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Political Rents in a Non-Corrupt Democracy

Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

A fundamental problem in all political systems is that the people in power may extract rents to the detriment of the … bay. We develop a simple model where rents are decreasing in the degree of political competition and voter information. In … substantially reduce direct measures of legal political rents among local governments in a non-corrupt democracy (Sweden). …

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Stimulating Local Public Employment: Do General Grants Work?

Lundqvist, Heléne; Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists’ minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...

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Decentralisation of Active Labour Market Policy: The Case of Swedish Local Employment Service Committees

Skedinger, Per; Lundin, Martin - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

Decentralisation of decision-making in active labour market policy makes it possible to use local information to the fullest, but may also impinge on the fulfilment of national objectives, as suggested by principal-agent theory. The purpose of this study is to ex-amine the effects of a Swedish...

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The Intertemporal Spending Behavior of Local Governments : A Comparative Analysis of the Scandinavian Countries.

Borge, L.E.; Dahleberg, M.; Tovmo, P. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001

The paper investigates the intertemporal spending behavior of Scandinavian local governments with particular attention to liquidity constraints imposed by balanced-budget-rules and other regulations. The main finding is that Danish local governments are more able to smooth current expenditures...

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Municipal Labour Demand - Sweden 1988 - 1995

Bergström, Pål; Dahlberg, Matz; Johansson, Eva - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

In this paper we investigate the determinants of municipal labour demand in Sweden 1988-1995. Utilising a major grant reform in 1993, through which a switch from mainly targeted to mainly general central government grants occurred, we are able to identify which type of grants that have the...

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An Empirical Approach for Evaluating Soft Budget Constraints

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Dahlberg, Matz - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

In this paper, we develop an empirical framework for detecting the existence and estimating the magnitude of the softness of a budget constraint. The defining feature of a soft budget constraint is a subordinate organization’s expectations of being bailed out by a superior organization in case...

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Intergovernmental Grants and Bureaucratic Power

Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008

In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...

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Effects of decentralization on school resources: Sweden 1989-2002

Mörk, Eva; Ahlin, Åsa - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

Sweden has undertaken major national reforms of its school sector which, consequently, has been classified as one of the most decentralized ones in the OECD. This paper investigates whether school resources became more unequally distributed across municipalities in connection with the reforms...

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Who Wants Political Integration? Evidence from the Swedish EU-Membership Referendum

Vlachos, Jonas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

The regional voting pattern of the Swedish EU-membership referendum is analyzed to determine voters' preferences over two fiscal regimes: an autonomous Sweden, or Sweden as part of the EU. A major difference between these regimes is that autonomy gives greater national discretion to handle...

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Preferential Voting, Accountability and Promotions into Political Power: Evidence from Sweden

Folke, Olle; Persson, Torsten; Rickne, Johanna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

Preferential voting has been introduced in a number of proportional election systems over the last 20 years, mainly as a means to increase the accountability of individual politicians. But most of these reforms have been criticized as blatant failures. In this paper, we discover a genuinely new...

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