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Windfall gains and stock market participation
Briggs, Joseph; Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; … - 2015
We estimate the causal effect of wealth on stock market participation using administrative data on Swedish lottery players. A $150,000 windfall gain increases stock ownership probability among pre-lottery non-participants by 12 percentage points, while pre-lottery stock holders are unaffected....
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All the single ladies : job promotions and the durability of marriage
Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - 2016
This paper addresses women's under-representation in top jobs in organizational hierarchies. We show that promotions to top jobs dramatically increase women's probability of divorce, but do not affect men's marriages. This effect is causally estimated for top jobs in the political sector, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011579514
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Taxation and entrepreneurship in a welfare state
Stenkula, Mikael - 2009
of different taxes, and uses cointegration techniques. A further extension is that it studies a Scandinavian high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003843247
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The futile quest for a grand explanation of long-run government expenditure
Durevall, Dick; Henrekson, Magnus - 2009
the present day in Sweden and the United Kingdom. Hence, in contrast to previous studies, we evaluate the validity of …. Cointegration analysis is used to investigate the long-run relationships between government expenditure and GDP, focusing on sub … Wagner’s Law between roughly 1860 and the late 1960s in Sweden, and the 1970s in the UK. This can be traced to the formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914410
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Gazelles as job creators : a survey and interpretation of the evidence
Henrekson, Magnus (contributor); Johansson, Dan (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003629736
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The bright but right view? : a new type of evidence on entrepreneurial optimism
Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - 2014
Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
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Competition, takeovers and gender discrimination
Heyman, Fredrik (contributor); Svaleryd, Helena (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641133
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Is financial risk-taking behaviour genetically transmitted?
Cesarini, David (contributor) - 2008
In this paper, we use a sample of almost 30,000 Swedish mono- and dizygotic twins to study the heritability of financial risk-taking. Following a major pension reform in the year 2000, virtually all Swedish adults had to simultaneously make a finnancial decision axoecting post-retirement wealth....
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Selfish and prospective : theory and evidence of pocketbook voting
Elinder, Mikael (contributor); Jordahl, Henrik (contributor) - 2008
Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766637
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Should R&D champions be protected from foreign takeovers?
Bertrand, Olivier (contributor) - 2008
We analyze how the entry mode of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) affects affiliate R&D activities. Using unique affiliate level data for Swedish multinational firms, we first present empirical evidence that acquired affiliates have a higher level of R&D intensity than greenfield (start-up)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766677