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Internal Efficiency and External Conditions.

Weibull, J-W - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

This paper develops a new analystical approach to the old question whether market conditions may influence the internal efficiency of firms. The basic textbook model of the firm is slightly extended to incorporate managers' incentives to reduce production costs in an imperfectly competitive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486493

Multi-Market Competition and Coordination in Games.

Ganslandt, M - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

This thesis consists of one essay in industrial organization and two essays in non-cooperative game theory.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780371

The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Labor Demand and Skill-Biased Technological Change.

Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780378

Internal Efficiency and External Conditions

Weibull, Jörgen W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

This paper develops a new analytical approach to the old question whether market conditions may influence the internal efficiency of firms. The basic textbook model of the firm is slightly extended to incorporate managers' incentives to reduce production costs in an imperfectly competitive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600194

Multi-Market Competition and Coordination in Games

Ganslandt, Mattias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

This thesis consists of one essay in industrial organization and two essays in non-cooperative game theory.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699976

Entrepreneurship and Second-best Institutions: Going Beyond Baumol’s Typology

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

This paper reconsiders the predominant typology pioneered by Baumol (1990) between productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. Baumol’s classificatory scheme is built around a limited concept of first-best outcomes and therefore easily fails to appreciate the true impact of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969817

Superentrepreneurship in Europe Compared to Other Industrialised Regions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

strong performance in technological innovation. …

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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …

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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Human Flourishing

Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This essay uses Edmund Phelps new book Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs,Challenge, and Change … (Princeton University Press, 2013) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book is laudable for its … innovation and the lack of convincing empirical evidence for the claim that the rate of innovation has slowed. These flaws are …

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