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In the aftermath of the Second World War, Sweden dismantled an education system that was strongly influenced by German … came to share certain traits with the true educational credo of Nazism and likely contributed to Sweden's recent …
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Failure to express minority views may distort the behavior of company boards, committees, juries, and other decision-making bodies. Devising a new experimental procedure to measure such conformity in a judgment task, we compare the degree of conformity in groups with varying gender composition....
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The paper describes the monetary and fiscal policy frameworks in Sweden and analyses how they were established as well … as current challenges. Sweden provides a good example of how deep economic crisis, in interaction with independent … frameworks. It remains to be seen whether it will be possible in Sweden to adapt the monetary and fiscal frameworks to changed …
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The discussion of the growth consequences of socialism has fulminated for a century, sparked off by the Calculation … after implementing socialism. …
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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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Studies have shown that many consumers and businesses fail to invest in energy efficiency improvements despite seemingly ample financial incentives to do so - the so called energy & efficiency gap or paradox. Attempts to explain this gap often focus on searching costs, information frictions and...
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those states. This article applies the criteria of Snyder's concept of "state destruction" on the Nazi occupation of Norway … case. Norway meets eight of the eleven criteria. However, this does not include the complete destruction of its bureaucracy … Germany. Norway is thus an intermediate case on the spectrum of state destruction and constitutes one of the closest …
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The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in winner-take-all situations as fair, independent of...
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