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International Trade and Product Variety - a firm level study

Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

relationship between variety in export supply and exports at the firm-level. Using highly detailed firm-level export data in 2003 …

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Time and Capital in Dynamic and Spatial Economic Theory

Andersson, Åke E. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

One of the claims of this paper is that three Austro-Swedish schools of economics provided much of the foundations for almost all of economic analysis developed after the second world war. Important representatives of the first school are Böhm-Bawerk and Wicksell, Schumpeter and Hayek of the...

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PRODUCT INNOVATION, EXPORT AND LOCATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper introduces a model where new products are introduced by entrepreneurs or innovating firms in a quasi-temporal setting. Market conditions are characterized by monopolistic competition between varieties belonging to the same product group, where varieties can become obsolete over time...

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Knowledge Absorption in the Development of Export Products

Warda, Peter; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

In this paper we analyze how firms’ knowledge absorption capacity – given the knowledge environment – affects the development, adoption and introduction of new export products among Swedish manufacturing firms. Our model formulation builds on theoretical arguments which imply that firms...

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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

This paper presents a comprehensive description and analysis of the international trading activities of firms based on novel detailed Swedish data. As a small open economy with a limited domestic market, Sweden constitutes an interesting contrast to existing evidence. We show that much of the...

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EXPORTS AND PRODUCTIVITY - comparable evidence for 14 countries

Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation …; … - 2007

investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644922

Entry costs and adjustments on the extensive margin - an analysis of how familiarity breeds exports

Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

that familiarity should primarily affect the extensive margin (number of exporters) of exports. This hypothesis is tested … by estimating a gravity equation on a panel that describes Swedish firms’ exports to 150 destination countries over a … of aggregate exports is primarily due to adjustments on the extensive margin. Adjustments on the extensive margin are …

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Heterogeneous Distributions of Firms Sustained by Innovation Dynamics – a model with an empirical application

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

This paper develops a framework to appreciate the observed heterogeneity of firm size distributions and the entry and exit of products and firms associated with it. It is based on a model where new products are introduced by innovating firms in a quasi-temporal setting of monopolistic...

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Internal and External Knowledge – Innovation of Export Varieties.

Johansson, Börje; Johansson, Sara; Wallin, Tina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Firms in local industries maintain their capability to generate innovations by simultaneously exploiting internal and external knowledge resources. The paper introduces the notion variety triplet to distinguish individual export varieties, where a triplet is a unique combination of a firm, a...

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Scale and Scope - human capital and the structure of regional export flows

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Sara - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between human capital endowments and the structure of regional export flows. Since the development of each export product may be assumed to be associated with innovation activity, requiring human capital inputs, the core hypothesis...

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