Working Papers 2000–2009 (WP528–WP816)

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Working Paper No. 715

Inequality and Trust

I samhällen med stora inkomstskillnader är tilliten mellan människor lägre än i samhällen med mer jämlika inkomster. Detta samband framträder både i enkätsvar och i ekonomiska experiment. Vad sambande…
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Working Paper No. 707

Entrepreneurship and Institutions

Under 1990-talet kom entreprenören och entreprenörskapet alltmer i fokus i den ekonomisk-politiska diskussionen i Europa. Det ökade policyintresset parades också med en stark expansion av den samhälls…
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Working Paper No. 657

National Treatment in the GATT

WTO-avtalet innehåller en rad avtalsklausuler som begränsar medlemsländernas möjlighet att fritt använda inhemska ekonomisk-politiska instrument. Avtalets mest centrala klausul med sådan effekt är ”Na…
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Working Paper No. 652

The Todaro Paradox Revisited

The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this pa…
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Working Paper No. 651

Crime, Location and the Housing Market

We highlight the role of commuting cost, location and housing market in crime decision. By assuming that all crimes are committed in the central business district and that criminals create both positi…
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Working Paper No. 649

Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market

We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language…
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av Harminder Battu, McDonald Mwale, Yves Zenou
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Working Paper No. 646

Sustainable Social Spending

The paper discusses a number of threats to the financial sustainability of social spending: increased internationalization of national economies, gradually higher relative costs of producing a number…
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Working Paper No. 642

Peers and Culture

We analyze the evolution of cultural traits when parents purposefully invest resources in order to socialize their children to the cultural traits that maximize child lifetime utility. We assume that…












Working Paper No. 630

Mergers by Partial Acquisition

This paper evaluates partial acquisition strategies. The model allows for buying a share of a firm before the actual acquisition takes place. Holding a share in a competing firm before the acquisition…
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Working Paper No. 628

Job Contact Networks and the Ethnic Minorities

This paper examines the job finding methods of different ethnic groups in the UK. The theoretical framework shows that less assimilated ethnic unemployed workers are more likely to use their friends a…
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av Harminder Battu, Paul Seaman, Yves Zenou
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Working Paper No. 618

Deadlines and Distractions

We analyze the effect of deadlines on timing of effort when agents are occasionaly distracted. We show that agents get started early when completion of the task is uncertain, but rather likely. Agents…
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av Maria Saez-Marti, Anna Sjögren
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