tested by an in-depth examination of the experiences of Sweden and the US. Despite large levels of R&D spending and … comprehensive government support schemes, science-based entrepre-neurship has been far less important in Sweden compared to the US … Sweden in some areas is consistent with these changes. Our analysis suggests that a policy aimed at encouraging science …

Walter Korpi argues in a previous issue of Challenge (March/April 2000) that Swedish economists' claim that Sweden …'s growth performance has been inferior to that of other industrialized countries is at odds with the facts. Since Sweden has … wrong regarding Sweden's relative growth performance. Available data indicate that Sweden was lagging behind during the 1970 …

address this question by characterizing and evaluating the policy pursued in Sweden and the US, two countries that put a great … record, there is an impression of laggard rates of commercialization of academic research results in Sweden. Although there …

it can be used to account for some of the observed differences between Sweden and the US in this respect. Our normative …

-series data for Sweden spanning a long period (1955-99) with numerous changes of the compensation level, we generally find strong …

Entrepreneurship is largely ignored or treated in a highly simplified way in endogenous growth theory. Still, it is now … affected by the kind of tax and welfare arrangements that typically prevail in a mature welfare state. Sweden, allegedly the …

We investigate the dramatic transformation of ownership policies and ownership structure in Sweden during the postwar … globalization, or whether this tendency has been reinforced by economic policies vis-à-vis the business sector in Sweden. We show …

Guided by a simple theory of task assignment and time allocation, we investigate the long run response to national … differences in tax rates on labor income, payrolls and consumption. The theory implies that higher tax rates reduce work time in …