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Do reported attitudes towards Immigrants predict ethnic discrimination?

Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - 2012

Reported attitudes towards immigrants are sometimes used as a proxy for ethnic discrimination. However, there is little empirical evidence of a link between attitudes and discrimination. In this paper, we use survey data on people's attitudes towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic...

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Early interventions and disability insurance: Experience from a field experiment

Engström, Per; Hägglund, Pathric; Johansson, Per - 2012

This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We find that the early interventions - in contrast to what is expected - increase the inflow into...

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Does privatisation of vocational rehabilitation improve labour market opportunities? Evidence from a field experiment in Sweden

Jönsson, Lisa; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012

This paper analyses if privatisation of vocational rehabilitation can improve labour market opportunities for … rehabilitation. We find no differences in employment rates following rehabilitation between individuals who received rehabilitation … by private and public providers. Also the average cost of rehabilitation was essentially equal for the two types of …

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New flight regimes and exposure to aircraft noise: Identifying housing price effects using a ratio-of-ratios approach

Boes, Stefan; Nüesch, Stephan - 2009

In October 2003, a new flight regime was introduced at Zurich airport that significantly changed the levels of noise pollution in surrounding communities. We investigate the impact of the new flight policy on apartment prices using a hedonic price model and a non-linear difference-in-differences...

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Turnover and Price in the Housing Market: Causation, Association or Independence?

Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per - 2002

We give general conditions for the data generating process to facilitate the testing of structural dependence of turnover on the average (or median) price in the homogenous housing market. Furthermore, the implications of aggregation over sub-markets is studied. A plausible explanation of the...

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Fiskalische Spielräume für eine offensive Wohnungsbaupolitik

Heine, Michael; Herr, Hansjörg - 2022

Fiskalpolitik ist ein zentraler Bereich makroökonomischer Politik. Die Schuldenbremse in Deutschlands und der Fiskalpakt im Bereich der Europäischen Währungsunion haben den Spielraum für die Fiskalpolitik dysfunktional und schädlich eingeschränkt. Als Hintertür verbleiben in Deutschland...

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Property taxation, bounded rationality and housing prices

Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - 2014

In 2008, the Swedish property tax was reformed and a cap on yearly tax liabilities was introduced. A large fraction of owner occupied houses was subject to a substantial decrease in the tax. When the reform was announced, most analysts projected - in line with tax capitalization theory - that...

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The price of inattention: Evidence from the Swedish housing market

Repetto, Luca; Solis, Alex - 2017

Do behavioral biases a affect prices in a high-stake market? We study the role of left digit bias in the purchase of an apartment, one of the most important assets in a household's portfolio. Left-digit bias is the inability to fully process digits after the first, perceiving prices just below a...

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Here lives a wealthy man: Price rigidity and predictability in luxury housing markets

Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2018

We use novel and unique data to study the effect of price changes in the market for luxury and middle class homes. We find that luxury home sales respond less to price changes than the middle-class home sales; in the market for luxury homes, past prices affect current prices; luxury home prices...

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Endogenous bank credit and its link to housing in OECD countries

Arestis, Philip; González, Ana Rosa - 2013

The relevant economic literature frequently focuses on the impact of credit shocks on housing prices. The doctrine of the New Consensus Macroeconomics completely ignores bank credit. The Great Recession, however, has highlighted the significance of bank credit. The purpose of this contribution...

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