Earlier studies estimating the demand for local public services by means of the median voter model have typically … assumed exogenous regressors and static set-ups. Furthermore, the commonly used log-linear specification of the demand … rationalised by a Cobb-Douglas utility function. This implies that the log-linear specification of the demand function is valid as …

This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of …

are evident differences in the age profiles for the demand of different assets. The fraction of risky financial assets …

We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to …

Realized capital gains are typically disregarded in the study of income inequality. We show that in the case of Sweden … surge in capital gains-driven inequality in Sweden since the 1980s. While there are no evident changes in terms of who earns …

for the U.K. Thereby, we explicitly disentangle credit supply and demand and allow the interest rate charged on loans to … shifts in demand. Overall, our results are consistent with the idea that banks provide insurance against liquidity shocks. …

small and foreign-owned firms are less likely to demand credit compared to audited and innovative firms. On the other hand …

Impact of changes in policy rate of interest on demand for bank credit is examined for seven emerging market economies … results show that when other determinants, like domestic demand pressure, export demand and impact of stock market signals are … controlled for, change in policy rate of interest is an important determinant of firms' demand for bank credit. The results …