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Panel Cointegration of Chinese A and B Shares
(2008-04-21)In this paper we study market segmentation and information flows in China's stock markets. By using panel data methods we test for a unit root in the price premium of domestic investors' A shares over foreign investors' B ... -
Parallel imports and mandatory substitution reform: A kick or a muff for price competition in pharmaceuticals
(2011-04)What has been the effect of competition from parallel imports on prices of locally-sourced onpatent drugs? Did the 2002 Swedish mandatory substitution reform increase this competition? To answer these questions, we carried ... -
Parental Influences on Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
(2016-01)To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of ... -
Parental Investments in Child Health – the importance of paternalistic altruism, child egoism and short-sightedness
(2015-12)Parent and child interaction is an important determinant of child health. Typically, parents are more forward-looking than their children and, hence, care about investments in human capital to a larger extent. In this paper ... -
The Part-Time Penalty for Natives and Immigrants
(2008-09-15)This study examines the part-time penalty for natives and immigrants in Sweden. We estimate an endogenous switching regression model, and the results indicate that there is evidence of self-selection into part-time and ... -
Part-Time Penalty in Sweden: Evidence from Quantile Regression
(2008-09-15)This study analyzes the part-time penalty in Sweden using quantile regression. We find that the estimated part-time wage differential is negative across the whole wage distribution. OLS overestimates the part-time penalty ... -
Part-Time Sick Leave as a Treatment Method?
(2008-10-09)This paper analyzes the effects of being on part-time sick leave compared to full-time sick leave on the probability of recovering (i.e., returning to work with full recovery of lost work capacity). Using a discrete ... -
Partisan differences in Swedish macroeconomic policy
(2002)The purpose of this paper is to trace partisan differences among Swedish governments during the period 1958-1998. According to the Partisan Theory of macroeconomic policy left-wing governments are relatively more ... -
Passive Learning and Incentivized Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial in India
(2018-03)In order to understand the extent of the information barrier to adoption of a household technology, we designed a randomized controlled trial on willingness to pay (WTP) for solar lanterns in India. We gave high quality ... -
Past and present outage costs – A follow-up study of households’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages
(2019-10)Households’ demand for electricity continues to increase. This trend per se should indicate increased disutility from power outages. On the other hand, batteries and other back-up systems have been improved and the frequency ... -
Paternalism against Veblen: Optimal Taxation and Non-Respected Preferences for Social Comparisons
(2014-11)This paper deals with optimal income taxation and relative consumption under a welfarist government that fully respects people’s preferences and a paternalist government that does not share the consumer preference for ... -
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
(2010-05-17)Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 ... -
Paying the Price of Sweetening Your Donation - Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
(2010-07)Using a natural field experiment in a recreational site, a public good almost fully dependent on voluntary donations, we explored the crowding-out effect of gift rewards. First, we investigated whether receiving a map in ... -
Payment Types and Participation in Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs: Stated Preferences of Landowners
(2014-04)Because the effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs depends on landowners’ engagement, understanding the relationship between the type of payment and participation is a key issue. This paper reports ... -
Peers, policy, and attitudes as drivers of antibiotic prescribing
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-05)In this study we investigated how treatment norms about antibiotic use affect a doctor´s decision to prescribe antibiotics. We also investigated the attitudes and behavior of the same physicians as private persons. We find ... -
Performance of the Swedish Real Estate Sector 1998-2002
(2004)In this paper, we analyze the performance of the Swedish real estate sector by various profitability measures. We use an unbalanced panel of 781 non-listed companies from 1998 to 2000 with 3421 observations. There exists ... -
The persistence of urban poverty in Ethiopia: A tale of two measurements
(2008-01-08)This paper investigates dynamics of poverty in urban Ethiopia using both subjective and objective definitions of poverty. The two sets of estimates of persistence and recurrence of poverty are similar, suggesting that ... -
The Persistence of Welfare Participation
(2007-09-28)Welfare persistence is estimated in and compared between Swedish-born and foreignborn households. This is done within the framework of a time-stationary dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial condition ... -
Personality and Positionality
(2019-03)This paper employs survey experiments to examine the relationship between personality characteristics and positional concerns across a wide range of “goods,” e.g., income and market value of a car, and “bads,” e.g., infant ... -
Pharaoh´s Cage: Environmental Circumscription and Appropriability in Early State Development
(2019-11)What explains the origins and survival of the first states around five thousand years ago? In this research, we focus on the role of productivity shocks for early state development in a single region: ancient Egypt. We ...