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Do Voters Dislike Liberalizing Reforms? New Evidence Using Data on Satisfaction with Democracy
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
reforms and even be less satisfied with democracy as such. We test this hypothesis empirically, using panel data from 30 … European countries in the period 1993–2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform …. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014116668
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries : The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050566
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Does capitalism disfavor women? Evidence from life satisfaction
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2023
There is widespread concern, especially in certain feminist circles, that a market-oriented economic system, or capitalism, disfavors women. This could take many forms, such as lower wages for the same type of work, reduced career opportunities, disparities in ownership and the upholding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542194
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Patent Scope and Technology Choice
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent scope affects an entrant firm's technology choice and thereby creates a trade-off between R&D investments and wasteful duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320407
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Patent Scope and Technology Choice
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2014
This paper analyzes effects of stronger patent rights on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where the scope of a patent affects an entrant firm's technology choice and thereby the amount of wasteful R&D duplication. The model predicts that negative effects of duplication can be sufficiently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210132
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Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? Mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017
This paper starts with the observation that almost all military dictatorships that democratize become presidential democracies. I hypothesize that military interests are able to coordinate on status-preserving institutional change prior to democratization and therefore prefer political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917070
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Coups and economic crises
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2022
from both democracy and military dictatorship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542225
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504502
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Economic Performance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s
Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2019
Following a severe contraction in the early 1990s, the Swedish economy accumulated a strong record of output growth coupled with a disappointing performance in the labor market. As of 2005, hours worked per person 20-64 years of age are 10.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225048
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The market-promoting and market-preserving role of social trust in reforms of policies and institutions
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017
Social trust has been identified as a catalyst for reforms. We take the literature further in two ways. First, we make a fine-grained analysis of mechanisms through which social trust enables liberalizing reforms - by strengthening the ability to overcome obstacles in the political process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917028