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-ups were 8-11 percent. We find some support for the hypothesis that the division of Sweden into price areas in 2011 increased …
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market Nord Pool and data for Danish wind power generation. The analysis shows that for Denmark the short term costs …, indicating that the other countries in Nord Pool bear some of the costs for Denmark's high share of wind power use …
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power are installed. In this paper I use simple distributed lag models with data from Denmark and Norway. I find that … increased wind power in Denmark causes increased marginal exports to Norway and that this effect is larger during periods of net … southern Norway in the short run. Finally, I estimate that as much as 40 percent of wind power produced in Denmark is stored in …
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” in the sense that more crimes were committed during the week prior to a 21st birthday, followed by a reduction in crime … during the week after this birthday. We do not, however, find that harsher punishment reduces the crime rate permanently …
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I construct a model of public policy development, and use the model to explain why the United States has a comparatively small public sector, but instead a large "private welfare state" with employment-based benefits. The key factors are politically organized firms and labor unions. These...
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We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization … foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and social security wealth. We find that the Swedish wealth …
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This paper discusses a number of questions with regard to Sweden's economic and political development: How did Sweden … become rich? What explains Sweden's high level of income equality? What were the causes of Sweden's problems from 1970 to … 1995? How is it possible that Sweden, since the crisis of the early 1990s, is growing faster than most EU countries despite …
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This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects...
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over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden …
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It is useful to distinguish between exogenous and endogenous factors behind contemporary and expected future problems for the welfare state. This paper tries to identify major problems of both types and to indicate alternative reform possibilities to deal with them. At the same time as several...
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