Thráinn Eggertsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 249884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thráinn Eggertsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thráinn |
| FAMILY NAME | Eggertsson |
| SIGNATURE | EGGERTSSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change
In the woods: Darkness at noon or Sunday in the park with Lin
Institutions and the environment
Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics
This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. The approach uses the idea of valence, that is, the party leader's non-policy electoral popularity, and employs survey data to model these elections. The analysis explains why small parties in Israel and Italy keep to the electoral periphery. In the Netherlands, Britain, and the US, the e…
An Analytic Revolution in Comparative Politics
Over the last decade rational choice and formal theory have gained increasing prominence in comparative politics, portending a potential analytic revolution in the field. Like the behavioral revolution of the 1960s, the analytic revolution of the 1990s is motivated in part by the desire to make comparative politics more rigorous by utilizing analytical tools such as game theory and spatial models developed largely by economists and positivist sch…
Delegating Powers: A Transaction Cost Politics Approach to Policy Making under Separate Powers
David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran produce the first unified theory of policy making between the legislative and executive branches. Examining major US policy initiatives from 1947 to 1992, the authors describe the conditions under which the legislature narrowly constrains executive discretion, and when it delegates authority to the bureaucracy. In doing so, the authors synthesize diverse and competitive literatures, from transaction cost and pr…
Delegating Powers: A Transaction Cost Politics Approach to Policy Making under Separate Powers (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
In this book, David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran present the first unified theory of national policy making. Examining major U.S. policy initiatives from 1947 to 1992, the authors describe the conditions under which the legislature narrowly constrains executive discretion and when it delegates authority to the bureaucracy."--Jacket
State reforms and the theory of institutional policy
A theory of institutional reforms must recognize what policy instruments are available, how politics restrains the choice sets of reformers, and whether spontaneous counter-policy by ordinary actors is likely to undermine reforms. A discussion of the so-called Determinacy Paradox concludes that it is not a practical issue. Insights suggested by the new institutionalism include measures to reduce political risks, increase the durability of reforms…
Sources of Risk, Institutions for Survival, and a Game against Nature in Premodern Iceland
The old theory of economic policy and the new institutionalism
The Economics of Institutions: Avoiding the Open-Field Syndrome and the Perils of Path Dependence
In this article, recent research on the economics of institutions is summarized and assessed The economics of institutions is an attempt to integrate recent research in various sub-fields of economics and the other social sciences in order to present a coherent research program for exploring the link between institutions and wealth Although the core of the framework is a modified version of neo-classical economics, it is argued that the optimal d…
Economic Behaviour and Institutions
Journal Article Economic Behaviour and Institutions Get access Economic Behaviour and Institutions. By Thrainn Eggertsson. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 385. £35.00 hardback, £12.95 paperback, US $54.50 hardback, US $17.95 paperback. ISBN 0 521 34445 X, 0 521 34891 9.) David de Meza David de Meza University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal…
Economic Behavior and Institutions: Principles of Neoinstitutional Economics
An important research programme has developed in economics that extends neo-classical economic theory in order to examine the effects of institutions on economic behaviour. The body of work emerging from this line of inquiry includes contributions from various branches of economic theory, such as the economics of property rights, the theory of the firm, cliometrics and law and economics. This book is a comprehensive survey of this research progra…
Determinants of Icelandic Foreign Relations
It is the thesis of this paper that the major determinants of Icelandic foreign relations can be classified under three headings: population, economic geography, and geographic location. The thesis is spelled out in some detail, and the fundamental goals of Ice land's foreign policy are presented as an interplay of these determinants. Finally, the country's foreign policy in three major areas - national security, European integration and the fish…
Economic Behaviour and Institutions
Journal Article Economic Behaviour and Institutions Get access Economic Behaviour and Institutions. By Thrainn Eggertsson. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 385. £35.00 hardback, £12.95 paperback, US $54.50 hardback, US $17.95 paperback. ISBN 0 521 34445 X, 0 521 34891 9.) David de Meza David de Meza University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal…
Sources of Risk, Institutions for Survival, and a Game against Nature in Premodern Iceland
The old theory of economic policy and the new institutionalism
An Analytic Revolution in Comparative Politics
Over the last decade rational choice and formal theory have gained increasing prominence in comparative politics, portending a potential analytic revolution in the field. Like the behavioral revolution of the 1960s, the analytic revolution of the 1990s is motivated in part by the desire to make comparative politics more rigorous by utilizing analytical tools such as game theory and spatial models developed largely by economists and positivist sch…
The Economics of Institutions: Avoiding the Open-Field Syndrome and the Perils of Path Dependence
In this article, recent research on the economics of institutions is summarized and assessed The economics of institutions is an attempt to integrate recent research in various sub-fields of economics and the other social sciences in order to present a coherent research program for exploring the link between institutions and wealth Although the core of the framework is a modified version of neo-classical economics, it is argued that the optimal d…
State reforms and the theory of institutional policy
A theory of institutional reforms must recognize what policy instruments are available, how politics restrains the choice sets of reformers, and whether spontaneous counter-policy by ordinary actors is likely to undermine reforms. A discussion of the so-called Determinacy Paradox concludes that it is not a practical issue. Insights suggested by the new institutionalism include measures to reduce political risks, increase the durability of reforms…
Determinants of Icelandic Foreign Relations
It is the thesis of this paper that the major determinants of Icelandic foreign relations can be classified under three headings: population, economic geography, and geographic location. The thesis is spelled out in some detail, and the fundamental goals of Ice land's foreign policy are presented as an interplay of these determinants. Finally, the country's foreign policy in three major areas - national security, European integration and the fish…
Economic Behavior and Institutions: Principles of Neoinstitutional Economics
An important research programme has developed in economics that extends neo-classical economic theory in order to examine the effects of institutions on economic behaviour. The body of work emerging from this line of inquiry includes contributions from various branches of economic theory, such as the economics of property rights, the theory of the firm, cliometrics and law and economics. This book is a comprehensive survey of this research progra…
Economic Behaviour and Institutions
Journal Article Economic Behaviour and Institutions Get access Economic Behaviour and Institutions. By Thrainn Eggertsson. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 385. £35.00 hardback, £12.95 paperback, US $54.50 hardback, US $17.95 paperback. ISBN 0 521 34445 X, 0 521 34891 9.) David de Meza David de Meza University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal…
The Economics of Institutions: Avoiding the Open-Field Syndrome and the Perils of Path Dependence
In this article, recent research on the economics of institutions is summarized and assessed The economics of institutions is an attempt to integrate recent research in various sub-fields of economics and the other social sciences in order to present a coherent research program for exploring the link between institutions and wealth Although the core of the framework is a modified version of neo-classical economics, it is argued that the optimal d…
The old theory of economic policy and the new institutionalism
Sources of Risk, Institutions for Survival, and a Game against Nature in Premodern Iceland
Delegating Powers: A Transaction Cost Politics Approach to Policy Making under Separate Powers
David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran produce the first unified theory of policy making between the legislative and executive branches. Examining major US policy initiatives from 1947 to 1992, the authors describe the conditions under which the legislature narrowly constrains executive discretion, and when it delegates authority to the bureaucracy. In doing so, the authors synthesize diverse and competitive literatures, from transaction cost and pr…
Delegating Powers: A Transaction Cost Politics Approach to Policy Making under Separate Powers (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
In this book, David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran present the first unified theory of national policy making. Examining major U.S. policy initiatives from 1947 to 1992, the authors describe the conditions under which the legislature narrowly constrains executive discretion and when it delegates authority to the bureaucracy."--Jacket
State reforms and the theory of institutional policy
A theory of institutional reforms must recognize what policy instruments are available, how politics restrains the choice sets of reformers, and whether spontaneous counter-policy by ordinary actors is likely to undermine reforms. A discussion of the so-called Determinacy Paradox concludes that it is not a practical issue. Insights suggested by the new institutionalism include measures to reduce political risks, increase the durability of reforms…
An Analytic Revolution in Comparative Politics
Over the last decade rational choice and formal theory have gained increasing prominence in comparative politics, portending a potential analytic revolution in the field. Like the behavioral revolution of the 1960s, the analytic revolution of the 1990s is motivated in part by the desire to make comparative politics more rigorous by utilizing analytical tools such as game theory and spatial models developed largely by economists and positivist sch…
Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics
This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. The approach uses the idea of valence, that is, the party leader's non-policy electoral popularity, and employs survey data to model these elections. The analysis explains why small parties in Israel and Italy keep to the electoral periphery. In the Netherlands, Britain, and the US, the e…
Institutions and the environment
In the woods: Darkness at noon or Sunday in the park with Lin
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change
Economics (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Positive economics (6 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)