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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Ethnic discrimination in the market place of small business transfers
- 2009
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Ingår i: Economics Bulletin. - 1545-2921. ; 29:4, s. 3050-3058
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the first field experiment regarding ethnic discrimination in the market place of small business transfers. We let two fictitious prospective buyers, one with a typical Swedish name and one with a typical Arab/Muslim name, respond to advertisements of small business transfers on the Internet in Sweden. We then recorded the number contacts achieved by each fictitious buyer with sellers. We found that sellers discriminated against the buyer with an Arab/Muslim name in the sense that the buyer with an Arab/Muslim name obtained fewer contacts with sellers than did the buyer with a Swedish name.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
(författare)
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Sexual orientation and occupational rank
- 2011
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Ingår i: Economics Bulletin. - 1545-2921. ; 31:3, s. 2422-2433
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a study of differences in occupational rank between gay and heterosexual males as well as between lesbian and heterosexual females. We estimate different specifications of an ordered probit model on register data from Sweden. Our data consist of married heterosexual men and women and homosexual men and women living in civil unions. We find that homosexual men have a lower probability of working in a profession demanding a longer university education or a management profession than heterosexual men. In contrast, we find that homosexual women are more likely than heterosexual women to work in such professions.
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- Andersson, Fredrik N G
(författare)
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Monetary Policy, Asset Price Inflation and Consumer Price Inflation
- 2011
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Ingår i: Economics Bulletin. - 1545-2921. ; 31:1, s. 759-770
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The overall price level contains prices of everything purchased or purchasable (Fischer, 1911). The consumer price index only covers a small subset of all prices in the economy and since these prices are among the stickiest in the economy, this index may not fully capture the true rate of monetary inflation in the short run. Merging all price indices into one overall index has been rejected, not least for practical reasons. Issing (2003), though, argues that money growth can be interpreted as a proxy for the overall inflation rate; hence it is unnecessary to create a price index if the money growth rate can be used instead. This paper builds on Assenmacher-Wesche and Gerlach (2008a, b), and analyzes the relationship between money growth and different price indices such as the consumer price index, GDP deflator, share price index and house price index in eight developed countries. The results show that money growth is correlated with financial asset price inflation in the short, medium and long run. Real asset price inflation and money growth are correlated over the medium and long term and consumer inflation and money growth only over the long term. Since all movements in money growth, short term and long term, are associated with price changes, this paper concludes that money growth may serve as a proxy for the overall inflation rate.
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- Andersson, Lina (current name Aldén, Lina), 1979-, et al.
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Self-employment matching: an analysis of dual-earner couples in Sweden
- 2010
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Ingår i: Economics Bulletin. - 1545-2921. ; 30:3, s. 2197-2209
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents an analysis of self-employment matching among dual-earner couples in Sweden. The results show that self-employment propensities are positively correlated across partners. Self-employment propensities are significantly higher for both males and females whose spouses are self-employed. The existence of ‘positive assortative mating' and the fact that self-employment knowledge and abilities are transferred across partners are presented as explanations for the results. One policy conclusion that can be drawn from the results is that if governments and policymakers want to increase the rate of female self-employment, stimulating overall self-employment might be effective, since an important determinant of female self-employment is having a self-employed spouse.
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- Andersson, Tommy
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A general strategy-proof fair allocation mechanism revisited
- 2009
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Ingår i: Economics Bulletin. - 1545-2921. ; 29:3, s. 1719-1724
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper revisits the fair and optimal allocation mechanism (Sun and Yang, Economics Letters 81:73-79, 2003) and demonstrates that it is coalitionally strategy-proof. The proof is valid for general preferences, it is simple and it is short.
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- Andersson, Tommy, et al.
(författare)
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A Simple Model of the Production-health Trade-off During an Epidemic
- 2022
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Ingår i: Economics Bulletin. - : Economics Bulletin. - 1545-2921. ; 42:1, s. 224-231
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to simplify the standard framework integrating epidemiological and economic concerns. We present a model where a social planner can influence the spread-intensity of an infection wave through a single parameter. The spread-intensity affects both economic activity and population health. We study the planner's optimal trade-off between upholding economic activity and preserving population health and show analytically that the solution has a natural interpretation with intuitive comparative statics
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- Arshia, Amiri, et al.
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HIV/AIDS-GDP Nexus? : Evidence from panel-data for African countries
- 2012
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Ingår i: Economics Bulletin. - 1545-2921. ; 32:1, s. 1060-1067
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To test potential bilateral causalities relation between HIV-AIDS mortality and GDP, we propose a simple Granger noncausality test for heterogeneous panel data models. 44 African countries are selected for annual pooled data from 1990 to 2009. Results are presented for the heterogeneous noncausality hypothesis (HENC), which tests, for each cross-section unit, the nullity of all the coefficients of the lagged explanatory variable. Bilateral causality relation is observed for 5 countries out of 44 (11% of the countries in our data set). We have 18 countries of unidirectional causality, which 14 are from HIV mortality rate to GDP (43% from total), and 4 are from GDP to HIV mortality rate (9% from total). These results alert for the risk of epidemic trap, initiated first by the deleterious effect of HIV-Aids on countries income.
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- Bezabih Ayele, Mintewab, et al.
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How much is too much? : Individual biodiversity conservation
- 2019
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Ingår i: Economics Bulletin. - : AccessEcon. - 1545-2921. ; 39:1, s. 247-255
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The individual farmer has little incentive to care about the public good properties of on-farm biodiversity in the formof different crop varieties. There is a common assumption that, because of this, farmers will tend to maintain too littlebiodiversity on their farms compared with the social optimum. However, in developing countries, this assumption doesnot fit with the empirical data: because of poorly functioning insurance markets, farmers tend to maintain a wide rangeof different crop varieties to hedge against weather shocks and other uncertainties. In this paper we develop atheoretical model to account for this apparent contradiction, and show that farmers may in fact even maintain toomuch biodiversity on their farms, compared with the social optimum.
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- Byström, Hans
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Executive compensation based on asset values
- 2012
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Ingår i: Economics Bulletin. - 1545-2921. ; 32:2, s. 1498-1502
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper describes how credit default swaps could be employed to create performance based executive compensation portfolios that reflect the value of a firm’s debt as well as equity; i.e. the total value of all a firm’s assets. We define so-called Asset Value Unit (AVU) compensation portfolios that work both for executive- and non-executive pay schemes in financial as well as non-financial firms.
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