Nationalekonomiska institutionen
Department of Economics

School of Economics and Management, Lund University

Andreas Bergh

Research - updated 2010-11-03
Published/Accepted Papers

Bergh, A. and C. Bjørnskov. 2010. Historical trust levels predict current welfare state size. Forthcoming in Kyklos.

Bergh, A., and T. Nilsson. 2010. Do liberalization and globalization increase income inequality? European Journal of Political Economy 26:517-532. Working paper version.

Bergh, A., and T. Nilsson. 2010. Good for living? On the relation between globalization and life expectancy. World Development, 38:1191-1204. Working paper version

Bergh, A and Karlsson, M. 2010. Government size and growth: Accounting for economic freedom and globalization. Public Choice, 142:195-213. Working paper version

Bergh, A. and Fink, G. 2009. Higher education, elite institutions and inequality. European Economic Review 53:376-384. Working paper version

Bergh, A. and G. Erlingsson. 2009. Liberalization without Retrenchment: Understanding the Consensus on Swedish Welfare State Reforms. Scandinavian Political Studies 32:71-94. Working paper version

Bergh, A. 2008. A critical note on the theory of inequity aversion. Journal of Socio-Economics 37:1789-1789.

Erlingsson, Bergh, and Sjölin. 2008. Public Corruption in Swedish Municipalities - Trouble Looming on the Horizon? Local Government Studies 34:595 - 608.

Bergh A. and G. Fink. 2008. Higher Education Policy, Enrollment and Income InequalitySocial Science Quarterly  89:217 - 235.

Bergh (2007) The middle class and the Swedish welfare state. The Independent Review.

Bergh (2006) Work incentives and employment are the wrong explanation of Sweden's success. Econ Journal Watch, Vol 3 no 3.

Bergh (2006) Is the Swedish Welfare State a Free Lunch? Econ Journal Watch, Vol 3 no 2, pp. 210-235.

Bergh (2005) On the counterfactual problem of welfare state research: How can we measure redistribution? European Sociological Review, 21:345-357.

Bergh (2005) On Inter and Intra-individual Redistribution of the Welfare state.
Social Science Quarterly. 86:984-995.

Bergh (2004) The Universal Welfare State – Theory and the Case of Sweden.
Political Studies, 52:745-766.

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Bergh (2004) On the redistributive effect of upper benefit limits in Bismarckian social insurance. Finnish Economic Papers 17:73-78.

 

Books and Book chapters

Bergh, A. 2010. Towards a New Swedish Model? in Bengtsson (ed) "Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State?", Springer. Link.

Bergh, A. & R. Höijer (2008) "Institutional Competition", Edward Elgar.

Bergh (2005), Poverty and New Welfare Economics. In "Economists and Poverty", edited by Rauhut, Hatti & Olsson, Vedam eBooks (P) Ltd.

 

Other stuff

Hur bemöter vi kritiken mot nationalekonomin? Ekonomisk Debatt, 6-2005.

Den Kapitalistiska Välfärdsstaten - Ratio förlag, 2007.

Den Kapitalistiska Välfärdsstaten  - 2 rev. upplaga 2009 på Norstedts

Blev den svenska välfärdsstaten mer eller mindre universell under 1990-talet? Ekonomisk Debatt, 2-2004.

Distributive justice and the welfare state. PhD-thesis defended on november 21st, 2003. Punch lines and policy implications (in Swedish)

My unfinished discussion paper Freedom, choice and well-being that was presented at the Joint Sessions of Workshops Edinburgh, U.K. 28th March - 2nd April 2003.

 


The pipeline: Working Papers, conference presentations and so on

First, check my space at Social Science Research Network

Bergh, Andreas (2008). How corrupt is a non-corrupt society? Evidence from Sweden. Presenterat vid Canadian Political Science Association, Vancouver, juni 2008. (With Andersson, Erlingsson, Sjölin & Widman)

Bergh, Andreas (2008). Grupplojalitet och korruption i svenska kommuner: Lärdomar från evolutionär spelteori och experimentell ekonomi. Presenterat vid Nordic Political Science Association, Tromsö, augusti 2008. (With Andersson, Erlingsson & Sjölin).

Bergh, Andreas (2008) Immigrants' attitudes towards redistribution and implications for the welfare state. (with G. Fink). Work in progress.

Bergh, Andreas (2008) "Do globalization and economic liberalization increase inequality?" (with T. Nilsson). Presented at the American Public Choice Meeting, San Antonio 2008

Bergh, Andreas (2008) "The rise , fall and revival of a capitalist welfare state: What are the policylessons from Sweden?" Presented at the American Public Choice Meeting, San Antonio 2008

Cooperation and Reputation With P. Engseld
Presented at the American Economic Association meetings in Chicago, january 2007

Escaping from Mass Education – Why Harvard Pays (With G. Fink)
Working Paper 2005:2, Dept. of Economics, Lund University

The Problem of Cooperation and Reputation Based Choice With P. Engseld
Working Paper 2005:27, Dept. of Economics, Lund University
(Previously titled Choosing co-players in the games of life - Reputation and the problem of cooperation)
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Earlier version presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Choice Society, New Orleans, March 10-13, 2005.

Choosing Opponents in Prisoner's Dilemma With P. Engseld
Working Paper 2005:45, Dept. of Economics, Lund University.
Earlier versions presented at the 2nd World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseille July 9th, and at the 15th Summer Festival on Game Theory, Stony Brook July 15th, and the winter meeting of the Econometric Society, Boston, january 2006.

The political support for redistributive social insurance
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association Nashville, Tennessee - March 21-23, 2003.

Basic Income - With or Without Bismarckian Social Insurance?  
Presented at the BIEN 10th Congress, 18-21 September 2004, Barcelona

Higher Education: Does Public Expenditure Increase Enrollment? (With G. Fink)
Mimeo.

Topping up, moral hazard and political support for social insurance

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