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PRIVATE PENSION SAVINGS: GENDER, MARITAL STATUS AND WEALTH - EVIDENCE FROM SWEDEN IN 2002
(2008-05-27)
During the last decades, people in Sweden have changed their savings behavior towards long-term savings such as tax-deferred pension accounts. This indicates that the tax-deferrable pension savings will play a larger roll ...
Konsten att skapa pengar. Aktiebolagens genombrott och finansiell modernisering kring sekelskiftet 1900
(2006)
The joint-stock companies with limited liability have been argued to encourage large-scale risky investments through the structure of residual claims and, at the same time, to minimize the conflict between utility maximization ...
Equalization of paid working hours in the dual-earner household: Does it increase women's double burden?
(2008-03-10)
By using a sample of Swedish dual-earner households, this paper investigates how a transfer
of time spent on paid work from the man to the woman influences their allocation of unpaid
household work. It is found that their ...
The price of sugar in Sweden : Data, source & methods
(2007-11-08)
This paper presents a new price series for sugar in Sweden, or more exactly
Stockholm, in a long-term perspective (1624–1900). Prior to this, no price data has
been available from Sweden for this commodity. The paper is ...
The Baltic Exchange: Mutual Influences between Economists in the German and Swedish Language Areas
(2008-02-15)
In the 19th and 20th centuries economists of the German and Swedish
language areas strongly influenced each other and made significant contributions to
the development and critique of neoclassical economics. In our paper, ...
Demand for coffee in Sweden: The role of prices, preferences and market power
(Elsevier, 2007)
There is a widespread belief that consumer coffee prices are high relative to bean prices and that lower consumer prices would lead to substantial increases in bean exports from Third-World countries. This issue is evaluated ...
Thy neighbour’s property. Communal property rights and institutional change in an iron producing forest district of Sweden 1630-1750
(2005)
This paper focuses on the development of property rights to village com-mons, as they appear in the court rolls of a legal district in Sweden in the late 17th and the early 18th century. A development of agrarian property ...
From extreme luxury to everyday commodity Sugar in Sweden, 17th to 20th centuries
(2007-11-12)
This paper will focus upon the Swedish consumption of sugar, a product
that illustrates the shift from being a luxury to being a mass-consumed commodity.
Very little attention has been paid to the commodity of sugar by ...
Competition in the Swedish coffee market, 1978–2002
(Elsevier, 2007)
Are multinationals exploiting their market power in national coffee markets by keeping consumer prices too high and thereby limiting demand for imports of coffee beans? The purpose of this study is to address this issue ...
Kartellen som sprängdes. Svensk bryggeriindustri under institutionell och strukturell omvandling 1945–1975
(2006)
Kartellen som sprängdes. The Swedish brewing industry during institutional and structural change 1945 – 1975. (Publications of the Department of Economic history, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, ...