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- Bennmarker, Helge, et al.
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TCO-ekonomer missförstår studien
- 2013
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Ingår i: Svenska Dagbladet. - Stockholm : Hb Svenska dagbladets AB & Co. - 1101-2412.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Calmfors, Lars, 1948-, et al.
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Pattern bargaining and wage leadership in a small open economy
- 2013
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. - : Wiley. - 0347-0520 .- 1467-9442. ; 115:1, s. 109-140
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Pattern bargaining with the tradables (manufacturing) sector as the wage leader is common in Europe. We question the conventional wisdom that such bargaining produces wage restraint. In our model, all forms of pattern bargaining give the same outcomes as uncoordinated bargaining under inflation targeting. Under a monetary union, wage leadership for the non-tradables sector is conducive to wage restraint, whereas wage leadership for the tradables sector is not. Comparison thinking might lead the follower to set the same wage as the leader. Such equilibria can arise when the leader sector is the smaller sector, and these can promote high employment.
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- Larsson Seim, Anna, et al.
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Democracy as a Middle Ground : A Unified Theory of Development and Political Regimes
- 2013
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Ingår i: European Economic Review. - : Elsevier BV. - 0014-2921 .- 1873-572X. ; 64, s. 35-56
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although many of the worst performing countries over the post-World War II period were autocracies, many of the best were likewise autocratic. At the same time, no long-lived autocracy currently is rich whereas every long-lived democracy is. This paper proposes a theory to account for these observations that rests on the ideas that autocrats are heterogeneous and that elites experience lower land rents with industrialization. In a model calibrated to Britain's development, we show that elites democratize society only after the economy has accumulated enough wealth, and that the democratization date depends importantly on the history of rulers and distribution of land.
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- Larsson Seim, Anna, et al.
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Testing the impact of inflation targeting and central bank independence on labour market outcomes
- 2013
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Ingår i: Oxford Economic Papers. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0030-7653 .- 1464-3812. ; 65:2, s. 240-267
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate the impact of inflation targeting and central bank independence on wage formation and unemployment using a panel of 20 OECD countries from 1982-2003. The results suggest that monetary institutions matter for wage formation. Real wages are on average higher under inflation targeting, in particular in economies with highly coordinated or centralized wage setting. This finding is in line with the strand of literature arguing that a liberal central bank may be more conducive to wage restraint than a conservative central bank if unions are inflation averse. Our results thus lend no support to the popular deterrence hypothesis. While inflation targeting seems to matter for wage formation, we find no evidence of effects on unemployment. Another key finding is that real wages tend to be lower in countries within the EMU.
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- Åkerman, Anders, et al.
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The global arms trade network 1950-2007
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of comparative economics (Print). - : Elsevier BV. - 0147-5967 .- 1095-7227. ; 42:3, s. 535-551
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using SIPRI data on all international transfers of major conventional weapons 1950-2007, we study the relationship between differences in polity and arms trade. To study whether states tend to trade arms within their political vicinity we estimate gravity models of the likelihood of trade at the bilateral level and study the evolution of the global network over time. We find a stable negative relationship between differences in polity and the likelihood of arms trade for the duration of the Cold War, but not in recent years. In line with these results, the global arms trade network changes drastically over the sample period in several respects: it grows more dense, clustered and decentralized over time. The differences between the NATO and Warsaw Pact sub-networks that we find corroborate the common perception that the Warsaw Pact was more strongly centralized around the USSR than NATO around the UK, the US and France.
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