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Kenya’s Development Path and Factor Prices 1964-2000
(2004)
This study analyses how changes in factor abundance and trade policy have affected factor prices in Kenya since 1964. First there was a period of capital deepening, but this was reversed from 1982. As a result, there has ...
Bridging the Great Divide in South Africa: Inequality and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods
(2006)
We explore the effect of income inequality and peer punishment on voluntary provision of public goods in an experimental context. Our sample draws from nine fishing communities in South-Africa where high levels of inequality ...
Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015? The Case for a Pro-Poor Growth Strategy
(2005)
This study uses simulations to explore the possibility of halving the percentage of people living in extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. A pro-poor growth-scenario and a constant-inequality scenario are compared. It is shown ...
Swedish Stock Recommendations:Information Content or Price Pressure?
(2004)
The paper analyzes stock-price reactions to stock recommendations published in printed Swedish media and also trading volumes at and around the publication day, bid/ask spreads, and the post-publication drift in recommended ...
Essays on Immigrants' Economic Integration
(2004)
This thesis consists of five papers, related to each other in terms of study-sample, study-subject or methods used.
The first paper is concerned with second-generation immigrants' educational attainments, using the ...
Valuation of Voting Scheme Changes
(2004)
This paper studies the effects of the change of voting scheme on the market prices of Electrolux and SKF AB using standard event study methodology and a clinical approach. The economic effect of the voting scheme change ...
Donor coordination and the uses of aid
(2006)
The paper discusses donor coordination and its implications for the uses of aid. The paper starts by specifying a simple framework for the discussion, and then reviews the theoretical literature. It then provides some data ...
Negative Externalities in Day Care: Optimal Tax Policy Response
(2002)
Systematic pediatric evidence shows that the morbidity rates for children in day care are increasing in the group size.
Sick children are usually cared for at home by parents.
This creates a negative externality of ...
Coasean Bargaining Games with Stochastic Stock Externalities
(2006)
The recent approach ‘subgame consistency’ in cooperative stochastic differential games by Yeung and Petrosjan (2006) and Yeung and Petrosjan
(2004) is applied to the classical Coase theorem in the presence of stochastic ...
Who Are the Trustworthy, We Think?
(2006)
In a representative Swedish sample people were asked to judge the relative extent that different groups of people are considered trustworthy in several dimensions, including their political views and reading habits. A ...