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Using Markets to Measure Pre-War Threat Assessments: The Nordic Countries Facing World War II

Waldenström, Daniel; Frey, Bruno S. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

Nordic historians have asserted for a long time that in the Nordic countries only few people, if any, perceived increased threats of war prior to the World War II outbreak. This would explain, and possibly excuse, why their governments did not mobilize their armies until it was too late. This...

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Information in Economic Theory: An Austrian Approach

Lundholm, Michael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987

No abstract.

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Economic Growth in the very Long Run. On the Multiple-Phase Interaction of Population, Technology, and Social Infrastructure

Day, Richard H.; Walter, Jean-Luc - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

Economic growth in the very long run is described by a multiple-phase, dynamic process with potentially complex dynamics during transitions between regimes. Technology is assumed to rest on a managerial-administrative infrastructure which influences natality, mortality and the productivity of...

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Institutions and Venture Capital

Lerner, Josh; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

We survey the literature on venture capital and institutions and present a case study comparing the development of the …

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Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Taxation

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Taxation theory rarely takes entrepreneurship into consideration. We discuss how this omission affects conclusions derived from standard models of capital taxation when applied to entrepreneurial income. Some of the defining features of entrepreneurship often omitted by standard capital taxation...

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Billionaires

Leeson, Peter; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

is enormous: billionaires. We explore the relationship between economic development, institutions, and these contrasting … kinds of entrepreneurs. We find that the institutions consistent with self-employed entrepreneurs di¤er markedly from the … ones consistent with billionaires. Further, only the latter are consistent with the institutions that underlie economic …

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The Interaction of Entrepreneurship and Institutions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

Previous research, notably Baumol (1990), has highlighted the role of insti-tutions in channeling entrepreneurial … institutions—entrepreneurs often help shape institutions themselves. The bilateral causal relation between entrepreneurs and … institutions is examined in this paper. Entrepreneurs affect institutions in at least three ways. Entrepreneurship abiding by …

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Investment Incentives in the Formerly Planned Economies

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994

No abstract.

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Product Market Reforms and Incentives to Innovate in Sweden

Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...

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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Economic Dynamism: Lessons from a Comparison of the United States and Sweden

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

, who are renowned specialists in the area and with deep knowledge of the pertinent institutions in Sweden and the US. These …

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