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Leaders and Followers : Perspectives on the Nordic Model and the Economics of Innovation

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2014

innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may … be particularly conducive to innovation, and demonstrates that, in general, the optimal policies of the leader should … industrial policies, public investments, and systems of social protection), not only leading to more innovation, but ensuring …

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Fixed Exchange Rates as a Means to Price Stability : What Have We Learned

Svensson, Lars E. O. - 2022

The paper discusses what we have learned from last year's currency crises in ERM and the Nordic countries about fixed exchange rates as a means to achieve price stability. After discussing the explanations for the crises, the paper concludes that fixed exchange rates are not a shortcut to price...

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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012

"cutthroat capitalism" that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …

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Taxation and Market Work : Is Scandinavia an Outlier?

Rogerson, Richard - 2010

This paper argues that it is essential to explicitly consider how the government spends tax revenues when assessing the effects of tax rates on aggregate hours of market work. Different forms of government spending imply different elasticities of hours of work with regard to tax rates. I...

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Open Economy Forces and Late 19th Century Scandinavian Catch-Up

O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

Scandinavia recorded very high growth rates between 1870 and 1914, catching up with the leaders. This paper estimates that about two-thirds of the Scandinavian catching up on Britain was due to the open economy forces of global factor and commodity market integration. All of the Scandinavian...

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Policy vs. Consumer Pressure : Innovation and Diffusion of Alternative Bleaching Technologies in the Pulp Industry

Popp, David - 2012

-friendly innovation, we focus on a process innovation, rather than on end-of-the-pipe solutions to pollution. Moreover, while previous … studies emphasize the importance of regulation for inducing innovation, here we find substantial innovation occurring before … innovation. However, while some companies choose to adopt these technologies in response to consumer pressure, not all firms will …

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Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era : Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe

Steckel, Richard H. - 2022

This essay places the debate over human welfare during industrialization in the context of very long-term economic developments by examining an important aspect of living standards--health and nutrition--since the Middle Ages. I use average stature determined from military records along with a...

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Tax Evasion and Inequality

Alstadsæter, Annette - 2017

This paper attempts to estimate the size and distribution of tax evasion in rich countries. We combine random audits—the key source used to study tax evasion so far—with new micro-data leaked from large offshore financial institutions—HSBC Switzerland (“Swiss leaks”) and Mossack...

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Green Taxes and Administrative Costs : the Case of Carbon Taxation

Smulders, Sjak; Vollebergh, Herman R.J - 2022

This paper explores the trade-off between incentive effects and administrative costs associated with the implementation of various environmental tax instruments, with special reference to carbon taxes. In a simple model, we show under what conditions it is optimal to use input rather than...

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Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and the Nordic Countries : 1900-2003

Fishback, Price V. - 2010

The extent of social expenditures in the U.S. and the Nordic Countries is compared in the early 1900s and again in the early 2000s. The common view that America spends much less on social welfare than the Nordic countries does not survive closer inspection when we consider the differences in the...

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