Che-Yuan Liang
Researcher

Primary fields of interest and research topics:

Public Economics, Political Economics, and Behavioral Economics

Articles in refereed journals:

"Merged Municipalities, Higher Debt: On Free-Riding and the Common Pool Problem in Politics", with Henrik Jordahl, July 2009, Forthcoming in Public Choice

"Maternal-Biased Parental Leave", with Per Engström and Ann-Sofie Kolm, Journal of Economic Psychology 30, 583-590, 2009

Unpublished work:

"Beslut över Tid - Kritik mot Diskonterade Nyttomodellen Samt Alternativa Modeller", Master thesis in Economics at Uppsala University, Spring 2004

"Beslut under Risk - Hur Prospektteorin Besvarar Kritiken mot Förväntade Nyttoteorin", with Fredrik Düring, Bachelor thesis in Economics at Uppsala University, Fall 2003

Current research projects:

“File-Sharing, Record Sales, and Cinema Attendance: A Natural Experiment”, Co-authored with Adrian Adermon

Evaluation of Effects of the Swedish Income Tax Credit, Co-authored with Karin Edmark, Eva Mörk, and Håkan Selin

"Estimation of Taxable Income Elasticity in a Nonlinear Budget Set Framework”, Co-authored with Sören Blomquist, Anil Kumar, and Whitney Newey

Nonparametric Structural Estimation of Labor Supply in the Presence of Censoring", Working Paper, May 2009

"Collective Lobbying in Politics: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Sweden", Chapter 3 in dissertation December 2008, (Working Paper available February 2008)

"Is There an Incumbency Advantage or Cost of Ruling in Proportional Election Systems", July 2009, (Working Paper available December 2007)