Sökning: "Local public expenditures"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden Local public expenditures.

  1. 6. Essays on local public finance and intergovernmental grants

    Författare :Eva Johansson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of five self-contained essays on local public finance and intergovernmental grants.Essay I: Two different bootstrap approaches for GMM estimations have recently been suggested for use in dynamic panel data models: Brown & Newey (1995) and Hall & Horowitz (1996). LÄS MER

  3. 7. Empirical Essays in Political and Public Economics

    Författare :Heléne Lundqvist; Matz Dahlberg; Eva Mörk; Michael Smart; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political careers; Ethnic heterogeneity; Income redistribution; Fiscal federalism; Intergovernmental grants; Public employment; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays. Essay 1: Despite the key role played by political payoffs in theory, very little is known empirically about the types of payoffs that motivate politicians. The purpose of this paper is to bring light onto this. I estimate causal effects of being elected in a local election on monetary returns. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Essays on Child Care and Higher Education

    Författare :Linda Holmlund; Magnus Wikström; Niklas Hanes; Torberg Falch; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Child care demand; subsidized child care; dual care provider model; local public expenditures; income taxation; college quality; earnings; selection on observables; university choice; earnings distribution; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of a summary and four self-contained papers. Paper [I] examines whether fathers influence the time their children spend in subsidized child care. Two non-nested models of family child care demand are estimated. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Strategic Interactions among Swedish Local Governments

    Författare :Karin Edmark; Matz Dahlberg; Sören Blomquist; Jan Brueckner; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Economics; Strategic Interactions; Spatial Interactions; Tax Competition; Welfare Competition; Fiscal Federalism; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Essay 1 (with Matz Dahlberg) investigates if local governments react on the welfare benefit levels in neighbouring jurisdictions when setting their own benefit levels. The IV estimates indicate that there exists a "race-to-the-bottom" and that the effect is economically as well as statistically significant. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Empirical Essays in Public and Political Economics

    Författare :Jonas Klarin; Eva Mörk; Luca Repetto; Francesco Sobbrio; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Essay I: This paper proposes a novel approach to the issue of size, cost-efficiency and economies of scale by focusing on the break-up of municipalities. Municipal break-ups are an understudied phenomenon that nevertheless has been recurrent not only in parts of eastern Europe, but also in Spain and Sweden. LÄS MER