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11. Lokal Agenda 21 för hållbar utveckling : en studie av miljöfrågan i tillväxtsamhället
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyse sustainable development as a political challenge at the local level of governance. It explores how local organisation for sustainable development (LA21, a short form of local Agenda 21) is influenced by economic conditions in contemporary society, as well as the specific conditions in the local context. LÄS MER
12. An Economic Backbone of Development : Essays in Financial and Political Economy
Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Local Banking and Historical Innovation: the Effect of Swedish Savings BanksHow does access to credit affect innovation at the early stages of development? This essay uses digitized records from the Swedish savings banks movement, in combination with novel data on the universe of historical patenting, to study how savings banks affected innovation in Sweden between 1900 and 1949, a period when the country was still a developing economy. LÄS MER
13. Against all odds : local economic development policies and local government autonomy in Sweden and Britain
Sammanfattning : This thesis makes a comparative study of local government autonomy in Britain and Sweden within the local economic development policy area. It argues for local government autonomy to be viewed in terms of both a vertical dimension concerning local government's autonomy vis-à-vis national government (national context) and a horizontal dimension relating to its autonomy vis-à-vis local social and economic forces (local context). LÄS MER
14. Framväxten av ett lokalt banksystem : Oppunda sparbank, Södermanlands enskilda bank och stationssamhället Katrineholm 1850-1916
Sammanfattning : The principal purpose of the thesis is to describe and analyze the emergence and development of the local banking system in the railway junction community of Katrineholm during the period 1850-1916. The actors (i.e. LÄS MER
15. Essays on Social Distance, Institutions, and Economic Growth
Sammanfattning : Paper 1: Country Size and the Rule of Law: Resuscitating Montesquieu In this paper, we demonstrate that there is a robust negative relationship between the size of country territory and a measure of the rule of law for a large cross-section of countries. We outline a theoretical framework featuring two main reasons for this regularity; firstly that institutional quality often has the character of a local public good that is imperfectly spread across space from the core of the country to the hinterland, and secondly that a large territory usually is accompanied by valuable rents and a lack of openness that both tend to distort property rights institutions. LÄS MER