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Political Institutions and Academic Freedom: Evidence from Across the World
There is scant systematic empirical evidence on what explains variation in academic freedom. Making use of a new indicator and panel data covering 64 countries 1960–2017, we investigate how de facto a…
Working Paper
Publish date 5/19/2021
Sweden's Energy Investment Challenge
Sweden faces a major challenge in the next decades because of a projected increase in electricity demand, aging supply infrastructure and the transition to an energy system with a substantial share of…
Working Paper
Publish date 2/24/2021
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing
Formal institutions, e.g., regulations, are considered crucial determinants of entrepreneurship, but what enables regulatory change when there is a regulatory void, meaning entrepreneurship clashes wi…
Working Paper
Publish date 3/24/2022
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing
We document the time it took for ridesharing to become legalized at the state level across the United States following its local (and often illegal) rollout. States with greater regulatory freedom pas…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/21/2022
Coups, Regime Transitions, and Institutional Consequences
Coups and regime transitions are events that typically are intended to change the basic institutional framework of a country. Which specific institutions change and the consequences of these changes n…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/4/2021
Replik: Vätgasstål är en regional lösning på ett globalt problem
”Fossilfri omställning av industrin kan inte vänta”, skriver VD:arna för LKAB, SSAB och Vattenfall på DI Debatt 23/5. De förespråkar bland annat förenklade tillsynsprocesser, en översyn av lagar och r…
Op-Ed
Publish date 5/28/2021
Schumpeterian Entrepreneurship: Coveted by Policymakers but Impervious to Top-Down Policymaking
Differentiating various types of entrepreneurs provides clues to the puzzle of why top-down policies often fail to create Schumpeterian entrepreneurship and the ecosystems where it thrives. Schumpeter…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/1/2022
Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism
While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change is real and has detrimental consequences, there is a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/15/2021
Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism
While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change is real and has detrimental consequences, there is a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/4/2022
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Does a District Mandate Matter for the Behavior of Politicians? An Analysis of Roll-Call Votes and Parliamentary Speeches
In most democracies, members of parliament (MPs) are elected either through a party list or by a district. We use a discontinuity in the German electoral system to investigate the causal effect of a d…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/10/2022
Electric Vehicles Rollout: Two Case Studies
We present and discuss evidence on electric-vehicle rollout in The Netherlands and Norway, two forerunners in this area. We demonstrate that the uptake of electric vehicles is essentially driven by fi…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/30/2021
Late Colonial Antecedents of Modern Democracy
Some of the most contested questions in political science and political economy revolve around the conditions under which democratization is likely to happen and when democracy becomes a stable instit…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/24/2021
Ecosystem Services for Compensation of Artificial Turf Systems
Constructing football fields in Sweden with artificial turf has grown in popularity in recent years. Although the increase in playing time per year is a significant benefit of using artificial turf, t…
Report
Publish date 12/14/2021
Sustainable Entrepreneurhsip of great interest to readers
How should the EU act to create more sustainable entrepreneurship? That is the main question in the book The Entrepreneurial Society: A Reform Strategy for the European Union, written by Niklas Elert…
News
Publish date 11/10/2021
Entrepreneurship Prompts Institutional Change in Developing Economies
Entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role for institutional change and economic development in transition and developing economies. Formal and informal institutions in such countries are often sub-par, bu…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/8/2021