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Intergenerational Redistribution, Health Care, and Politics

Lundin, Douglas; Sáez Martí, María - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2002

fund or debt will affect the degree of redistribution as well as how efficient the financing of health care is. In a voting …

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Political Polarization

Dixit, Avinash; Weibull, Jörgen - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

Failures of government policies often provoke opposite reactions from citizens; some call for a reversal of the policy while others favor its continuation in stronger form. We offer an explanation of such polarization, based on a natural bimodality of preferences in political and economic...

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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 …

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Trade unions, employee share ownership and wage setting: A supply-side approach to the share economy

Renström, Thomas I.; Roszbach, Kasper - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1995

Employee share ownership is growing increasingly important. This paper studies employee share ownership in an economy with one monopoly union for each firm. We modify an implicit contra t model by adding dividend income to the usual wage income. Union members differ in exogenous stock endowments...

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Commitee decisions: optimality and equilibrium

Laslier, Jean-François; Weibull, Jörgen - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2008

states of the world. We characterize the optimal anonymous and deterministic voting rule and provide a homogeneity assumption … on preferences and beliefs under which sincere voting is a Nash equilibrium for this rule. We also provide a necessary … and sufficient condition for sincere voting to be an equilibrium under any deterministic majoritarian voting rule. We show …

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Downsian competition in the absence of a Condorcet winner

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

platform. This suggest that local equilibrium policies can be the predicted outcome even if the voting process is not myopic in …

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Is Swedish Research in Economic History Internationally Integrated?

Waldenström, Daniel - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2004

This paper presents empirical evidence of the international integration of Swedish economic historians. Contrary to the claims of a recent national evaluation of the discipline, the Swedish shares of international publications and conference presentations are robustly below available...

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The Effect of Direct Democratic Institutions on Income Redistribution: Evidence for Switzerland

Feld, Lars P.; Fischer, Justina A.V.; Kirchgaessner, Gebhard - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007

There is an intensive dispute in political economics about the impact of institutions on income redistribution. While the main focus is on comparison between different forms of representative democracy, the influence of direct democracy on redistribution has attracted much less attention. In...

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Immigration Policy and Self-Selecting Migrants

Bianchi, Milo - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

We explore the implications of migrants' self-selection for the determination of immigration policy in a simple model where incentives and resources to migrate vary with skills. We show how self-selection determines the response of potential migrants to immigration policy changes, which is...

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Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden

Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2011

This paper compares cooperation among Columbian and Swedish children aged 9-12. We illustrate the dynamics of the prisoner’s dilemma in a new task that is easily understood by children and performed during a physical education class. We find some evidence that children cooperate more in Sweden...

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