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6. Economic Determinants and Consequences of Political Institutions
Sammanfattning : This thesis is comprised of four empirical essays on the economic determinants and consequences of political institutions. It opens with a broad perspective on the link between the state throughout history and the past and current economic performance of nations. LÄS MER
7. Explorations in the New Economic Geography
Sammanfattning : The point of departure of this thesis is the rapidly growing research field known as the New Economic Geography (NEG). It consists of four chapters, one introductory chapter and three self-contained theoretical studies. The chapters may be summarised as follows. The first chapter gives a brief account of the NEG. LÄS MER
8. Essays on Voting Behavior, Labor Market Policy, and Taxation
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays.Essay 1 investigates the vote motive in Swedish general elections. A theoretical model of rational retrospective voting is tested empirically on pooled cross-sectional and panel data from the Swedish Election Studies between 1985 and 1994 supplemented with time series on inflation and unemployment. LÄS MER
9. Hypocrites, Devil's Advocates, and Bandwagoneers : Essays on Costly Signaling
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis contains three essays, all studying different aspects of costly signaling in social interactions. The first chapter explains Hypocrisy as an equilibrium outcome of strategic interactions where society cares about a person's private identity but only observes public actions. LÄS MER
10. Interest Groups and Government Policy. A Political Economy Analysis
Sammanfattning : Politics induce economic agents to organise into special interest groups (SIGs) and act strategically to adjust their economic decisions and to conduct rent-seeking activities in order do improve the situation inflicted on them by policy. This thesis examines, in four essays, different forms of SIG influence on public policy in different institutional contexts. LÄS MER