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The Dynamics of Firm Growth - a re-examination

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

investment, R&D, productivity and profit. Estimating relationships for 5,289 observations on Swedish manufacturing firms with 50 … between knowledge investments and ordinary investments can be established. Third, R&D has a strong effect on productivity and … productivity is bidirectional, while increased profit leads to more capital but not the vice versa. …

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A Portrait of the Innovative Firm as a Small Patenting Entrepreneur

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

This paper examines small innovative entrepreneurs by contrasting patenting firms against non-patenting firms. The empirical analysis is based on new and unique data on internal attributes, location and international trade characteristics for over 20 000 manufacturing firms in Sweden with 1-25...

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Parsing the Menagerie of Agglomeration and Network Externalities

Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

Externalities have for a long time been perceived as awkward cases that are alien to well-structured economic analyses. During recent decades ideas inherited from Marshall and others have regained interest in the analysis of specialisation and trade, urban formation and growth as well as...

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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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Agglomeration and the Spatial Distribution of Creativity

Andersson, Roland; Quigley, John. M; Wilhelmsson, Mats - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of “creativity” -- the production of new knowledge. We analyze commercial patents granted in Sweden during 1994-2001 using a panel of one hundred labor market areas which encompass the entire country. We relate patent activity to measures of...

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Production Risk, Energy Use Efficiency and Productivity of Korean Industries

Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...

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Economies d?échelle, économies de diversification et efficacité productive des banques luxembourgeoises : une analyse comparative des frontières stochastiques sur données en panel...

Rouabah, Abdelaziz - Central Bank of Luxembourg - 2002

This study analyses productive efficiency in banking and scale and scope economies using stochastic frontier analysis. The European banking sector underwent great changes during the period under study (1995-2000), featuring a marked increase in competition. Empirical results suggest that...

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Regional Productivity and Accessibility to Knowledge and Dense Markets

Karlsson, Charlie; Pettersson, Lars - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

between regional productivity measures as gross regional product per square kilometre and accessibility to educated labour. We …

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How ICT Investment and Energy Use Influence the Productivity of Korean Industries?

Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Lee, Jongsu; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how … investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … productivity growth in 30 industrial sectors. Describing industry-specific productivity levels is important for policymakers when …

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