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Health Responses to a Wealth Shock: Evidence from a Swedish Tax Reform

Erixson, Oscar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This essay contributes in two ways to the literature on the effects of economic circumstances on health. First, it deals with reverse causality and omitted variable bias by exploiting exogenous variation in inherited wealth generated by the unexpected repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax....

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Effects of Tax Reform on the Demand for Owner-Occupied Housing: A Micro Simulation Approach

Brownstone, David; Englund, Peter; Persson, Mats - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1984

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 housing: the consumers choose the mode of...

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How to Combine High Sunk Costs of Exporting and Low Export Survival

Persson, Maria; Gullstrand, Joakim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

In endeavouring to explain the empirical puzzle that the sunk costs of exporting are important, but that, at the same time, trade flows do not, on average, survive for very long, this paper explores the concepts of core and peripheral markets. First, it illustrates that if the importance of sunk...

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Product Market Reforms and Incentives to Innovate in Sweden

Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular … strong economic development in Sweden during the last two decades, namely product market reforms and incentives to innovate …. The paper provides a short description of the policy changes that have taken place within these areas since the early 1990 …

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Was Adam Smith Right, After All? Another Test of the Theory of Compensating Wage Differentials

Duncan, Greg J.; Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983

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Characteristics and Performance of New Firms and Spinoffs in Sweden

Andersson, Martin; Klepper, Steven - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …

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