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Financial Sector Reforms and Monetary Policy in Zambia
(2004)
The dissertation comprises four chapters focusing on issues concerning policy reforms and monetary policy in Zambia.
Chapter 1 briefly outlines the theoretical foundations for the reforms undertaken in Zambia since the ...
Using Cheap-Talk as a Test of Validity in Choice Experiments
(2004)
In two experiments on the choice of consumer goods, the estimated marginal willingness to pay for food are found to be lower in the survey version with cheap talk. Our test can be seen as a test of hypothetical bias. This ...
Used Clothes As Development Aid: The political economy of rags
(1999)
Should Swedish used-clothes exports continue to be subsidized as development aid? Theoretical analysis and review of empirical evidence regarding effects of both commercial and charitable (subsidized) used-clothes imports ...
Conflict Diamonds
(2003)
’Conflict diamonds’ refers to the fatal role that diamonds are believed
to have played in several African conflicts. The article analyzes the impact
of diamond abundance on economic growth in light of the broader,
previously ...
Temporary work agencies and equilibrium unemployment
(2002)
A striking feature of OECD labor markets in the 1990s has been
the very rapid increase of temporary agency work. We augment
the equilibrium unemployment model as developed by Pissarides and
Mortensen with temporary work ...
Measuring Trust and the Value of Statistical Lives: Evidence from Bangladesh
(2005)
This thesis includes five self-contained essays. The first three essays relate to the measurement of trust using both an experimental and a survey approach, and the other two essays relate to the measurement of the value ...
Airport Marginal Cost Pricing: Discussion and an Application to Swedish Airports
(2002)
We derive an optimal airport-pricing model, both with and without a constraint on the revenues, that
includes all relevant external marginal costs,. Given the results of the model we discuss the implications
on the profit ...
Contingent Valuation of Mortality Risk Reduction in Developing Countries: A Mission Impossible?
(2005)
Using the contingent valuation method in developing countries to value mortality risk reduction is particularly challenging because of the low level of education of the respondents. In this paper, we examine the effect of ...
Has Sweden’s government budget policy been too discretionary? Evidence from a generalization of the tax smoothing hypothesis
(2003)
Barro's (1979) tax smoothing hypothesis (TSH) assumes that the government is
always subject to an "optimal" degree of discretion in budget policy, i.e., optimal in
the sense that the welfare costs from taxation are ...
Consumption Theory with Reference Dependent Utility
(2006)
This paper presents a closed form consumption function for an individual when he derives utility from both his current and previous
consumption and from the consumption of his relevant others. I show that the traditional ...