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Tax Toleration and Tax Compliance: How Government Affects the Propensity of Firms to Enter the Unofficial Economy
(2006)
How do government-supplied institutional benefits and the taxation and regulation of produc- ers affect the propensity of private firms to enter the unofficial economy and evade taxation? We propose a model in which the ...
Airline choice, switching costs and frequent flyer programs
(2004)
Switching costs are costs that customers face when switching from one firm to another. In markets such
as the airline market where repeated purchases are common, switching costs may be substantial. In this
paper we ...
Competition in the Swedish Coffee Market
(2004)
It is a widespread belief that multinationals are exploiting their market power in national coffee markets by keeping consumer prices too high and thereby limiting demand for coffee beans. The purpose of this study is to ...
Gender, Risk and Stereotypes
(2006)
This paper reports results from an economic experiment where respondents are asked to make choices between risky outcomes for themselves and others. In addition, we elicit information about the respondents’ perception of ...
Putting decomposition of energy use and pollution on a firm footing - clarifications on the residual, zero and negative values and strategies to assess the performance of decomposition methods
(2006)
I show how the problems with zero and negative values in decomposition
can in principle be resolved by avoiding ill-defined mathematical
operations used to derive the decomposition formulae (division by zero and
taking ...
Would The Right Social Preference Model Please Stand Up!
(2006)
A number of competing social preference models have been developed inspired by the evidence from economic experiments. We test the relative performance of some of these models using an experimental design that is aimed at ...
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 ...
Emotions, Morality and Public Goods: The WTA-WTP Disparity Revisited
(2006)
Empirical evidence suggests that people’s maximum willingness to pay for having a good is often substantially lower than their minimum willingness to accept not having it, and that this discrepancy tends to be especially ...
Keeping Up with the Vaishyas: Caste and Relative Standing
(2005)
We investigate the importance of relative income within the Indian Caste system, using a choice experiment. We find that slightly more than half of the marginal utility of income comes from some kind of relative income ...
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 ...