maximization and Weak Separability of Consumption, Leisure and Money
Swofford and Whitney (1987, 1988, 1994) investigated the validity of two key assumptions underlying representative agent models of macroeconomics. These assumptions are utility maximization and weak s…
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Review of International Economics
Global Engagement, Complex Tasks and the Distribution of Occupational Employment
We construct a task-based model of the firm’s choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We assume that more complex tasks are more costly to comple…
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World Economy
Heterogeneous Firms, Globalisation and the Distance Puzzle
Despite the strong pace of globalisation, the distance effect on trade is persistent or even growing over time (Disdier and Head, 2008). To solve this distance puzzle, we use the recently developed gr…
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Economics & Human Biology
Migrants, Health, and Happiness: Evidence that Health Assessments Travel with Migrants and Predict Well–Being
Health assessments correlate with health outcomes and subjective well-being. Immigrants offer an opportunity to study persistent social influences on health where the social conditions are not endogeno…
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Review of Austrian Economics
Does Belief in Objective Morality Lead to Coercion? An Analysis of the Arguments of Kelsen and Buchanan
Two leading scholars of the 20th century – Hans Kelsen and James Buchanan – both suggested that belief in an objective morality entails a disparaging attitude towards political and individual freedom.…
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Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Two Sides to the Evasion: The Pirate Bay and the Interdependencies of Evasive Entrepreneurship
Purpose – Evasive entrepreneurs innovate by circumventing or disrupting existing formal institutional frameworks. Since such evasions rarely go unnoticed, they usually lead to responses from lawmakers…
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Economics Letters
Job Polarization, Job Tasks and the Role of Firms
Using detailed Swedish matched employer–employee data, I show evidence of within-firm job polarization. Applying a decomposition framework, I find that both within-firm and between-firm components are…
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International Journal of Game Theory
Strategic Complementarities, Network Games and Endogenous Network Formation
This paper investigates the role of strategic complementarities in the context of network games and network formation models. In the general model of static games on networks, we characterize conditio…
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Applied Economics Letters
Do the Poor Benefit from Globalization Regardless of Institutional Quality?
Despite significant progress towards the Millennium goals, more than one billion people live on less than 1.25 US dollars per day. Previous research suggests that globalization stimulates poverty redu…
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International Journal of Industrial Organization
International Network Competition under National Regulation
We extend the workhorse model of network competition to international calls. This model enables us to show that national regulatory authorities (NRAs) maximizing domestic welfare have incentives to in…
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Journal of Institutional Economics
Does Social Trust Speed Up Reforms? The Case of Central–Bank Independence
Many countries have undertaken central-bank independence reforms, but the years of implementation differ. What explains such differences in timing? This is of interest more broadly, as it sheds light…
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Public Choice
An offer You Can’t Refuse: Murdering Journalists as an Enforcement Mechanism of Corrupt Deals
Anecdotal evidence suggests that journalists and bureaucrats in some countries are killed when they try to blow the whistle on corruption. We demonstrate in a simple game-theoretical model how murders…
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Asian Economic Papers
The Impact of CEO Long–Term Equity–Based Compensation Incentives on Economic Growth in Collectivist versus Individualist Countries
This study examines the impact of the prevalence of long-term equity-based chief executive officer (CEO) compensation incentives on GDP growth, and we address the moderating role of individualist vers…
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Journal of Business Ethics
Macroeconomic Fluctuations as Sources of Luck in CEO Compensation
Macroeconomic fluctuations in interest rates, exchange rates, and inflation can be considered sources of good or bad “luck” for corporate performance if management is unable to adjust operations to th…
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Small Business Economics
Evasive Entrepreneurship
We argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important, although underrated, source of innovation, and provide the first systematic discussion of the concept. We define evasive entrepreneurship as profit…
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International Labour Review
Employer Attitudes towards Refugee Immigrants: Findings from a Swedish Survey
Based on a large-scale survey of Swedish firms, the authors identify significant heterogeneity in their attitudes towards refugee hiring, job performance, wage setting and discrimination, though exper…
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Quarterly Journal of Economics
Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players
We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of substantial wealth shocks on players’ own health and their children’s health and developmental outcomes. Our esti…
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Journal of Business Venturing
Creative Destruction and Productive Preemptive Acquisitions
We develop a model of entrepreneurial innovation for entry and sale into oligopolies suitable for welfare analysis. We show that the expected consumer welfare can be higher under commercialization by…
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International Tax and Public Finance
Government Consumption Smoothing in a Balanced Budget Regime
I investigate government consumption smoothing (sensitivity) under a balanced budget rule in Swedish municipalities. In general, I find Swedish municipalities to be highly consumption sensitive. Munici…
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Journal of the European Economic Association
The Limits of Career Concerns in Federalism: Evidence from China
Performance-based promotion schemes in administrative hierarchies have limitations. Chinese provincial leaders, despite facing strong career concerns, make different policy decisions depending on thei…
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Journal of Economic Surveys
Government Size and Growth: A Rejoinder
In our 2011 survey of the literature in the Journal of Economic Surveys on the effect of government size on economic growth in wealthy countries we find a relatively consistent pattern: An increase in…
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British Journal of Political Science
Mechanical and Psychological Effects of Electoral Reform
To understand how electoral reform affects political outcomes, one needs to assess its total effect, incorporating how the reform affects the outcomes given the political status quo (the mechanical ef…
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Journal of Development Economics
Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection…
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