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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
(2014-04)
This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fl uc-
tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio-
Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 ...
Strategic Carbon Taxation and Energy Pricing: The role of Innovation
(2014-04)
This paper investigates the strategic interactions between carbon taxation by a resource-consumers’ coalition and (wellhead) energy pricing by a producers’ cartel under possible innovation in a cheap carbon-free technology ...
Competition and Cooperation in Network Games
(2014-01)
We consider games where agents are embedded in a network of bilateral relationships and have multivariate strategy sets. Some components of their strategies correspond to individual activities, while the other strategic ...
Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
(2014-05)
The discrimination literature treats outcomes as relative. But does a differential arise because agents discriminate against others—exophobia—or because they favor their own kind—endophilia? Using a field experiment that ...
Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem
(2014-08)
Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision
of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination ...
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 ...
Clientelism and ethnic division
(2014-06)
Abstract: In light of the empirical evidence on clientelism and ethno-regional favouritism in
African politics, the present paper examines the relationship between ethnic divisions and clientelism. Specifically, we ask ...
Diffusion of NOx abatement technologies in Sweden
(2014-01)
This paper studies how different NOx abatement technologies have diffused under
the Swedish system of refunded emissions charges and analyzes the determinants of the time to adoption. The policy, under which the charge ...
The Fiscal Consequences of Unrestricted Immigration from Romania and Bulgaria
(2014-01)
When Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007 Sweden was one of two EU15 countries that did not restrict access to its labor market and welfare systems for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens. This article evaluates the net ...
Individual technologies for health - the implications of distinguishing between the ability to produce health investments and the capacity to benefit from those investments
(2014-03)
People differ in their ability to produce health investments and in their capacity to benefit
from such efforts. In this paper, we assume (1) that the individual’s health-investment production function exhibits diminishing ...