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  1. 6. What is the effect of political coalitions on economic outcomes? : A Regression Discontinuity approach for Swedish municipalities during 1994-2017

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Gustav Aronsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Close Elections; Political Coalitions; Economic Outcomes; Policy Convergence; Policy Divergence; Swedish Municipalities; Modified Sainte-Laguë method; Regression Discontinuity Design.;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis identifies the effect of traditional political coalitions on the left-right spectrum in Swedish municipal politics on economic outcomes such as Municipal Revenues, Expenditures, Net-expenditures, Municipal Tax-rates, Unemployment, and the share of Municipal Employment. To do so, varying time spans of Swedish municipal data from 1994-2017 are used in a regression discontinuity design, basing its identification on quasi-random variation created by close municipal elections. LÄS MER

  3. 7. The Effect of EU Funding on Income Inequality and Employment

    C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Författare :Andres Cruz Sanchez; Daniela Dahlgren; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Income Inequality; Employment; European Union; EU Policy;

    Sammanfattning : An outspoken goal of the European Union is to decrease differences between member states and promote cohesion. To achieve this, the European Union provides funding to the regions with greatest development needs. However, during the last decades, the within-country income inequality level has risen in the European Union. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Do niche parties make a difference? The effect of extremist parties’ council representation on public policy

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Mona Dapfer; [2023]
    Nyckelord :party competition; legislative bargaining; public policy; regression discontinuity design;

    Sammanfattning : This paper examines the causal effect of niche parties’ council representation on policy outcomes in Spain between 2003 and 2022. Focusing on the far-left IU and far-right VOX as niche parties, it utilizes local-level data on municipal elections. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Handelskriget mellan EU och USA - hur påverkas Sveriges handelsflöde?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Författare :Ida Dejenfelt; Oscar Rietz Baena; [2022-02-28]
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    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to examine how the trade war between EU and the US has affected Sweden. We exploit monthly trade data and a method inspired by Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to estimate how Sweden’s trade flows have changed due to the trade war. LÄS MER

  7. 10. A blessing in disguise? - The effect of COVID-19 restrictions on air pollution in India

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Jonatan Pupp; [2022]
    Nyckelord :air pollution; COVID-19; lockdown; local linear regression; non-parametric regression discontinuity design; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : The outbreak of COVID-19 plunged the world economy into a pandemic with severe consequences. However, the pandemic may very well have been a blessing in disguise for the mitigation of another killer: ambient air pollution. LÄS MER