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Occupational gender composition and wages in Romania: from planned equality to market inequality
(2007-09-04)In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its ... -
Offshoring and Occupational Wages: Some empirical evidence
(2008-08-05)Offshoring has changed the pattern of international competition; labor in specific occupations rather than whole firms and sectors are now facing competition. Accordingly, wages in offshorable occupations are affected in ... -
Om nationalekonomisk imperialism och idéutveckling
(2006)Nationalekonomiska metoder och modeller tillämpas inom de mest skiftande områden som kriminalitet, barnuppfostran och drogmissbruk. Ett skäl till ämnets framgång är dess användning av matematik. Nationalekonomins formalisering ... -
On blending mandates, border tax adjustment and import standards for biofuels
(2009-12-09)The transport sector is a major contributor to green house gas (GHG) emissions and its share is increasing. Biofuels may pro- vide an option to replace fossil fuels and generate an increasing worldwide interest. Rich ... -
On Refunding of Emission Taxes and Technology Diffusion
(2013-09)We analyze diffusion of an abatement technology in an imperfectly competitive industry under a standard emission tax compared to an emission tax which is refunded in proportion to output market share. The results indicate ... -
On the Institutional Legacy of Mercantilist and Imperialist Colonialism
(2007-03-07)The article features a temporal approach to modelling the social impact of Western colonialism. We collect a data set for all former colonies and dependencies that are regarded as countries today (143 observations). Our ... -
On the Law of Demand. - A mathematically simple descriptive approach for general probability density functions
(2009-11-30)In this paper we assume that choice of commodities at the individual (household) level is made inside the budget set and that the choice can be described by a probability density function. We prove that law of demand()0xExpis ... -
On the Predictability of Global Stock Returns
(2005)Stock return predictability is a central issue in empirical finance. Yet no comprehensive study of international data has been performed to test the predictive ability of lagged explanatory variables. In fact, most stylized ... -
On the problem of optimal inference for time heterogeneous data with error components regression structure
(2003)Time heterogeneity, or the fact that subjects are measured at different times, occurs frequently in non-experimental situations. For time heterogeneous data having error components regression structure it is demonstrated ... -
On The Strategic Effect of International Permits Trading on Local Pollution: The Case of Multiple Pollutants
(2015-02)We introduce a model of strategic environmental policy where two firms compete à la Cournot in a third market under the presence of multiple pollutants. Two types of pollutants are introduced, a local and a transboundary ... -
On-the-job search and city structure
(2016-06)This paper investigates an equilibrium search model in which search frictions are increasing with the distance to a city’s central business district, allowing for on-the-job search and endogenous wage formation and land ... -
Optimal Environmental Road pricing
(2005)An optimal first-best road charge should not only be differentiated with respect to factors that affect the direct external environmental and time costs from the road-user himself. Indirect effects, such as the fact that ... -
Optimal Environmental Road Pricing and Integrated Daily Commuting Patterns
(2016-12)Road pricing can improve air quality by reducing and spreading traffic flows. Nevertheless, air quality does not depend only on traffic flows, but also on pollution dispersion. In this paper we investigate the effects of ... -
Optimal Expectations and the Welfare Cost of Climate Variability
(2013-12)Uncertainty about the future is an important determinant of well-being, especially in developing countries where financial markets and other market failures result in ineffective insurance mechanisms. However, separating ... -
Optimal fuel taxation with suboptimal health choices
(2020-10)Transport has a large number of signi cant externalities including carbon emissions, air pollution, accidents, and congestion. Active travel such as cycling and walking can reduce these externalities. Moreover, public ... -
Optimal Investment in Health when Lifetime is Stochastic, or, Rational Agents do not Often Follow Health Agency Recommendations
(2018-08)A health-capital model is contemplated which accounts for the consumption of many goods, a stock of health and investment in it, as well as an agent’s random lifetime and accumulation of wealth. It is shown that if an ... -
Optimal Prosocial Nudging
(2019-04)While nudges are still mostly associated with affecting individual choices for their own long-run interest, i.e. dealing with internalities, they are increasingly used in order to reduce externalities, such as environmental ... -
Optimal Taxation and Other-Regarding Preferences
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-10)The present paper analyzes optimal redistributive income taxation in a Mirrleesian framework extended with other-regarding preferences at the individual level. We start by developing a general model where the other-regarding ... -
Organic Farming Technologies and Agricultural Productivity: The case of Semi-Arid Ethiopia
(2008-12-16)Organic farming practices, in as far as they rely on local or farm renewable resources, present desirable options for enhancing agricultural productivity for resource-constrained farmers in developing countries. In this ...