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11. Economic Decisions and Social Norms in Life and Death Situations
Sammanfattning : Essay 1: (with Mikael Elinder) Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of “women and children first” (WCF) gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew members give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters spanning three centuries, covering the fate of over 15,000 individuals of more than 30 nationalities. LÄS MER
12. On Tax Preferences and Fiscal Competition
Sammanfattning : In the first paper I am using Swedish survey data on people’s opinion about the municipal earned income tax to assess what shapes people’s preferences about this tax. The central result is that the tax rate actually faced by the respondents is not important for these preferences. LÄS MER
13. Essays on Housing : tax treatment, prices, and macroeconomic implications
Sammanfattning : Costly reversals of bad policies: the case of the mortgage interest deductionThis paper measures the welfare effects of removing the mortgage interest deduction under a variety of implementation scenarios. To this end, we build a life-cycle model with heterogeneous households calibrated to the U.S. LÄS MER
14. Utilization of tax allowances and corporate borrowing
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays on corporate taxation.Essay I is a descriptive analysis of the utilization of tax allowances by Swedish tax-paying firms. We conclude that firms have systematically failed to take full advantage of the allowances granted by the government. LÄS MER
15. The Hausman-MaCurdy Controversy and Tax Reform Evaluation Using Nonparametric Methods: Sweden 1980-1991
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