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I Can’t Sleep! Relative Concerns and Sleep Behavior
(2017-10)We investigate the effect of relative concerns with respect to income on the quantity and quality of sleep using a long panel dataset on the sleep behavior of people in Germany. We find that relative income has a substantial ... -
Identifying central bank’s preferences: the case of Poland
(2004)We seek to test the hypothesis that the weight on output gap variability in the central bank’s loss function is equal to zero in Poland. To that end we derive monetary policy reaction function from the central bank’s ... -
The Impact of the EU Emissions Trading System on CO2 Intensity in Electricity Generation
(2009-06-09)Prior to the launch of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in 2005, the electricity sector was widely proclaimed to have more low-cost emission abatement opportunities than other sectors. If this were true, effects ... -
Importing High Food Prices by Exporting: Rice Prices in Lao PDR
(2014-11)This paper shows how a developing country, Lao PDR, imports high glutinous rice prices by exporting its staple food to neighboring countries, Vietnam and Thailand. Lao PDR has extensive export controls on rice, generating ... -
Improving Welfare through Climate-friendly Agriculture: The Case of the System of Rice Intensification
(2015-10)We use rich survey data to investigate the impact of a climate-friendly rice farming method known as the system of rice intensification (SRI) on the welfare of rain-dependent small-holder farmers in Tanzania. SRI reduces ... -
In the back of your mind: Subliminal influences of religious concepts on prosocial behavior
(2008-12-08)Does religion enhance prosocial behavior? We investigate the ways in which implicit influences of religious concepts affect generosity and cooperation. In contrast to previous studies, we assess the direct impact of ... -
Income Effects from Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden During the 80's and 90's
(2002)Swedish labor market programs appear large from an international perspective, yet their consequences are not fully investigated and understood. In this paper we estimate a switching regression model with training effect ... -
Individual Carbon Footprint Reduction: Evidence from Pro-environmental Users of a Carbon Calculator
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-05)We provide the first estimates of how pro-environmental consumers reduce their total carbon footprint using a carbon calculator that covers all financial transactions. We use data from users of a carbon calculator that ... -
Individual technologies for health - the implications of distinguishing between the ability to produce health investments and the capacity to benefit from those investments
(2014-03)People differ in their ability to produce health investments and in their capacity to benefit from such efforts. In this paper, we assume (1) that the individual’s health-investment production function exhibits diminishing ... -
Inequality Aversion and Marginal Income Taxation
(2016-10)This paper deals with tax policy responses to inequality aversion by examining the first-best Pareto-efficient marginal tax structure when people are inequality averse. In doing so, we distinguish between four different ... -
Inequality Aversion, Externalities, and Pareto-Efficient Income taxation
(2020-05)Abstract This paper analyzes Pareto-efficient marginal income taxation taking into account externalities induced through individual inequality aversion, meaning that people have preferences for equality. In doing so, we ... -
Inflation Dynamics and Food Prices in an Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ethiopia
(2009-02-23)Ethiopia has experienced a historically unprecedented increase in inflation, mainly driven by cereal price inflation, which is among the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using monthly data over the past decade, we estimate ... -
Inflation Dynamics and Food Prices in Ethiopia
(2010-11)During the global food crisis, Ethiopia experienced an unprecedented increase in inflation, among the highest in Africa. Using monthly data over the past decade, we estimate models of inflation to identify the importance ... -
Informality, Ethnicity and Productivity Evidence from Small Manufacturers in Kenya
(2000)A rapidly increasing share of firms in Kenya consists of not only small but also informal establishments. This paper investigates the role of ethnicity and other factors in the choice of formality status at start-up. ... -
Institution building with limited resources: Establishing a supreme audit institution in Rwanda
(2011-01)This study is about institution building with limited resources. Through a case study of the establishment of a supreme audit institution (SAI) in Rwanda, we examine the tensions between institutional first-best benchmarks ... -
Institutions and their Measures: A Black Box of Goodies
(2006)The use of institutional measures in empirical work is widespread, but the question of what these measures actually capture and how they are constructed is something that is not given enough attention. Institutions and ... -
Institutions, Corruption and Tax Evasion in the Unofficial Economy
(2005)In this paper we propose a model of how institutional benefits, taxation and government regulations affect the productive activity of private enterprises. We consider an environment in which public officials enforcing tax ... -
Integrating Soil Science into Agricultural Production Frontiers
(2012-12)This paper integrates soil science variables into an economic analysis of agricultural output among small-scale farmers in Kenya’s highlands. The integration is valuable because farmers’ choice of inputs depends on both ... -
Interactions among High-Frequency Traders
(2016-12)Using unique transactions data for individual high-frequency trading (HFT) firms in the U.K. equity market, we examine the extent to which the trading activity of individual HFT firms is correlated with each other and the ... -
Intergenerational wealth mobility and the role of inheritance: Evidence from multiple generations
(2016-08)This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth generation, and examines how much of the parent-child association that can be explained by inheritances. ...