Nationell konferens i nationalekonomi 27-28 september 2012, Stockholms universitet, Aula Magna
Onsdag 26/9
20.00 – 21.00
Välkomstdrink
Mornington Hotel, Bistron, Nybrogatan 53
Torsdag 27/9
9.00 – 9.50
Registrering (Aula Magna Galleriet)
9.50 – 10.00
Välkomsthälsning
10.00 – 12.00
Parallella sessioner
Micro I: Theory and Evidence (Mimer)
Rikard Forslid (SU), T Okubo & K H Ulltveit-Moe
Why are firms that export cleaner? International trade and CO2 emissions
Kommentator: Sven Tengstam (GU)
Mats Bergman (Södertörn) & Johan Stake
Bid distribution and transaction costs
Kommentator: Christian Huse (HHS)
Eleonora Patacchini & Yves Zenou (SU)
Social networks and parental behavior in the intergenerational transmission of religion
Kommentator: Johan Stennek (GU)
Richard Friberg (HHS) & André Romahn
Price rigidity in the Swedish beer market
Kommentator: Shon Ferguson (IFN)
Macro I: Business Cycles (Polstjärnan)
Susanne Ek (UU)
Unemployment benefits or taxes: how should policy makers redistribute income over the business cycle?
Kommentator: Michael Olson (Skövde)
Paul Elger (HHS)
The impact of paycheck on expenditures
Kommentator: Stefan Eriksson (UU)
Karolina Stadin (UU)
Vacancy matching and labor market conditions
Kommentator: Karin Edmark (IFN)
Development (Bergmannen)
Michele Valsecchi (GU)
Land property rights and international migration: evidence from Mexico
Tessa Bold (IIES)
Jan Pettersson & Johan Wikström (SCB)
Peeing out of poverty? Household effects of ecological sanitation in Mali
Kommentator: Måns Söderbom (GU)
Tony Addison & Jörgen Levin (Örebro)
The determinants of tax revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kommentator: Therese Nilsson (LU)
Tessa Bold (IIES), M Kimenyi, G Mwabu, A Ng'ang'a & J Sandefur
Interventions & institutions: experimental evidence on scaling up education reforms in Kenya
Kommentator: Heather Congdon Fors (GU)
Evaluation I (Spelbomskan)
Matthew Lindquist & Torsten Santavirta (SOFI)
Does placing children in out-of-home care increase their adult criminality?
Kommentator: Anna Sjögren (IFAU)
Katarina Katz (Karlstad) & Torun Österberg
Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden - education, returns to education and overeducation
Kommentator: Mikael Lindahl (UU)
Anna Sjögren (IFAU) & Helena Svalerud
Sick of school? The consequences of the Swedish reforms to grading, admission and graduation standards in
the 1990's
Kommentator: Karin Hederos Eriksson (HHS)
Mattias Engdahl (UU)
Naturalizations and labor market outcomes, human capital accumulation and family formation
Kommentator: Jonas Vlachos (SU)
12.00 – 13.30
Lunch (Galleriet)
13.30 – 15.30
Parallella sessioner
Micro II: Incentives (Mimer)
Eva Mörk (UU) & Mattias Nordin
Tax setting and electoral accountability
Kommentator: Richard Friberg (HHS)
Morgan Westéus (UmU)
Settlement probability asymmetries in the Swedish labor court
Kommentator: Eva Mörk (UU)
Cláudia Custódio & Daniel Metzger (HHS)
Financial expert CEOs
Kommentator: Ola Bengtsson (LU)
Ola Bengtsson (LU) & Dan Bernhardt
Different problem, same solution: contract-specialization in venture capital
Kommentator: Daniel Metzger (HHS)
Wealth Inequality and Life Cycles (Polstjärnan)
Tobias Laun (HHS) & Johanna Wallenius
A life cycle model of health and retirement: the case of Swedish pension reform
Kommentator: Åsa Ljungvall (LU)
C Håkanson, Erik Lindqvist (HHS) & J Vlachos
Sorting of skill over time: evidence from Sweden 1986-2008
Kommentator: Torsten Santavirta (SOFI)
Deng Queheng & Björn Gustafsson (GU)
A new episode of increased urban income inequality in China
Kommentator: Jan Pettersson (UU)
Stefan Hochguertel & Henry Ohlsson (UU)
Who is at the top? Wealth mobility over the life cycle
Kommentator: Matthew Lindquist (SOFI)
Political I: Corruption (Bergmannen)
Andreas Bergh (IFN), G Fink & R Öhrvall
Public sector size and corruption: evidence from 290 Swedish municipalities
Kommentator: Magnus Wikström (UmU)
O Borcan, Mikael Lindahl (UU) & A Mitrut
The impact of an unexpected wage cut on corruption: evidence from a "Xeroxed" exam
Kommentator: Martin Ljunge (Köpenhamn)
A Dimico, A Isopi & Ola Olsson
Origins of the Sicilian mafia: the market for lemons
Kommentator: Yves Zenou (SU)
R Eriksson, Olle Folke (Columbia) & J Snyder
A gubernatorial helping hand? How governors affect presidential elections
Kommentator: Mikael Elinder (UU)
Evaluation II (Spelbomskan)
G van den Berg, P Lundborg & Johan Vikström (IFAU)
The long-term social and economic consequences of losing a child
Kommentator: Mikael Svensson (Karlstad)
Maria Börjesson (KTH), D Jonsson & M Lundberg
Var det lönsamt att bygga Stockholms tunnelbana?
Kommentator: Ulrika Vikman (IFAU)
Simona Bejenariu & Andreea Mitrut (UU)
Save some, lose some: biological consequences of an unexpected wage cut
Kommentator: Johan Vikström (IFAU)
Lisa Laun (SU) & Peter Skogman Thoursie
Does privatisation of vocational rehabilitation improve labour market opportunities? Evidence from a field
experiment in Sweden
Kommentator: Susanne Ek (UU)
Paneldiskussion (Aula Magna Vänster): Den nationella utvärderingen av utbildningen i nationalekonomi
Siv Gustavsson (professor emerita, Amsterdams universitet, ledamot av bedömargruppen)
Lars Hultkrantz (professor, Örebro universitet, ordförande i HSVs bedömargrupp)
Tobias Lundquist (civ.ek., Finansförbundet, ledamot av bedömargruppen)
Paul Nystedt (docent, Linköpings universitet, ledamot av bedömargruppen)
Lars Behrenz (docent, Linnéuniversitetet)
David Edgerton (professor, Lunds universitet)
Matilda Kilström (ordförande i nationalekonomiska ämnesrådet och student på masterprogram i
nationalekonomi, Stockholms universitet)
Astri Muren (professor, Stockholms universitet)
Moderator: Anna-Karin Bjurling (planeringsenheten, Stockholms universitet, tidigare HSV med ansvar för
utvärderingen av journalistik)
15.30-16.30
Postersession (Galleriet) / Kaffe
Ulrika Vikman (IFAU)
Paid parental leave to immigrants - An obstacle to labor market entrance?
Per-Olof Robling (SOFI)
Rising immigration and the evolution of income inequality: The Swedish experience 1980-2009
Jonas Kolsrud (UU)
Precaution versus risk aversion: Decomposing the effect of unemployment benefits on saving
Hilda Ralsmark (LU) (P Lundborg, D-O Rooth)
The more the healthier? Health and family size
Karin Hederos Eriksson (HHS) & Anna Sandberg (HHS)
Gender differences in initiation of negotiation: does the gender of the negotiation counterpart matter?
Hamid Bounstanifar (HHS)
Finance and employment: Evidence from U.S. banking deregulation
Gustav Engström (Beijer)
Structural change in a two-sector model of the climate and the economy
Eric Sjöberg (SU)
Political influence on environmental sanction charges in Swedish municipalities
Christian Odendahl (SU) (R Freier)
Do absolute majorities spend less? Evidence from Germany
Arizo Karimi (IFAU) (N Angelov)
Are fertility effects on female labor supply persistent?
Anton Nilsson (LU) (P Lundborg, D-O Rooth)
Parental education and offspring outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish compulsory schooling reforms
Anna Persson (UU)
The effect of welfare-to-work programs on crime: Evidence from a natural experiment
Andreas Hatzigeorgiou (LU) (M Lodefalk)
Does migration spur foreign trade? New evidence from Sweden
Adrian Adermon (UU)
Sibling spillovers in education
Lina Maria Ellegård (LU) (J Dietrichson)
Assist or desist? Intergovernmental grants, conditional bailouts, and the soft budget constraint
Maria Cheung (SU)
Edutainment radio, women's status and primary school participation: Evidence from Cambodia
Niklas Kaunitz (SU) (J Egebark)
Payroll taxes and youth unemployment
Johannes Hagen (UU) (P Engström)
Tax evasion and self-employment over time: Evidence from Sweden
16.30 – 17.30
Assar Lindbeck-medaljen (Aula Magna Vänster)
Assar Lindbeck (professor, IIES, Stockholms universitet)
Reflektioner om nationalekonomins styrka och begränsningar
Per Strömberg (professor, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm och SIFR)
Riskkapital, skuldsättning och incitament
Tore Ellingsen (professor, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm)
Presentation av pristagaren
Prisceremoni
17.30 – 18.30
Mingel (Galleriet)
19.00
Middag
Sjöfartshuset, Skeppsbron 10
Fredag 28/9
9.00 – 10.30
Parallella sessioner
Micro III (Mimer)
Shon Ferguson (IFN)
Endogenous product differentiation, market size and prices
Kommentator: Florin Maican (GU)
Johan Stennek (GU)
Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality: A model of union formation and goal setting
Kommentator: Erik Sjöberg (SU)
Thomas Aronsson & Magnus Wikström (UmU)
Optimal tax progression: Does it matter if wage bargaining is centralized or decentralized?
Kommentator: Mats Bergman (Södertörn)
Macro II (Polstjärnan)
Pia Fromlet (UU)
Monetary policy under discretion or commitment?
Kommentator: Annika Alexius (SU)
Annika Alexius (SU), H Birenstam & J Eklund
The interbank market risk premium, central bank interventions, and measures of market liquidity
Kommentator: Pia Fromlet (UU)
Vesna Corbo (UU) & Andreas Westermark
The replacement ratio, unemployment and wage setting
Kommentator: Roine Vestman (SU)
Political II (Bergmannen)
Lars Jonung (LU)
The enduring popularity of the euro
Kommentator: Olle Folke (Columbia)
Karin Edmark (IFN) & Roger Gordon
Taxes and choice of organizational form by entrepreneurs in Sweden
Kommentator: Jonas Häckner (SU)
T Besley, O Folke, T Persson & Johanna Rickne (IFN)
Forced to succeed: gender quotas, party leadership and candidate quality
Kommentator: Ola Olsson (GU)
Evaluation III (Spelbomskan)
M Karlsson, Therese Nilsson (LU) & S Pichler
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger? The impact of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic on economic
performance in Sweden
Kommentator: Daniel Waldenström (UU)
Martin Ljunge (Köpenhamn)
Trust issues: evidence from second generation immigrants
Kommentator: Torun Österberg (GU)
Mikael Elinder & Oscar Erixson (UU)
Gender, social norms and survival in maritime disasters
Kommentator: Lina Maria Ellegård (LU)
Environment (Kungsstenen)
Therese Lindahl (Beijer), A-S Crépin & C Schill
Managing resources with potential regime shifts: using experiments to explore social-ecological linkages in
common resource systems
Kommentator: Gustav Engström (Beijer)
Christian Huse (HHS)
Fast and furious (and dirty): how asymmetric regulation may hinder environmental policy
Kommentator: Kristina Mohlin (GU)
10.30 – 11.00
Kaffe
11.00 – 12.30
Paneldiskussion (Aula Magna Höger): Miljö och ekonomiska styrmedel
Åsa Romson (språkrör, miljöpartiet)
Roger Tiefensee (riksdagsledamot och miljöpolitisk talesperson för centerpartiet)
Thomas Sterner (professor, Göteborgs universitet)
John Hassler (professor, IIES, Stockholms universitet)
Moderator: Ann-Sophie Crépin (PhD, Beijerinstitutet)
12.30 -
Lunch (Lantis)