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Using Markets to Measure Pre-War Threat Assessments: The Nordic Countries Facing World War II

Waldenström, Daniel; Frey, Bruno S. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

Nordic historians have asserted for a long time that in the Nordic countries only few people, if any, perceived increased threats of war prior to the World War II outbreak. This would explain, and possibly excuse, why their governments did not mobilize their armies until it was too late. This...

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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 until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...

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Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals

Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

-cognitive ability and height at age 18. Although CEOs, and large-company CEOs in particular, have better traits than the population on …

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Height and Leadership

Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish … men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 …. Selection into managerial positions explains about 15 percent of the unconditional height wage premium. However, at least half …

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Legitimacy and the Cost of Government

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Lipka, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...

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Social Norms and Welfare State Dynamics

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörgen W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous benefits than otherwise. We...

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Social Networks

de Marti, Joan; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...

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Is Tolerance Good or Bad for Growth?

Berggren, Niclas; Elinder, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance–growth relationships for 54 countries. We provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as...

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Inequality and Trust

Jordahl, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the negative relationship: social ties (or...

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Social Networks and Crime Decisions: The Role of Social Structure in Facilitating Delinquent Behavior

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

We develop a model in which delinquents compete with each other in criminal activities but may benefit from being friends with other criminals by learning and acquiring proper know-how on the crime business. By taking the social network connecting agents as given, we study the subgame perfect...

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