Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 21: Health and Inequality
Therese Nilsson and Andreas Bergh
There is an on-going debate as to whether health is negatively affected by economic inequality. Still, we have limited knowledge of the mechanisms relating inequality to individual health and very little evidence comes from less-developed economies. We use individual…
Annals of Economics and Statistics
Verena Wondratschek, Karin Edmark and Markus Frölich
This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice and competition among public schools and led to a large-scale introduction of publicly funded private schools. We estimate the effects of school…
Violence Against Women
Petra Ornstein and Johanna Rickne
Over their lifetime, approximately 10% of all women become victims of postseparation stalking or assault. We use a nationally representative survey of separated Swedish women to examine whether men who strive to control their partners during their relationships are more…
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Martin Fischer, Martin Karlsson and Therese Nilsson
Theoretically, there are several reasons to expect education to have a positive effect on health. Empirical research suggests that education can be an important health determinant. However, it has not yet been established whether education and health are indeed…
China Economic Review
Johanna Rickne
This paper provides micro-level evidence on the relationship between labor market conditions and social insurance participation among Chinese industrial firms. I find that the increased scarcity of labor over this period was a quantitatively important driver of…
International Tax and Public Finance
Assar Lindbeck and Mats Persson
In this paper we treat an individual’s health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is assumed that the individual is either able or unable to work. A continuous treatment of an individual’s…
Small Business Economics
Bo Carlsson, Pontus Braunerhjelm, Maureen McKelvey, Christer Olofsson, Lars Persson and Håkan Ylinenpää
Research on entrepreneurship has flourished in recent years and is evolving rapidly. This article explores the history of entrepreneurship research, how the research domain has evolved, and its current status as an academic field. The need to concretize these issues…
Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law
Gene M. Grossman, Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis
The primary objective of most trade agreements is to restrain members' use of trade policies for protectionist purposes. But it would be pointless to restrict the application of border instruments without regulating the possible use of domestic policies for…
Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law
Gene M. Grossman and Henrik Horn
The purpose of this study is to present to readers with limited training in economics the perspective that most international trade economists bring to the study of trade agreements. It focuses on the main approach in the literature, which sees these agreements as…
Journal of Economics and Business
Lars Oxelheim and Trond Randøy
This study examines globalization of monitoring practices by focusing on how American (U.S.) influences on European firms impact the dismissal risk for these firms’ CEOs. Specifically, we argue that the stronger short term orientation of the American corporate…
Energy Journal
Johannes Mauritzen
It is well established within both the economics and power system engineering literature that hydropower can act as a complement to large amounts of intermittent energy. In particular hydropower can act as a “battery” where large amounts of wind power are…
What Can We Learn from Economic Reforms in Greece and Sweden?
Harald Edquist and Magnus Henrekson
The chapter is about product market reforms and incentives to innovate in Sweden. The authors suggest a number of reforms to enhance economic developments in Sweden, including increased government support for venture capital in early-stage funding and increased…
Economics Letters
Joacim Tåg
I study the internal organization of firms using Swedish occupation data. The empirical patterns match the theoretical predictions of Caliendo and Rossi-Hansberg (2012) and are similar to the patterns observed in French data by Caliendo et al. (2012).
Econ Journal Watch
Niclas Berggren
Politics
Mikael Persson, Maria Solevid and Richard Öhrvall
According to the ‘law of dispersion’, the level of inequality in political participation is higher when voter turnout is low. We empirically test this hypothesis by evaluating levels of voter turnout in the 2010 Swedish election to the Västra…
Journal of Industrial Economics
Simona Fabrizi, Steffen Lippert, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson
We model patent-signaling by informed venture capitalists to incumbent acquirers of developed innovations. We show that, to signal, venture capitalists develop more patents with higher impact than incumbents would. A tightening of patenting requirements by the patent…
Technovation
Frédéric Delmar, Alexander McKelvie and Karl Wennberg
The performance of new firms is important for economic development but research has produced limited knowledge about the key relationships among growth, profitability, and survival for new firms. Based on evolutionary theory, we develop a model about how new firms…
Asian Development Review
Fredrik Sjöholm and Nannan Lundin
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is currently promoting indigenous technology development through support of Chinese firms and, arguably, by restricting operations of foreign multinational firms. This policy seems to overlook the impact of foreign firms on…
Journal of Theoretical Politics
Michael M. Ting, James M. Snyder, Jr, Shigeo Hirano and Olle Folke
Most government bureaucracies in developed countries use civil service systems. What accounts for their adoption? We develop and test a model of bureaucratic reforms under repeated partisan competition. In the model, two political parties composed of overlapping…
Games
Ola Andersson and Håkan J. Holm
This paper experimentally investigates free-riding behavior on communication cost in a coordination game and finds strong indications of such free-riding. Firstly, the subjects wait for others to send a message when communication is costly, which does not happen when…
Journal of World Trade
Henrik Horn, Petros C. Mavroidis and Erik N. Wijkström
The article argues that focusing only on disputes formally raised in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement system underestimates the extent of trade conflict resolution within the WTO. Both the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) and Technical…
Journal of Development Studies
Robert E. Lipsey, Fredrik Sjöholm and Jing Sun
Many developing countries would like to increase employment in the formal sectors. One way to accomplish this goal may be to encourage the entrance of foreign firms. We examine employment growth in Indonesian plants taken over by foreign owners from domestic ones. We…
Journal of Economic Theory
Pär Holmberg, David Newbery and Daniel Ralph
In most electricity markets generators must submit step-function offers to a uniform price auction. These markets are often modelled as simpler pure-strategy Supply Function Equilibria (SFE) with continuous supply functions. Critics argue that the discreteness and…
Energy Policy
Sven-Olof Fridolfsson and Thomas Tangerås
Green certificates are the main instrument for promoting renewable electricity (RES-E) in Sweden. But certificates cover only a limited share of total RES-E production. Under partial coverage, crowding out may arise whereby costly new RES-E replaces inexpensive old…
Journal of International Trade & Economic Development
Maria Persson
The literature on trade facilitation has mostly focused on implications for trade volumes. However, recent theoretical contributions have emphasized that trade costs – such as transaction costs related to crossborder trade procedures – affect both the…
Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet
Nicholas Economides and Joacim Tåg
We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no variations in Quality of Service and no price discrimination; (ii) variations in Quality of Service but no price discrimination; (iii) variations in…
European Journal of Political Economy
Mikael Elinder and Henrik Jordahl
Given the intensive and ideologically charged debate over the use of private contractors for publicly funded services, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of economic efficiency.…
Asian Economic Papers
Mats Lundahl and Fredrik Sjöholm
Large segments of the rural Timorese population survive on subsistence farming characterized by simple production methods and low output. Broad-based improvements in Timorese living standards require increased agricultural output. This article discusses what…
Public Choice
Erik Lindqvist and Robert Östling
This paper models the interaction between individuals’ identity choices and redistribution. Both redistributive policies and identity choices are endogenous, and there might be multiple equilibria. The model is applied to ethnicity and social class. In an…
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
Ola Bengtsson and John R. M. Hand
Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in entrepreneurial firms are compensated and incentivized. We address this gap in the literature by studying 18,935 non-CEO compensation contracts across 1,809…
Journal of International Economics
Shon Ferguson and Sara Formai
The theory of the firm suggests that firms can respond to poor contract enforcement by vertically integrating their production process. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether firms' integration opportunities affect the way contract enforcement…
RAND Journal of Economics
Edward J. Anderson, Pär Holmberg and Andrew B. Philpott
We introduce the concept of an offer distribution function to analyze randomized offer curves in multiunit procurement auctions. We characterize mixed-strategy Nash equilibria for pay-as-bid auctions where demand is uncertain and costs are common knowledge, a setting…
Journal of Institutional Economics
Niclas Berggren and Christian Bjørnskov
Social and cultural determinants of economic institutions and outcomes have come to the forefront of economic research. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional quality in the…
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Fredrik Heyman, Helena Svaleryd and Jonas Vlachos
Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the market. The authors analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition affect firms’ gender composition and gender wage gap using…
Journal of International Business Studies
Lars Oxelheim, Aleksandra Gregorič, Trond Randøy and Steen Thomsen
This study investigates the internationalization of corporate boards, using a sample of 346 non-financial listed Nordic firms during 2001–2008. Given a high level of international activity, these firms have surprisingly few foreign directors. The…
Kyklos
Niclas Berggren and Therese Nilsson
Tolerance has the potential to affect both economic growth and wellbeing. It is therefore important to discern its determinants. We contribute to the literature by investigating whether the degree to which economic institutions and policies are market-oriented is…
Review of Economic Design
Christer Andersson, Ola Andersson and Tommy Andersson
This paper considers two multi-item auction formats (ascending and sealed bid) which both identify the minimum Walrasian equilibrium prices and where truthful preference revelation constitutes an equilibrium. Even though these auction formats share many theoretical…
Journal of Development Economics
Vianney Dequiedt and Yves Zenou
We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host country and where information asymmetries are more severe for immigrants than for natives. Because of imperfect information, firms statistically…
Journal of Urban Economics
Yves Zenou
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions, explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers’ labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter’s idea that…
Public Choice
Che-Yuan Liang
This paper investigates the effects of political representation on electoral outcomes at the party and coalition levels in proportional election systems using data from Swedish local government elections. There are two notions of representation, namely, to hold seats…
Industrial and Corporate Change
Tino Sanandaji and Peter T. Leeson
Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is typically trivial: self-employed persons. This article investigates entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is enormous:…
Industrial and Corporate Change
Karin Edmark and Roger H. Gordon
This article makes use of individual data from 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely held businesses in Sweden to estimate the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice to be a closely held corporation (CHC) versus a proprietorship. Although lower-income…
Industrial and Corporate Change
Erika Färnstrand Damsgaard and Marie C. Thursby
This article analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes, the United States and Sweden. In the United States, the Bayh–Dole Act gives universities…
Industrial and Corporate Change
Josh Lerner and Joacim Tåg
We survey the literature on venture capital and institutions and present a case study comparing the development of the venture capital market in the United States and Sweden. Our literature survey underscores that the legal environment, financial market development,…
Industrial and Corporate Change
Joshua S. Gans and Lars Persson
This article examines the interaction between intellectual property protection and competition policy on the choice of entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property protection makes it…
Industrial and Corporate Change
Pontus Braunerhjelm and Magnus Henrekson
The purpose of the research endeavor published in this Special Section is to further our understanding of the extent, character, and orientation of entrepreneurial activity in today’s wealthy countries. This is done by means of several detailed studies of…
Journal of Banking & Finance
Florin Maican and Richard J. Sweeney
In single-equation tests, real exchange rates show mean reversion for nine of 10 Central and Eastern European transition countries for the period January 1993 to December 2005. Because of the shift from controlled to market economies and accompanying crises, failed…
Applied Economics
Åsa Hansson and Karin Olofsdotter
This article provides an empirical analysis of the impact of tax differentials and agglomeration economies on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The article departs from most previous work on FDI and tax competition in a number of ways. First, it incorporates several…
Applied Economics
Roger Svensson
I apply a survival model to a detailed data set of Swedish patents to estimate how different financing factors affect the likelihood of patent renewal. Since the owners know more about the patents than potential external financiers, there is a problem of asymmetric…
Journal of Population Economics
Eva Mörk, Anna Sjögren and Helena Svaleryd
Exploiting the exogenous variation in user fees caused by a Swedish childcare reform, we are able to identify the causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are low, and labor force…