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Inter-Regional Redistribution in Sweden: A Survey of the Literature and a Call for Further Enquiry
Almenberg, Johan - Ratioinstitutet - 2006
The Swedish system for inter-regional redistribution is examined from a political economy perspective and a growth perspective. A number of recent Swedish studies of this system are examined. Political economy concerns are found to be adequately represented in academic studies of this system,...
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Working paper No. 240 Bloc – party Politics and Economic Outcomes. What Are the Effects of Local Parties?
Lakomaa, Erik; Korpi, Martin - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
In a much cited 2008 article, Per Pettersson-Lidbom uses regression discontinuity to test for Swedish party effects on economic policies such as municipal taxation, spending and employment. We reassess the issue using the same estimator as Pettersson-Lidbom but new data on all factual...
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Economic Freedom and Institutional Convergence
Elert, Niklas; Halvardsson, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2012
institutions, drawing on the literatures of economic convergence and of industrial organization. We use the Economic Freedom of the … World-index over the period 1970-2009 to proxy for economic institutions. Our results indicate that countries with lower …-quality institutions is high in the long-run. These findings support Fukuyama's prediction. …
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The Growth Effects of Institutional Instability
Berggren, Niclas; Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - Ratioinstitutet - 2009
Both institutional quality and institutional stability have been argued to stimulate economic growth. But to improve institutional quality, a country must endure a period of institutional change, which implies at least a little and possibly a lot of institutional instability. We investigate the...
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Choosing One’s Own Informal Institutions: On Hayek’s Critique of Keynes’s Immoralism
Berggren, Niclas - Ratioinstitutet - 2008
’s life irrespective of the informal institutions in place. However, it is argued here that immoralism may be compatible with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642455
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Ulysses and the Rent-Seekers: The Benefits and Challenges of Constitutional Constraints on Leviathan
Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Ratioinstitutet - 2005
. A constitutionally constrained government may be viewed as an attractive arrangement in that it may limit the rent-seeking behavior by narrowly motivated special interest groups and instead support policies of a Pareto-improving character. However, the introduction of constitutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642440
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Capitalistic Competition as a Communicative Community - Why Politics Is Less “Deliberative” than Markets
Wohlgemuth, Michael - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
Discourse theorists such as Habermas tend to disregard the communicative character and discoursive power of market processes and at the same time overrate the ability of political deliberation to discover and implement social problem solutions. Mainstream economists have little to contribute to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642420
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Time for behavioral political economy? An analysis of articles in behavioral economics
Berggren, Niclas - Ratioinstitutet - 2011
This study analyzes leading research in behavioral economics to see whether it contains advocacy of paternalism and whether it addresses the potential cognitive limitations and biases of the policymakers who are going to implement paternalist policies. The findings reveal that 20.7% of the...
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Does social distrust always lead to a stronger support for government intervention?
Pitlik, Hans; Kouba, Ludek - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
institutions. People who tend to (dis-)trust other unknown people also tend to (dis-)trust state actors and private sector actors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096128
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Rättspositivism och äganderätt
Berggren, Niclas - Ratioinstitutet - 2005
Uppsatsen behandlar påståendet att rättspositivismen, en av Uppsalaskolans centrala läror, ligger bakom en urholkad äganderätt och, rent allmänt, ett svagt rättighetsskydd, en underminering av marknadsekonomin, höga skatter och en expansion av staten. Denna slutsats är inte självklar....
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