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Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008
Do governments increase public employment in election years? This paper investigates this question by using data from Sweden and Finland, two coun¬tries that are similar in many respects but in which local elections are held at different points in time. We can thereby separate an election...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419184
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The Effects of Unemployment on Property Crime: Evidence from a Period of Unusually Large Swings in the Business Cycle
Edmark, Karin - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003
This paper uses a panel of Swedish counties over the years 1988-99 to study the effects of unemployment on property … unemployment rates is unprecedented in the second half of the century. The data hence provides a unique opportunity to investigate … unemployment effects. According to the theory of economics of crime, increased unemployment rates lead to higher property crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642510
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Do Politicians’ Preferences Matter for Voters’ Voting Decisions?
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva; Sorribas Navarro, Pilar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
Using unique survey data that allows us to observe both voters’ and politicians’ preferences for local public spending as well as voting decisions, this paper tests if voters typically support parties in which the politicians’ preferences are closest to their own. Doing so would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021413
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Do Politicians’ Preferences Matter for Voters’ Voting Decisions?
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva; Sorribas Navarro, Pilar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
Using unique survey data that allows us to observe both voters’ and politicians’ preferences for local public spending as well as voting decisions, this paper tests if voters typically support parties in which the politicians’ preferences are closest to their own. Doing so would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131577
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Generic NDC - Equilibrium, Valuation and Risk Sharing with and without NDC Bonds
Palmer, Edward - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
The Non-financial (Notional) Defined Contribution (NDC) PAYGO pension scheme is a recent innovation and its generic dimensions have not previously been explored in a coherent context. This paper does this. It derives and analyzes the demographic, economic and distributional properties of NDC....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835089
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The Resource Curse and its Potential Reversal
Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can be reversed if institutional quality is high enough. We try to understand this result in more detail by decomposing the resource measure, using alternative measures of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699693
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How Local are Local Governments? Heterogeneous Effects of Intergovernmental Grants
Nilsson, Heléne L. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009
While the literature on how intergovernmental grants affect the budget of receiving jurisdictions is numerous, the very few studies that explicitly deal with likely endogeneity problems focus on grants targeted towards specific sectors or to specific type of recipients. The results from these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509429
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How Local are Local Governments? Heterogeneous Effects of Intergovernmental Grants
Nilsson, Heléne L. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009
While the literature on how intergovernmental grants affect the budget of receiving jurisdictions is numerous, the very few studies that explicitly deal with likely endogeneity problems focus on grants targeted towards specific sectors or to specific type of recipients. The results from these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469619
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Inequality and Trust: Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others
Gustavsson, Magnus; Jordahl, Henrik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006
We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from Swedish counties together with an instrumental variable strategy we find that differences in disposable income, and especially differences among people in the bottom half of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190452
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Power Properties of the Sargan Test in the Presence of Measurement Errors in Dynamic Panels
Dahlberg, Matz; Johansson, Eva; Tovmo, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2002
This paper investigates the power properties of the Sargan test in the presence of measurement errors in dynamic panel data models. The general conclusion from the Monte Carlo simulations is that the Sargan test, in many cases, leads the econometrician to accept misspecified models with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419219