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Refugee immigration and public finances in Sweden
(2015-02)
This study estimates the fiscal cost of refugee immigration. This is done by calculating the total value of economic resources that are redistributed through the public sector in Sweden in 2007 to the population of immigrants ...
Spending time together? Effects on the retirement decision from partner’s labour market status
(2015-03)
In this paper we study retirement decisions and more specifically, the influence of a partner’s labour market status on this decision. We use information from three waves of the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in ...
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 ...
Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality, II: The Relation between Solidarity and Unity
(2015-09)
This paper demonstrates that the decisions by workers of different skills to unite to form industry unions is closely linked to the egalitarian wage policies that such unions pursue. These results help interpret the stylized ...
The Pioneers’ Arguments for Formulating Economic Problems Mathematically
(2015-10)
The nineteenth century pioneers in formulating economic problems mathematically often felt that they needed to explain their reasons for using mathematics. We will look at the arguments of Cournot, Thünen, Gossen, Jevons, ...
Intuitive cooperation refuted: Commentary on Rand et al. (2012) and Rand et al. (2014)
(2015-03)
We show that Rand et al. (2012) and Rand et al. (2014)—who argue that cooperation is intuitive—provide an incorrect interpretation of their own data. They make the mistake of inferring intuition from relative decision times ...
Education and HIV incidence among young women: causation or selection?
(2015-11)
Several studies report that schooling protects against HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa. This
study examines the effect of secondary school attendance on the probability of HIV incidence
among young women aged 15-24, ...
Strategic environmental regulation of multiple pollutants
(2015-09)
We analyze the interplay between policies aimed to control global and local pollution such as
greenhouse gases and particulate matter. The two types of pollution interact in the abatement cost function of the polluting ...
Keeping up with the Joneses, the Smiths and the Tanakas: On International Tax Coordination and Social Comparisons
(2015-05)
Much evidence suggests that between-country social comparisons have become more important over time due to globalization. This paper analyzes optimal income taxation in a multi-country economy, where consumers derive utility ...
Divergence in Stakeholders’ Preferences: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on Forest Landscapes Preferences in Sweden
(2015-03)
A great deal of biodiversity can be found in private forests, and protecting it requires taking
into consideration the preferences of key stakeholders. In this study, we examine and compare the valuation of forest attributes ...