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Veblens Theory of the Leisure Class Revisited: Implications for Optimal Income Taxation
(2010-08)
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, ...
Conditional Cooperation: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
(2010-07)
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 ...
General Properties of Expected Demand Functions: Negativity (No Giffen Good) and Homogeneity - A Descriptive Non Utility Maximizing Approach
(2010-09)
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∂<∂) ...
Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games
(2010-02-01)
We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in oneshot
normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their firstand
second-order beliefs. We find that ...
Are Men Really More Overconfident than Women? - A Natural Field Experiment on Exam Behavior
(2010-08)
This paper reports from a simple natural field experiment based on an eco-nomics exam. Part of the exam consisted of 30 multiple choice questions, where the students obtained 1 point per correct answer while 1 point was ...
Bolagsrevisorn - En studie av revisionsverksamhet under sent 1800-tal och tidigt 1900-tal. Från frivillighet till lagreglering och professionalisering.
(2010-03-16)
The development of Swedish auditing, in light of the increase in
legislation of limited liability companies and the international history of audit at the
turn of the 20th century, is investigated. An important factor is ...
Pre-School Education and School Performance The Case of Public Schools in Montevideo
(2010-03-17)
In this paper we try to explain the academic performance of a sample of children starting
their first year at public schools in 1999 in Montevideo, Uruguay. We are mainly
interested in the effect of pre-school education ...
The first time is the hardest: A test of ordering effects in choice experiments
(2010-10)
This paper addresses the issue of ordering effects in choice experiments, and in particular how learning processes potentially affect respondents’ stated preferences in a sequence of choice sets. In a case study concerning ...
Value Creation in the Biotechnology Industry
(Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet, 2010)