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Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden
(2010-11)
We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase ...
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 ...
Essays on ownership and control: Shareholder wealth effects in takeovers and the measurement of ownership concentration
(2012-02-01)
The dissertation consists of three essays, two on takeovers and one on the measurement of ownership concentration.
Cross-border acquisitions and insider ownership studies whether there is a cross-border effect in returns ...
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 ...
Evaluation of the Impact of Forest Certification on Environmental Outcomes in Sweden
(2016-05)
Voluntary forest certification is an increasingly popular tool allowing producers who meet stringent environmental standards to label their products in the marketplace and potentially achieve greater market access and ...
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
(2010-05-17)
Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 ...
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 ...
Wages, Inequality and Consequences for the Economy
(2014-04-03)
This dissertation consists of four research articles and an introductory chapter. The introduction gives an overview about the field of income inequality, an empirical overview of its development, a discussion of methodological ...
The role of demand for regional development – Green transformations in the food industries in Scania and Värmland
(2021-10)
Research on regional transformation typically sees regional economic change as an outcome
of innovation and knowledge creation processes. The role of demand, however, has received little attention so far. In this paper, ...