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Can we do policy recommendations from a framed field experiment? The case of coca cultivation in Colombia
(2008-05-27)
Laboratory experiments are potentially effective tools for studying behavior in settings where little or no information would otherwise exist such as participation in illicit activities. However, using laboratory experiments ...
Robust Control in Global Warming Management: An Analytical Dynamic Integrated Assessment
(2009-04-17)
Knightian uncertainty in climate sensitivity is analyzed in a two sec-
toral integrated assessment model (IAM), based on an extension of
DICE. A representative household that expresses ambiguity aversion
uses robust ...
Tax Toleration and Tax Compliance: How Government Affects the Propensity of Firms to Enter the Unofficial Economy
(2006)
How do government-supplied institutional benefits and the taxation and regulation of produc- ers affect the propensity of private firms to enter the unofficial economy and evade taxation? We propose a model in which the ...
Airline choice, switching costs and frequent flyer programs
(2004)
Switching costs are costs that customers face when switching from one firm to another. In markets such
as the airline market where repeated purchases are common, switching costs may be substantial. In this
paper we ...
Competition in the Swedish Coffee Market
(2004)
It is a widespread belief that multinationals are exploiting their market power in national coffee markets by keeping consumer prices too high and thereby limiting demand for coffee beans. The purpose of this study is to ...
Gender, Risk and Stereotypes
(2006)
This paper reports results from an economic experiment where respondents are asked to make choices between risky outcomes for themselves and others. In addition, we elicit information about the respondents’ perception of ...
Essays in Climate Change and Forest Management
(2009-03-12)
Putting decomposition of energy use and pollution on a firm footing - clarifications on the residual, zero and negative values and strategies to assess the performance of decomposition methods
(2006)
I show how the problems with zero and negative values in decomposition
can in principle be resolved by avoiding ill-defined mathematical
operations used to derive the decomposition formulae (division by zero and
taking ...
Using Ex Post Data to Estimate the Hurdle Rate of Abatement Investments - An Application to the Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry and Energy Sector
(2007-03-21)
We propose a method for estimating hurdle rates for firms’ investments in pollution
abatement technology, using ex post data. The method is based on a structural option value
model where the future price of polluting ...
Are demand elasticities affected by politically determined tax levels? : simultaneous estimates of gasoline demand and price
(2007-10-14)
Raising the price of fossil fuels is a key component of any effective policy to deal with climate change. Just how effective such policies are is decided by the price elasticities of demand. Many papers have studied this ...