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Boskin, Michael; Lau, Lawrence - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992

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Electronics, Economic Growth and Employment – Revolution or Evolution

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1982

The "new electronics technology" in its various manifestations has been very much in the limelight during recent years. It has been associated with future mass unemployment or scary visions of a Brave New World, a grand discontinuity in economic and cultural development. Governments are worried...

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Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Taxation

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

derived from standard models of capital taxation when applied to entrepreneurial income. Some of the defining features of … entrepreneurship often omitted by standard capital taxation theory are incorporated into the analysis. This includes the lack of a well …-functioning external market for entrepreneurial effort, limited access to external capital and the complementarities between …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082489

How Can Economic Policy Strike a Balance between Economic Efficiency and Income Equality?

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

Can income equality be combined with high economic efficiency and rapid economic growth? Fortunately, we need not to answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth distribution, on one hand, and efficiency/growth, on the other,...

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How Can Economic Policy Stricke a Balance Between Economic Efficiency and Income Equality.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

can income equality be combined with high economic efficiency and rapid economic growth? Fortunately, we need not to answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth distribution, on one hand, and efficiency/growth, on the other,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486491

Lady and the Trump: Status and Wealth in the Marriage Market

Almenberg, Johan; Dreber, Anna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We examine a hitherto unexplored aspect of intergenerational transmission of economic standing, namely culturally determined status markers and their valuation in the marriage market. We take nobility to be such a status marker. We propose a two-trait extension of the optimal sorting model in...

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The Macroeconomic Effects of New Information Technology, with Special Emphasis on Telecommunications

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994

No abstract.

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More Open – Better Governed? Evidence from High- and Low-income Countries

Bergh, Andreas; Mirkina, Irina; Nilsson, Therese - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

Using World Bank data on institutional quality and the KOF Globalization Index, we examine over 100 countries from 1992 to 2010 to analyze the relationship between economic and social globalization and six measures of institutional quality. Theoretically, the incentives of elites to respond to...

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Trade, Southern Integration, and Uneven Development

Trofimov, G. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these countries. The model describes two symmetric countries trading with each other and the industrial rest of the world. Bilateral trade occurs at any moment if the countries have...

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Cumulative Effects of Labor Market Distortions in a Developing Country.

Norback, P.-J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

This paper considers a small open economy where an input-output industrial structure, scale economies and imperfect competition, create vertical linkages and multiple equilibria. In this environment, an imperfect labor market is introduced by assuming unionized labor. It is shown that if the...

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