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Growing apart, losing trust? : the impact of inequality on social capital
Gould, Eric D.; Hijzen, Alexander - 2016
There is a widespread perception that trust and social capital have declined in United States as well as other advanced economies, while income inequality has tended to increase. While previous research has noted that measured trust declines as individuals become less similar to one another,...
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Can Fiscal Decentralization Strengthen Social Capital?
International Monetary Fund - 2000
Countries where social and political institutions stimulate interpersonal trust, civic cooperation, and social cohesiveness tend to have more efficient governments, better governance systems, and faster growth. This paper provides cross-country evidence, based on a sample of developing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399798
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Social Capital and Civil Society
Fukuyama, Francis - 2000
Social capital is an instantiated informal norm that promotes cooperation between individuals. In the economic sphere it reduces transaction costs, and in the political sphere it promotes the kind of associational life that is necessary for the success of limited government and modern democracy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399926
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The Ties That Bind : Measuring International Bond Spillovers Using the Inflation-Indexed Bond Yields
Swiston, Andrew - 2007
and associated inflation expectations for the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Sweden, Japan, and the United …
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Clarity of central bank communication about inflation
Bulíř, Aleš; Čihák, Martin; Jansen, David-Jan - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424697
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Housing price and household debt interactions in Sweden
Turk, Rima A. - 2015
Sweden is experiencing double-digit housing price gains alongside rising household debt. A common interpretation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445591
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Fiscal consolidation during times of high unemployment : the role of productivity gains and wage restraint
Lama C., Ruy; Medina, Juan Pablo - 2015
This paper studies the Swedish fiscal consolidation episode of the 1990s through the lens of a small open economy model with distortionary taxation and unemployment. We argue that the simultaneous reduction in the fiscal deficit and unemployment rate in this episode stems from two factors: (i)...
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Environmental tax reform : principles from theory and practice to date
Heine, Dirk; Nørregaard, John; Parry, Ian W. H. - 2012
energy/environmental tax systems in Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam suggests that there is substantial scope for policy …
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Negative interest rates : how big a challenge for large Danish and Swedish banks?
Turk Ariss, Rima - 2016
Negative policy interest rates have prevailed for some years in Denmark and are a more recent development in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715468
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What are the economic effects of pandemic containment policies? : evidence from Sweden
Bricco, Jana; Misch, Florian; Solovʹeva, Aleksandra S. - 2020
This paper examines the economic effects of policies to contain Covid-19, by extracting lessons from Sweden …'s experience during the 'Great Lockdown'. Sweden's approach was less stringent and based more on social responsibility than legal … obligations compared to European peers. First, we provide an account of Sweden's strategy and the health outcomes. Second, drawing …
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