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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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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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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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Using a discontinuous grant rule to identify the effect of grants on local taxes and spending

Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva; Rattso, Jorn; Ågren, Hanna - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006

When investigating the effects of federal grants on the behavior of lower-level governments, it is hard to defend the handling of grants as an exogenous factor affecting local governments; federal governments often set grants based on characteristics and performance of local governments. In this...

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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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How Local are Local Governments? Heterogeneous Effects of Intergovernmental Grants

Nilsson, Heléne L. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

While the literature on how intergovernmental grants affect the budget of receiving jurisdictions is numerous, the very few studies that explicitly deal with likely endogeneity problems focus on grants targeted towards specific sectors or to specific type of recipients. The results from these...

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How Local are Local Governments? Heterogeneous Effects of Intergovernmental Grants

Nilsson, Heléne L. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

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Capital Tax Competition When Monetary Competition is Present

Onder, Ali Sina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

In a model that allows for international trade in goods market as well as in money markets, interactions between the capital tax rate and the inflation rate are investigated. It is shown that interactions of capital tax rate and inflation rate create horizontal and vertical externalities....

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Collective Lobbying in Politics: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Sweden

Liang, Che-Yuan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008

This paper first formulates a model of how the politicians in a local government collectively lobby to raise intergovernmental grants to their local government. The model identifies a relationship between council size and grants received. I then study this relationship empirically using the...

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Merged Municipalities, Higher Debt: On Free-riding and the Common Pool Problem in Politics

Jordahl, Henrik; Liang, Che-Yuan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006

We use the 1952 Swedish municipal amalgamation reform to study free-riding and the common pool problem in politics. We expect municipalities that were affected by the reform to increase their debt in anticipation of a merger, and this effect to be larger if they were merged with many other...

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