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Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review
(2000)This paper reviews the recent literature dealing with the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during ... -
Nord Pool: A Power Market Without Market Power
(2000)Regulatory reform in the Nordic electricity-supply markets has resulted in a single integrated Nordic electricity market. This paper performs an econometric study of market power in the spot market of Nord Pool, the joint ... -
Biogeography and Long-Run Economic
(2000)The transition from a hunter-gather economy to agricultural production, which made possible the endogenous technological progress that ultimately led to the industrial revolution, is one of the most important events in ... -
The Determinants of Sulfur Emissions from Oil Consumption in Swedish Manufacturing Industry, 1976-1995
(2000)Using a structural decomposition analysis, we analyze the causes of reduction in emitted sulfur originating from the manufacturing industry in Sweden during 1976-1995. We also analyze how policy instruments work with respect ... -
A Microeconomic Analysis of Institutions
(2000)This survey paper has three themes; a microeconomic analysis of institutions, an institutional analysis of microeconomics, and a discussion on the scope for an "institutional microeconomics" that takes insights ... -
The Political Economy of Policy Failure in Zambia
(2000)Zambia's experience in the 1990s illustrates that, on their own, policy changes will not redress decades of mismanagement, especially when the degree of commitment of the elite remains unaltered. In 1991, the Movement for ... -
Bread and Peace Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections
(2000)A simple "Bread and Peace" model shows that aggregate votes for President in postwar elections were determined entirely by weighted-average growth of real disposable personal income per capita during the incumbent ... -
Efficiency, Technical Progress, and Best Practice in Chinese State Enterprises (1980-1994)
(2000)In spite of rapid economic growth and swift structural change during the last two decades, China's industrial reform is far from complete, especially with regard to state enterprises (SOEs). Although troubled with huge ... -
Wage Dispersion and Productive Efficiency: Evidence For Sweden
(2000)The effects of wage dispersion on productive efficiency is a topic rich in theoretical conjecture, a common object of Scandinavian polemical debate and at the same time an issue almost barren of systematic econometric ... -
Economic Freedom and Growth:Decomposing the Effects
(2001)Most studies of the relation between economic freedom and growth of GDP have found a positive relation. One problem in this area is the choice of economic freedom measure. A single measure does notreflect the complex ... -
EXITS FROM LONG-TERM SICKNESS IN SWEDEN
(2001)In this paper, we analyze exits from long-term sickness spells in Sweden. Using spell data for more than 2500 people, aged 20-64 years during 1986-1991, and who had at least one sickness spell of at least 60 days during ... -
Should We Use Distributional Weights in CBA When Income Taxes Can Deal with Equity?
(2001)Kaplow (1996) and others argue forcefully in favor of using the standard cost-benefit test alone, without any distributional concern, given "standard simplifying assumptions." This paper, on the contrary, ... -
Technical efficiency in the Swedish trawl fishery for Norway lobster
(2001)Reducing fleet capacity in European fisheries is an important objective of the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy. The success of such programmes depends both on the variation and the level of efficiency within the ... -
Using Choice Experiments for Non-Market Valuation
(2001)This paper provides the latest research developments in the method of choice experiments applied to valuation of non-market goods. Choice experiments, along with the, by now, well-known contingent valuation method, are ... -
Environmental Policy when Peoples Preferences are Inconsistent, Non-Welfaristic, or simply Not Developed
(2001)This paper discusses how a benevolent policy maker should act based on some, possibly non-welfaristic,ethical principle in cases where peoples preferences are not perfectly informed,consistent and fully developed with ... -
From closed to open door policy: An empirical study of Chinas international capital mobility, 1958-98
(2001)This paper employs the intertemporal consumption smoothing approach to the current account to measure the effective degree of Chinas international capital mobility during the period 1958-98. In contrast to all previous ... -
The Rise of Neolithic Agriculture
(2001)The article analyzes the economic reasons behind the rise of Neolithic agriculture some 10,000 years ago in consideration of evidence that agri-culture was not associated with increasing standards of living. On the basis ... -
FIRST EXITS FROM THE SWEDISH LABOR MARKET DUE TO DISABILITY
(2001)The number of disability exits has been increasing in recent years, raising questions both about the well being of affected individuals, and about how to finance the related disability pensions. Using a longitudinal ... -
How Much Do We Care About Absolute Versus Relative Income and Consumption?
(2001)We find, using survey-experimental methods, that most individuals are concerned with both relative income and relative consumption of particular goods. The degree of concern varies in the expected direction depending on ... -
An Analysis of Subordinated Debt in Banking:The Case of Costly Bankruptcy
(2001)The paper analyzes the mandatory subordinated debt proposals in banking. It theoretically investigates the role of subordinated debt as a buffer against losses for the deposit insurer, and its role in providing direct and ...