to weak steering and supervision, lack of accountability, and heightened corruption risks (the sceptical view). Hitherto … paper addresses the competing views by studying on Sweden, a country with a dramatic growth in the number of MOCs since the … and a survey-based corruption measure for all 290 Swedish municipalities. Ultimately questioning the 'optimistic view …

-ups in a low-corruption setting: Sweden. We disaggregate the analysis to individual entrepreneurs, focus on corruption in …Does corruption affect the incentives for potential entrepreneurs to start businesses? The traditional view holds that … novel approach to this question, we combine a local government corruption index and individual-level register data on start …

the present day in Sweden and the United Kingdom. Hence, in contrast to previous studies, we evaluate the validity of … Wagner’s Law between roughly 1860 and the late 1960s in Sweden, and the 1970s in the UK. This can be traced to the formation …

We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and … investigate this empirically using data from 145 countries 1960.2014. We relate perceived corruption and de facto judicial … accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that …

and multilevel trust. To illustrate this point, a closer investigation of Sweden - a decentralised, high-trust and low-corruption … country - is conducted. Looking back over the past 20 years, and studying several indicators of trust, Sweden turns out to be … particularly susceptible to corruption; and 3) that the increase in responsibilities as well as the increased danger zones for …

. Pensions in Sweden are used as a case to illustrate the empirical relevance of the argument. The new pension system represents …