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Fölster, Stefan; Trofimov, Georgi - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

Several recent articles claim that pre-tax income equality promotes growth. Equality is argued to dampen demand for redistributive economic policies that tax returns to growth-enhancing activities such as investment. These results rest heavily on the assumption that pre-tax income equality is an...

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Does Equality Promote Growth?

Folster, S.; Trofimov, G. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

Several recent articles claim that pre-tax income equlity promotes growth. Equality is argued to dampen demand for redistributive economic policies that tax returns to growth-enhancing activities such as investment. These results rest heavly on the assumption that pre-tax income equality is an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486495

Growth and the Public Sector: A Critique of the Critics

Fölster, Stefan; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

In a recent review article Jonas Agell, Thomas Lindh and Henry Ohlsson (1997) claim that theoretical and empirical evidence does not allow any conclusion on whether there is a relationship between the rate of economic growth and the size of the public sector. They illustrate their conclusion...

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Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries

Fölster, Stefan; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

growth. In part this may reflect the prediction in economic theory that a negative relationship should exist primarily for …

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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....

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Growth Effects of Fiscal Policies: A Critical Appraisal of Colombier’s (2009) Study

Bergh, Andreas; Öhrn, Nina - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

In a recent paper, Colombier (2009) uses a robust estimation technique and claims to find empirical evidence that … theory is not corroborated. We examine the robustness of these findings, and show that Colombier’s results differ from those … findings, corroborating endogenous growth theory. Adding further control variables illustrates the robustness of the negative …

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Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence

Bergh, Andreas; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is full of seemingly contradictory findings. This conflict is largely explained by variations in definitions and the countries studied. An alternative approach—of limiting the focus to studies of the...

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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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Growth and the Public Sector: A Critique of the Critics

Folster, S.; Henrekson, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

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Business Competence, Organizational Learning and Economic Growth: Establishing the Smith-Schumpeter-Wicksell (SSW) Connection

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1990

The firm is defined in terms of its financial objectives, achieved through human-based organizational competence, conferring scale economies on all other factors. Competence is developed through organizational learning, jointly produced with the value added of the firm, largely manifesting...

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