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The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents
(2020-05)
We examine how attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for climate policies have changed over the past decade in the United States, China, and Sweden. All three countries exhibit an increased willingness to pay for climate ...
Carbon Pricing: Transaction Costs of Emissions Trading vs. Carbon Taxes
(2015-01)
In this paper we empirically compare the transaction costs from monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of two environmental regulations directed to cost-efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions: a carbon dioxide ...
Equalization of paid working hours in the dual-earner household: Does it increase women's double burden?
(2008-03-10)
By using a sample of Swedish dual-earner households, this paper investigates how a transfer
of time spent on paid work from the man to the woman influences their allocation of unpaid
household work. It is found that their ...
Why Do Environmental Taxes Work Better in Developed Countries?
(2011-12)
We compare of the performance of emission taxes between Colombia and Sweden in an experimental setting where subjects are regulated through environmental taxes and had to decide on emission levels, compliance behavior, and ...
Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden
(2010-11)
We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase ...
The Baltic Exchange: Mutual Influences between Economists in the German and Swedish Language Areas
(2008-02-15)
In the 19th and 20th centuries economists of the German and Swedish
language areas strongly influenced each other and made significant contributions to
the development and critique of neoclassical economics. In our paper, ...
Evaluation of the Impact of Forest Certification on Environmental Outcomes in Sweden
(2016-05)
Voluntary forest certification is an increasingly popular tool allowing producers who meet stringent environmental standards to label their products in the marketplace and potentially achieve greater market access and ...
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 ...
Fiscal Federalism, Interjurisdictional Externalities and Overlapping Policies
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-09)
In this paper, we analyze the effects of the interaction between national and local policies designed to reduce an environmental externality that causes environmental damages both nationally and locally. We formulate a ...
The Changing Structure of Swedish Foreign Aid
(2016-03)
The study investigates how the composition and character of aid of Swedish aid has changed over
time, and what effects these changes have had for the potential to realize key aspects of the Paris agenda such as ownership, ...