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Property taxation, bounded rationality and housing prices

Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - 2014

projected - in line with tax capitalization theory - that the tax decrease would lead to significant increases in house prices …. We estimate price responses and capitalization degrees, using various DID strategies, in which the price dynamics of … reduction. Our results are largely inconsistent with capitalization theory. For the majority of properties, we find no evidence …

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Competition, performance and portfolio quality in microfinance markets

Kar, Ashim Kumar; Swain, Ranjula Bali - 2014

In recent years growing competition in the microfinance industry has been censured for multiple borrowing, default crises, high interest rates and coercive recovery of loans. Using the Boone indicator as a measure for competition, our paper investigates the impact of competition on microfinance...

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Local television, citizen knowledge and political accountability: Evidence from the U.S. Senate

Mattias, Nordin - 2015

I investigate the causal effect of access to relevant local television on i) U.S. citizens' knowledge of their senators' actions in the Senate and ii) whether citizens hold their senators accountable for these actions. To do so, I utilize the mismatch between the local television markets and the...

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Born to be an entrepreneur? How cultural origin affects entrepreneurship

Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon - 2018

Persistent differences in entrepreneurial activity between regions and countries remain unexplained. This paper argues that cultural heritage is an important determinant. We exploit a quasi-experimental setting comparing entrepreneurial activities of individuals with different cultural ancestry...

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Forward-looking moral hazard in social insurance: Evidence from a natural experiment

Eliason, Marcus; Johansson, Per-Olov; Nilsson, Martin - 2018

This study tests for forward-looking moral hazard in the social insurance system by exploiting a 1991 reform in Sweden. The replacement rate was reduced for short absences but not for long absences, which introduced a potential future cost of returning to work. Using this exogenous variation in...

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Putting teenagers on the pill: The consequences of subsidized contraception

Grönqvist, Hans - 2009

This paper investigates the consequences of a series of Swedish policy changes beginning in 1989 where different regions started subsidizing the birth control pill. The reforms were significant and applied to all types of oral contraceptives. My identification strategy takes advantage of the...

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Economic incentives and long-term sickness absence: The indirect effect of replacement rates on absence behavior

Nilsson, Martin - 2015

Reductions in SI replacement levels has been a widely used instrument to lower sickness absence rates. The idea is that increasing the direct cost of absence would lower the absence rate. This paper explores a reform to the compulsory Swedish SI that meant that the replacement rate varied over...

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The Effect of Elections on Economic Growth: Results from a Natural Experiment in Indonesia

Moricz, Sara; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2014

Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from possible endogeneity problems: democratization is typically not random and might be affected by factors that also have an impact on economic growth. This paper narrows down the...

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The Persistent Effects of Short-Term Peer Groups in Higher Education

Thiemann, Petra - 2018

This paper studies the persistent effects of short-term peer exposure in a college setting. I exploit the random assignment of undergraduates to peer groups during a mandatory orientation week and follow the students until graduation. High levels of peer ability in a group harm the students'...

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Immigration and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mehic, Adrian - 2019

Between the 2014 and 2018 Swedish parliamentary elections, the vote share of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats increased significantly. To evaluate the possibility of a causal link between immigration and the right-wing populist vote, this paper uses data from a nationwide policy experiment,...

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