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Using markets to measure pre-war threat assessments : the Nordic Countries facing World War II
Waldenström, Daniel (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003385786
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The Swedish macroeconomic policy framework
Calmfors, Lars - 2015
The paper describes the monetary and fiscal policy frameworks in Sweden and analyses how they were established as well … as current challenges. Sweden provides a good example of how deep economic crisis, in interaction with independent … frameworks. It remains to be seen whether it will be possible in Sweden to adapt the monetary and fiscal frameworks to changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302486
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Comment on education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers
Jordahl, Henrik (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2008
In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez (2005) apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several problems which relate to the validity and documentation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003743983
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Faces to politicians : babyfacedness predicts inferred competence but not electoral success
Poutvaara, Panu; Jordahl, Henrik; Berggren, Niclas - 2009
Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that babyfaced individuals are generally perceived to be less competent than maturefaced individuals. Taken together, this suggests that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860569
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The looks of a winner : beauty, gender and electoral success
Berggren, Niclas (contributor); Jordahl, Hnerik (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375028
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The right look : conservative politicians look better and voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010 - Revised version: February 8, 2012
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008760516
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003756987
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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