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Essays on Growth and Political Transition

Hakobyan, Lilit - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

The thesis consists of a summary and three self-contained papers related to political transition and economic growth with parallel study of countries with and without Military Dictatorship (MD) history. Paper [1]: studies the experience of 83 countries in 1950-2004 and addresses the question:...

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Political Transition, Economic Growth and Reoccurring Crisis in Countries with and without Experience of Military Dictatorship

Hakobyan, Lilit - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

democratisation induces additional socially wasteful investments into de facto political power. In addition, the analyses suggest that … “weak” to a “strong” one. Finally, the potential trade-off between democratisation and political stability seems to be …

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Economic Stagnation and Stable Growth: The Persistence and Survival of Growth Regimes under Political Transitions

Hakobyan, Lilit - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

military dictatorship (MD), the episodes of fast-growing regimes initiated by political democratisation have an approximately …

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Income Inequality, Competitiveness of Political Systems and the Distance to the Efficient Frontier of Economic Growth

Hakobyan, Lilit - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

) variations in within-country effects of democratisation on the mean, variance and efficiency of economic growth conditional on …. The results suggest (do not suggest) that in countries with no (with) military dictatorship history democratisation moves … economies towards the efficient frontier. The positive effect of democratisation on the efficiency of economic performance seems …

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Essays on Agricultural and Environmental Policy

Jonsson, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

This thesis consists of a summary and four papers. The first two papers address political economy and industrial organization aspects of agricultural policy, and the last two international aspects of environmental policy. Paper [1] explains Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies to farmers...

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Public Goods and Optimal Paternalism under Present-Biased Preferences

Aronsson, Thomas; Granlund, David - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010

This paper deals with the optimal provision of a state-variable public good in a two-type model, when the consumers have present-biased preferences due to quasi-hyperbolic discounting. The results show that the preference for immediate gratification facing the (mimicking) high-ability type...

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Positional Concerns with Multiple Reference Points: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods in an OLG Model

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2008

This paper concerns optimal income taxation and provision of a state-variable public good under asymmetric information in a two-type overlapping generations model, where people care about their relative consumption. Each individual may compare his/her own current consumption with his/her own...

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When the Joneses’ Consumption Hurts: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Good Provision in an OLG Model

Aronsson, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

This paper considers a two-type, self-selection, overlapping generations model with nonlinear labor income and capital income taxation and public good provision, when people care about their relative consumption compared to others. In each case, the standard optimality expressions are modified...

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Demand for Environmental Quality: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Behavior in Sweden

Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

In this paper we estimate the income elasticity of demand for recreational services and other traditional groups of goods in Sweden and test for potential changes in such estimates over the twentieth century. Due to the difficulty of directly observing the demand for recreational services, we...

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POSITIONAL PREFERENCES IN TIME AND SPACE: IMPLICATIONS FOR OPTIMAL INCOME TAXATION

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010

This paper concerns optimal nonlinear taxation in an OLG model with two ability-types, where people care about their own consumption relative to (i) other people’s current consumption, (ii) own past consumption, and (iii) other people’s past consumption. We show that intertemporal...

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