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Mad Cows, Terrorism and Junk Food: Should Public Policy Reflect Subjective or Objective Risks?
(2006)Empirical evidence suggests that people’s risk-perceptions are often systematically biased. This paper develops a simple framework to analyse public policy when this is the case. Expected utility (well-being) is shown to ... -
Malthus in Rwanda? Scarcity, Survival and Causes of the Genocide
(2006)This paper does two things. First, it develops a game theoretical model over population groups that optimize their survival under resource scarce conditions. The model includes two rather obvious, but in the theoretica ... -
Manipulating the rural landscape: Villagisation and income generation in Rwanda
(2011-06)The aim of the present paper is to investigate whether households relocated to governmentbuilt village settlements, as part of Rwanda’s Villagisation programme ‘Imidugudu’), diversify into non-farm income-generating ... -
Market Imperfections and Farm Technology Adoption Decisions - A Case Study from the Highlands of Ethiopia
(2009-11-30)This paper investigates the impacts of market and institutional imperfections on technology adoption in a model that considers fertilizer use and soil conservation to be joint decisions. Controlling for plot characteristics ... -
Market Imperfections and Wage Inequality
(2007-09-10)This paper investigates the relationship between various market imperfections and the skill premium. The model in this paper assumes perfectly competitive labor markets but distorted product and financial markets. The ... -
Market Structure and the Stability and Volatility of Electricity Prices
(2008-11-06)By using a novel approach in this paper,(λ,σ²)-analysis, we have found that electricity prices most of the time have increased in stability and decreased in volatility when the Nordic power market has expanded and the ... -
Marshall’s Influence on Swedish Economic Thought
(2006)Alfred Marshall was by no means ignored, but his influence on Swedish economic thought at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century was limited. On the general level, science and culture in Sweden were more ... -
Maximizing the Wealth of a Nation: A Paradigm for Political Economy
(2010-12)Politics and economics are inextricably linked. Government establishes and enforces the rules of the game for the economy, thereby determining not only how much wealth is created, but also how wealth is distributed across ... -
Maximum fee vs child benefit: A welfare analysis of Swedish child-care fee reform
(2007-04-03)The effects of a recent Swedish child-care fee reform are compared with those of an alternative reform, increased child benefits. The fee reform implied considerably decreased fees and was intended to increase both labor ... -
Maximum Likelihood Ratio based small-sample tests for random coefficients in linear regression
(2003)Two small-sample tests for random coefficients in linear regression are derived from the Maximum Likelihood Ratio. The first test has previously been proposed for testing equality of fixed effects, but is here shown to ... -
Measuring hypotheticalgrandparents preferences for quality and relative standings
(2001)Individuals' aversion to risk and inequality, and their concern for relative standing, are measured through experimental choices between hypothetical societies. It is found that on average individuals are both fairly ... -
Measuring marginal values of noise disturbance from air traffic: Does the time of the day matter?
(2004)This paper analyzes the marginal willingness to pay for changes in noise levels related to changes in the volume of flight movements at a city airport in Stockholm, Sweden, by using a choice experiment. When estimating ... -
Measuring Trust in Institutions
(2018-05)In empirical studies, survey questions are typically used to measure trust; trust games are also used to measure interpersonal trust. In this paper, we measure trust in different institutions by using both trust games and ... -
Media visibility and social tolerance: Evidence from USA
(2017-07)I study the impact of media visibility of people of colour on the rate of hate crimes motivated by race or ethnicity in the United States. To do so, I construct a novel measure of state-level media visibility of people of ... -
A Microsimulation Approach to an Optimal Swedish Income Tax
(2009-08-25)This paper follows the theory of optimal taxation and the goal is to identify a tax/benefit design that maximizes social welfare. A two stage process is proposed where the individuals preferred choice of leisure and ... -
Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Weather Variability: An Instrumental Variables Probit Analysis
(2016-06)There is solid scientific evidence predicting that a large part of the developing world will suffer a greater incidence of extreme weather events, which may increase the incidence of displacement migration. We draw on the ... -
Mind, Behaviour and Health - a Randomised Experiment
(2016-06)Behavioural attitudes toward risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt to explore the possibility ... -
Mindfulness and Stress - a Randomised Experiment
(2018-03)We conduct a randomised controlled trial of an online course in mindfulness. Previous research has found evidence that mindfulness reduces stress; however, few studies have been carried out on non-clinical populations that ... -
A Model of Dynamic Balance among the Three Spheres of Society – Markets, Governments, and Communities – Applied to Understanding the Relative Importance of Social Capital and Social Goods
(2008-03-10)This paper revisits old questions of the proper subject and bounds of economics: Does economics study “provisioning”? or markets? or a method of reasoning, self-interested rational optimization? A variety of scholars and ... -
Modeling the Effects of Economic Behavior in Determining the Organization of Society
(2006)The three “spheres” of society (governments, markets, and communities) are widely acknowledged yet the overall organization is analyzed only rarely, and interactions between the spheres have perhaps never been modeled. ...