Magnus Blomström and Birgitta Swedenborg
Finn R. Førsund and Lennart Hjalmarsson
Bo Carlsson
The machine tool industry, even though it is tiny, is often considered strategic because of its role as supplier of technology to all metalworking industry. In recent years, the machine tool industry in Western countries has had to face major new…
David Brownstone, Peter Englund and Mats Persson
The paper analyzes the effects on the demand for owner-occupied housing that are likely to result from the Swedish 1983-85 tax reform. This is done by means of a micro-simulation model which takes into account the dichotomous nature of the demand for…
Erik Mellander
Most econometric multi-equation models estimated are assumed to be linear in both the variables and the parameters. One reason is that, in general, methods of linear algebra cannot be applied to nonlinear systems.
In this paper a certain class of…
Leif Jansson and Erik Mellander
Bertil Holmlund
Gunnar Eliasson
David Brownstone
This paper investigates misspecified estimation and model selection criteria derived from the "Information Criterion (see Akaike (1973))" for qualitative choice models. Four estimators for the "Information Criterion" are derived for general qualitative…
Harald Lang
Harald Lang
Eva Christina Horwitz
Bengt-Christer Ysander
Frank Stafford
Gunnar Eliasson
Richard A. Day
Anders Björklund
In this paper the effects of unemployment on mental health are analysed. A simple model where both the occurrence of and duration of unemployment are allowed to affect mental health is specified.
Panel data are used to control for "fixed effects", i.e.…
Frank Stafford