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Does economic freedom really kill? : on the association between "Neoliberal" policies and homicide rates

Bjørnskov, Christian - In: European journal of political economy 37 (2015), pp. 207-219

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Does Economic Freedom Really Kill? On the Association between ‘Neoliberal’ Reform and Homicide Rates

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2012

and other types of crime. Using a panel of the 50 US states observed between 1981 and 2005 and the Economic Freedom Index … measured by this index and homicide rates. The results nevertheless show that other types of crime decrease with liberalizing … spending or tax reforms. Effects of liberalizing tax reforms in particular may spill over from less violent crime to lower …

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Legitimacy and the cost of government

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Lipka, David - In: Public choice 162 (2015) 3/4, pp. 307-328

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The economics of change and stability in social trust : evidence from (and for) Catalan secession

Bjørnskov, Christian; Borrella Mas, Miguel Ángel; … - 2019

Consequences of social trust are comparatively well studied, while its societal determinants are often subject to debate. This paper studies both in the context of Catalan attempts to secede from Spain: First, we test if Catalonia enjoys higher levels of social capital that it is prevented from...

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The market-promoting and market-preserving role of social trust in reforms of policies and institutions

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017

Social trust has been identified as a catalyst for reforms. We take the literature further in two ways. First, we make a fine-grained analysis of mechanisms through which social trust enables liberalizing reforms - by strengthening the ability to overcome obstacles in the political process...

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Legitimacy and the cost of government

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Lipka, David - 2014

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420025

Trust, welfare states and income equality : sorting out the causality

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - In: European journal of political economy 35 (2014), pp. 183-199

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Trust and delegation : theory and evidence

Gur, Nurullah; Bjørnskov, Christian - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 45 (2017) 3, pp. 644-657

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Constitutional verbosity and social trust

Bjørnskov, Christian; Voigt, Stefan - In: Public choice 161 (2014) 1/2, pp. 91-112

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Burying the bumblebee once and for all : does big government hurt growth less in high-trust countries?

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2016

High levels of social trust has been linked to both public sector size and long term economic growth, thereby helping to explain how some countries are able to combine high taxes and relatively high levels of economic growth. This paper examines if social trust as a background factor also...

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