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On the size distributions of firms and markets
Asplund, Marcus - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000167968
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Efficiency of labour use in the Swedish banking industry : a stochastic frontier approach
Battese, George Edward; Heshmati, Almas; Hjalmarsson, … - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000167989
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Estimating the effects of vocational rehabilitation programs in Sweden
Heshmati, Almas; Engström, Lars-Gunnar - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000168184
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Why agency costs explain diversification discounts /by Henrik Cronqvist, Peter Högfeldt, and Mattias Nilsson
Cronqvist, Henrik; Högfeldt, Peter; Nilsson, Mattias - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000168215
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How should research performances be measures? : evidence from rankings of academic economists
Henrekson, Magnus (contributor);  … - 2008
Billions of euros are allocated every year to university research. Increased specialisation and international integration of research and researchers has sharply raised the need for comparisons of performance across fields, institutions and individual researchers. However, there is still no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003651425
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Service-sector competition, innovation and R&D
Tinqvall, Patrik Gustavsson (contributor);  … - 2008
The central prediction of the Aghion et al. (2005) model is an inverted U-shaped relation between innovation and competition. The model is built on the assumption of a product market and has not yet been empirically tested on service-sector firms. Using detailed firm-level data, we find the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766821
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The evolution of top incomes in an egalitarian society : Sweden, 1903 - 2004
Roine, Jesper (contributor);  … - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903 to 2004. We find that … included or not. Including them, Sweden’s experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top … incomes, whereas excluding them Sweden looks more like the Continental European countries where top income shares have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003307327
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Do politicians free-ride? : an empirical test of the common pool model
Tyrefors, Björn (contributor) - 2006 - Latest version Oct. 2006, First version April 2005
political behavior. This study uses a compulsory amalgamation reform of municipalities in Sweden to test for such behavior. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003319347
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Mental accounting in the housing market
Almenberg, Johan; Karapetyan, Artashes - 2009 - Rev. August 28, 2010
We report evidence that salience may have economically significant effects on homeowners' borrowing behavior, through a bias in favour of less salient but more costly loans. We outline a simple model in which some consumers are biased. Under plausible assumptions, the bias may affect prices in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833830
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Automatic fiscal stabilizers in Sweden 1998 - 2009
Flodén, Martin - 2009
In this note, I examine how the responsiveness of the Swedish public budget to business-cycle conditions has developed between 1998 and 2009. I document substantial changes in three components behind the budget elasticity: (i) the average level of personal income taxes has fallen substantially,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833832