Search for dissertations about: "Government Spending"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 37 swedish dissertations containing the words Government Spending.
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1. Crime, Corruption and Development
Abstract : Essay I: Prosecuting and convicting corrupt officials is a common strategy to combat corruption. Despite this, little is known about the effectiveness of such anti-corruption policies. READ MORE
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2. Essays on Voting and Government Inefficiency
Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays on political economics.The first essay, The Effects on Political Rent-seeking of Allowing Campaign Contributions in Politics, presents a theoretical analysis of the effects on political rent-seeking of allowing campaign contributions in politics. READ MORE
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3. Essays on redistribution and local public expenditures
Abstract : This thesis consists of a summary and four papers. The first two papers are theoretical contributions within the area of optimal taxation and public expenditures under asymmetric information between the government and the private sector, and the last two are empirical contributions to the literature on local public expenditures. READ MORE
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4. Interest Groups and Government Policy. A Political Economy Analysis
Abstract : 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. READ MORE
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5. Incumbency, divided government, partisan politics and council size : Essays in local political economics
Abstract : This thesis comprises four empirical papers, each devoted to a specific topic in local political economics. Paper one and two evaluate the importance of the mayor position to the future electoral success of the mayor’s party. READ MORE