Christian Bjørnskov, Author at IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:39:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png Christian Bjørnskov, Author at IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org 32 32 And Yet It Grows. Crisis, Ideology, and Interventionist Policy Ratchets https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/and-yet-it-grows-crisis-ideology-and-interventionist-policy-ratchets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=and-yet-it-grows-crisis-ideology-and-interventionist-policy-ratchets https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/and-yet-it-grows-crisis-ideology-and-interventionist-policy-ratchets/#respond Sun, 29 Oct 2017 08:36:41 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/and-yet-it-grows-crisis-ideology-and-interventionist-policy-ratchets/ WP 2017-05.  Discussions on the optimal level of government intervention in the economy have become very intense in recent years, especially following the 2008 financial and economic crisis. The hardships…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/and-yet-it-grows-crisis-ideology-and-interventionist-policy-ratchets/feed/ 0 Regulation and Government Debt https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/regulation-and-government-debt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=regulation-and-government-debt https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/regulation-and-government-debt/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:19:05 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/regulation-and-government-debt/ WP 2017-01.  Since the financial crisis, government debt ratios have increased in many countries. Most studies indicate that there is a negative association between high medium- and long-term debt ratios…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/regulation-and-government-debt/feed/ 0 Legitimacy and the Cost of Government https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/legitimacy-and-the-cost-of-government/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legitimacy-and-the-cost-of-government https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/legitimacy-and-the-cost-of-government/#respond Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:11:00 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/legitimacy-and-the-cost-of-government/   WP 2013-05. Executive Summary Although it is generally agreed that government size has a negative impact on economic growth, it is also manifest that the intensity of this causal…

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