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Raising Children to Work Hard: Altruism, Work Norms and Social Insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms …

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Welfare Foundations of Discounting

Sáez-Martí, María; Weibull, Jörgen W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

-based representation in the usual exponential form corresponds to one-period "altruism" towards one's future selves: the current self gives …) and Laibson (1997) correspond to quasi-exponential altruism towards one's future selves. For ß=1/2, the welfare weights …

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Discounting and Future Selves

Sáez-Martí, María; Weibull, Jörgen W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

Is discounting of future instantaneous utilities consistent with altruism towards future selves? More precisely, can … Pollak (1968) and Laibson (1997) correspond to quasi-exponential altruism towards one's future selves. For ß=1/2, these …

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Financing from Family and Friends

Lee, Samuel; Persson, Petra - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

The constraint on informal finance is commonly taken to be high costs and limited supply. But the majority of informal investors – family and friends – is often willing to supply funds at negative returns, and yet many borrowers tap family and friends only as a last resort. We explain this...

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Generosity and Political Preferences

Dawes, Christopher T.; Johannesson, Magnus; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

We test whether generosity is related to political preferences and partisanship in Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States using incentivized dictator games. The total sample consists of more than 5,000 respondents. We document that support for social spending and redistribution...

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Social Capital and the Family: Evidence that Strong Family Ties Cultivate Civic Virtues

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

I establish a positive relationship between family ties and civic virtues, as captured by disapproval of tax and benefit cheating, corruption, and a range of other dimensions of exploiting others for personal gain. I find that family ties are a complement to social capital, using within country...

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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies

Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

State subsidies to R & D or innovative investments in firms are organized in many different ways. Examples from the plethora of extant subsidy instruments are tax incentives, grants to researchers, project grants, loans, conditional loans, and grants with royalty rights. Very little is currently...

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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies

Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...

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Patent Scope and Technology Choice

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …

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