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Multinational Firms and Innovation: The Role of R&D Collaboration, Markets and Ownership

Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

In this paper, we examine the relationship between R&D collaboration, corporate ownership, market orientation and innovation. In doing so, we classify a Swedish sample of 1,249 multinational enterprises, MNEs, on the basis of their main market, corporate ownership structure and whether their...

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How to Persistently Finance Innovation: A Panel-Data Study on Exporting Firms in Sweden

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

This paper provides estimates of negative binomial regressions for high-leveraged and non-high-leveraged exporting firms in Sweden over a business cycle that contains two boom periods and two recession periods. The contemporaneous cash flow coefficients are positive and statistically...

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The Global-Local Interplay of MNE and Non-MNE Firms

Johansson, Börje; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second … how attributes of MNEs and non-MNEs differ, and how these differences affect the productivity and export intensity. It …

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Productivity and International Trade - firm-level evidence from a small open economy

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Sara; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

. We further show that selection also applies to number of products traded. Both export and import productivity premiums …

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Multinationals in the Knowledge Economy - a case study of AstraZeneca in Sweden

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje; Karlsson, Charlie; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

This report presents a case study of the role of a large R&D intensive multinational company for a small open economy. The case study examines the role of AstraZeneca in the Swedish economy, i.e. an economy dominated by multinational companies. The purpose of the report is to analyze the...

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Imports, Productivity and the Origin Markets -the role of knowledge-intensive economies

Lööf, Hans; Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

This paper investigates whether domestic firms’ productivity is an increasing function of imports from the most knowledge intensive economies in the world, i.e. the G7 countries. Using Swedish firm-level data, we confirm an instantaneous causality going from imports to productivity. We also...

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Learning-by-Exporting Revisited - the role of intensity and persistence

Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

Two not mutually exclusive hypotheses can explain the empirically established export premium: self-selection of more … productive firms into export markets and learning-by-exporting. We reassess the learning-by-exporting hypothesis and maintain … persistent exporters with high export-intensity. No such relationship is found for either temporary exporters or persistent …

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Learning and Productivity of Swedish Exporting Firms: The importance of Innovation Efforts and the Geography of Innovation

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing firms with 10 or more employees for the period 1997-2008, it estimates a dynamic GMM model that captures both the impact of recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and...

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Innovation and credit constraints: Evidence from Swedish exporting firms

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

Existing studies associates financial constraints among innovators to small, young and high-tech firms. High adjustment cost implies that firms save money by smoothing innovation spending across the business cycle if they have available resources. This paper examines whether previous findings on...

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Are Services Different Exporters?

Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

to multinational groups. However, the export productivity premium is larger for service firms than for manufacturers. No …

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