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Allocation of Economic Competence in Teams: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

's institutions ('rules of the game'). Two stylized institutional variants of market selection and one of government selection are …

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Social Capital and Political Institutions: Evidence that Democracy Fosters Trust

Ljunge, Martin - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with ancestries from 115 countries are studied within 30 European countries. Comparing individuals born and residing in the same country, those whose father was born in a more...

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The Effect of Elections on Economic Growth: Results from a Natural Experiment in Indonesia

Moricz, Sara; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from …

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Trust, Welfare States and Income Equality: What Causes What?

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

The cross-country correlation between social trust and income equality is well documented, but few studies examine the direction of causality. We show theoretically that by facilitating cooperation, trust may increase efficiency and lead to more equal outcomes, while the feedback from inequality...

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Female Representation but Male Rule? Party Competition and the Political Glass Ceiling

Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

A large literature has studied the context that affects women’s numerical representation, but few have moved beyond numbers to study the drivers of a gender gap in political influence among elected politicians. Using panel data for the careers of 35.000 Swedish municipal politicians over six...

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The Glass Ceiling in Politics: Formalization and Empirical Tests

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

There is a scarcity of women and minorities at the apex of political power. This paper formalizes the concept of the glass ceiling for political organizations and builds on previous research to suggest four testable criteria. A glass ceiling exists if women and/or racial minorities (1) are...

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The Futile Quest for a Grand Explanation of Long-Run Government Expenditure

Durevall, Dick; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This paper carries out a critical reappraisal of the two contending theories purporting to explain long-run government …. Cointegration analysis is used to investigate the long-run relationships between government expenditure and GDP, focusing on sub … industrialization phase (before 1860), and in recent periods GDP only affects the government spending share when we control for …

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An Essay on Welfare State Dynamics

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

The expansion of welfare-state arrangements is seen as the result of dynamic interaction between market behaviour and political behaviour, often with considerable time lags, sometimes generating either virtuous or vicious circles. Such interaction may also involve induced (endogenous) changes in...

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Political Rents in a Non-Corrupt Democracy

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

general public. In a democracy, electoral competition and information provided by the media may keep such rent extraction at … substantially reduce direct measures of legal political rents among local governments in a non-corrupt democracy (Sweden). …

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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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