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Markets, Governments, and the Institutional Structure of Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and Sweden in the 20th Century
Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
governments or market institutions provide the services. Sweden and the United States are on opposite ends of this spectrum. After … compare the development of the social welfare institutions in the U.S. and Sweden in the 20th century …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210094
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--
King, Mervyn A. - 1983
This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478030
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--
King, Mervyn A. - 1983
This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478045
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Geographic Barriers to Commodity Price Integration : Evidence from US Cities and Swedish Towns, 1732-1860
Crucini, Mario J. - 2014
We study the role of distance and time in statistically explaining price dispersion for 14 commodities from 1732 to 1860. The prices are reported for US cities and Swedish market towns, so we can compare international and intranational dispersion. Distance and commodity-specific fixed effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458419
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Practical Monetary Policy : Examples from Sweden and the United States
Svensson, Lars E.O. - 2012
In the summer of 2010, the Federal Reserve's and the Swedish Riksbank's inflation forecasts were below the former's mandate-consistent rate and the latter's target, respectively, and their unemployment forecasts were above sustainable rates. Given the mandates of the Federal Reserve and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460835
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Precedent and Legal Argument in U.S. Trade Policy : Do They Matter To The Political Economy of the Lumber Dispute?
Kalt, Joseph P. - 1994
economy are tested. Capture Theory de-emphasizes the role of institutional settings of the kind at work here: The outcomes of … before the Department of Commerce, this study finds more support for Capture Theory than for the New Institutionalism. An …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474176
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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. versus Europe
Alesina, Alberto - 2003
Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469200
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R & D and productivity : the econometric evidence
Griliches, Zvi - 1998
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Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria : A Framework
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533381
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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456671