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Selfish and prospective : theory and evidence of pocketbook voting
Elinder, Mikael (contributor); Jordahl, Henrik (contributor) - 2008
Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766637
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Correcting mistakes : cognitive dissonance and political attitudes in Sweden and the United States
Elinder, Mikael - 2009
on political attitudes. This result holds for a variety of political attitudes and for both Sweden and the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848845
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Local economies and general elections : the influence of municipal and regional economic conditions on voting in Sweden 1985-2002
Elinder, Mikael - 2010
This paper presents a detailed analysis of voters‟ responses to municipality and regional-level unemployment and economic growth, using panel data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions, covering Swedish general elections from 1982 to 2002. The preferred specification suggests that a reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921079
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Preferential voting, accountability and promotions into political power : evidence from Sweden
Folke, Olle; Persson, Torsten; Rickne, Johanna - 2014
Preferential voting has been introduced in a number of proportional election systems over the last 20 years, mainly as a means to increase the accountability of individual politicians. But most of these reforms have been criticized as blatant failures. In this paper, we discover a genuinely new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247473
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Misrepresentation and migration
Kärnä, Anders; Öhberg, Patrik - 2022 - Revised May 2023
discuss Sweden's generous migration policy and how it can serve as an example where politicians' policy engagement led them to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465282
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Using markets to measure pre-war threat assessments : the Nordic Countries facing World War II
Waldenström, Daniel (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003385786
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Characteristics and performance of new firms and spinoffs in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Klepper, Steven - 2012 - Date of this version: 7 February 2012
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 … single owner. -- Sweden ; spinoffs ; new firm formation ; entrepreneurship ; performance ; employment growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530957
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Trade, reallocations and productivity : a bridge between theory and data in Öresund
Akerman, Anders - 2009
based in Malmö raise exports to Denmark substantially, mostly by firms selecting into exporting, and the aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003829108
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Why does sovereign risk differ for domestic and foreign investors? : evidence from Scandinavia, 1938 - 1948
Waldenström, Daniel (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003391122
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Faces to politicians : babyfacedness predicts inferred competence but not electoral success
Poutvaara, Panu; Jordahl, Henrik; Berggren, Niclas - 2009
Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that babyfaced individuals are generally perceived to be less competent than maturefaced individuals. Taken together, this suggests that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less...
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