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Trade, Southern Integration, and Uneven Development

Trofimov, G. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these countries. The model describes two symmetric countries trading with each other and the industrial rest of the world. Bilateral trade occurs at any moment if the countries have...

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Parallel Development? Productivity Growth Following Electrification and the ICT Revolution

Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish … productivity growth and the overall contribution to labor productivity growth was considerably higher in technology … adopters of electric motors and ICT, on average would have contributed more to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645326

Protection of Property Rights and Growth as Political Equilibria

Asoni, Andrea - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

This paper presents a survey of the literature on property rights and economic growth. It discusses different theoretical mechanisms that relate property rights to economic development. Lack of protection of property rights can result in slow economic growth through different channels:...

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Economic Freedom and Economic Crisis

Bjørnskov, Christian - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...

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Schumpeterian Innovation, Market Structure and the Stability of Industrial Development

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986

No abstract.

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Innovation Performance and Government Financing

Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

External financing is important when inventors and small technology-based firms wish to commercialize their inventions. However, it is likely that problems related to adverse selection and moral hazard are present, and market failures occur, since inventors know more about the inventions than do...

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Commercialization of Patents and External Financing during the R&D-Phase

Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

Using a unique database on individual Swedish patents, a survival model estimates how different factors influence the time it takes until commercialization starts. To the best of my knowledge, such an analysis has not been undertaken before. For external financing of patent projects and small...

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The “Incentive Subsidy” for Government Support of Private R&D

Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987

An "incentive subsidy" policy for subsidizing private R & D is proposed that can be more efficient, from a social point of view, than subsidy policies in common use such as a "normal" subsidy policy (fixed amount granted at project start), and conditional loans (loan is repaid only if project is...

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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Thursby, Marie - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh-Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded...

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More Open – Better Governed? Evidence from High- and Low-income Countries

Bergh, Andreas; Mirkina, Irina; Nilsson, Therese - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

Using World Bank data on institutional quality and the KOF Globalization Index, we examine over 100 countries from 1992 to 2010 to analyze the relationship between economic and social globalization and six measures of institutional quality. Theoretically, the incentives of elites to respond to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721649

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