Current Research 2012

Department of Economics

Stockholm University

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Content

The history of the department 3 – 5 The department today - an overall view 6 The department today – undergraduate studies 7 The department today – advanced studies 8 - 9 The department today – PhD program 10 – 11 The department today – research overview 12 – 57 Publications in print 2012 13 – 17

Forthcoming publications including 18 - 20 online versions of forthcoming articles Unpublished works including working papers 21 - 30 Participation in conferences 31 - 37 Current research projects 38 - 57

Seminars 58 - 61 Doctoral dissertations 62 - 67 Dissertations for Filosofie Licentiate 68 - 69 Working Papers 70 - 77

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The history of the department

Lectures at the Department of Economics started in 1888 (Stockholm University was

founded ten years earlier, in 1878). The lectures were given by Johan Leffler who had

obtained his position in competition with Knut Wicksell. In 1904, Gustav Cassel

became the first professor at the department. He originally studied mathematics (he

wrote a dissertation on linear algebra), but later turned to economics. Cassel is known

for his development of general equilibrium theory, the most interesting aspect perhaps

being a model of proportional growth. During the 1920’s, he was one of the most

prominent economists in the world, widely lecturing on monetary problems.

Cassel left his chair in 1933 and was succeeded by his pupil Gunnar Myrdal.

Myrdal’s dissertation, Pricing and Change, introduced intertemporal planning and risk

into price theory. Erik Lindahl, at the time lecturing at the department, is mentioned in

the preface for his advice. Lindahl’s own development of intertemporal and temporary

equilibrium theory in the late 1920’s was, in turn, influenced by Myrdal’s analysis.

In 1921, a second chair was created with Gösta Bagge as its first professor. Bagge’s

early work concerned wage setting under trade unions. As a professor, he played an

important role as entrepreneur, channeling money from the Rockefeller Foundation to

a grand empirical investigation of wages and national income in Sweden.

In the 1930’s, several members of the department were involved in the

development of employment theory. Gunnar Myrdal, Gösta Bagge, Alf Johansson and

Dag Hammarskjöld contributed to the Unemployment Commission. In the second part

of the 1930’s, Erik Lundberg and Ingvar Svennilson defended doctoral dissertations

offering important theoretical contributions to the Stockholm School. The name of the

school was coined by Bertil Ohlin in two articles in Economic Journal, where he

argued that the central themes of Keynes’ employment theory had been independently

developed by the Swedish economists, most of whom worked in Stockholm.

After his graduation, Erik Lundberg became head of Konjunkturinstitutet (the

National Institute of Economic Research) but returned to the department as a professor

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in 1946. However, he did not act as a full-time professor until 1955, when leaving

Konjunkturinstitutet. Lundberg’s overview of business cycles and stabilization policy

from 1953 (Konjunkturer och ekonomisk politik, translated into English as Business

Cycles and Economic Policy, 1957) formed a generation of students in Keynesian

fiscal and monetary policy. The impact of Lundberg’s impressive personality was not

less important.

Ingvar Svennilson was head of Industrins Utredningsinstitut (The Research

Institute of Industrial Economics) 1942-51. He became professor in 1947. In parallel

with his professorship, he played an important role in the development of the Medium

Term Surveys (Långtidsutredningarna) of the Swedish government.

In 1953, Anders Östlind succeeded Kjeld Philip (for Philip, see below). Östlind had

written a dissertation on Swedish monetary problems during the period 1914-22.

In the late 1950’s and the early 1960’s, three professors, Lundberg, Svennilson and

Östlind, were predominant at the department. This was before mathematical

economics had made its great impact on research and before economics in Sweden had

become fully integrated with the international scientific society. This transformation

started already in the 1960’s, but was not completed until the late 1980’s.

Two of the alumni of the department have been awarded the Nobel Prize, Gunnar

Myrdal (1974) and Bertil Ohlin (1977). One alumnus, Dag Hammarskjöld, served as

Secretary-General of the United Nations. Several members of the department have

played an important role in Swedish politics: Bertil Ohlin and Gösta Bagge were

leaders of political parties, and both Bagge and Ohlin, as well as Karin Kock (acting

professor 1938-46) and Gunnar Myrdal, also served some time as Cabinet Ministers.

In addition, Kjeld Philip, who was professor at the department 1949-51, later became

Minister of Finance in Denmark.

The history of the department is summarized in Svante Nycander’s book Från

värde till välfärdsteori – nationalekonomin vid Stockholms högskola/Stockholms

universitet 1904-2004 (SNS Förlag, 2005). The book also contains chapters written by

Eskil Wadensjö (about Gösta Bagge) and by Jonas Agell and Hans Wijkander (about

the department after 1990). It was presented at a seminar on December 2, 2004

celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gustav Cassel’s appointment as professor of the

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department. The scientific work by Peter Bohm (1935-2005) is surveyed by Glenn

Harrison and Martin Dufwenberg in Working Paper 2007:18 from the department (see

also Experimental Economics, No. 3, September 2008). Bohm – who was professor at

the department from 1975 until 2000 – is considered by Harrison and Dufwenberg as

the father of modern field experiments in economics.

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The department today – an overall view

Stockholm University offers one of the best environments in Europe for research and

higher education in economics. Former students are employed as economists in a wide

range of fields, such as national and international organizations, governments, business

and finance. The economics departments at Stockholm University – the Department of

Economics, the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) and the Swedish

Institute for Social Research (SOFI) − are ranked no. 17 in Europe and no. 1 in

Sweden (no. 50 in the world) in the Tilburg University list of the top 100 economics

departments. The ranking is based on research contribution 2007-2011 (see

https://econtop.uvt.nl/rankinglist.php).

The department today consists of 29 researchers and teachers with a doctoral degree;

13 full professors, 5 associate professors/senior lecturers and 11 assistant professors or

post-docs. There are about 60 active graduate students, 40 of whom have started their

thesis work.

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The department today – undergraduate studies

The department has about 1 000 undergraduate students each semester. Courses are

taught by researchers from the department but also from the Institute for International

Economic Studies (IIES) and the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI). To

attain a high academic standard, the department uses well-established economists as

teachers already at the undergraduate level.

The department is a member of the Socrates/Erasmus Exchange Program. Today, the

department has also bilateral student exchange agreements with 15 universities in

Europe. Non-European students can apply to studies in the department through the

Central Level Bilateral Agreements administrated by the Office for International

Student Exchange at Stockholm University.

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The department today – advanced studies

Master Programs

The department offers two two-year Master Programs − Master Program in Economics

and Research Master Program in Economics. The language of study is English and

courses start in late August or early September.

Master Program in Economics

The program gives the student the ability to independently use economic theory and

empirical methods to analyze economic problems. It primarily aims at providing a

solid preparation for a career as a professional economist in governments, international

organizations or business but it also provides a good starting point for the doctoral

program. Students take second-cycle courses and a selection of third-cycle courses in

economics, but also first-cycle courses in other subjects than economics. During the

last semester of the program, the students write a 30 HEC master thesis. After having

completed the program the student may apply for a Master’s Degree in Economics or

in Econometrics.

In Autumn 2012, the department provided courses in e.g. micro- and macroeconomics

and econometrics during the first part of the program and in time series and micro-data

econometrics, economic psychology, financial development and crisis and other topics

courses during the second part.

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Research Master Program in Economics

The program primarily aims at providing a solid preparation for the doctoral program

but it also provides a good starting point for a career as a professional economist in

governments, international organizations or business. The program is highly

demanding and only a few students are admitted each fall. The course program is run

jointly with the doctoral program and courses concentrate on the core elements of

economic theory and econometrics. A Master’s thesis is written under the supervision

of one of our professors. The objective is that this thesis should be of sufficiently high

standard to be part of a future doctoral thesis, should the student be admitted to the

doctoral program.

There is no guarantee that graduates from the Research Master Program in

Economics will be admitted to the doctoral program but those who are will typically

be allowed to transfer credits amounting to at least one year of full time studies to the

doctoral program. After having completed the program, the student may apply for a

Master’s Degree in Economics.

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The department today – PhD program

General

The PhD program at Stockholm University is organized by the Department of

Economics (DE). This program is run in cooperation with the Institute for

International Economic Studies (IIES) and the Swedish Institute of Social Research

(SOFI). The board consists of Professor Jonas Häckner (DE), Professor Jakob

Svensson (IIES) and Professor Eskil Wadensjö (SOFI). Professor Peter Fredriksson

(DE) is Director of Graduate Studies and Assistent Professor Heléne Lundqvist is

Assistent Director of Graduate Studies.

Degrees

The program primarily targets students wishing to obtain a PhD Degree (Fil dr).

The doctoral program requires approximately two years of course work and two years

of thesis work. Students are also encouraged to take a Licentiate Degree (Fil lic) as an

intermediate step on their way to the Ph.D. The Licentiate Degree requires somewhat

more than one year of course work and somewhat less than one year of thesis work.

Admission

Each fall, 8-15 students are admitted to a four-year, full-time program in English.

The deadline for applications is February 1. The formal requirements are specified at

our home page www.ne.su.se. Applicants with non-Swedish degrees are strongly

encouraged to take the Graduate Record Examination, GRE (General Test). Applicants

who do not have Swedish or English as their native language must show proficiency in

English to be considered for admission. We recommend such applicants to take the

“Test of English as a Foreign Language” (TOEFL).

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Financing

There are no tuition fees; funding is provided by Stockholm University in various

forms (tax-free stipends, taxable stipends or time-limited employment at the

university) and from external sources.

Courses

The first year of the program consists of compulsory courses (mathematics,

econometrics, microeconomics and macroeconomics). The second year consists of

elective courses. The third and fourth years are devoted to dissertation work. The

course program is part of the Stockholm Doctoral Program in Economics,

Econometrics and Finance (SDPE), organized jointly with the Stockholm School of

Economics.

Thesis

A Ph.D. thesis typically consists of 2.5 papers and a Ph.L. thesis of 1-2 papers

where a paper written together with another person counts as 0.5. Note that this is a

rule of thumb; the collegiate always decides on whether a thesis proposal satisfies the

quality standards of the department. There is no requirement that the essays should be

in the same area. All essays should be of such quality that they can be published in a

refereed journal. A single-authored paper is recommended.

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The department today −−−− research overview

Research at the Department of Economics is largely within the following areas: labor

economics with unemployment, labor market institutions, economics of crime and

social insurance, public economics with political economy and social norms, industrial

organization and competition policy, economic growth with international trade and

economic geography. Additional fields are the history of economic analysis, economic

psychology and experimental economics. In 2010 the Faculty of Social Sciences at

Stockholm University appointed a research project in the department to a Research

Program of Excellence. The project, Evaluation of Public Policy, engages 11

researchers today.

The department organizes a weekly higher seminar where, in addition to

presentations by invited guests, thesis manuscripts are discussed and licentiate theses

are publicly examined and defended. There is also a weekly workshop where ongoing

research at the department is presented. In addition, there are public examinations and

defenses of Ph.D. theses. Research at the department is documented in our Working

Papers in Economics Series and theses in our Dissertations in Economics Series (see

www.ne.su.se/research).

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Publications in print 2012 Anne Boschini

1. “Constructing Gender Differences in the Economics Lab”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012), 741–752 (with Astri Muren and Mats Persson). Mathias Ekström 1. “Do Watching Eyes Affect Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Field Experiment”, Experimental Economics 15 (2012), 530-546. The presence of implicit observation cues, such as picture of eyes, has been shown to increase generosity in dictator games, and cooperative behavior in field settings. This paper reports results from an experiment, conducted in a Swedish supermarket chain, where customers face a naturally occurring decision problem. People who recycle cans and bottles have to choose whether to keep the recycled amount or donate it to a charity organization. I post a picture of human eyes on recycling machines to test if this generates an increase in donations to the charity. I find no general effect, however, the picture of eyes increased donated amount by 30 percent during days when relatively few other people visited the store. Lennart Erixon 1. “Can Austerity be Expansionary in Present-Day Europe?”, Report from College of Europe Foundation November 23 2012, Brussels 2012. www.madariaga.org. 2. “Gösta Rehn (1913-1996) – en otålig samhällsreformator”, Ekonomisk Debatt 40 (2012), 71-82 (with Eskil Wadensjö). Martin Flodén 1. ”Enkla regler, svåra tider - behöver stabiliseringspolitiken förändras?”, SNS Konjunkturrådsrapport 2012, SNS förlag, (with Anna Larsson, Morten Ravn and Anders Vredin).

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Rikard Forslid 1. “On the Development strategy of Countries of Intermediate size – An Analysis of Heterogeneous Firms in a Multi-Region Framework", European Economic Review 56 (2012), 747-756 (with Toshihiro Okubo).

Peter Fredriksson 1. “Estimating Preferences for Local Public Services using Migration Data”, Urban Studies

49 (2012), 319–336 (with Matz Dahlberg, Matias Eklöf, and Jordi Jofre Monseny). 2. “Economics of Education: Policies and Effects”, Nordic Economic Policy Review 3 (no. 1)

(2012), 1–15 (with Anders Björklund). Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich 1. “Gender and Ethnic Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market of Stockholm: A Field Experiment”, Applied Economics Letters 19 (2012), 1-5 (with Ragnar Bengtsson and Ellis Iverman). In this article we use of a field experiment to measure discrimination in the housing market of Stockholm. Four fictitious persons, two men and two women, with distinct sounding Arabic or Swedish names are randomly assigned to vacant apartments. We extend the study by Ahmed and Hammarstedt (2008). There are two new results. First, we provide evidence that there is no or little gender premium for the Arabic named female, suggesting that ethnic discrimination dominates gender effects. Second, discriminatory behavior is only found in the suburbs or satellite cities/towns of Stockholm County not in the densely populated, rich, and more homogenous city center.

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Jonas Häckner 1. “Every Viewer Has a Price – on the Differentiation of TV Channels”, Journal of Media Economics 25 (2012), 220-243 (with Sten Nyberg). We analyze the implications of targeted advertising on the equilibrium level of channel profile differentiation, e.g. in terms of political positioning, in free-to air broadcasting industry. When consumers have no preferences over program content (e.g., entertainment vs news) standard Hotelling type results apply. Market forces minimize differentiation while the optimal degree is at an intermediate level. As preferences over program content get somewhat stronger the difference between optimal and market outcomes is initially reduced. However, when preferences over program content get more pronounced, minimal differentiation suddenly becomes optimal while market forces leads to excessive differentiation. Hence, policies aimed at increasing diversity are beneficial only when viewers care little about differences in program content.

Anna Larsson Seim

1. “Fiscal Activism under Inflation Targeting and Non-Atomistic Wage Setting”, Economica, 79 (2012), 97-114

2. Enkla regler, svåra tider – behöver stabiliseringspolitiken förändras?, SNS Konjunkturrådsrapport 2012, SNS (with Anders Vredin, Martin Flodén and Morten O. Ravn). Bo Larsson 1. ”To Share or Not to Share – That’s the Question”, in Robert Holzmann, Edward Palmer and David Robalino (eds.) NDC Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World, Volume 2: Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability, Chapter 2. Washington D.C.: The World Bank & Swedish Social Insurance Agency, 2012 (together with Anna Klerby and Edward Palmer).

Heléne Lundqvist 1. “Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution”, Journal of Political Economy 120 (2012), 41-76 (with Matz Dahlberg and Karin Edmark). This paper investigates the causal link between the ethnic diversity in a society and its inhabitants’ preferences for redistribution. We exploit exogenous variation in immigrant shares stemming from a nationwide program placing refugees in municipalities throughout Sweden during 1985—94, and match data on refugee placement to panel survey data on inhabitants of the receiving municipalities. We find significant, negative effects of increased immigration on the support for redistribution. The effect is especially pronounced among high-income earners. We also establish that estimates from earlier studies failing to identify causal effects are likely to be positively biased (i.e., less negative).

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Astri Muren

1. “Constructing Gender in the Economics Lab”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 84 (2012), 741-752 (with Anne Boschini and Mats Persson).

2. “Optimistic Behavior When a Decision Bias is Costly: An Experimental Test”, Economic Inquiry 50 (2012), 463-469.

3. “Vad göra med vinster i vård och omsorg?” (ledare), Ekonomisk Debatt 40 (2012), 3-4. Lena Nekby 1. "Comment on Bratsberg, Raaum and Røed: Educating Children of Immigrants: Closing the Gap in Norwegian schools", Nordic Economic Policy Review. Economics of Education 3 (2012), No. 1, 253-260. Sten Nyberg 1. “Every Viewer Has a Price – on the Differentiation of TV Channels”, Journal of Media Economics 25 (2012), 220-243 (with Jonas Häckner). Per Pettersson-Lidbom 1. "Does the Size of the Legislature Affect the Size of Government: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments," Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012), 269-278. Nicholas Sheard 1. “Regional policy in a Multiregional Setting: When the Poorest are Hurt by Subsidies”, Review of World Economics 148 (2012), 403–423. Jonas Vlachos 1. “Är konkurrens och vinst en bra modell för skolan?”, Ekonomisk Debatt 4 (2012), 16-30. Skolan är svårstyrd och framgångsrika skolsystem bygger på en hög grad av professionell autonomi. Sådan autonomi öppnar dock för missbruk som konkurrens och valfrihet på grund av informationsproblem och skolans uttalade samhällsmål knappast kan motverka. En neutral

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hållning inför utförarens motiv ökar därför behovet av en hårt reglerad och standardiserad skola. Detta löper stor risk att både sänka kvaliteten och minska den faktiska valfriheten. Det kan därför vara önskvärt att styra mot skolägare som primärt är kvalitets- snarare än vinstmotiverade. Yves Zenou 1. “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital”, Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012), 890-903 (with Jackline Wahba).

2. “Urban Crime and Ethnicity”, Review of Network Economics 11 (2012), 1-30 (with Eleonora Patacchini).

3. “Cultural Transmission and Discrimination”, Journal of Urban Economics 72 (2012), 137-146 (with Maria Saez-Marti).

4. “Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes”, Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012), 938-949 (with Eleonora Patacchini).

5. “Networks in Economics”, in J.D. Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, Amsterdam, Elsevier Publisher, 2012.

6. “Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism”, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 28 (2012), 1-31 (with Eleonora Patacchini).

7. “Urban Villages and Housing Values in China”, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 42 (2012), 495-505 (with Yan Song).

8. “Nystartszoner: Den ekonomiska synvinkel”, in A. Bergh (ed.), Antologi om nystartszoner, Stockholm, FORES, 2012, 25-37.

9. “Städer, tjänster and tillväxt”, in H. Jordahl (ed), Den svenska tjänstesektorn, Stockholm, Studentlitteratur, 2012, 69-92 (with Mikael Stenkula).

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Forthcoming publications including online versions of forthcoming articles Mahmood Arai 1. “Children’s First Names, Religiosity and Immigration Background in France in International Migration”, International Migration, forthcoming (with Damien Besancenot, Kim Huynh and Ali Skalli). DOI: 10.1111/imig.12010. Anne Boschini 1. “The Resource Curse and its Potential Reversal”, World Development, forthcoming (with Jan Pettersson and Jesper Roine). Pedro Brinca Soares 1. “Consumer Confidence as a Predictor of Consumption Spending: Evidence for the United States and Euro Area”, International Economics, forthcoming (with Stephane Dees). For most academics and policy makers, the depth of the 2008-09 financial crisis, its longevity and its impacts on the real economy resulted from an erosion of confidence. This paper proposes to assess empirically the link between consumer sentiment and consumption expenditures for the United States and the euro area. It shows under which circumstances confidence indicators can be a good predictor of household consumption even after controlling for information in economic fundamentals. Overall, the results show that, the consumer confidence index can be in certain circumstances a good predictor of consumption. In particular, out-of-sample evidence shows that the contribution of confidence in explaining consumption expenditures increases when household survey indicators feature large changes, so that confidence indicators can have some increasing predictive power during such episodes. Moreover, there is some evidence of a "confidence channel" in the international transmission of shock, as U.S. confidence indices help predicting consumer sentiment in the euro area.”

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Martin Flodén 1. “A Role Model for the Conduct of Fiscal Policy? Experiences from Sweden”, Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming. Peter Fredriksson 1. “Long-Term Effects of Class Size”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming (with Björn Öckert and Hessel Oosterbeek). Anna Larsson Seim 1. “Testing the Impact of Inflation Targeting and Central Bank Independence on Labour Market Outcomes”, Oxford Economic Papers, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1093/oep/gps029. 2. “Pattern Bargaining and Wage Leadership in a Small Open Economy”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming (with Lars Calmfors). Astri Muren 1. “Optimistic Behavior When a Decision Bias is Costly: An Experimental Test”, Economic Inquiry, forthcoming. Lena Nekby 1. “Intensive Coaching of New Immigrants: An Evaluation Based on Random Program Assignment”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming (with Pernilla Andersson Joona). 2. “Same, Same But (Initially) Different? The Social Integration of Natives and Immigrants in Sweden”, in Yann Algan, Alberto Bisin, Alan Manning and Thierry Verdier (eds.) Cultural Integration Models in Europe, Oxford Economic Press, forthcoming. Sten Nyberg 1. ”Price Squeeze Absent a Duty to Deal – What is the Relevant Counterfactual?”, in Hans-Henrik Lidgard (ed), Competition Dynamics, 2012 (with Martin Mandorff). Per Pettersson-Lidbom 1. “Temporary Disability Insurance and Labour Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming (with Peter Skogman Thoursie).

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Mikael Priks 1. “What Works in Reducing Hooliganism”, in Philip Cook, Steve Machin, Marie Olivier and Giovanni Mastrobuani (eds.), Lessons from the Economics of Crime: What Works in Reducing Offending? , MIT Press, forthcoming. Peter Skogman Thoursie 1. “Temporary Disability Insurance and Labour Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming (with Per Pettersson-Lidbom). Johan Söderberg 1. “Non-Uniform Staggered Prices and Output Persistence”, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming. Roine Vestman 1. “Judging the Quality of Survey Data by Comparison with 'Truth' as Measured by Administrative Records: Evidence from Sweden”, in Christopher Carroll, Thomas Crossley, John Sabelhaus (eds.) Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures, NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press (with Ralph S. J. Koijen and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh). Jonas Vlachos 1. “Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, forthcoming (with Fredrik Heyman and Helena Svaleryd). Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are related to the gender composition of the firm's workforce and the gender wage gap. Using a difference-in-difference framework and dealing with several endogeneity concerns, we find that the share of female employees increases as a result of an ownership change, in particular when product market competition is weak. Further, increased competition reduces the gender wage gap, especially among highly educated employees. While the estimated wage effect is quite small, the results support the main theoretical predictions Yves Zenou 1. “International Migration, Imperfect Information, and Brain Drain”, Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming (with Vianney.Dequiedt).

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Unpublished work including working papers Audinga Baltrunaite 1. “Gender Quotas and the Quality of Politicians”, CESifo Working Paper Series No 3734 (with Piera Bello, Alessandra Casarico and Paola Profeta). Pedro Brinca Soares 1. “Monetary Business Cycle Accounting for Sweden”. Maria Cheung 1. “Edutainment Radio, Women's Status and Primary School Participation: Evidence from Cambodia”, Research Papers in Economics No 2012:5, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2012.

2. “The Impact of a Food for Education Program on Schooling in Cambodia” (with Maria Perrotta).

3. “Who Benefits from Reduced Cost of Education? Evidence from an Experiment in Cambodia” (with Andreas Madestam and Jakob Svensson).

Johan Egebark 1. “Like What You Like or Like What Others Like? Conformity and Peer Effects on Facebook” (with Mathias Ekström). 2. “Is Liking Contagious?” (with Mathias Ekström).

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Mathias Ekström 1. “Like What You Like or Like What Others Like? Conformity and Peer Effects on Facebook” (with Johan Egebark). 2. “Is Liking Contagious?” (with Johan Egebark). Lennart Erixon 1. “Are High Profits Detrimental to Industrial Renewal? Experimental Evidence for the Theory of Transformation Pressure” (with Louise Johannesson).

2. “Formalizing a New Approach to Economic Policy – Bent Hansen, Gösta Rehn and the Swedish Model”.

3. “A Darwinian Theory of Transformation Pressure – The Stimuli of Negative Shocks for the Productivity and Renewal in Established Firms”.

Rikard Forslid 1. “International Trade, CO2 Emissions and Heterogeneous Firms”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 8583 (with Toshihiro Okubo and Karen-Helene Ulltveit-Moe). Peter Fredriksson 1. “Life-Cycle Effects of Age at School Start” (with Björn Öckert). Erik Grape 1. “Short-Time Work Schemes in Search Equilibrium” (with Ann-Sofie Kolm). Mathias Herzing 1. “When Do Firms Break the Law in Order to Reduce Marginal Cost? - An Application to the Problem of Environmental Inspection”, Research Papers in Economics No 2012:11, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2012 (with Jonas Häckner). Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich 1. “Democracy, Redistribution, and Political Participation: Evidence from Sweden 1919-1938” (with Per Pettersson-Lidbom). 2. “Do Parties Matter in Very Small Local Governments? “.

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3. “Ethnic Discrimination in High School Grading: Evidence from a Field Experiment” (with Erik Höglin and Magnus Johannesson). 4. “Do Participatory Democratic Institutions Engender Civic Engagement? Quasi-Experimental Evidence” (with Per Pettersson-Lidbom and Kåre Vernby). Jonas Häckner 1. “Counterfeiting and Consumption Externalities – A Closer Look”, Research Papers in Economics No 2012:2, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2012 (with Astri Muren). 2. “When Do Firms Break the Law in Order to Reduce Marginal Cost? - An Application to the problem of Environmental Inspection”, Research Papers in Economics No 2012:11, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2012 (with Mathias Herzing). Adam Jacobsson 1. “The Impact of Market Competition on Journalistic Performance” (with Eva-Maria Jacobsson, Lee Becker, Tudor Vlad and C. Ann Hollifield). Jens Josephson

1.” Credit Ratings and Security Design” (with Joel D. Shapiro).

Peter Langenius 1. “Conducting Monetary Policy by Managing Private-Sector Expectations: A Welfare Analysis of Central Bank Transparency”. 2. “A New Keynesian Phillips Curve on Time Scales”. 3. “Monetary Models on Time Scales” (with Petr Stehlik). 4. “Information, Time and Transparency: A Trinity in a Monetary Policy Modelling”.

Anna Larsson

1. “Democracy as a Middle Ground: A Unified Theory of Development and Political Regimes” (with Stephen L. Parente).

2. “The Global Arms Trade Network 1950-2007” (with Anders Åkerman).

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3. “Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites” (with Anders Akerman and Alireza Naghavi).

Bo Larsson 1. “Banking on Regulations” (with Hans Wijkander). Heléne Lundqvist 1. “Is It Worth It? On the Returns to Holding Political Office”. 2. “Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Response” (with Matz Dahlberg and Karin Edmark). 3. “Granting Public or Private Consumption? Effects of Grants on Local Public Spending and Income Taxes”. 4. “Stimulating Local Public Employment: Do General Grants Work?” (with Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk). Andreas Madestam 1. "Children of the Pill: The Effect of Subsidizing Oral Contraceptives on Children's Health and Wellbeing" (with Emilia Simeonova). 2. “Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement” (with Daniel Shoag, Stan Veuger and David Yanagizawa-Drott). 3. “Gender Empowerment in 19th Century Sweden: Using Historical Trade Shocks to Assess the Effects of Women’s Economic Empowerment” (with Emilia Simeonova). 4. “Informal Finance: A Theory of Moneylenders”. 5.”Sex and Credit: Is there a Gender Bias in Lending?” (with Thorsten Beck and Patrick Behr). 6. “Shaping the Nation: The Effect of Fourth of July on Political Preferences and Behavior in the US” (with David Yanagizawa-Drott). 7. “The Social Costs of a Credit Monopoly”. 8. “Who Benefits from Free Education? Long-Term Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Cambodia” (with Maria Cheung and Jakob Svensson).

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Kiflu G. Molla 1. “The Role of Foreign Exchange Rates in Offshoring: Industry Level Evidence from Sweden”. Astri Muren 1. “Counterfeiting and Consumption Externalities – a Closer Look”, Research Papers in Economics No 2012:2, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2012 (with Jonas Häckner). Lena Nekby 1. “Revisiting the Relationship between Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution”, Research Papers in Economics No 2012:9, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2012 (with Per Petterson Lidbom). 2. “Examination Behavior – Gender Differences in Preferences?” (with Peter Skogman Thoursie and Lars Vahtrik). Sten Nyberg 1. “Welfare Cultures, Recessions and Unemployment Duration”. 2. “Public Order, Private Payments? Policing of Events with Externalities” (with Mikael Priks). Mårten Palme 1. “The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective”, Research Papers in Economics Working Paper No 2011:23, Department of Economics, Stockholm University (with Costas Meghir and Marieke Schnabel). 2. “Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden”, NBER Working Paper No 17054, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011 (with Lisa Laun and Ingemar Svensson). 3. “Transmission of Human Capital across Four Generations: Intergenerational Correlations and a Test of the Becker-Tomes Model”, Working Paper No 2011:18, Department of Economics, Uppsala University (with Mikael Lindahl, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren). 4. “Sickness Absence and Local Benefit Cultures”, IZA Discussion Paper No 6245 (with Assar Lindbeck and Mats Persson).

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5. “The Effect of Alcohol Availability on Crime and Health” (with Mikael Priks, Per Pettersson-Lidbom and Anders Anderson). Per Pettersson-Lidbom 1. “Democracy, Redistribution, and Political Participation: Evidence from Sweden 1919-1950” (with Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich). 2. “The Policy Consequences of Direct versus Representative Democracy: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach” (with Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich). 3. “The Policy Consequences of Direct versus Representative Democracy: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach” (with Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich ). 4. “The Effect of Alcohol Availability on Crime and Health” (with Mikael Priks, Mårten Palme and Anders Anderson). 5. “Culture, Fertility Choices, and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Swedish Administrative Data” (with Peter Skogman Thoursie). 6. “Do Participatory Democratic Institutions Engender Civic Engagement? Quasi-Experimental Evidence” (with Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich and Kåre Vernby). Mikael Priks 1. “The Effects of Surveillance Cameras in High-Crime Areas: Evidence from the Stockholm Subway”. 2. “Public Order, Private Payments?” (with Sten Nyberg). 3. “Social Pressure on the Soccer Field: Do Organized Home Supporters Generate the Home-Field Advantage?”. 4. “The Effect of Alcohol Availability on Crime and Health” (with Per Pettersson-Lidbom, Mårten Palme and Anders Anderson). 5. “Do Surveillance Cameras Affect Unruly Behavior? A Close Look at Grandstands”. 6. “Unemployment and Hooliganism”. Mark Sanctuary

1. “Border Carbon Adjustments” (Mark Sanctuary).

2. “What’s Holding it Back: A Study of Ecolabelling in the Retail Coffee Market” (with Richard Friberg).

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3. “Market Size, Intra-Industry Trade and Transboundary Pollution” (with Rikard Forslid and Toshihiro Okubo).

4. “How do Firm Imports Respond to a Domestic Cost Shock?” (with Shon Fergusson).

Claes-Henrik Siven

1. “Is Capital Punishment Optimal? A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Becker Problem” (with Mats Persson). 2. “Marginal Deterrence in a General Equilibrium Model of Crime and Punishment “. Nicholas Sheard 1. “Learning to Export and the Timing of Entry to Export Markets”, Research Papers in Economics No 2011:17, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2012. 2. “Airports and the Production of Goods and Services”, Research Papers in Economics No 2012:7, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2012. Peter Skogman Thoursie 1. “Culture, Fertility Choices, and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Swedish Administrative Data (with Per Pettersson-Lidbom). 2. “Does Privatization of Vocational Rehabilitation Improve Labour Market Opportunities? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden” (with Lisa Jönsson). 3. “Missing the Mark? Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Quizzes, Exams and Grades” (with Lena Nekby and Lars Vahtrik). 4. “Temporary Disability Insurance and Spousal Labor Supply” (with Martin Olsson). 5. “Gender Division of Parental Leave and Labour Market Outcomes – Long- and Short Run Evidence from Three Swedish Reforms” (with Erica Lindahl and Arizo Karimi). Eric Sjöberg 1. “Political Influence on Environmental Sanction Charges in Swedish Municipalities”, Research Papers in Economics No 2012:6, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2012. 2. “Pricing on the Fish Market – Does Size Matter?”. 3. ”Preserving the Cake – The Role of Information in a Bargaining and Contest Setting”.

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Johan Söderberg 1. “Do Sticky Prices Make Sense” (with Nils Gottfries). 2. “Non-Continuous Wage Indexation: Monetary Policy and Welfare”. Roine Vestman 1. “Limited Stock Market Participation Among Renters and Home Owners”, SSRN Working Paper No 1573181. Jonas Vlachos 1. “One Size Fits All. The Effects of Teacher Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities on Student Achievement” (with Erik Grönqvist). 2. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities” (with Erik Grönqvist and Björn Öckert). Emma von Essen 1. “A Matter of Anonymity: Discrimination by Gender and Foreignness in Online Trust and Reciprocity” (with Jonas Karlsson). Lars Vahtrik 1. “Missing the Mark? Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Quizzes, Exams and Grades” (with Lena Nekby and Peter Skogman Thoursie). Wei Xiao 1. “Unemployment and Housing in Cities: Theory and Policies”. 2. “Employer-Provided Pension and Industrial Agglomeration: Evidence from China”. Yves Zenou

1. “Friendship Formation, Oppositional Identity, and Segregation”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 7566 (with Joan de Marti). 2. “Key Player Policies when Contextual Effects Matter”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 8806 (with Coralio Ballester).

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3. “Nestedness in Networks: A Theoretical Model and Some Applications” (with Michael König and Claudio Tessone).

4. “Criminal Networks: Who is the Key Player?”, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 8772 (with Liu Xiaodong, Eleonora Patacchini, and Lee Lung-Fei).

5. “Systemic Risk and Network Formation in the Internbank Market”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 8332 (with Ethan Cohen-Cole and Eleonora Patacchini). 6. “Multivariate Choice and Identification of Social Interactions” (with Ethan Cohen-Cole and Liu Xiaodong).

7. “The Role of Social Networks and Peer Effects in Education Transmission”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 8932 (wih Sebastian, Bervoets and Antoni Calvó-Armengol).

8. “Social Networks and Interactions in Cities”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 8244 (with Robert Helsley).

9. “Student Networks and Long-Run Educational Outcomes: The Strength of Strong Ties”, Revised version of the CEPR Discussion Paper No 8223 (with Eleonora Patacchini and Edoardo Rainone).

10. “Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 8443 (with Eleonora Patacchini).

11. “Peer Effects in Education, Sport and Screen Activities. Local Aggregate or Local Average?”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 8477 (with Xiaodong Liu and Eleonora Patacchini). 12. “Bend It Like Beckham. Ethnic Identity and Integration”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 8054 (with Alberto Bisin, Eleonora Patacchini and Thierry Verdier). 13. “Discrimination and Labor-Market Outcomes of Homosexuals and Individuals with Certain Observable Characteristics” (with Eleonora Patacchini and Giuseppe Ragusa). 14. “Education Policies when Networks Matter” (with Coralio Ballester and Antoni Calvó-Armengol).

15. “Explaining the Black/White Employment Gap: The Role of Weak Ties”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 8582.

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Anders Åkerman 1. “Sources of Wage Inequality” (with Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Marc Muendler and Stephen Redding). 2. “Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites” (with Anna Larsson and Alireza Naghavi). 3. “The Effect of Intra-Industry Trade on Aggregate Productivity: Is There a Bridge between Theory and Data in Oresund?”. 4. “Country Size, Productivity and Trade Share Convergence: An Analysis of Heterogenous Firms and Country Size Dependent Beachhead Costs”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 6545 (with Rikard Forslid and Toshihiro Okubo).

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Participation in conferences Audinga Baltrunaite 1. The 26th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, Bern, June 20-23, 2012. Paper presented: “Gender Quotas and the Quality of Politicians”. 2. The 21st Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy, Pontresina, July 21-25, 2012. Paper presented: “Gender quotas and the quality of politicians”. Maria Cheung 1. CEPR/AMID (Centre for Economic Policy and Research) Development Economics Conference, Bocconi University, Milan. 8 June, 2012. Paper presented: “Edutainment Radio, Women's Status and Primary School Participation: Evidence from Cambodia”.

2. IAFFE (International Association for Feminist Economics) 2012 Annual Conference, University of Barcelona, Spain. 28 June, 2012. Paper presented: “Edutainment Radio, Women's Status and Primary School Participation: Evidence from Cambodia”.

3. 3rd National Conference of Swedish Economists, Stockholm, Sweden, 27 September 2012. Poster presented: “Edutainment Radio, Women's Status and Primary School Participation: Evidence from Cambodia”.

4. 11th EUDN (European Development Research Network) PhD Workshop on Development Economics, Toulouse, October, 2012. Paper presented: “Edutainment Radio, Women's Status and Primary School Participation: Evidence from Cambodia”.

Johan Egebark 1. 24th Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economist, Bonn, Germany. 2. 3rd National Conference of Swedish Economists, Stockholm, Sweden, 27 September 2012.

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Lennart Erixon 1. Conference for Centre for Economic Development Research (Wuhan University), Department of Economics, Stockholm University, May 21, 2012. Speech: The Definition and Performance of the Swedish Model. 2. The 4th Stockholm Forum, on Crisis, Challenges and New Visions of the Swedish Welfare Model, the Almedalen Week Visby, July 2, 2012. Speech: “Where is the Swedish Welfare State Headed? Challenges and New Horizons”. 3. The 12th Nordic Research Meeting on the History of Economic Thought, Kristiansand (Norway), August 24-25, 2012. Paper presented: Gösta Rehn – den otålige samhällsreformatorn (tillsammans med Eskil Wadensjö). 4. Meeting at Madariaga College of Europe Foundation, Brussels, Belgium, November 23, 2012. Paper presented: “Can Austerity be Expansionary in Present-Day Europe”. Rikard Forslid 1. ERWIT, Barcelona, June, 2012 2. GIST, Stockholm, May, 2012 3. Nations and Regions after the Great Recession, IHS, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, December, 2012. 4. Trade and the Environment, CEPREMAP in Paris, November, 2012. Peter Fredriksson 1. SUNSTRAT Workshop on Education and Inequality, Stockholm, April, 2012. Paper presented: “Inside the Black Box of Class Size Effects”. 2. Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics, Bergen, June, 2012. Paper presented: “How Does the Skill Composition of the Unemployed Vary with the Business Cycle?”. 3. Bergen-Stavanger Workshop on Labour Markets, Families and Children, Bergen, June, 2012. Paper presented: “Inside the Black Box of Class Size Effects”. Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich 1. Festschrift Conference for Professor Martin Paldam, Århus University. Paper presented: “Do Participatory Democratic Institutions Engender Civic Engagement? Quasi-Experimental Evidence”.

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Adam Jacobsson 1. The Swedish Association of Environmental Health Professionals Congress, Stockholm, June 12, 2012. Anna Larsson Seim

1. Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade (DEGIT) XVII, Milan, September 13-14, 2012. Paper presented: “The Global Arms Trade Network 1950-2007”. Heléne Lundqvist 1. ESF Exploratory Workshop on Fiscal Policy at the Regional Level and Intergovernmental Relations, Barcelona, Spain, April. 2012. Paper presented: “Stimulating Local Public Employment: Do General Grants Work?”. 2. The 27th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Malaga, Spain, August. 2012. Paper presented: “Is It Worth It? On the Returns to Holding Political Office”. 3. The 68th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Dresden, Germany, August, 2012. Paper presented: “Is It Worth It? On the Returns to Holding Political Office”. 4. The CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, Munich, Germany, April ,2012. Paper presented: “Is It Worth It? On the Returns to Holding Political Office”. Andreas Madestam 1. The Graduate Institute of Geneva, Geneva, November, 2012). Paper presented: “Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement”. 2. Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Stockholm, December, 2012. Paper presented: “Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement”: 3. European Development Research Network Conference, Paris, March, 2012. Paper presented: “Sex and Credit: Is There a Gender Bias in Lending?”. 4. Development Workshop Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (September, 2012). Paper presented: “Sex and Credit: Is There a Gender Bias in Lending?”. 5. Development Economics CEPR/AMID CONFERENCE, Bocconi University, Milan, June, 2012.

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Lena Nekby 1. Uppsala Center for Labor Studies Mini Workshop on Family Economics, Faro Portugal, 16-17 April, 2012. Paper presented: 2Spousal Joint Retirement: A Reform Based Approach to Identifying Spillover Effects”. Sten Nyberg 1. Network Conference, Nordic Academic Competition Law, Lund. Mikael Priks 1. CESifo Conference on Labor and Social Protection, München,. Paper presented: “Public Order, Private Payments”.

Mark Sanctuary

1. EAERE Prague June 2012. Paper presented: “Border Carbon Adjustments”.

2. Environmental Economics Workshop, Lillehammer, Norway, 2012. Paper presented: “Border Carbon Adjustments”.

3. EEA Malaga, 2012. Paper presented: “Border Carbon Adjustments”.

Nicholas Sheard 1. Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 11 – 13 May, 2012. Paper presented: “Learning to Export and the Timing of Entry to Export Markets”. 2. Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference, Calgary, Canada, 7 – 10 June, 2012. Paper presented: “Airports and the Production of Goods and Services”. 3. Urban Economics Association European Meeting, Bratislava, Slovakia, 21 – 25 August, 2012. Paper presented: “Airports and the Production of Goods and Services”. 4. European Economics Association Congress, Malaga, Spain, 27 – 31 August, 2012. Paper presented: “Learning to Export and the Timing of Entry to Export Markets”. 5. Urban Economics Association North American Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 7 – 10 November, 2012. Paper presented: “Airports and the Production of Goods and Services”.

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Eric Sjöberg 1. Jamboree Enter, Barcelona, 10-11 February, 2012. 2. EALE 2012, European Association of Law and Economics, Stockholm September 20-22, 2012. Paper presented: “Political Influence on Environmental Sanction Charges in Swedish Municipalities”.

3. 3rd National Conference of Swedish Economists, Stockholm, Sweden, 27-28 September 2012. Paper presented: “Political Influence on Environmental Sanction Charges in Swedish Municipalities”. Peter Skogman Thoursie 1. Workshop on Family Economics, Faro (Tavira), Portugal, 2012. Nessa Sternbeck Fryxell 1. National PhD Workshop in Finance, Swedish House of Finance, Stockholm 22-23 October, 2012. 2. Young Scholars Nordic Finance Workshop, Swedish House of Finance, Stockholm, November 27-28, 2012.

Roine Vestman 1. Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI-AFFI, Limited Stock Market Participation Among Renters and Home Owners, Paris, December, 2012. 1. SIFR Conference on Real Estate and Mortgage Finance, 2012. 2. Young Scholar Nordic Finance Workshop, 2012. 3. NBER Conference on Household Finance, CFS-EIEF, Oxford Saïd. 4. SIFR/SSE Asset Pricing Brown Bag Series. Paper presented: “The Effect of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills on Investment Behavior”. Jonas Vlachos 1. EALE, Bonn September, 2012, Paper presented: “Firms and Skills”.

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Emma von Essen 1. PhD workshop in experimental economics, Bergen, Norway, January, 2012. 2. Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, May, 2012. 3. 7th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Bergen, Norway, October, 2012. Linnea Wickström Östervall 1. 7th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, 28-29 September, 2012. Paper presented: “Behavioral Effects in Antibiotics use: Can Reminders in the Waiting Room Help Curb a Growing Health Threat?”. Wei Xiao 1. 2012 RSAI, Ottawa, Nov 7-11, 2012. Paper presented: “Labor Market Institutions, Search Frictions, and Labor Mobility in Developing Countries”. Yves Zenou 1. ISER, University of Essex, Seminar, Colchester, UK, January 16, 2012. Monash University, Departmental seminar, Melbourne, Australia, 14 March, 2012. 2. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Seminar, Melbourne, Australia, 21 March, 2012. 3. University Pompeu Fabra, Departmental Seminar, Barcelona, Spain, 19 April, 2012. 4. MOVE Workshop on Social Economics, Barcelona, Spain, 20-21April, 2012. 5. Conference on the Economics of Interactions and Culture, Rome, Italy, 27-28 April, 2012. 6. Workshop on: “The Economics of Coordination and Communication”, Ravello, Italy, 1-3 June, 2012. 7. Departmental seminar, Rotterdam University, 11June, 2012. 8. Departmental seminar, University of Zurich, 4 October, 2012. 9. Departmental Seminar, University of Helsinki, 5 October, 2012.

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10. The 59th Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, Ottawa, Canada, November 8-10, 2012.

Anders Åkerman 1. Seminar presentation at the London School of Economics, Department of Economics, October, 2012. 2. Nordic International Trade Study Group, Reykjavik, Iceland, May, 2012.

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Current research projects Annika Alexius 1. House Prices and the Equity Premium – a Cointegration Analysis We investigate whether including house prices and wages in the portfolio choice of households can solve the equity risk premium when estimated long-run relationships between the variables are taken into account Jakob Almerud 1. Relating Stock-market Bubbles to the Labour Market Mahmood Arai 1. Selection into Active Labor Market Programs- The Importance of Looks, Speech and Motivation (with Magnus Rödin and Gülay Özcan) A general problem in assessing the impact of active labor market programs is that individuals who participate in a specific program might differ in several characteristics from those who do not participate. Many of these differences are not observable by the researchers. Using laboratory experiment setup involving a random sample of the Swedish Public Employment Service offices and job seekers at the employment service offices, we try to explore the selection of job seekers into active labor market programs based on characteristics such as looks, speech and motivation. Audinga Baltrunaite 1. Female Labour Market Discrimination and Marriage

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Anne Boschini 1. Economic Development, Institutions and Natural Resources (with Charlotta Boström, Jan Pettersson, Jesper Roine and Daniel Spiro) 2. Group and Gender Differences in Experimental Economics (with Astri Muren and Mats Persson) 3. Preferences under Conflict – Field Experiments in DR Congo (with Maria Cheung and Linnea Wickström-Östervall) 4. A Randomized Impact Evalution of a Micro-credit Project in Kivu, Eastern DR Congo (with Maria Cheung and Linnea Wickström-Östervall) 5. Gender Differences in Economic Preferences in a Representative Sample of the Swedish Population (with Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen, Astri Muren and Eva Ranehill) 6. The Quiet Revolution and the Fertility Patterns, Educational Choices and Careers of Swedish Men and Women (with Christina Håkanson, Anna Sjögren and Åsa Rosen) Charlotta Boström 1. The Effect of Decentralized Democratization on the Well-Being of Citizens (with Linnea Wickström Östervall) The aim is to study the effect of decentralized democratization on infant and child mortality and in a first step use a constitutional reform in India for identification. We will explore whether decentralized democratization reduces the probability of dying as a child, and evaluate some potential mechanisms. 2. The Economic Burden of Antibiotic Resistance in Sweden (with Linnea Wickström Östervall) In a first step we calculate the costs of infections caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotics in Sweden for one year. 3. Hunger and Decision-Making: Is an Empty Stomach a Bad Advisor? (with Emma von Essen and Linnea Wickström Östervall) 4. Long Term Effects of School Reforms (with Peter Fredriksson and Björn Öckert) In the 1990s there was extensive reform of the Swedish schooling system. One of these reforms implied an increase of the graduation hurdle. We look at the consequences of this reform. In particular we examine how the reform affected the graduation rate, cognitive ability, and earnings. Maria Cheung 1. Does Female Education Postpone Fertility? Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Cambodia

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This paper investigates whether increased female education leads to a postponement of early fertility. I base the evidence on a policy experiment in Cambodia, used as an instrument for education, which increased sharply the education of affected cohorts of women belonging to the upper income quintiles, but not of those belonging to the lower quintiles. Exploiting differences in fee exposure by provinces, age and time, the paper presents reduced form and instrumental variable estimates. I find that groups that experienced a higher level of female education were more prone to postpone the number of early births. The paper also discusses some potential mechanisms to explain the findings. 2. Trust and Preferences under Conflict – Results from Field Experiments in DR Congo (with Anne Boschini and Linnea Wickström Östervall) Johan Egebark 1. Do Payroll Tax Cuts Raise Youth Employment? (with Niklas Kaunitz) Utilizing two reforms in Sweden, we estimate the effects of payroll tax reductions on youth employment and wages. 2. Compulsory Military Service, Social Capital and Crime Making use of variation in military service participation across male cohorts in Sweden this project studies the effect of compulsory military service on social capital and crime. 3. How Did Firms Respond to the Payroll Tax Reduction for Youths? (with Peter Fredriksson and Niklas Kaunitz) We examine how firms responded to a payroll tax cut for youths. We study the responses along a variety of dimensions: wages and employment for the directly affected groups, profits and investments. The higher the share of the workforce within the right age range, the larger the subsidy. Within tightly defined industries and local labor markets, the age composition (and hence the size of this subsidy) should be as good as randomly assigned. 4. Power of Default in Printing (with Mathias Ekström) In a field experiment we study whether setting the default to duplex printing can save resources. Mathis Ekström 1. Using Defaults to Save Resources (with Johan Egebark) The tendency to stick to a default option has received a lot of attention in recent years. We investigate if the default printing mode (one-sided or double-sided) can affect the number of sheets printed. 2. The Unintended Consequences of Self-Scanning The degree of anonymity has been shown to affect a large number of outcomes in experimental settings. In this paper I study how a more anonymous shopping experience – a consequence of introducing the option of self-scanning – affects the consumption basket and charitable giving. Since self-scanning allows customers to “hide” their consumption basket for other customers in the check-out line as well as cashiers, I hypothesize that people who begin to self-scan, due to image motives, end up purchasing (i) less ecological products, (ii)

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more unhealthy products, (iii) more embarrassing products (condoms, incontinence protection, etc.), and (iv) give less money to charity. Lennart Erixon 1. Nordic Models Today (with e.g. Lars Mjøset, Ådne Cappelen, Juhana Vartrianen and Jørgen Goul Andersen) The work is conducted by economists and sociologists from the Nordic countries. The research group has made contributions to the literature on economic policy and structural changes in the Nordic countries since the early 1980s. The current phase of the project focuses on changes in the Nordic economies in light of globalisation, EU integration and new economic thinking in the 1990s and 2000s. 2. Is Industrial Renewal Hampered or Encouraged by High Profits? (with Louise Johannesson) The theory of transformation pressure maintains that productivity growth in the business sector is stimulated by a decline in profits. The aim of the project is to test central hypotheses about firm strategies in this theory and uncover the underlying psychological mechanisms. The conclusions were based on two role plays with students in economics, Stockholm University, acting as managers for an established company. Martin Flodén 1. Swedish Inflation and Inflation Expectations In this empirical project, I try to (i) understand how survey-based inflation expectations are formed and how they are related to inflation outcomes; and (ii) to examine what consequences the Riksbank’s undershooting of the inflation target has had on unemployment. 2. Income Uncertainty and Consumption Insurance This project tries to identify how household consumption typically responds to permanent and temporary earnings shocks. We examine methods to empirically identify the link between income shocks and consumption outcomes at the household level. Rikard Forslid 1. Studies of Swedish Companies in the World Market Using Micro Data The project aims to study how companies can adapt to different types of changing conditions in the global economy using detailed micro data for Swedish companies. The theoretical basis is new theories on international trade and direct investment, which explicitly take into account that firms are heterogeneous. The empirical basis is a comprehensive and detailed data set assembled by Statistics Sweden to fill the needs of the research under review. Key issues in the project are: (1) how have firms in a country outside EMU adapted to the introduction of the euro? (2) how do transaction costs and different types of fixed costs for entering foreign markets affect the companies’ trade and direct investment? (3) How does foreign direct investment influence firms' demand for workers with different skill and education levels?

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Peter Fredriksson 1. Inside the Black Box of Class Size Effects: Behavioral Responses to Class Size Variation (with Björn Öckert and Hessel Oosterbeek) What are the behavioral responses to class size variation? In this project we examine the responses of students, teachers and parents to exogenous class size variation in Swedish primary schools. 2. How Does the Skill Composition of the Unemployed Vary with the Business Cycle? (with Andreas Mueller and Björn Öckert) We examine how the skill composition of the unemployed changes in a downturn. If there is a shift towards the high-skilled during a recession, there is greater incentive for firms to post vacancies in a downturn which would dampen the effects of aggregate productivity shocks. 3. Long-Run Effects of Educational Interventions (with Per Pettersson Lidbom, Björn Öckert, Mårten Palme and Jonas Vlachos) We examine the long-run effects of various educational interventions. In particular we look at the effects of: extensions of compulsory schooling; class size changes; school starting age; and changes in the tracking age. 4. How Solid is the Evidence on Displacement Effects? Selection on Skills Prior to Plant Closure (with D. Seim) 5. Are Managers Paid for Luck? (with Lena Hensvik and Oskar Nordström Skans) 6. How Does a Declining Sequence of UI Replacement Rates Affect the Hazard to Employment? (with Helge Bennmarker) 7. The Devil is in the (Institutional) Detail: Sorting and the RD Design in a Public School System (with Björn Öckert and Hessel Oosterbeek) 8. “Manna from Heaven: How Did Firms Respond to the Payroll Tax Reduction for Youths?” (with Johan Egebark and Niklas Kaunitz) 9. The Supply of Skills to the Teacher Profession (with Erik Grönqvist, Björn Öckert and Jonas Vlachos) Montasser Ghachem 1. A Model for Learning in Finite Population While most of the research is interested in interactions (modelled with simultaneous move games) with population aggregate memory and infinite population; I analyze the interactions where agents act sequentially i.e. only one agent moves at a time; with local memory and finite population.

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Mathias Herzing 1. Efficient Environmental Inspections and Enforcement (with Adam Jacobsson, Jonas Häckner, Astri Muren and Eric Sjöberg). This multi-disciplinary research program is financed by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) for three years. It consists of three projects, addressing the methodology, the institutional framework and the measurement of environmental inspections. The central issue is how compliance with environmental legislation can be achieved. 2. Tax incidence under oligopoly (with Jonas Häckner) Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich 1. Tiebout Effects when Number of Jurisdictions is Changing (with Per Pettersson-Lidbom) 2. Policy Effects of Weighted Voting (with Per Pettersson-Lidbom) 3. Direct Democracy and Real Outcomes (with Per Pettersson-Lidbom 4. Extension of Franchise in Sweden (with Per Pettersson-Lidbom) 5. Discrimination in Swedish Schools: Evidence from Multiple Levels and Subjects (with Jonas Vlachos, Magnus Johannesson and Sandra Black) 6. Causes of Grade Inflation (with Jonas Vlachos, Magnus Johannesson and Sandra Black) 7. Casual Effects of Imprisonment: A Regression Discontinuity Design (with Per Pettersson-Lidbom and Mikael Priks) 8. Crime and Culture (with Per Pettersson-Lidbom and Mikael Priks) Jonas Häckner 1. Tax Incidence under Oligopoly (with Mathias Herzing) Adam Jacobsson 1. Efficient Environmental Inspections and Enforcement This multi-disciplinary research program is financed by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) for three and a half years (September 2009 – February 2013). It focuses on how compliance with environmental legislation is monitored by inspection authorities. 2. What is the Optimal Level of Media Competition for Media Performance? (with Lee B. Becker, C. Ann Hollifield, Eva-Maria Jacobsson and Tudor Vlad)

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The primary focus of the project is to analyse theoretically and empirically how media market concentration affects media performance in emerging media markets. Previous research has focused on highly consolidated (US and Western European) media markets and found a largely positive relationship between media competition and media performance. We investigate whether this relationship is valid in conditions of high to extreme media competition. 3. Freedom of the Press, Economic Development and Market Concentration (with Eva-Maria Jacobsson) Jens Josephson 1. Firm Debt Structure (joint with Bo Becker) The existing theoretical literature predicts that firms should be financed either via bank loans or bonds. We build a theoretical model trying to explain the observed combination of the two and then test this model using a comprehensive data set of OECD firms. 2. Credit Rating and Security Design (with Joel Shapiro) The credit rating agencies (CRAs) have widely been accused of contributing to the recent credit crunch by issuing upward biased ratings. We investigate theoretically the particular problem created by allowing CRA:s to participate in the design of new and complex securities. Ann-Sofie Kolm 1. Earned Income Tax Credits and Educational Attainment (with Mirco Tonin) 2. The Black Economy and Educational Choice (with Birthe Larsen) 3. Growth and Income Inequality (with Tomas Lindström) 4. Short-time Work Schemes in Search Equilibrium (with Erik Hedlin) Peter Langenius 1. Conducting Monetary policy by Managing Private-Sector Expectations: A Welfare Analysis of Central Bank Transparency In this paper I use a New Keynesian monetary model in which the central bank has only an expectations channel through which it can implement monetary policy. In this extremely expectations augmented economy both the central bank’s and society’s welfare increase with higher central bank transparency. 2. A New Keynesian Phillips Curve on Time Scales In this paper, I derive an optimal monetary policy rule for a New Keynesian Phillips curve on time scales. The rule is tested on data over Swedish forward interest rates. 3. Monetary Models on Time Scales (with Petr Stehlik)

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In this paper we unify three seemingly distinct models of aggregate supply (AS) relations into one model on time scales. The analysis is restricted to a deterministic environment, but consents to an analysis of heterogeneous (non constant) time steps. It is shown that the admission of non constant time intervals significantly improves the ability of the model to explain US post-war data. 4. Information, Time and Transparency: A Trinity in a Monetary Policy Modelling In this paper, central bank transparency is connected to the length of a period in the monetary policy model. Solving the central bank’s optimization problem one obtains an optimal period length which is shown to be related to the transparency level. Anna Larsson Seim 1. The Role of Absorptive Capacity in Convergence Clubs Formation (with Chih Ming Tan) We estimate heterogeneous growth processes in a setting where the sorting into growth regimes is endogenous and based on each country’s absorptive capacity. Using a large panel of countries over the period 1980-1999, we assess the importance of domestic R&D and foreign influence for the formation of convergence clubs and study transitions between them. 2. Earned Income Tax Credits, Unemployment Benefits and Wages: Empirical Evidence from Sweden (with Helge Bennmarker and Lars Calmfors) In 2007-2009, the Swedish government implemented a number of labour market reforms, comprising lower unemployment benefits, the introduction of an earned income tax credit and payroll tax cuts. We study the impact of these reforms on wage formation, using a large panel of individuals. We find significant, positive effects of the net replacement rate on wages, which is consistent with the hypothesis that the reforms were conducive to lower wages. Erik Lundin 1. The Behavior of a Monopolist Threatened with Regulation This theoretical project discusses the behavior of an unregulated monopolist who could be subject to a future price-cap regulation. Since the outcomes of future elections are unknown, so is the political affiliation of the future legislator. When different parties have different inclinations towards regulation, this will influence the pricing decision of the monopolist. 2. The Productive Efficiency of Swedish Electricity Distribution Companies Various theories have been developed suggesting that state-owned companies may engage in excess employment. This empirical project analyses the use of excess employment in electricity distribution companies owned by Swedish municipalities, comparing them to privately owned companies in the same sector. Mikael Lundholm 1. Forecast Evaluation Economic forecasts are abundant, but very few are evaluated using relavent criteria. This project applies modern approaches of forecast evaluation (such as assymmetric cost functions, fixed event forecasts, density forecasts etc) to different forecasts regarding the Swedish

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economy produced by important economic agents such as Sveriges Riksbank, Finansdepartementet and Konjunkturistitututet. 2. Are Financial Policy Measurements Socio-economic Profitable? (with Matts Andersson, Christer Anderstig, Tommy Lundgren, Joakim Johansson, Roger Pyddoke, Jonas Eliasson and Vesna Loncar-Lucassi) Without investment costs, financial policy tools are almost by definition socio-economically profitable if the makes the prices closer to the marginal cost. But since most financial policy measures include an investment cost the question is if the benefits are bigger than the costs. A large part of the benefit of financial policy measures is that they can be used to lower other taxes, which might have positive effects on the economy. This effect is called ?marginal cost of public funds? in the economic literature. Some articles have argued that the effect on the tax base cancels the incomes from the policy measurement. The aim of this project is to explore how the marginal cost of public funds should be treated in socio-economic calculations. The first step is a literature study, the second is empirical tests. The empirical tests are done with a factor demand-model and a model for the relationship between accessibility and the labor market. The main result of the study is recommendations on how to treat the marginal cost of public funds and the tax base effect in socio-economic calculations. We also give recommendations on how optimal prices are affected. Heléne Lundqvist 1. The Emergence and Persistence of Right-Wing Extremism (with Matz Dahlberg and Kåre Vernby) We explore the roots of right-wing extremism and how extreme right-wing values persist over time. The analysis is focused on the success of nazi-oriented parties in the 1930's in Sweden, and on the formation and growth of extreme right-wing parties in the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. 2. On the Importance of Politicians' Characteristics for Politics and Public Policy (with Matz Dahlberg and Olle Folke) We examine the role of individual characteristics of politicians for political success and for political decision-making. Andreas Madestam 1. A Theory of Prepayment (with Rocco Macchiavello) 2. A Theory of the Farm: Risk, Ownership Concentration, and Trust (with Matthias Messner) 3. Income, Women’s Wellbeing, and the Fertility Transition: Evidence from Trade Shocks in 19th Century Sweden (with Emilia Simeonova) 4. Inside the Production Function: the Effect of Financial Contracts on Growing Firms’ Technology Use. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Uganda (with Selim Gulesci and Miri Stryjan)

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5. Market Demand and Default Risk in Microfinance: The Effect of the Financial Crisis on Firms' Repayment Behavior (with Patrick Behr and Simon Sonnekalb) 6. The Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of Fertility Policies (with Emilia Simeonova) 7. Workers of the World, Unite: The Economic Effects of Labor Day Demonstrations in Europe (with David Yanagizawa-Drott) Laurence Malafry 1. Pollution Taxation under Political Competition Typically, an optimizing regulator sets taxes on environmental externalities such that they equate the marginal social benefit and marginal social cost of the activity responsible for creating the externality (e.g. fossil fuel consumption). In other words, the optimal tax is set equal to the marginal damage of the pollution. However, in a case where the regulator faces re-election, their exist incentives to distort the tax level from this Pigouvian level. I use a dynamic setting with an exhaustible production input (e.g. fossil fuel or carbon quota) with intermittent elections - characterized by an endogenous probabilistic voting - to show that the incumbent regulator will tend to set the pollution tax too low in the hopes of manipulating his probability of re-election. Kiflu G. Molla 1. Exchange Rate and Oil Price Pass-Through and Inflation in Ethiopia This paper will be on the effect of exchange rate and oil price pass-through to domestic prices. Using the response of domestic prices to past devaluations, I will try to answer the crucial question of whether further devaluations will lead to improved export competitiveness or higher inflation. Astri Muren 1. Equilibrium Cooperation with Heterogeneous Social Preferences (with Anne Boschini and Mats Persson) 2. Delegated Enforcement with Local Budgeting: An Application to Environmental Law 3. Gender and Economic Preferences (with Anne Boschini, Anna Dreber, Eva Ranehill and Emma von Essen) Lena Nekby 1. An Evaluation of ESF Projects in Sweden Aimed at the Long-Term Unemployed This project, hosted by the Institute for Future Studies, aims to evaluate to what degree ESF funded projects are more successful in increasing the transition from unemployment to employment/education for the long-term unemployed then current municipal, PES and private

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projects. In addition, best practices will be identified in order to assist in the development of more effective future ESF projects. 2. The Joint Retirement Decision of Couples: A Reform-Based Approach. Evidence suggests that retirement decisions, at least within couples, are highly interdependent. Unfortunately, the literature to date has not been able to clearly identify the impact of a partner’s retirement decision on one's own decision. The goal of this project is to fill this gap by analyzing Swedish administrative data and utilizing a recent Swedish pension reform to identify effects of interest. Sten Nyberg 1. Social norms and Economic Behaviour 2. Public Economics 3. Industrial Organization Christian Odendahl 1. Fiscal Policy in German Municipalities (with Ronny Freier and Florian Ade) In this project (we empirically estimate the effect of political actors (the council, the parties, the major) on fiscal policy in German municipalities. It also entails an estimation of party location, and a study on the heterogeneity of incumbency effects. This project will consist of 4 research papers. Per Pettersson-Lidbom 1. Creating and Exploiting Historical Data on Political Institutions and Policies (with Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich) We are interested in how different political institutions affect fiscal policy and deeper outcomes and mortality and health. The projects deal with direct democracy, weighted voting and infrastructure effects. 2. Punishment of Criminal Behavior (with Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich and Mikael Priks) We are working on a project relating to outcomes such as post punishment behavior but also externalities of a father/mother punishment borne by the children. 3. Social Insurance and Labor Supply (with Peter Skogman Thoursie) This project utilises changes in reforms within the sickness insurance system in order to evaluate individuals’ labor supply behavior. 4. Birth Space and the Effect on Grades (with Peter Skogman Thoursie) This project utilizes changes in reforms which made it more beneficial to shorten the interval between child births in order to evaluate the impact of birth space on high school grades.

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5. Does Child Gender Affect Child and Family Outcomes? (with Peter Skogman Thoursie and Jonas Vlachos) In this project, we empirically analyze whether child gender affects child and family outcomes using a very large administrative data set of the total population in Sweden. In contrast to previous findings, we find little evidence of child gender being of importance for a large number of child and family outcomes with the exception of fertility. Mikael Priks 1. Public Order, Private Payments? To what extent should private parties whose activities indirectly cause unruly behavior, such as sporting events or concerts, share the cost of maintaining public order? We examine the incentive problems on the part of the organizer - an externality coupled with an incentive to free ride on publicly provided security - in a theoretical model. 2. Social Pressure on the Soccer Field: Do Organized Home Supporters Generate the Home-Field Advantage? Social pressure may affect the behavior of professionals but it is hard to evaluate this empirically. I address this question by analyzing Swedish soccer data. I use precipitation as an instrument for the number of spectators at games. I find that the home-field advantage is due to social pressure from supporters. 3. The Effects of Surveillance Cameras in High-Crime Areas: Evidence from the Stockholm Subway I study the effects of surveillance cameras on crime in the Stockholm subway system. Beginning in 2006, surveillance cameras were installed in subway stations. Difference-in-difference analysis reveals that introduction of the cameras reduced crime by approximately 20 percent. The cost of preventing one crime by the use of surveillance cameras is USD 2,300. Mark Sanctuary 1. Border Carbon Adjustments Border Carbon Adjustment (BCA) is a contentious issue and although views on the implications of BCA policy diverge it can be said that the strategic implications figure prominently in the debate. Using a standard one-sector, two-country partial equilibrium model with climate damages from emissions, I examine how BCA policy design affects government incentives in a game where trade and climate policies are chosen endogenously. In particular, the paper examines the extent a BCA can provide importing and exporting countries with an incentive to tighten climate policy when the interaction between the importer and exporter is of a strategic nature. 2. How do Firm Imports Respond to a Domestic Cost Shock? This project examines the heterogeneous effects of a domestic energy cost shock on the structure of imports. The model is estimated using a detailed set of firm level data for Swedish manufacturing firms over the years 1998-2007 inclusive. Our identification strategy uses variation in the price of Swedish electricity prices to estimate how the structure of electricity intense imports respond at the firm level.

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Nicholas Sheard 1. The Economic Geography of the Transportation Industry This project involves studying the location of transportation infrastructure and shipment patterns. The analysis includes assessment of the shape of the resulting networks and the effects on and of trade patterns. 2. Migration Dynamics of Heterogeneous Agents Over a long time horizon workers, entrepreneurs, and capital are mobile. The skill levels of individuals are also heterogeneous. This project involves investigating how these two characteristics interact. One aim is to explain differences in productivity and income levels by geographical area. Claes-Henrik Siven 1. The Economics of Crime and Punishment Various problems of crime and punishment will be studied. For example, what is the optimal structure of relative punishments for different types of crime? Eric Sjöberg 1. Pricing on the Fish Market – Does Size Matter? Fishes landed and sold in Sweden are divided according to an EU standard into different size categories based on the average weight of the specimen caught. The different categories are then sold separately for different prices. This study introduces a new dimension in fish demand by assessing the importance of fish size for price per kilo. 2. Political Influence on Environmental Sanction Charges in Swedish Municipalities I investigate how environmental fines in Swedish municipalities vary with the ruling coalition, especially the Green Party. I use a difference in differences approach to see how number of fines varies after a coalition change and also introduce some exogenous variation by instrumenting Green Party inclusion in ruling coalition by the presence of local parties. 3. Arctic Games The aim of the project is to analyze the incentives for different stakeholders for oil exploration in the Arctic region. Peter Skogman Thoursie 1. The Labor Market Effects of Parental Leave Policy (with Jim Albrecht, Susan Vroman and Luca Flabbi) Two striking facts about Sweden motivate our interest in this topic. First, the gender gap in Sweden exhibits a pronounced glass ceiling effect. Second, Sweden has an extremely generous parental leave system. Women take more parental leave than men do, and the benefits received while on leave are closely tied to prior earnings. A natural question is whether there is some connection between these two facts. That is, does the Swedish parental

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leave system contribute to the glass ceiling effect? There are grounds to suspect such a connection. The project will perform two complementary ways to trace out labor market effects of Swedish parental leave policy. A first approach is purely empirical. Over time, both policy and social mores have changed regarding the proper roles of men and women at home and in the labor market. For example, the introduction of the “daddy month” (and the extension to a second month) has changed the average allocation of time of men and women between market work and childcare (Eriksson 2005). This change in average time allocation behavior over time should have implications for aggregate labor market outcomes — is the wage gap between men and women narrowing in better-paid jobs over time, are the career trajectories of women improving, etc? The second approach is more structural. The idea is to construct an equilibrium model of the labor market that highlights the effects of parental leave policy on wages, wage growth, and patterns of labor force participation by gender. Then, using appropriate micro data, one can estimate the model to identify the equilibrium effects of parental leave policy. Of course, the preliminary data analysis informs the construction of the model. Vanessa Sternbeck Fryxell 1. Overnight Interbank Interest Rates and Bank Characteristics The purpose of the Swedish overnight interbank market is for banks to handle their everyday liquidity. The interest rate paid should ideally equal the repo rate but this is not always the case. Even though the overnight interbank market cannot be considered a true market, deviations in pricing loans could to some extent be explained by normal market behavior. In this paper, I study a unique data set on individual transactions on the Swedish overnight interbank market. I find that larger banks pay lower interest rates and that larger banks lend to higher interest rates. Furthermore, foreign banks pay higher interest rates than domestic banks. 2. The STIBOR fixing process from an Auction Theory Perspective During the summer of 2012 it was revealed that the London Interbank Offered, Libor, had been manipulated by at least one bank. As a consequence, the Riksbank started an empirical review of the Swedish equivalent, Stibor. In this paper I do a theoretical analysis of the fixing process of Stibor from the perspective of auction theory. The fixing process is formulated as a Bayesian game and compared with similar already in theory existing auction games. Miri Stryan 1. Inside the Production Function: the Effect of Financial Contracts on Growing Firms’ Technology Use. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Uganda (with Andreas Madestam and Selim Gulesci) The project started with a collection of firm data in December 2012.

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Lars Vahtrik 1. Work Effort and Tax Schemes: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Linear and Lump-Sum Taxation Using data from a real effort laboratory experiment, it is shown that payment under a linear tax will give a lower work effort than payment under a lump-sum tax or a no tax payment scheme. The experiment is unframed in the sense that taxes are not explicitly mentioned during the experiment. 2. Gender, Risk Aversion and Overconfidence (with Lena Nekby and Peter Thoursie) Using exam data, we study gender bias in risk aversion and overconfidence. Students have the opportunity to take a quiz and count the score at the final exam. If they choose to retake the quiz, the original score will be discarded, thereby making overconfidence costly. Retaking the quiz constitutes a higher risk the higher is the original score. This study will examine gender differences in propensities to retake the quiz as well as gender differences in outcomes. Roine Vestman 1. The Effects of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills on Investment Behavior (with Erik Lindqvist) The existing literature on individuals’ investment behavior has documented large effects of cognitive skills (i.e. IQ) on investment outcomes. We use a unique Swedish data set that combines military test scores on cognitive and non-cognitive skills and detailed portfolio information to document the joint effects of both skills. 2. The Optimal Design of Social Security Programs (with Magnus Dahlquist and Ofer Setty) Motivated by the fiscal difficulties of most countries’ pension systems, we set up a model of individuals’ savings behavior inside and outside of a government-mandated defined contribution (DC) account. We investigate the optimal design of the DC component. We inform our set-up from Swedish micro data. 3. The Optimal Combination of Mortgage Contracts and Bankruptcy Law (with Anders Österling) Inspired by the vast cross-country variation in personal bankruptcy legislation, we are studying its welfare implications. First, we investigate how different bankruptcy procedures affect households’ decision to default on their mortgage. Second, we investigate the interaction between mortgage innovation and bankruptcy procedure. Jonas Vlachos 1. Skill Sorting in the Labor and Marriage Market (with Erik Grönqvist, Erik Lindqvist, Christina Håkanson and Björn Öckert) 2. Biases in Student Evaluations (with Björn Tyrefors-Hinnerich and Sandra Black)

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3. Accountability and Student Sorting (with David Figlio) Emma von Essen 1. Gender, Inequality and Economic Preferences (with Anne Boschini, Anna Dreber, Astri Muren and Eva Ranehill) In this project we conduct a series of experiments, focusing on gender differences in a set of preferences and their impact on welfare defined as the total payoffs subjects earn. Earlier experiment research has mainly used university students to investigate gender differences in preferences, a lab experiment feature criticized. Student samples are sufficient in many instances, but are also potentially problematic for comparisons between countries. Selection into universities differ between countries, and might thus create a confound with gender and the dependent variables. For this reason we will recruit representative samples. We will look at a representative sample in Sweden and Austria. 2. Customer Discrimination in an Online Environment (with Jonas Karlsson) This study is a field experiment designed to investigate ethnic and gender discrimination in customer (buyer) behavior on Tradera, a web-based auction. Using internet has the advantage that the buyer and the seller never meet each other and any adverse effect of social interaction can therefore be ruled out. We will investigate real biddings and transactions; this allows us to study both the initial contact and behavior after the auction is closed. We are able to separate discriminatory behavior when customers can choose who they interact with from discrimination when this choice is eliminated. We therefore explore discrimination in selection into an auction and in trustworthiness buyers give to sellers after an auction is closed. This paper is about to be submitted. We are currently altering the design to continue exploring discrimination in online markets. 3. Role Models and Educational Aspirations and Attainment (with Linnea Wickström-Österwall) We have designed a randomized field experiment to study the effect of role models on educational aspirations and decisions in relation to educational attainment. Among other things we will explore the role of gender in determining the impact of role models, including both that of the role model and the individual whose attainment in a literacy program is being assessed. We intend to study this in the context of adult literacy programs in Bangladesh. Literacy is low in Bangladesh; therefore it is less likely that the illiterate have unusual characteristics, implying that the results can be expected to be of relevance to other domains as well. If role models can be used to alter aspirations and change actions, this may provide a tool for improving outcomes in a vast range of areas, not only literacy, but also educational attainment in general. We have started collaborating with an NGO in Bangladesh (and are currently applying for funding from SIDA, the Swedish International Development cooperation Agency). 4. Inheritance, Social Class and Gender (with Mahmood Arai, Jonas Karlsson and Michael Lundholm) We have initiated a project investigating the effect of different types of inheritance on the gender gap in a person's socio-economic position. The most common way of studying socio-economic intergenerational mobility is by measuring mobility in labor earnings and income. Other mechanisms found to be important are intelligence and schooling, race, personality and wealth. Here we are constructing a unique data set that will allow us to draw causal

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conclusions from a cohort of individuals regarding the transmission of socio-economic position based on inheritance. We combine the social security numbers and inheritance records of a cohort of individuals who died in Stockholm, and were born in the second decade of 20th century, together with the relevant labor market and health data, taken from official registries, as well as that of their children and grandchildren. We intend to compare how inheritance, in relation to other mechanisms, both before and after the death of the individual, affects children and grand children. We will look at this in terms of the position of siblings with differing genders (this project is at the stage of writing an application for a research grant). 5. Mental Training and Teachers Work Performance Self-talk and self-reflection are widely studied methods of enhancing performance levels, within sports. The vast literature on mental training to enhance performance in the domain of cognitive behavior pertains to both elite and non elite sports psychology. This study investigates the effect of self-talk and self-reflection on teachers work performance and sick leave. I have initiated contact with schools in the north part of Sweden. 6. Open Innovation (with Olivier Darmouni, Marieke Huysentruyt, and Topi Miettinen) Entrepreneurs are explorers, innovators, driving forces of society. Thus, as a social enterprise you want to be motivated to explore and innovate. Typically, you won’t work alone, but in collaborations with other social entrepreneurs and with other employees at the enterprise. Other characteristics of open innovation are information externalities, and payoff externalities. We conduct an experiment investigating the motivation of exploration and innovation. We are initiating a pilot study during January 2013. Linnea Wickström Östervall 1. The Effect of Decentralized Democratization on the Well-Being of Citizens (with Charlotta Boström) The aim is to study the effect of decentralized democratization on infant and child mortality and in a first step use a constitutional reform in India for identification. We will explore whether decentralized democratization reduces the probability of dying as a child, and evaluate some potential mechanisms. 2. Studies on Behavioral Effects in Antibiotics Use The aim for this project is to examine if an effective way to lower antibiotics use may be to remind patients in the waiting room of the association between antibiotics use and resistance, and whether phrasing of the reminder matters. The importance of other-regarding preferences and time inconsistency are studied. 3. Poverty, Aspirations and the Decision-Making Process (with Emma von Essen) The effect of role models on educational aspirations and decisions regarding educational attainment is explored in the context of adult literacy programs in Bangladesh. The hypothesis is that role models may affect aspirations and decisions in this domain. The method used is randomized field experiment. 4. Investment in Human Capital under Decreasing Life Expectancy (with Vladimir Stovbchaty)

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5. The Economic Burden of Antibiotic Resistance in Sweden (with Charlotta Boström) In a first step we calculate the costs of infections caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotics in Sweden for one year. 6. Hunger and Decision-Making: Is an Empty Stomach a Bad Advisor? (with Charlotta Boström and Emma von Essen) Hans Wijkander 1. Public Ownership and Redistribution Is it a sheer coincidence that the egalitarian Scandinavian countries have significantly larger government employment shares than the much less egalitarian US? A positive correlation between equity and government employment share in OECD indicates that this is not a coincidence. We suggest a non-linear relation between equity and government employment share. The reason is that significant redistribution creates labor supply distortions which can be mitigated by government employment, which follows decision rules that differ from those in the private sector, and by large public production. This has potentially important implications for differences in wage-dispersion and unemployment among OECD countries. 2. Efficient Reserves in Banking (with Bo Larsson) The project theoretically analyzes the role of reserves in banks’ profit maximization. Reserves are costly since they must be kept in highly liquid assets but they reduce the cost for raising capital and the risk for bankruptcy. Two main questions in the project are (i) what is the optimal reserve ratio and (ii) what is the relation between negative shocks to reserves and bank lending. Wei Xiao 1. Land Development, Search Frictions, and City Structure (with Yasuhiro Sato) We develop a monocentric city model involving land development and frictional unemployment. Unemployment, the spatial structure of a city, land development, housing demand, and prices of housing and land are all endogenously determined in the model. To better understand the interactions between markets, we implement a comparative steady state analysis. 2. Labor Market Institutions, Search Frictions, and Labor Mobility in Developing Countries We analyze the effects of institutions on labor market outcomes in developing countries. We find that individual bargaining leads to higher mobility from the informal sector to the formal sector, higher employment and unemployment in the formal sector, and higher social welfare in the economy. Yves Zenou 1. Identifying Key Players in R&D Alliance Networks (with Michael König and Xiaodong Liu)

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2. Networks Games under Incomplete Information (Joan de Marti) 3. Homophily and Education (Matthew Jackson and Xiaowei Yu) 4. Slums and Crime in Developing Cities (with Thierry Verdier) 5. Agglomeration and Crime (with Carl Gaigné) 6. Crime and Social Interactions: Is Crime Contagious? (with Brian Rogers) 7. Illegal Immigration and Immigration Policy Enforcement (with Vianney Dequiedt) 8. Social Interactions and Crime (with Antonio Cabrales) Anders Åkerman 1. Sources of Wage Inequality (with Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Marc Muendler and Stephen Redding) Traditionally, trade theorists describe the link between trade and income inequality by analysing how relative prices between sectors change. In this paper, we find that only a small share of Swedish income inequality can be explained by the sector or occupation of workers. However, firm-specific fixed effects explain a large amount of the variation which lends support to recent models of firm heterogeneity, trade and income inequality such as Helpman, Itskhoki and Redding (2010). 2. A Theory on the Role of Wholesalers in International Trade based on Economies of Scope This paper develops a model of international trade with heterogeneous firms that offers an explanation of the existence of wholesalers. All exporting firms have to pay a fixed cost of establishing a distribution network in the foreign market. However, wholesalers possess a technology different to normal manufacturing firms: they can buy manufacturing goods domestically and sell in foreign markets and handle more than one good. Swedish micro-data is used to verify the model. 3. Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites (with Anna Larsson and Alireza Naghavi) We study how the endowments of the political elite shape long-run outcomes in a potentially open economy. In an economy with landowner elites, the autocrat favours openness to trade but neglects to enforce property rights which results in moderate growth. If the same economy were to be inhabited by capitalist elites, the autocrat would initially shelter the economy from world trade but enforce property rights which promote growth and development. 4. Service Outsourcing and Specialisation: A Theory on Endogenous Task Scope (with Loriane Py) We develop a model of trade in tasks in which the task scope of manufacturers and service providers is endogenous. Our key assumption is that the marginal cost of producing a given task is an increasing function of the number of tasks performed in-house. The model generates gains from larger market size through the specialization of firms. We then use detailed Swedish data on the number of occupations performed by workers to test these predictions.

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Anders Österling 1. The Optimal Combination of Mortgage Contracts and Bankruptcy Law (with Roine Vestman) Inspired by the vast cross-country variation in personal bankruptcy legislation, we are studying its welfare implications. First, we investigate how different bankruptcy procedures affect households’ decision to default on their mortgage. Second, we investigate the interaction between mortgage innovation and bankruptcy procedure.

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Seminars Spring 2012

January

Date

Thu 19 Johan Söderberg (SU), research presentation

Mon 23 Job talk: Andreas Madestam (Bocconi),"Shaping the Nation: The Effect of 4th of July on Political Preference and Behavior in the United States"

Tue 24 Job talk: Plamen Nenov (MIT), "Labor Market and Regional Reallocation Effects of Housing Busts"

Wed 25 Job talk: Roine Vestman (NYU/SIFR), "Limited Stock Market Participation Among Renters and Home Owners"

Tue 31 Job talk: Hannes Schwandt (Pompeu Fabra), "Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations"

February

Date

Wed 1 Job talk: Helene Lundqvist (Uppsala/IIES), "Is it Worth it? On the Returns to Holding Political Office"

Thu 2 Job talk: Oliver de Groot (Cambridge), "Coodination Failure and the Financial Accelerator"

Wed 8 Job talk: Iain Long, "Recruitment to Organized Crime"

Thu 9 Job talk: Torfinn Harding (Oxford), "Foreign Direct Investment and Export Upgrading"

Mon 13 Job talk: Ana de Matos (LSE), "The Career of Immigrants"

Tue 14 Job talk: Erik Mohlin (UCL), "Optimal Categorization"

Thu 16 Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford), "Disability risk and the value of disability insurance"

Thu 23 Final seminar, Martin Olsson (SU)

March

Date

Thu 8 PhD defense, Karolina Holmberg, (SU), "Empirical Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance"[opponent: Gregory F. Udell, Indiana University]

Thu 8 Luigi Guiso (European University Institute), "Long Term Persistence"

Thu 15 Olivier Marie (Maastricht), "Crime after a Fertility Shock: Offending Behaviour of the ‘Children of the Wall’"

Tue 20 Final seminar, Gustav Engström (SU)

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Wed 21 Lic. Seminar, Jens Henriksson (SU),"A Signaling Game Between a Fiscal Authority and a Central Bank", [opponent: Lars E O Svensson, Riksbanken]

Thu 22 Björn Tyrefors-Hinnerich (SU)

Tue 27 Anna Dreber (SSE) och Astri Muren (SU), "Gender and preferences in a representative sample"

Thu 29 Chih Ming Tan (Clark University), "The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Malnutrition on Cognitive Development: The Case of Famine in Ghana"

April

Date

Tue 3 Tine Jeppesen, (UCD), "Buying Locally or Abroad? Domestic contract enforcement and input ourcing in Central and Eastern Europe"

Fri 13 Final seminar, Nicholas Sheard (SU)

Tue 17 Frederic Warzynski (Aarhus)

Thu 19 Valérie Smeets (Aarhus)

May

Date

Thu 3 Mihai Manea (MIT), "Bargaining in Dynamic Markets with Multiple Populations"

Thu 10 Julia Nafziger (Aarhus), "Goals and Mental Accounting"

Tue 22 Astri Muren (SU) och Mats Persson (IIES), "Equilibrium cooperation with heterogeneous social preferences"

Tue 29 Maria Cheung (SU), "Edutainment Radio, Women's Status and Primary School Participation: Evidence from Cambodia"

Thu 31 Shmuel Nitzan (Bar-Ilan Univeristy), "Discrimination in Contests"

June

Date

Tue 5 Ben Li (Boston College), "Heterogeneous Productivity, Heterogeneous Fixed Trade Costs, and Export Decisions"

Thu 14 Sandra Black (Austin), "Breaking the glass ceiling: the effect of board quotas on female labor market outcomes in Norway"

Fri 15 Final seminar, Lisa Laun (SU)

Tue 19 Michel Serafinelli (UC Berkeley), "Good Firms, Worker Flows and Agglomeration Advantages"

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Fall 2012

August

Thu 30 Ofer Setty (Tel Aviv University), "Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring"

September

Date

Thu 6 Leah Boustan (UCLA), "A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration"

Fri 7 Final seminar, Martin Nybom (SU)

Tue 11 Emma von Essen och Jonas Karlsson (SU), "Discrimination by gender and foreignness in online buyer behavior"

Thu 13 Jakob Svensson (SU/IIES)"Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? Evidence from Local Markets for (Fake?) Antimalarial Medicine in Uganda"

Tue 18 Linnea Wickström Östervall (SU), "Behavioral effects in antibiotics use: Can reminders in the waiting room help curb a growing health threat?"

Thu 20 Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA), "Did the Americanization Movement Succeed? An Evaluation of the Effect of English-Only and Compulsory Schooling Laws on Immigrants' Education"

Thu 27 Keith Head (UBC), "The Economics of Cross-border Travel"

Fri 28 PhD defense, Nicholas Sheard (SU), "Regional Economics, Trade and Transport Infrastructure", [opponent: Keith Head, University of British Columbia]

Fri 28 PhD defense, Gustav Engström (SU), "Essays on Economic Modeling of Climate Change", [opponent: Michael Hoel, Universitetet i Oslo]

October

Date

Tue 2 Ettore Panetti (SU/IIES)"Bank Liquidity, Stock Market Participation, and Economic Growth"

Fri 5 Lic. seminar, Eric Sjöberg (SU), [opponent: Frode Steen, Norges handelshögskola]

Tue 9 Ruixue Jia (SU/IIES)"Pollution for Promotion"

Thu 11 Dean Yang (University of Michigan), "Transnational Household Finance: A Field Experiment on the Cross-Border Impacts of Financial Education for Migrant Workers"

Tue 16 Mathias Ekström (SU), "Is Liking Contagious – Peer Effects on Facebook"

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Thu 18 Gabrielle Demange (Paris School of Economics), "Contagion in financial networks : a threat index"

Thu 25 Heléne Lundqvist (SU), "Interwar Militarism and Fascist Mobilization"

November

Date

Tue 6 Emma von Essen (SU), "Punishment and Status"

Fri 9 PhD defense, Lisa Laun (SU), “Studies on Social Insurance, Income Taxation and Labor Supply”, [opponent: Prof. Josef Zweimüller, University of Zurich] Opponent: Prof. Josef Zweimüller, University of Zurich

Tue 13 Abdulaziz Shifa (SU/IIES), "Trade in Human Capital and Economic Growth"

Thu 15 Alex Whalley (Univeristy of California – Merced), "Hierarchical Accountability in Government: Theory and Evidence"

Thu 22 Christian Traxler (University of Maarburg), "Beer, Booze and Brawls: Evidence on the Effect of Alcohol on Crime for Prussia, 1882-1913"

Thu 29 Roine Vestman (SU)

December

Date

Thu 6 Eric Edmonds (Dartmouth), "You Get What You Pay For: The Transitory Effects of Transitory Schooling Support in a Population Vulnerable to Child Labor"

Tue 11 Eric Sjöberg (SU), "Political Influence on Environmental Sanction Charges in Swedish Municipalities"

Thu 13 Volker Grossman (Fribourg), "Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices"

Fri 14 Final seminar, Emma von Essen (SU)

Tue 18 Final seminar, Maria Cheung (SU)

Thu 20 Marco van der Leij (University of Amsterdam), "Social Networks and Research Output"

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Doctoral dissertations

Department of Economics (DE)

Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)

Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)

2002

Matthew Lindquist Essays on the Dynamics of Wage Inequality, DE

Ann-Christin Jans Notifications and Job Losses on the Swedish Labour Market, SOFI

Åsa Johansson Essays on Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Nominal Wage Rigidity, IIES

Jesper Roine The Political Economics of Not Paying Taxes, DE

Anne Boschini Three Essays on the Economics of Institutions, DE

Helena Svaleryd Essays in Finance, Trade and Politics, DE

Charlotta Groth Topics on Monetary Policy, IIES

Mikael Priks Corruption, Rent-Seeking and Efficient Governance, DE

Anne-Sophie Crépin Tackling the Economics of Ecosystems, DE

Roger Wilhelmsson Wages and Unemployment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden, SOFI

2003

Yoshihiko Fukushima Essays on Employment Policies, DE

Lena Nekby Empirical Studies on Health Insurance, Employment of Immigrants and the Gender Wage Gap, DE

Nils Bohlin Essays on Urban Wages, Location and Retail Trade, DE

Gino Gancia Essays on Growth, Trade and Inequality, IIES

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Dan Nyberg Essays on Exchange Rate Risk and Uncertainty, DE

Tobias Lindqvist Essays on Mergers and Financial Markets, DE

Adam Jacobsson War, drugs and media – Arenas of conflict, DE

Jenny Säve-Söderberg Essays on Gender Differences in Economic Decison-Making, SOFI

Bård Harstad Organizing Cooperation Bargaining, Voting and Control, IIES

2004

Emanuel Kohlscheen Essays on debts and constitutions, IIES

Conny Olovsson Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics, IIES

Tobias Nilsson Essays on Voting and Government Inefficiency, DE

John Ekberg Essays in Empirical Labour Economics, DE

Pavlos Petroulas International Capital Flows: Effects, Defects and Possibilities, DE

Gabriella Sjögren Essays on Personnel Economics and Gender Issues, SOFI

Kent Friberg Essays on Wage and Price Formation in Sweden, SOFI

2005

Carlos Razo Mergers, Collusion and Congestion: Essays on Merger Policy, DE

Ulrika Stavlöt Essays on Culture and Trade, IIES

Jan Pettersson Three Empirical Studies on Development: Democracy, the Resource Curse and Aid, DE

Mathias Hertzing Essays on Uncertainty and Escape in Trade Agreements, IIES

Alessandra Bonfiglioli Essays on Financial Markets and Macroeconomics, IIES

Anna Nilsson Indirect effects of unemployment and low earnings: Crime and children's school performance, DE

Natalie Pienaar Economic Applications of Product Quality Regulation in WTO Trade Agreements, IIES

Zheng Song Essays on Dynamic Political Economy, IIES

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Bo Larsson Essays on Banking and Portfolio Choice, DE

Åsa Olli Segendorf Job Search Strategies and Wage Effects for Immigrants, SOFI

Carl Wilkens Auri sacra fames. Interest Rates - Prediction, Jumps and the Market Price of Risk, DE

2006

Pathric Hägglund Natural and Classical Experiments in Swedish Labour Market policy, SOFI

Thomas Eisensee Essays on Public Finance: Retirement Behavior and Disaster Relief, IIES

Helena Holmlund Education and the Family. Essays in Empirical Labour Economics, SOFI

Givanni Favara Credit and Finance in the Macroeconomy, IIES

Martina Björkman Essays on Empirical Development Economics: Education, Health and Gender, IIES

Pernilla Andersson Four Essays on Self-Employment, SOFI

Magnus Wiberg Essays on the Political Economy of Protection and Industrial Location, DE

2007

Alberto Naranjo Drugonomics, DE

Maria Jakobsson Empirical Studies on Merger Policy and Collusive Behavior, DE

Anna Larsson Real Effects of Monetary Regimes, IIES

José Mauricio Prado Jr Essays on Public Macroeconomic Policy, IIES

Anders Böhlmark School Reform, Educational Achievement and Lifetime Income. Essays in Empirical Labor Economics, SOFI

Camilo von Greiff Income Redistribution, Educational Choice and Growth, DE

Mirco Tonin Essays on Labour Market Structure and Policies, IIES

Virginia Queijo von

Heideken Essays on Monetary Policy and Asset Markets, IIES

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Daria Finocchiaro Essays on Macroeconomics, IIES

Krister Sund Teachers, Family and Friends: Essays in Economics of Education, SOFI

Sara Åhlén Firms, Employment and Distance: Essays on the Swedish Regional Economy, DE

2008

Gisela Waisman Essays on Discrimination and Corruption, IIES

Martin Bech Holte Essays on Incentives and Leadership, IIES

Christer Gerdes Studying the Interplay of Immigration and Welfare States, IIES

Erika Färnstrand Damsgaard Essays on Technology Choice and Spillovers, IIES

Anders Åkerman Essays on International Trade, Productivity and Firm Heterogeneity, DE

Lena Lindahl Family Background and Individual Achievement - Essays in Empirical Labour Economics, SOFI

2009

Li-Ju Chen Essays on Female Policymakers and Policy Outcomes, DE

Richard Baltander Education, Labour Market and Incomes for the Deaf/Hearing Impaired and the Blind/Visually Impaired, SOFI

Johan Kiessling Essays on Technology Adoption and Political Reform in Developing Countries, DE

Paolo Zagaglia The Macroeconomics of the Term Structure of Interest Rates, DE

Lars Johansson Studies of the Relationship Between Aid and Trade and the Fiscal Implications of Emigration and HIV/AIDS Interventions, DE

Anders Fredriksson Bureaucracy, Informality and Taxation: Essays in Development Economics and Public Finance, IIES

Tobias Heinrich Essays on Growth Econometrics and Endogenous Information, DE

Marie Gartell Educational Choice and Labor Market Outcomes, DE

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2010

Lalaina Hirvonen Essays in Empirical Labour Economics: Family Background, Gender and Earnings, SOFI

Olle Folke Parties, Power and Patronage, IIES

David YanagizawaDrott Information, Markets and Conflict: Essays on Development and Political Economics, IIES

Shon Ferguson Essays on Trade, Technology and the Organization of Firms, DE

Marta Lachowska Essays in Labor Economics and Consumer Behavior, SOFI

Erik Meyersson Religion, Politics and Development, IIES

Eva Skult Studies in Saving under Uncertainty, DE

Jan Klingelhöfer Models of Electoral Competition, IIES

Marieke Bos Essays on Household Finance, SOFI

Maria Perrotta Aid, Education and Development, IIES

Hans Lindblad Essays on Unemployment and Real Exchange Rates, DE

Patrik Gränsmark Essays on Economic Behavior, Gender and Strategic Learning, SOFI

2011

Gülay Özcan Essays on Labor Market Disparities and Discrimination: Immigration, Education and Gender, DE

Dario Caldara Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics, IIES

Jaewon Kim Trade, Unemployment and Labour Market Institutions, DE

Andreas Müller Business Cycles, Unemployment and Job Search: Essays in Macroeconomics and Labor Economics, IIES

Magnus Rödin Gender, Ethnicity and Labor Market Disparities, DE

David von Below Essays in Climate and Labour Economics, IIES

2012

Karolina Holmberg Empirical Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance, DE

Susan Niknam Essays on Inequality and Social Policy: Education, Crime and Health, SOFI

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Johan Gars Essays on the Macroeconomics of Climate Change, IIES

Martin Olsson Essays on Employment Protection, Private Equity and Spousal Behavior, DE

Daniel Spiro Some Aspects of Resource and Behavioral Economics, IIES

Jinfeng Ge Essays on Macroeconomics and Political Economy, IIES

Nicholas Sheard Regional Economics, Trade, and Transport Infrastructure, DE

Gustav Engström Essays on Economic Modeling of Climate Change, DE

Lisa Laun Studies on Social Insurance, Income Taxation and Labor Supply, DE

Martin Nybom Essays on Educational Choice and Intergenerational Mobility, SOFI

Yinan Li Institutions, Political Cycles and Corruption: Essays on Dynamic Political Economy of Government, IIES

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Dissertations for Filosofie Licentiate

Department of economics (DE)

Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)

Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)

2002

Pavlos Petroulas Short-Term Capital Flows and Growth in Developed and Emerging Markets, DE

Tobias Lindqvist Experiments on Mergers and Financial Markets, DE

Jan Pettersson Democracy, Regime Stability, and Growth, DE

Tobias Nilsson Governmental Inefficiency and Campaign Contributions, DE

2004

Anna Nilsson Essays on crime, DE

Carlos Razo Essays on Competition Policy, DE

Alberto Naranjo Illicit Drugs, Rebel Movements and Anti-Drug Policies, DE

2005

Anders Fredriksson Dynamic Laffer effects in a one-sector model with physical and human capital, DE

Maria Jakobsson Bid rigging in Swedish Procurement Auctions, DE

2006

Sara Åhlén Governmental Interventions and Market Potential Determinants of Regional Variations in New Firm Formation, DE

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Camilo von Greiff Effects of Redistribution Policies - Who Gains and Who Loses?, DE

Jaewon Kim The Determinants of Labour Market Institutions: A Panel Data Study, DE

2007

Paolo Zagaglia Two Essays on Monetary Policy, DE

2008

Gülay Özcan Labor Market and Educational Outcomes of Students with Immigrant Background- A Closer Look at Host Country Schooling, Identity and Home Language, DE

Magnus Rödin Employment and Education: The role of accultruation identity and home language use for students with immigrant backgrounds, DE

Yinan Li The Evolution of Dictatorship, DE

2009

Lars Vahtrik Work Effort and Tax Schemes: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Linear and Lump Sum Taxation, DE

2010

Heng Chen Underdevelopment of Financial Markets and Excess Consumption Growth Volatility in Developing Countries, DE

2012

Henriksson, Jens A Signaling Game Between a Fiscal Authority and a Central Bank, DE

Sjöberg, Eric Pricing on the Fish Market – Does size Matter?, Political Influence on Environmental Sanction Charges in Swedish Municipalities

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Working Papers 2002:1 Katz, Katarina, “Labour in Transition: Women and Men in Taganrog, Russia” 2002:2 Dufwenberg, Martin and Muren, Astri, “Discrimination by Gender and Social

Distance” 2002:3 Jacobsson, Adam, “Political Media Contests and Confirmatory Bias” 2002:4 Skogman Thoursie, Peter, “Reporting Sick: Are Sporting Events Contagious?” 2002:5 Arai, Mahmood, Kinnwall, Mats and Skogman Thoursie, Peter, “Cyclical and

Causal Patterns of Inflation and GDP Growth” 2002:6 Svaleryd, Helena and Vlachos, Jonas, “Financial Markets, Industrial

Specialization and Comparative Advantage” 2002:7 Svaleryd, Helena, “Female Representation – Is it Important for Policy

Decisions?” 2002:8 Nyberg, Dan, “Should Exchange Rates be Ignored in the Setting of Monetary

Policy?” 2002:9 Nekby, Lena, “Employment Convergence of Immigrants and Natives In

Sweden” 2002:10 Bohm, Peter, “Improving Cost-effectiveness and Facilitating Participation of

Developing Countries in International Emissions Trading” 2002:11 Bohm, Peter, “Comparing Permit Allocation Options: The Main Points” 2002:12 Agell, Jonas and Bennmarker, Helge, “Wage Policy and Endogenous Wage

Rigidity: A Representative View from the Inside” 2002:13 Dufwenberg, Martin, Gneezy, Uri, Goeree, Jacob K. and Nagel, Rosemarie,

“Price Floors and Competition” 2002:14 Lindquist, Matthew J., “Capital-Skill Complementarity and Inequality Over the

Business Cycle” 2002:15 Carlén, Björn, “Exclusionary Manipulation of Carbon Permit Markets: A

Laboratory Test” 2002:16 Petterson, Jan, “Democracy; Regime Stability and Growth” 2002:17 Zagaglia, Paolo, “On (Sub) Optimal Monetary Policy Rules under United

Fiscal Hands” 2002:18 Baldwin, Richard E. and Forslid, Rikard, “Tax Competition and the Nature of

Capital” 2003:1 Dufwenberg, Martin, Lundqvist, Tobias and Moore, Evan, “Bubbles and

Experience: An Experiment on Speculation” 2003:2 Lundholm, Michael and Wijkander, Hans, “Public Ownership and Income

Redistribution” 2003:3 Charness, Gary and Dufwenberg, Martin, “Promises & Partnership” 2003:4 Boschini, Anne D., “The Impact of Gender Stereotypes on Economic Growth” 2003:5 Apesteguia, Jose, Dufwenberg, Martin and Selten, Reinhard, “Blowing the

Whistle” 2003:6 Dufwenberg, Martin and Muren, Astri, “Gender in Committees” 2003:7 Forslid, Rikard, “Regional Policy, Integration and the Location of Industry” 2003:8 Erixon, Lennart, “Combining Keynes and Schumpeter. Ingvar Svennilson’s

Contribution to the Swedish Growth School and Modern Economics” 2003:9 Agell, Jonas, “Why are Small Firms Different? Managers’ Views” 2003:10 Agell, Jonas and Bennmarker, Helge, “Endogenous Wage Rigidity”

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2003:11 Agell, Jonas, “Efficiency and Equality in the Labour Market” 2003:12 Boschini, Anne D., Pettersson Jan and Roine Jesper, ”Resource Curse or Not:

A Question of Appropriability” 2003:13 Nilsson, Anna and Agell, Jonas, “Crime, Unemployment and Labor Market

Programs in Turbulent Times” 2003:14 Agell, Jonas, Ohlsson, Henry and Skogman Thoursie, Peter, “Growth Effects

of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries: A Comment” 2003:15 Pettersson – Lidbom, Per, “Do Parties Matter for Fiscal Policy Choices? A

Regression – Discontinuity Approach” 2003:16 Pettersson – Lidbom, Per, “A Test of the Rational Electoral-Cycle Hypothesis” 2003:17 Pettersson – Lidbom, Per, “An Empirical Approach for Evaluating Soft Budget

Constrains” 2003:18 Pettersson – Lidbom, Per, “Does the Size of the Legislature Affect the Size of

Government? Evidence from a Natural Experiment” 2004:1 Muren, Astri, “Unrealistic Optimism about Exogenous Events: An

Experimental Test” 2004:2 Forslid, Rikard, “Does a Wait and See Approach to European Integration

Shelter the Industrial Base of Small Countries” 2004:3 Nilsson, Anna, “Income Inequality and Crime: The Case of Sweden” 2004:4 Petroulas, Pavlos, “Short-Term Capital Flows and Growth in Developed and

Emerging Markets” 2004:5 Petroulas, Pavlos, “The Effects of the Euro on Foreign Direct Investment” 2004:6 Lundholm, Michael, “Decentralising Public Goods Production” 2004:7 Nekby, Lena, “The Emigration of Immigrants, Return vs. Onward Migration:

Evidence from Sweden” 2004:8 Häckner, Jonas and Razo, Carlos, “Mergers in Congested Markets” 2004:9 Razo, Carlos, “Merger Policy with Alternative Mergers and Efficiency Gains” 2004:10 Arai, Mahmood, Nekby, Lena and Skogman Thoursie, Peter, “Is it what you do

or where you works what matters most? Gender composition and the gender gap revisited”

2004:11 Boschini, Anne and Sjögren, Anna, “Is Team Formation Gender Neutral? Evidence from Coauthorship Patterns”

2004:12 Mandell, Svante, “Optimal Mix of Price and Quantity Regulation under Uncertainty”

2004:13 Jacobsson, Adam and Naranjo, Alberto, “How Do Drug Lords in Final Destination Countries Respond to Anti-Drug Policies?”

2004:14 Naranjo, Alberto, “Drug Lords, Rebel Movements and Anti-Drug policies in Source Contries”

2004:15 Häckner, Jonas and Muren, Astri, “Trademark Dilution - A Welfare Analysis” 2004:16 Carlén, Björn, “EU's Emissions Trading System in the Presence of National

Emission Targets” 2004:17 Mandell, Svante, “A Generalized Hybrid Approach to Controlling Emissions” 2005:1 A. Bergman, Mats, ”Two-Sided Network Effects, Bank Interchange Fees, and

the Allocation of Fixed Costs” 2005:2 Forslid, Rikard, “Can We Trust Private Firms as Suppliers of Vaccines for the

Avian Influenza?” 2005:3 Lundholm, Michael, “Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Marginal Cost of Public

Funds” 2005:4 Alstadsæter, Annette, Kolm, Ann-Sofie and Larsen, Birthe, ”Tax Effects of

Unemployment and the Choice of Educational Type”

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2005:5 Kolm, Ann-Sofie and Bo Nielsen, Søren, ”Under-reporting of Income and Labor Market Performance”

2005:6 Forslid, Rikard, Häckner, Jonas and Muren, Astri, ”When do Countries Introduce Competition Policy?”

2005:7 Siven, Claes-Henric, “Monetary Equilibrium” 2005:8 Jacobsson, Adam, “War and Peace - Cyclical Phenomena?” 2005:9 Muren, Astri and Nyberg, Sten, “Young Liberals and Old Conservatives -

Inequality, Mobility and Redistribution” 2005:10 Erixon, Lennart, “Travelling Along the Third Way. A Swedish Model of

Stabilisation, Equity and Growth” 2006:1 Persson, Mats and Siven, Claes-Henric, “The Becker Paradox and Type I vs.

Type II Errors in the Economics of Crime” 2006:2 Hammarstedt, Mats and Palme, Mårten, “Intergenerational Mobility, Human

Capital Transmission and the Earnings of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden”

2006:3 Lindbeck, Assar, Palme, Mårten and Persson, Mats, “Job Security and Work Absence: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”

2006:4 Zagaglia, Paolo, “The Predictive Power of the Yield Spread under the Veil of Time”

2006:5 Zagaglia, Paolo, “Does the Yield Spread Predict the Output Gap in the U.S.?” 2006:6 Agell, Jonas and Persson, Mats, “Bevolent Planners, Malevolent Dictators and

Democratic Voters” 2006:7 Kiessling, Johan, “Institutions and ICT Adoption” 2006:8 Marzo, Massimiliano, Strid, Ingvar and Zagaglia, Paolo, “Optimal

Opportunistic Monetary Policy in a New-Keynesian Model” 2006:9 Per Engström, Ann-Sofie Kolm and Che-Yuan Liang, ”Maternal Addiction to

Parental Leave” 2006:10 Jaewon Kim, “The Determinants of Labor Market Institutions: A Panel Data Study” 2006:11 Lars M. Johansson, “Fiscal Implications of AIDS in South Africa” 2006:12 Ann-Sofie Kolm and Mirco Tonin, “In-Work Benefits in Search Equilibrium” 2006:13 Mahmood Arai and Peter Skogman Thoursie, “Giving up Foreign Names: An Empirical Examination of Surname Change and Earnings” 2007:1 Lars M. Johansson, “Fiscal Implications of Emigration” 2007:2 Anders Fredriksson, “Compositional and Dynamic Laffer Effects in Models

with Constant Returns to Scale” 2007:3 Lena Nekby, Peter Skogman Thoursie and Lars Vahtrik, “Gender and Self-Selection Into a Competitive Environment: Are Women More Overconfident Than Men?” 2007:4 Mårten Palme and Sofia Sandgren, “Parental Income, Lifetime Income and Mortality” 2007:5 Paolo Zagaglia, “Distortionary Tax Instruments and Implementable Monetary Policy”

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2007:6 Lena Nekby, Roger Vilhelmsson and Gülay Özcan, “Do Domestic Educations Even Out the Playing Field? Ethnic Labor Market Gaps in Sweden”

2007:7 Lena Nekby and Magnus Rödin, “Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes”

2007:8 Johan Kiessling, “Democratization and Child Mortality” 2007:9 Massimiliano Marzo and Paolo Zagaglia, “Volatility Forecasting for Crude Oil Futures” 2007:10 Camilo von Greiff, “Enrollment in Higher Education, Ability and Growth” 2007:11 Massimiliano Marzo and Paolo Zagaglia, “Conditional Leptokurtosis in Energy Prices: Multivariate Evidence from Futures Markets” 2007:12 Camilo von Greiff, “Effects of Redistribution Policies - Who Gains and Who

Loses?” 2007:13 Camilo von Greiff, “Specialization in Higher Education and Economic Growth” 2007:14 Anders Åkerman and Rikard Forslid, “Country Size, Trade, and Productivity: An Analysis of Heterogenous Firms and Differential Beachhead Costs” 2007:15 Fabrizio Spargoli and Paolo Zagaglia, “The Comovements between Futures

Markets for Crude Oil: Evidence from a Structural GARCH Model” 2007:16 Fabrizio Spargoli and Paolo Zagaglia, “Along the Forward Curve for Natural Gas: Unobservable Shocks and Dynamic Correlations” 2007:17 Jesper Roine, Jonas Vlachos and Daniel Waldenström, “What Determines Top Income Shares? Evidence from the Twentieth Century” 2007:18 Martin Dufwenberg and Glenn W. Harrison, “Peter Bohm: Father of Field

Experiments” 2008:1 Li-Ju Chen, “Female Policymaker and Educational Expenditure: Cross-

Country Evidence” 2008:2 Lennart Erixon, “The Rehn-Meidner model in Sweden: its rise, challenges and

survival” 2008:3 Anders Karlström, Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson, ” The Employment

Effect of Stricter Rules for Eligibility for DI: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Sweden”

2008:4 Mahmood Arai, Moa Bursell and Lena Nekby, “Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination: The Gender Difference”

2008:5 Paolo Zagaglia, “The Sources of Volatility Transmission in the Euro Area Money Market: From Longer Maturities to the Overnight?”

2008:6 Massimiliano Marzo, Silvia Romagnoli and Paolo Zagaglia, ” A Continuous-Time Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates with Fiscal-Monetary Policy Interactions”

2008:7 Massimiliano Marzo and Paolo Zagaglia, “Determinacy of Interest Rate Rules with Bond Transaction Services in a Cashless Economy”

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2008:8 Lennart Erixon, “A Social Innovation or a Product of Its Time? The Rehn-Meidner Model’s Relation to Contemporary Economics and the Stockholm School”

2008:9 Ann-Sofie Kolm and Edward P. Lazear, “Policies Affecting Work Patterns and Labor Income for Women”

2009:1 Massimiliano Marzo and Paolo Zagaglia, ” The Comovements Along the Term Structure of Oil Forwards in Periods of High and Low Volatility: How Tight Are They?”

2009:2 Li-Ju Chen, “Women in Politics: A New Instrument for Studying the Impact of Education on Growth”

2009:3 Li-Ju Chen, “Do Gender Quotas In?uence Women?s Representation and Policies?”

2009:4 Assar Lindbeck, Mårten Palme and Mats Persson, “Social Interaction and Sickness Absence”

2009:5 Mahmood Arai, Jonas Karlsson and Michael Lundholm, “On Fragile Grounds: A Replication of Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?”

2009:6 Mahmood Arai, Jonas Karlsson and Michael Lundholm, “On Fragile Grounds: A Replication of Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration? / Technical Documentation”

2009:7 Paolo Zagaglia, “Macroeconomic Factors and Oil Futures Prices: A Data-Rich Model”

2009:8 Massimiliano Marzo and Paolo Zagaglia, “A Further Look at the 2004 Reform of the Operational Framework of the ECB”

2009:9 Lennart Erixon , “Development Blocks, Faulty Investment and Structural Tensions – The Åkerman- Dahmén Theory of the Business Cycle”

2009:10 Pernilla Andersson Joona and Lena Nekby, ”TIPping the Scales towards Greater Employment Chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for Newly-Arrived Immigrants based on Random Program Assignment”

2009:11 Paolo Zagaglia, ”Money-Market Segmentation in the Euro Area: What has Changed During the Turmoil?”

2009:12 Paolo Zagaglia, ”What Drives the Term Structure in the Euro Area? Evidence from a Model with Feedback”

2009:13 Mahmood Arai, Damien Besancenot, Kim Huynh and Ali Skalli, ”Children's First Names and Immigration Background in France”

2009:14 Paolo Zagaglia, ”Forecasting with a DSGE Model of the term Structure of Interest Rates: The Role of the Feedback”

2009:15 Anne Boschini, Astri Muren and Mats Persson, “Constructing Gender in the Economics Lab”

2009:16 Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew J. Lindquist, “Driving Under the Influence of Our Fathers”

2009:17 Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen and Eva Ranehill, ”Outrunning the Gender Gap – Boys and Girls Compete Equally”

2009:18 Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew J. Lindquist, “Like Godfather, Like Son: Explaining the Intergenerational Nature of Crime”

2009:19 Lars Lefgren, Matthew J. Lindquist and David Sims, “Rich Dad, Smart Dad: Decomposing the Intergenerational Transmission of Income”

2010:1 Anders Akerman, ”A Theory on the Role of Wholesalers in International Trade based on Economies of Scope”

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2010:2 Anders Akerman and Anna Larsson, ”The Global Arms Trade Network 1950-2007”

2010:3 Ann-Sofie Kolm and Birthe Larsen, ”The Black Economy and Education” 2010:4 Michael Lundholm, ”sifds: Swedish inflation forecast data set 1999:Q2–

2005:Q2” 2010:5 Magnus Wiberg, ”Political Participation, Regional Policy and the Location of

Industry” 2010:6 Magnus Wiberg, “Corporate Tax Systems and the Location of Industry” 2010:7 Anna Larsson and Stephen L. Parente, “Democracy as a Middle Ground: A

United Theory of Development and Political Regimes” 2010:8 Magnus Wiberg,“Comparative Trade Policy” 2010:9 Gülay Özcan, “Sector Differences in Glass Ceiling in Sweden -Is It Tied to

Occupational Segregation?” 2010:10 Michael Lundholm, “Are Inflation Forecasts from Major Swedish Forecasters

Biased?” 2010:11 Michael Lundholm, “Sveriges Riksbank's Inflation Interval Forecasts 1999-

2005” 2010:12 Mathias Herzing, “Does Hidden Information Make Trade Liberalization More

Fragile?” 2010:13 Lennart Erixon and Louise Johannesson, “Is the Psychology of High Profits

Favorable to Industrial Renewal? Experimental Evidence for the Theory of Transformation Pressure and Schumpeterian Economics”

2010:14 Anders Akerman and Loriane Py, “Service Outsourcing and Specialization: A Theory on Endogeneous Task Scope”

2010:15 Jonas Häckner och Sten Nyberg, “Every Viewer has a Price - On the Differentiation of TV Channels”

2010:16 Shon M. Ferguson, “Technology Upgrading, Exporting and Heterogeneous Firms”

2010:17 Rikard Forslid and Toshihiro Okubo, “Spatial Relocation with Heterogeneous Firms and Heterogeneous Sectors”

2010:18 Juan-Camilo Cárdenas, Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen and Eva Ranehill, “Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk Taking: Comparing Children in Colombia and Sweden”

2010:19 Yves Zenou, “Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies”

2010:20 Antonio Cabrales, Antoni Calvó-Armengol and Yves Zenou, “Social Interactions and Spillovers”

2010:21 Harminder Battu, Paul Seaman and Yves Zenou, “Job Contact Networks and the Ethnic Minorities”

2010:22 Yves Zenou, “Search, Wage Posting, and Urban Spatial Structure” 2010:23 Lena Nekby, “Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It’s probably

who you are, not who you marry!” 2010:24 Olof Åslund, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, and Hans Grönqvist, “Peers,

Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement - Evidence from a Placement Policy”

2010:25 Lisa Jönsson, Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson, ”Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden”

2010:26 Shon M. Ferguson, “Endogenous Product Di¤erentiation, Market Size and Prices”

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2010:27 Martin Olsson and Peter Skogman Thoursie, “Are Married Spouses Insured by their Partners’ Social Insurance”

2010:28 Rikard Forslid and Toshihiro Okubo, “On the Development Strategy of Countries of Intermediate Size - An Analysis of Heterogenous Firms in a Multiregion Framework”

2011:1 Emma von Essen and Eva Ranehill, “Dominance and Submission: Social Status Biases Economic Sanctions”

2011:2 Alberto Bisin, Eleonora Patacchini, Thierry Verdier and Yves Zenou, “Ethnic Identity and Labor-Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Europe”

2011:3 Maria Sáez-Martí and Yves Zenou, “Cultural Transmission, Discrimination and Peer Effects”

2011:4 Eleonora Patacchini, Edoardo Rainone and Yves Zenou, “Dynamic Aspects of Teenage Friendships and Educational Attainment”

2011:5 Yves Zenou, “Spatial versus Social Mismatch: The Strength of Weak Ties” 2011:6 Ethan Cohen-Cole, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou, “Systemic Risk and

Network Formation in the Interbank Market” 2011:7 Xiaodong Liu, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou and Lung-Fei Lee, “Criminal

Networks: Who is the Key Player?” 2011:8 Robert Helsley and Yves Zenou, “Social Networks and Interactions in Cities” 2011:9 Anders Forslund, Peter Fredriksson and Johan Vikström, “What active labor

market policy works in a recession?” 2011:10 Shon Ferguson and Sara Formai, “Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage,

Complex Goods and Organizational Choice” 2011:11 Nicholas Sheard “Regional Policy in a Multiregional Setting: When

the Poorest are Hurt by Subsidies” 2011:12 Magnus Rödin and Gülay Özcan, “Is It How You Look or Speak That Matters?

- An Experimental Study Exploring the Mechanisms of Ethnic Discrimination” 2011:13 Joan de Marti and Yves Zenou, “Identity and Social Distance in Friendship

Formation” 2011:14 Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen and Eva Ranehill, “In Bloom: Gender

Differences in Preferences among Adolescents” 2011:15 Juan-Camilo Cárdenas Cárdenas, Anna Dreber Dreber, Emma von Essen and

Eva Ranehill, “Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden”

2011:16 Alberto Bisin, Eleonora Patacchini, Thierry Verdier and Yves Zenou, “Formation and Persistence of Oppositional Identities”

2011:17 Nicholas Sheard, “Learning to export and the timing of entry to export markets”

2011:18 Jaewon Kim, “Why do Some Studies Show that Generous Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment Rates? A Meta-Analysis of Cross-Country Studies”

2011:19 Jaewon Kim, “The Effects of Trade on Unemployment: Evidence from 20 OECD countries”

2011:20 Lennart Erixon, “Formalizing a new approach to economic policy - Bent Hansen, Gösta Rehn and the Swedish model”

2011:21 Magnus Wiberg, “The Comparative Political Economy of Economic Geography”

2011:22 Abdulaziz Shifa, “The Dual Policy in the Dual Economy - The Political Economy of Urban Bias in Dictatorial Regimes”

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2011:23 Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme and Marieke Schnabel, “The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective”

2011:24 Anders Akerman, Anna Larsson and Alireza Naghavi, “Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites”

2011:25 Lennart Erixon, “Under the Influence of Traumatic Events, New Ideas, Economic Experts and the ICT Revolution - The Economic Policy and Macroeconomic Performance of Sweden in the 1990s and 2000s”

2011:26 Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen and Eva Ranehill, “Age at Pubertal Onset and Educational Outcomes”

2011:27 Johan Egebark and Mathias Ekström, “Like What You Like or Like What Others Like? - Conformity and Peer Effects on Facebook”

2011:28 Mathias Ekström, “Do Watching Eyes Affect Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Field Experiment”

2012:1 Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren,” Transmission of Human Capital across Four Generations: Intergenerational Correlations and a Test of the Becker-Tomes Model”

2012:2 Jonas Häckner and Astri Muren, ” Counterfeiting and Consumption Externalities - A Closer Look”

2012:3 Bo Larsson and Hans Wijkander, “Banking on Regulations?” 2012:4 Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova, “Education, Health and

Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment” 2012:5 Maria Cheung, “Edutainment Radio, Women's Status and Primary School

Participation: Evidence from Cambodia” 2012:6 Eric Sjöberg, “Political Influence on Environmental Sanction Charges in

Swedish Municipalities” 2012:7 Nicholas Sheard, “Airports and the Production of Goods and Services” 2012:8 Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert and Hessel Oosterbeek, ” Long-term Effects

of Class Size” 2012:9 Lena Nekby and Per Pettersson-Lidbom, “Revisiting the Relationship between

Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution” 2012:10 Konstanze Albrecht, Emma von Essen, Armin Falk, Klaus Fliessbach and Eva

Ranehill, “Social context and fairness perceptions: The role of status” 2012:11 Jonas Häckner and Mathias Herzing, “When do Firms Break the Law in Order

to Reduce Marginal Cost? - An Application to the Problem of Environmental Inspection”

2012:12 Anders Böhlmark, Erik Grönqvist and Jonas Vlachos, ” The Headmaster Ritual: The Importance of Management for School Outcomes”

2012:13 Lisa Laun and Peter Skogman Thoursie, “Does Privatization of Vocational Rehabilitation Improve Labor Market Opportunities? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden”

2012:14 Lisa Laun, “The Effect of Age-Targeted Tax Credits on Retirement Behavior”