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Policies for second generation biofuels: Current status and future challenges
(2011-05)This report reviews the current status of second generation biofuels. First generation biofuels continue to be substantially subsidized, and this has contributed to the increasing use of such fuel. However, recent studies ... -
Policy Implications and Analysis of the Determinants of Travel Mode Choice: An Application of Choice Experiments to Metropolitan Costa Rica
(2001)In this paper we study a group of policies aimed at discouraging the use of private transportation during peak hours, both directly and indirectly, by increasing the attractiveness of the only available substitute, the ... -
Political Economy of Listing of Substances of Very High Concern in the European REACH Regulation
(2019-10)The Candidate List of the European Union regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals—known as REACH— gives advanced information to industry and other stakeholders about substances ... -
Political participation in Africa: Participatory inequalities and the role of resources
(2010-08)The aim of this paper is to examine the role of individual resource endowments for explaining individual and group variation in African political participation. Drawing on new data for more than 27 000 respondents in 20 ... -
Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
(2015-05)This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature ... -
POSITIONAL CONCERNS IN AN OLG MODEL: OPTIMAL LABOR AND CAPITAL INCOME TAXATION
(2009-04-16)This paper concerns optimal income taxation under asymmetric information in a two-type overlapping generations model, where people care about their relative consumption compared to others. The appearance of positional ... -
Positional Concerns with Multiple Reference Points: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods in an OLG Model
(2008-05-19)This paper concerns optimal income taxation and provision of a state-variable public good under asymmetric information in a two-type overlapping generations model, where people care about their relative consumption. Each ... -
POSITIONAL PREFERENCES IN TIME AND SPACE: IMPLICATIONS FOR OPTIMAL INCOME TAXATION
(2010-01-22)This paper concerns optimal nonlinear taxation in an OLG model with two ability-types, where people care about their own consumption relative to (i) other people’s current consumption, (ii) own past consumption, and (iii) ... -
Potential Rent and Overcapacity in the Swedish Baltic Sea Trawl Fishery
(2009-03-17)Many EU fisheries have problems with depleted stocks and fleet overcapacity following from regulated open access regimes. Some EU countries have introduced Individual Vessel Quotas (IVQs), which can stop the race to catch ... -
Poverty dynamics in Ethiopia: state dependence
(2007-08-29)This paper focuses on the persistency of poverty in rural and urban households in Ethiopia by estimating dynamic probit models. Unobserved heterogeneity, first order state dependence and serially correlated error component ... -
Poverty Persistence and Intra-Household Heterogeneity in Occupations: Evidence from Urban Ehtiopia
(2013-12)Previous studies of poverty in developing countries have to a great extent focused on the characteristics of the household head and used these as proxies for the underlying ability of the household to generate income. This ... -
Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
(2019-06)We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three ... -
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 ... -
Predictive regressions with panel data
(2005)This paper analyzes econometric inference in predictive regressions in a panel data setting. In a traditional time-series framework, estimation and testing are often made diffcult by the endogeneity and near persistence ... -
Preferences for redistribution - a cross-country study in fairness
(2007-08-01)This paper seeks to explain within as well as between country variation in preferences for redistribution in terms of self interest concerns, and an input based concept of fairness captured by the effects of beliefs about ... -
Preferences With and Without Prices - does the price attribute affect behavior in stated preference surveys?
(2004)The experimental as well as the nonmarket valuation literature include several examples of how an introduced price can affect behavior in otherwise not expected ways. It has become standard to include a price vector as an ... -
Price and Frequency Choice under Monopoly and Competition in Aviation Markets
(2002)Using data on 172 city-pair markets in eight European countries, we investigate the effect of the market structure on airlines choices of frequency and prices. Applying an address model, we show that equilibrium prices ... -
Prices versus Standards and Firm Behavior: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
(2017-01)We conduct an artefactual field experiment in which 164 managers and senior advisors recruited from Swedish industry were presented with a task of maximizing net revenue from abatement investments under three different ... -
Prices vs Quantities with Multiple Pollutants
(2011-09)We examine the choice of policy instrument price, quantity, or a mix of the two when two pollutants are regulated and firms’ abatement costs are private information. A key parameter that affects this choice is the technological ... -
Pricing basket default swaps in a tractable shot-noise model
(2009-04-27)We value CDS spreads and kth-to-default swap spreads in a tractable shot noise model. The default dependence is modelled by letting the individual jumps of the default intensity be driven by a common latent factor. The ...