Sökning: "Public sector size"

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  1. 11. Essays on stochastic fiscal policy, public debt and private consumption

    Författare :Torbjörn Becker; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of five separate essays (and a short introductory chapter) that analyze the effects of debt policy on private consumption. Essay 1: Government Debt and Private Consumption: Theory and Evidence. The Ricardian equivalence theorem has been widely debated since (at least) the seventies. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Essays on Pensions and Information

    Författare :Dan Anderberg; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education Policies; Time-consistency; Education Incentives; Cross-subsidies; Redistribution; Moral Hazard; Disability Insurance; Public Pensions; Voting; Assets; Adverse selection; Private pension markets; Actuarial science; Försäkring ej försäkringsrätt S137 ;

    Sammanfattning : The first essay examines the outcome in a competitive private pension market characterised by adverse selection. In addition to using the private pension market, the consumers can save in a bequeathable asset. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Water for the Many : Health, neighbourhood change and equality of access during the expansion of Swedish urban water networks

    Författare :Martin Önnerfors; Centrum för ekonomisk demografi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; public investments; mortality; industrialisation; water networks; neighbourhood change; Sweden; Stockholm;

    Sammanfattning : During the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, conditions for life in the city changed drastically. Investments in infrastructure, health and education coincided with economic growth, urbanisation and mortality decline. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Risk matters : studies in finance, trade and politics

    Författare :Jonas Vlachos; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained empirical essays. In the first essays "Markets for Risk and Openness to Trade: How are They Related?" (with Helena Svaleryd), we ask if there is an empirical relationship between financial development and openness to trade. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Essays in Political Economics

    Författare :Jaakko Meriläinen; Torsten Persson; David Strömberg; Toke Aidt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Class-based voting; close elections; economic policy; ideology; local government; political parties; political promotions; political representation; politician quality; rank effects; regression discontinuity design; voting behavior; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : When Does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election OutcomesWe use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non-experimental regression discontinuity design (RDD) estimates against the estimate produced by this experiment that suggests that there is no personal incumbency advantage. LÄS MER