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The boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 in an international perspective

Jonung, Lars; Schuknecht, Ludger; Tujula, Mika - 2005

This paper compares the boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 with the average boom-bust pattern in … 1980s and 1990s. The boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 was driven by financial liberalization and a hard …

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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Macroeconomic impact on expected default frequency

Åsberg, Per; Shahnazarian, Hovick - 2008

We use a vector error correction model to study the long-term relationship between aggregate expected default frequency and the macroeconomic development, i.e. CPI, industry production and short-term interest rate. The model is used to forecast the median expected default frequency of the...

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Vacancy matching and labor market conditions

Stadin, Karolina - 2012

congestion effect. I use monthly panel data for all local labor markets in Sweden from 1992-2011. The results suggest that …

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Inflation Targeting Is a Success, So Far: 100 Years of Evidence from Swedish Wage Contracts

Fregert, Klas; Jonung, Lars - 2008

Inflation targeting was adopted by several countries, including Sweden, in the 1990s. We evaluate the Swedish inflation … compared to previous regimes adopted in Sweden during the 20th century. Our approach to evaluate inflation targeting is … century of observations, inflation targeting in Sweden is a success – at least so far. …

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Inflation Targeting Is a Success, So Far: 100 Years of Evidence from Swedish Wage Contracts

Jonung, Lars; Fregert, Klas - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-31, pp. 1-25

announced. Inflation targeting has thus reduced macroeconomic uncertainty compared to previous regimes adopted in Sweden … fixed exchange rates. As judged by the reactions of the labor market participants, inflation targeting in Sweden is a …

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LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2000

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

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Portfolio Allocation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Swedish Household Data

Andersson, Björn - 2001

This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households. Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the period 1982-1992, and portfolio shares of different asset categories are regressed on age, period, and...

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Ethical vs. non-ethical - is there a difference? Analyzing performance of ethical and non-ethical investment fund

Lundberg, Linnéa; Novák, Jiří; Vikman, Maria - 2009

Ethical investments have become increasingly popular over the past years. Ethical funds restrict their investment based on environmental, social and/or ethical criteria. Prior research on the performance of ethical versus non-ethical funds yields mixed results. This paper investigates the...

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Empirical risk factors in realized stock returns

Novák, Jiří; Petr, Dalibor - 2009

Measuring risk in the stock market context is one of the key challenges of modern finance. Despite of the substantial significance of the topic to investors and market regulators, there is a controversy over what risk factors should be used to price the assets or to determine the cost of...

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