The purpose of our study was to examine the effect of military training on the earnings of young men in Sweden. The analysis is based on the cohort of males born in 1973. This cohort was conscripted during a time of rapid change in Swedish security policy and substantial cutbacks in the armed...

An introduction of a kilometer tax for heavy goods vehicles can be constrained by the risk of that higher production costs than competitors in other countries will negatively affect regions and industries of policy concern. We estimate factor demand elasticities in the Swedish manufacturing...

The overall objective of this paper is to analyse the price development and price formation for wood fuel used by the Swedish district heating sector. According to Lonner et al., there is a significant potential for increasing the use of wood fuel in Sweden, at a fairly moderate cost. The basic...

Andersson L. (2004) Regional risk-sharing provided by the fiscal system: empirical evidence from Sweden, Reg. Studies38, 269-280. The objective of this paper is to analyse risk-sharing among municipalities in Sweden in terms of how the central government smooths personal income via the tax and...

The price of timber stumpage is one of the few natural-resource rents that can be directly observed as a market price. Rules for optimal timber harvesting under uncertainty have been found to depend on whether the timber rent price is non-stationary or stationary. In this study we extend...