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Wealth Dynamics in the 1980’s and 1990’s: Sweden and the U.S.

Klevmarken, Anders; Lupton, Joseph; Stafford, Frank - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990’s has … the patterns of wealth mobility as well as the importance of the initial wealth distribution, we utilize a matching …

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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Lundborg, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish …

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Consumption smoothing in a balanced budget regime

Persson, Lovisa - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

I investigate consumption smoothing (sensitivity) under a balanced budget rule in Swedish municipalities. In general, I find Swedish municipalities to be highly consumption sensitive during the time period 2001-2011 when the BBR was in place. A one percentage increase in predicted current...

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How Much Should We Trust Regression-Kink-Design Estimates?

Ando, Michihito - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

In a Regression Kink (RK) design with a finite sample, a confounding smooth nonlinear relationship between an assignment variable and an outcome variable around a threshold can be spuriously picked up as a kink and result in a biased estimate. In order to investigate how well RK designs handle...

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Consumption smoothing in a balanced budget regim

Persson, Lovisa - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

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Public Goods in a Voluntary Federal Union: Implications of a Participation Constraint

Aronsson, Thomas; Micheletto, Luca; Sjögren, Tomas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

This paper re-examines the question of whether federal ex-post redistribution in terms of public funds leads to under-provision of public goods by adding the assumption that the member states are free to leave the economic federation. We show that federal ex-post redistribution leads to e¢...

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On the Vote Purchasing Behavior of Incumbent Governments.

Dahlberg, M.; Johansson, E. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

A couple of months before the Swedish election in 1998, the incumbent government distributed 2.3 billion SEK to 42 out of 115 applying municipalities. This was the first wave of a four-year long grant program intended to support local investment programs aimed at an ecological sustainable...

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Intergovernmental Grants As A Tactical Instrument: Some Empirical Evidence from Swedish Municipalities.

Johansson, E. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

Are grants to Swedish municipalities tactical? In this essay, I derive testable implications from a theoretical voting model and test these on a panel of 255 Swedish municipalities, 1981 - 1995. In order to decide which regions that are politically powerful, both election results, and survey...

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Soft Budget Constraints as a Risk Sharing Arrangement in an Economic Federation

Lindahl, Erica; Westermark, Andreas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006

We analyze a model where the federal government provides risk sharing arrangements to municipalities investing in a local public good. The risk sharing arrangements are an income equalization system and a system allowing for a soft budget constraint, i.e., a bailout. Our main result is that a...

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Redistribution, In-Kind Transfers and Matching Grants when the Federal Government Lacks Information on Local Costs

Blomquist, Sören; Micheletto, Luca - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2004

Recent literature on optimal nonlinear taxation has shown that in models with a single level of government public provision of private goods can help redistribution by mitigating self-selection constraints. The aim of the present paper is to extend the analysis to a fiscal federalism setting...

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