The price of timber stumpage is one of the few natural-resource rents that can be directly observed as a market price. Rules for optimal timber harvesting under uncertainty have been found to depend on whether the timber rent price is non-stationary or stationary. In this study we extend...

We modify a method recently suggested by Weitzman (2012, 2013) for determining a risk-adjusted social discount rate (SDR) term structure consistent with both the (augmented) Ramsey rule and the consumption-based CAPM. Using this approach we estimate SDR for transportation infrastructure...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate regional effects of military base closures in Sweden during the last decades. Our analysis is based on a regional growth model, where two equations are estimated; one equation describing the average income growth rate and one equation describing the net...

Andersson L. (2004) Regional risk-sharing provided by the fiscal system: empirical evidence from Sweden, Reg. Studies38, 269-280. The objective of this paper is to analyse risk-sharing among municipalities in Sweden in terms of how the central government smooths personal income via the tax and...

Andersson L. Fiscal flows and financial markets: to what extent do they provide risk sharing within Sweden?, Regional Studies. The objective of this paper is to analyse the amount of risk sharing that takes place between regions in Sweden. It is found that the capital market is the largest...