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The Honest Society: Stability and Policy Considerations
Nyberg, Sten - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685041
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Globalization and the Transmission of Social Values: The Case of Tolerance
Berggren, Niclas; Nilsson, Therese - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Tolerance – respecting those who are different – is arguably of particular importance in an era of globalization, where a potential for economic, social and personal development is increasingly a function of interaction with others different from oneself. We investigate whether globalization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818367
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Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries.
Folster, S.; Henrekson, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
Empirical studies of the relation between government size and economic growth come to widely different conclusions. In part this may reflect the fact that many studies report regressions that contain severe multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity, simultaneity and other specification problems....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671123
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How to Combine High Sunk Costs of Exporting and Low Export Survival
Persson, Maria; Gullstrand, Joakim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
In endeavouring to explain the empirical puzzle that the sunk costs of exporting are important, but that, at the same time, trade flows do not, on average, survive for very long, this paper explores the concepts of core and peripheral markets. First, it illustrates that if the importance of sunk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019051
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Product Market Reforms and Incentives to Innovate in Sweden
Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
strong economic development in Sweden during the last two decades, namely product market reforms and incentives to innovate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729195
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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–2006
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771090
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Swedish Lessons for Post-Socialist Countries
Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
Sweden experienced exeptionally fast economic growth during the century-long period 1870-1970. This illustrates that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190641
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The Number and the Size Distribution of Firms in Sweden and Other European Countries.
Johansson, D - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997
The study investigates changes in the number and the size distribution of firms in Sweden in the period 1968-1993. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639335
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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings
Waldenström, Daniel; Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645360
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903–2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden’s experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645425