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Tax Evasion and Inequality

Alstadsæter, Annette - 2017

% of personal taxes are evaded in Scandinavia, but this figure rises to close to 30% in the top 0.01% of the wealth …

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

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

Scandinavia recorded very high growth rates between 1870 and 1914, catching up with the leaders. This paper estimates …

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

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

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; Verdier, Thierry - 2012

Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare to be higher in Scandinavian societies than in the United States. Why then does the United States not adopt Scandinavian-style institutions? More generally, in an interdependent...

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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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Taxation and Market Work : Is Scandinavia an Outlier?

Rogerson, Richard Donald - 2010

worked and tax rates in three sets of economies: the US, Continental Europe and Scandinavia. While tax rates are highest in … Scandinavia, hours worked in Scandinavia are significantly higher than they are in Continental Europe. I argue that differences in …

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

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2014

This paper is an exercise in comparative institutional analysis, asking what kinds of arrangements most facilitate innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may be particularly conducive to innovation, and...

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Innovation Network

Acemoglu, Daron - 2016

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

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