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Does FDI Work as a Channel for R&D Spillovers? Evidence Based on Swedish Data

Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina; Knarvik, Midelfart; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

R&D spillovers as well. This paper analyzes empirically whether inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) work … as channels for international R&D spillovers. We utilize firm-level as well as industry-level data for Swedish … manufacturing in the analysis. We find no evidence of FDI-related R&D spillovers - neither at the firm-level nor at the industry …

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Foreign Operations of Swedish Manufacturing Firms - Evidence from the IUI Survey on Multinationals 2003

Hakkala, Katariina; Zimmermann, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

The paper serves as a documentation of the survey IUI has conducted on Swedish multinational firms (MNEs) in 2004. It describes recent trends in the operations of Swedish multinational firms participating in the survey and foreign direct investment (FDI) of Swedish firms in general. The survey...

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Cost Reducing Innovations and Endogenous Spillovers

Nyberg, Sten - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991

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The Effects of R&D Externalities in a Spatial Model

Häckner, Jonas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1990

reduced both through own investments and by spillovers from the competitor and these spillovers are decreasing in the distance …

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The Firm as a Competent Team

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

Results from empirical studies of firm behavior are synthesized into, a theory of the firm as a competent team. I demonstrate the existence of a tacit organizational competence exercising a leverage on the productivities of all other factors through selecting and allocating competent people,...

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Compulsory Education and Jack-of-all-trades Entrepreneurs

Douhan, Robin - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

Can educational institutions explain occupational choice between wage employment and entrepreneurship? This paper follows Lazear's (2005) Jack-of-all-trades hypothesis according to which an individual with a more balanced set of abilities is more likely to enter into entrepreneurship. In the...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment

Lindqvist, Erik; Westman, Roine - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and noncognitive ability for labor market outcomes. The measure of noncognitive ability is based on a personal interview conducted by a psychologist. Unlike...

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Is Tolerance Good or Bad for Growth?

Berggren, Niclas; Elinder, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance–growth relationships for 54 countries. We provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as...

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Allocation of Economic Competence in Teams: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

Attention is called to a little explored scarce resource, termed 'economic competence', which combines features of human capital and bounded rationality, and causes a singularity in resource-allocation in society. The performance of each economy is shown to strongly depend on how this resource...

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