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Credible Communication and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Multi-stage Games

Andersson, Ola; Wengström, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

It is well known that communication often serves as a facilitator for cooperation in static games. Yet, communication … investigates cooperation and non-binding communication in a two-stage game. More specifically, two treatments are considered: one …-play communication only has a significant impact on cooperation when no intra-play communication is possible. The results suggest that …

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Improving the Performance of the European Social Model - The Welfare State over the Life Cycle

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

The achievements of social-welfare arrangements in Western Europe are well known: considerable income security, relatively little poverty and, in some countries, ample supply of social services. But there are also well-known weaknesses and hence considerable scope for improvement. Three types of...

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Changing Tides for the Welfare State - An Essay

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

Recent developments in society have generated misalignment between the welfare state and socio-economic conditions and preferences. This paper emphasis developments in the labor market and the structure, stability and preferences of the family, as well as macroeconomic changes. The latter...

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Privatization of Credence Goods: Theory and an Application to Residential Youth Care

Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

A wide range of services provided by the public sector are credence goods, i.e., services for which the producer has private information whether a certain treatment is needed or not. This paper studies how ownership affects the incentives for producers to reveal such information to public...

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Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

There are several theoretical accounts of public sector outsourcing. We note that leading theories give different predictions of the influence of political variables and test the predictions on a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time as well as between...

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Generosity and Political Preferences

Dawes, Christopher T.; Johannesson, Magnus; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

We test whether generosity is related to political preferences and partisanship in Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States using incentivized dictator games. The total sample consists of more than 5,000 respondents. We document that support for social spending and redistribution...

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Changing Tides for the Welfare State - An Essay.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

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The Welfare State -- Background, Achievements, Problems

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

behind the built up of the modern welfare state. It also summarizes its major achievements in terms of economic efficiency …

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Prospects for the Welfare State

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

It is useful to distinguish between exogenous and endogenous factors behind contemporary and expected future problems for the welfare state. This paper tries to identify major problems of both types and to indicate alternative reform possibilities to deal with them. At the same time as several...

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Will Privatization Reduce Costs?

Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

I develop a model of public sector contracting based on the multitask framework by Holmström and Milgrom (1991). In this model, an agent can put effort into increasing the quality of a service or reducing costs. Being residual claimants, private owners have stronger incentives to cut costs than...

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