American Economic Review
Petra Persson och Maya Rossin-Slater
Persson and Rossin-Slater (2018) find that prenatal exposure to family ruptures affects childhood and adult mental health, as well as infant physical health. We compare children whose relatives die within 280 days post-conception to children whose relatives die in…
Behavioural Public Policy
Petra Persson
Limits on consumer attention give firms incentives to manipulate prospective buyers’ allocation of attention. This paper models such attention manipulation and shows that it limits the ability of disclosure regulation to improve consumer welfare. Competitive…
American Economic Review
Petra Persson och Maya Rossin-Slater
This paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures affects later mental health. We find that prenatal exposure to the death of a maternal relative increases take-up of ADHD medications during childhood and anti-anxiety and depression…
Journal of Economic Theory
Edward Anderson och Pär Holmberg
We consider a uniform-price procurement auction with indivisible units and private independent costs. We find an explicit solution for a Bayesian Nash equilibrium, which is unique if demand shocks are sufficiently evenly distributed. The equilibrium has a price…
Journal of Rural Studies
Martin Andersson, Niclas Lavesson och Thomas Niedomysl
The rise of ICT and the shift toward jobs with more flexibility in working hours and places of work sparked popular debates about potential for a ‘rural renaissance’. A key argument was that there are increasing possibilities to live in the countryside…
Labour Economics
Petri Böckerman, Per Skedinger och Roope Uusitalo
We construct multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of last-in, first-out rules. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between different units of the same firms operating in Sweden and Finland, two countries that have…
Bridging the Prosperity Gap in the EU: The Social Challenge Ahead
Ulf Bernitz, Moa Mårtensson, Lars Oxelheim och Thomas Persson
In this chapter we describe the EUs social dimension and its development aimed at an understanding of the prosperity gap in the EU. We identify the new social challenges the Union faces in the wake of the three ongoing intertwined developments: the financial and…
Journal of Applied Econometrics
Ethan Cohen-Cole, Xiaodong Liu och Yves Zenou
This paper considers the identification of social interaction effects in the context of multivariate choices. First, we generalize the theoretical social interaction model to allow individuals to make interdependent choices in different activities. Based on the…
Bridging the Prosperity Gap in the EU: The Social Challenge Ahead
Martin Ljunge
In this chapter I highlight how new research can provide answers to how gaps in health and wealth can be reduced. The focus is on an approach that can identify the causal direction of the connections between trust, health, and prosperity. I find clear evidence that…
Economica
Julia Tanndal och Daniel Waldenström
We estimate the impact of financial market deregulation on top income shares. Using the novel synthetic control method to investigate the two ‘Big Bangs’ of financial deregulation, the UK in 1986 and Japan in 1997–9, we find that pre-tax top income…
Antitrust Chronicle
Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson och Joacim Tåg
Private equity firms (“PE firms”) have become common as owners of established firms in concentrated markets. We discuss the antitrust implications of an active PE market and whether there are any special characteristics of PE ownership that are important…
Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy
Anna Grigoryeva, Mohammad R. Hesamzadeh och Thomas Tangerås
The energy system in the Nordic countries faces changes driven by increasing integration with the rest of Europe and changes to the generation mix. These developments pose challenges with respect to future network development and operation. We focus on three major…
Economics Letters
Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck och Lars Persson
We propose a new method to analyze employment and productivity dynamics in a consistent way. Using Swedish data we find that net jobs were mainly created in young, small firms and productivity gains were mainly created in large old firms.
Economics Letters
Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson och Joacim Tåg
Private equity firms (PE firms) have become common owners of established firms in concentrated markets. We show that the threat of a PE acquisition can trigger incumbent mergers in an otherwise merger-stable industry. This can help antitrust authorities maximize…
International Review of Economics & Finance
Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson och Joacim Tåg
The tax laws of most developed countries are debt biased since firms can deduct interest on debt but not on equity. This bias is known to distort investment decisions. However, less is known about how the debt tax shield affects the ownership of assets when bidders…
World Economy
Åsa Hansson, Karin Olofsdotter och Susanna Thede
In recent years, there has been growing concern that multinational enterprises (MNEs) engage in strategic tax planning in order to shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions. This common perception is generally confirmed by empirical evidence, which is foremost provided…
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Andreas Bergh och Philipp C. Wichardt
This paper proposes a simple framework to model social preferences in a way that explicitly separates economic incentives from social (context) effects and allows for uncertainty also about the latter. Moreover, it allows non-economic cost associated with the…
Journal of World Business
Bruce Hearn, Lars Oxelheim och Trond Randøy
This study examines the governance attributes of post-IPO (initial public offering) retained ownership of private equity in business group constituent firms in contrast to their unaffiliated counterparts, in 202 newly listed firms in 22 emerging African economies. We…
Economics & Human Biology
Joan Costa Font och Martin Ljunge
The association between occupational status and health has been taken to reveal the presence of occupational health inequalities. However, that interpretation assumes no influence of health status in climbing the occupational ladder. This paper documents evidence of…
Journal of Public Economics
Carl Magnus Bjuggren
Current theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper, I study the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using Swedish register data. A reform of employment protection rules in 2001…
Economics of Education Review
Gabriel Heller Sahlgren
We study whether independent-school competition involves a trade-off between pupil wellbeing and academic performance. To test this hypothesis, we analyse data covering pupils across the OECD, exploiting historical Catholic opposition to state schooling for exogenous…
Industrial and Corporate Change
Jing Xiao, Ron Boschma och Martin Andersson
This article adopts an evolutionary framework to the study of industrial resilience. We present a study on European regions and assess the extent to which the capacity of their economies to develop new industrial specializations is affected by the global economic…
Primary Health Care Research & Development
Anna Häger Glenngård och Anders Anell
To study (a) the covariation between patient reported experience measures (PREMs) and registered process measures of access and continuity when ranking providers in a primary care setting, and (b) whether registered process measures or PREMs provided more or less…
Mathematical Social Sciences
Ola Andersson, Cédric Argenton och Jörgen W. Weibull
This paper studies the role of strategic uncertainty in the Nash demand game. A player’s uncertainty about another player’s strategy is modeled as an atomless probability distribution over that player’s strategy set. A strategy profile is robust to…
Venture Capital
Magnus Henrekson och Tino Sanandaji
The VC sector is interesting both in its own right and as a proxy for entrepreneurial finance more broadly. We highlight the tax treatment of stock options as an important factor for variations in the size of the VC sector. VC often relies on option-based contracts…