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Can Investment in Intangibles Explain the Swedish Productivity Boom in the 1990s?
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
recognizing that firms make substantial investment in intangible assets such as R&D, design, advertising etc. These investments … are not classified as investment in the National Accounts, where only tangible assets are defined as investment. This … paper provides estimates of investment in intangible assets and uses the growth accounting framework to analyze the Swedish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528482
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How Much does Sweden Invest in Intangible Assets?
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
total investment in intangibles was 227 billion or approximately two-thirds of the total investment in fixed capital in 2004 …. Thus, investment in intangibles was considerable in 2004. The corresponding figures for the UK and the US were 10.9 and 13 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645432
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Growth Effects of Fiscal Policies: A Critical Appraisal of Colombier’s (2009) Study
Bergh, Andreas; Öhrn, Nina - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
In a recent paper, Colombier (2009) uses a robust estimation technique and claims to find empirical evidence that government size has not been detrimental to growth for OECD countries during the 1970 to 2001 period, and that endogenous growth theory is not corroborated. We examine the robustness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008865947
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The Theory of the Firm and the Theory of Economic Growth: An essay on the economics of institutions, competition and the capacity of the political system to cope with unexpected ch...
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818470
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Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence
Bergh, Andreas; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is full of seemingly contradictory findings. This conflict is largely explained by variations in definitions and the countries studied. An alternative approach—of limiting the focus to studies of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788635
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Legitimacy and the Cost of Government
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Lipka, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945001
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Schumpeterian Innovation, Market Structure and the Stability of Industrial Development
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684524
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A Note: On Privatization, Contract Technology and Economic Growth
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685073
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How Can Economic Policy Strike a Balance between Economic Efficiency and Income Equality?
Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
Can income equality be combined with high economic efficiency and rapid economic growth? Fortunately, we need not to answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth distribution, on one hand, and efficiency/growth, on the other,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699977
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Sweden's Relative Economic Performance: Lagging Behind or Staying on Top?
Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
The purpose of this papers is confined to illuminating the aspect: Has Sewedish economic growth been slow relative to other industrialised countries in recent decades, i.e. is Sweden lagging behind
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818324