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Can Investment in Intangibles Explain the Swedish Productivity Boom in the 1990s?

Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

After a severe crisis in the early 1990s, the Swedish economy experienced a boom in productivity growth. According to economists there have been primarily three explanations for the fast productivity growth in 1995–2004: Market reforms, recovery from the crisis and the impact of information...

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How Much does Sweden Invest in Intangible Assets?

Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

In this paper I attempt to replicate for Sweden the Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2006) and Marrano and Haskel (2006) working papers on spending on intangible assets in the US and the UK. Based on their measurement methods the total spending on intangibles in Sweden in 2004 was 277 billion SEK or...

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Promoting Entrepreneurship in the Welfare State

Henrekson, Magnus; Roine, Jesper - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

Entrepreneurship is largely ignored or treated in a highly simplified way in endogenous growth theory. Still, it is now … creation. In this study we provide an in-depth examination of how the supply of productive entrepreneurship is likely to be … intrapreneurship can substitute for entrepreneurship. However, in an environment where entry, exit and turnover of firms are important …

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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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Poverty in Rural Cambodia: The Differentiated Impact of Linkages, Inputs and Access to Land

Engvall, Anders; Sjöberg, Örjan; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

Cambodia has been growing rapidly over the past few years but still remains one of the poorest countries in East Asia. In particular, poverty is widespread in rural Cambodia. This paper examines rural poverty in Cambodia with a view to furthering our understanding of the factors that might...

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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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The Dynamics of Supply and Economic Growth: How Industrial Knowledge Accumulation Drives a Path Dependent Economic Process

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987

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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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Colonial Heritage and Economic Development

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

While the importance of institutions for explaining cross-country income differences is widely recognized, comparatively little is known about the origins of economic institutions. One strand of the literature emphasizes cultural differences while another points at exogenous environmental...

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Sweden's Relative Economic Performance: Lagging Behind or Stying on Top?

Henrekson, M. - 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/10005780380

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