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1. 1. Essays on Panel Cointegration

   Författare :Joakim Westerlund; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Cross-Sectional Dependence; Common factor restriction; Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle; Fisher Hypothesis; economic policy; economic theory; economic systems; Economics; econometrics; Structural Break.; Sieve Bootstrap; Information Criteria; Residual-Based Cointegration Test; Panel Cointegration; Monte Carlo Simulation; Model Selection; International R D Spillovers; International Health Care Expenditures;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis develops new techniques for analyzing cointegrated relationships in panel data. The first chapter is introductory while the remaining six contain the main contributions. LÄS MER

3. 2. Effects of arousal and experimental setting on use of the availability heuristic in frequency and probability estimates

   Författare :Joakim Westerlund; Peter Juslin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; psykologi; Psychology;

   Sammanfattning : According to Tversky and Kahneman’s (1973) availability heuristic, people sometimes use the ease with which instances can be retrieved as a cue for making frequency or probability estimations. In the present dissertation, several previous studies on the availability heuristic are reviewed. LÄS MER

4. 3. Mostly Panel Econometrics : Essays on Asymptotic Analysis and Enhanced Inference

   Författare :Ovidijus Stauskas; Joakim Westerlund; Ignace De Vos; Milda Norkute; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Econometrics; Panel Data; Factor Models; Bootstrap; Forecasting; Non-Stationary Data; Common Correlated Effects; CCE;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of five chapters which focus on panel data theory. Four of them analyze explicit panel data models and one chapter deals with time series forecasting model, where external panel data help us estimate unobserved explanatory variables. LÄS MER

5. 4. Coincidences and Paranormal Belief

   Författare :Gergö Hadlaczky; Joakim Westerlund; Henry Montgomery; Peter Brugger; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Coincidences; surprise; paranormal belief; parapsychology; telepathy; associative processing; probabilistic reasoning; Ganzfeld; associative learning; automatic processing; controlled processing; Psychology; psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis it is argued that coincidences play an important role in the formation of belief, including belief in the paranormal. Three papers are presented. LÄS MER

7. 5. Subliminal or not? : An appraisal of semantic processing in the near absence of visual awareness

   Författare :Anders Sand; Mats Nilsson; Joakim Westerlund; Zoltan Dienes; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Subliminal priming; Signal detection theory; Bayesian statistics; Visual masking; Consciousness; Awareness; Unconscious processing; Semantic priming; Psychology; psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : Stimuli that cannot be perceived (i.e., that are subliminal) can still elicit neural responses in an observer, but can such stimuli influence behavior and higher-order cognition? Empirical evidence for such effects has periodically been accepted and rejected over the last six decades. LÄS MER