Almost all previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure for status comparisons. Inspired by Veblen (1899), this paper considers a two-type optimal income tax model, ...

ABSTRACT Sandberg, Mattias, 2012, ’They are not outdoors that much’. Nature close to home – its meaning and place in the everyday lives of urban children. Publications edited by the Departments of Geography, University ...

Natural disasters plague the populations of many countries, and the international commu- nity often seeks to alleviate the human suffering by means of humanitarian aid. Do natural disasters also have negative effects on ...

Inom ramen för forskningsprojektet Personalförsörjning och validering inom Försvarsmakten vid GRI (Gothenburg Research Institute, Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet) har intervjuer gjorts med i huvudsak officerare ...

When facing the opportunity to allocate resources between oneself and others, individuals may experience a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and preferences to act pro-socially. We explore the domain of ...

While many earlier studies have found that people’s maximum willingness to pay for having a good is often substantially lower than their minimum willingness to accept not having it, more recent experimental evidence suggests ...

In this paper we assume that choice of commodities at the individual (household) level is made in the budget set and that the choice can be described by a probability density function. We prove that negativity (()0xExp∂<∂) ...

Sjöfarten är en speciellt konkurrensutsatt industri där yttre strategideterminanter förenklat kallat förutsättningar starkt kan påverka sjöfartsföretags affärsstrategier. Sambandet belyses i denna studie genom utveckling ...

I Konsumtionsrapporten 2011 sammanfattas och analyseras hushållens privata konsumtion i Sverige under 2010. Rapporten inleds med en översikt av offentlig statistik om hushållens utgifter och välbefinnande. Därefter analyseras ...