Search for dissertations about: "Sweden Stockholm Stockholm School Of Economics"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 111 swedish dissertations containing the words Sweden Stockholm Stockholm School Of Economics.

  2. 11. Essays on the effects of fiscal and monetary policy

    Author : Jesper Lindé; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis contains four essays, which studies the macroeconomic effects of fiscal and monetary policy quantitatively. The first essay investigates whether Swedish postwar business cycles have been generated by domestic or foreign shocks and finds that they are about equally important. READ MORE

  4. 12. Aid, drugs, and informality : essays in empirical economics

    Author : Ola Granström; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The first three papers of this Ph.D. thesis experimentally study the preferences of individuals making cross-border charitable donations. In Is Foreign Aid Paternalistic? (with Anna Breman and Felix Masiye) subjects choose whether to make a monetary or a tied transfer (mosquito nets) to an anonymous household in Zambia. READ MORE

  5. 13. Five empirical studies on income distribution in Sweden

    Author : Mårten Palme; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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  6. 14. Education & replication : essays on the determinants of college choice and the predictability of lab replications

    Author : Adam Altmejd; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This Ph.D. thesis is a collection of three research articles.In "Sibling Influence on College Choice" the author studies how preferences for university schooling are affected by the education experience of siblings. READ MORE

  7. 15. Societal Impacts of Modern Conscription : Human Capital, Social Capital and Criminal Behaviour

    Author : Daniel Almén; Heléne Berg; Mårten Palme; Yann Algan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Conscription; Military; Human Capital; Social Capital; Civic Engagement; Crime; Criminal Behaviour; Labour Market; Election Participation; Nation-building; School for the Nation; Opportunity Cost; Welfare State; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Opportunity Costs and Conscription: An Unintended Progressive Tax?Throughout history to present days, policymakers, social commentators and others have oftentimes viewed conscription as a natural extension of secondary education, and an important institution for vocational training. This paper uses Swedish administrative data and exploits a reform in 2004, implying a sudden downsizing of the military, to identify the causal effects of peacetime conscription on later labour market outcomes and education. READ MORE