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Correcting Mistakes: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes in Sweden and the United States
Elinder, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
on political attitudes. This result holds for a variety of political attitudes and for both Sweden and the United States. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964395
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Fines, Leniency and Rewards in Antitrust: An Experiment
Bigoni, Maria; Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Le Coq, Chloé; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
This paper reports results from an experiment studying how fines, leniency programs and reward schemes for whistleblowers affect cartel formation and prices. Antitrust without leniency reduces cartel formation, but increases cartel prices: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419507
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Racial Beliefs, Location and the Causes of Crime
Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003
This paper provides a unified explanation for why blacks commit more crime, are located in poorer neighborhoods and … opportunity cost of committing crime and become indeed more criminal than whites. Therefore beliefs are self-fulfilling. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419515
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Who's Who in Crime Network. Wanted the Key Player
Ballester, Coralio; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
-cooperative way how much crime effort he will exert. We show that the Nash equilibrium crime effort of each individual is proportional … removed, leads to the maximum reduction in aggregate crime. We provide a geometric characterization of the key player … player for a group of criminals of a given size. We finally endogeneize the crime participation decision, resulting in a key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645382
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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