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Political Polarization and the Size of Government

Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

We study the effect of political polarization on public spending using the dispersion of self-reported political preferences as our measure of polarization. Political polarization is strongly associated with smaller government in democratic countries, but there is no relationship between...

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Identity and Redistribution

Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

This paper models the interaction between individuals' identity choices and redistribution. Both redistributive …. First, redistribution is highest when society is ethnically homogenous, but the effect of ethnic diversity on redistribution …

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The political economics of not paying taxes

Roine, Jesper - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2003

This paper considers redistributive as well as political consequences of tax avoidance. When investing in tax avoidance is possible, the official tax rate does not necessarily correspond to what individuals actually pay in taxes. This affects both redistributive outcomes as well as individual's...

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On the Possibility of Political Change – Outcomes in Between Local and Global Equilibria

Olovsson, Conny; Roine, Jesper - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007

We study voting over education subsidies where poor individuals may be excluded and the rich may chose private … respect to the possibilities of political change seem general for problems of redistribution with excludability. …

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Characterization of Pareto Dominance

Voorneveld, Mark - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2002

The Pareto dominance relation is shown to be the unique nontrivial partial order on the set of finite-dimensional real vectors satisfying a number of intuitive properties.

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The Relationship between Happiness, Health and Socio-economic Factors: Results Based on Swedish Micro Data

Gerdtham, Ulf-G; Johannesson, Magnus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1997

This paper investigates the relationship between happiness (utility) and a host of socio-economic variables. The data set consists of a random sample of over 5,000 individuals from the Swedish adult population. Happiness is measured by a three-point categorical measure of overall happiness (not...

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Voting over tax schedules in the presence of tax avoidance

Roine, Jesper - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2003

This paper reconsiders the classical problem of majority voting over tax schedules, adding the possibility to avoid taxes. In this setting preferences over tax schedules are not determined by earned income, but rather by taxable income, which depends on the joint decisions of labor supply and...

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Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries

Fölster, Stefan; Henrekson, Magnus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

A number of cross-country comparisons do not find a robust negative relationship between government size and economic growth. In part this may reflect the prediction in economic theory that a negative relationship should exist primarily for rich countries with large public sectors. In this paper...

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Demand and Distance: Evidence on Cross-Border Shopping

Friberg, Richard; Asplund, Marcus; Wilander, Fredrik - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2005

While many studies have documented deviations from the Law of One Price in international settings, evidence is scarce on the extent to which consumers take advantage of price differentials and engage in cross border shopping. We use data from 287 Swedish municipalities to estimate how responsive...

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Capital Subsidies and the Performance of Firms

Bergström, Fredrik - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1998

: In many countries, governments grant different capital subsidies to the business sector in order to promote growth …. Also the EU, provides this type of subsidies. As De Long and Summers (1991) suggest there might be market failure … subsidies to firms in Sweden between 1987 and 1993. Panel data which distinguish between subsidised and non-subsidised firms in …

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