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Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities
Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences. In this study, we use detailed firm level data to examine how increased internationalization and multinational activity affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207058
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Local Multipliers and Human Capital in the US and Sweden
Moretti, Enrico; Thulin, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
We show that every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business in the traded sector, a significant number of additional jobs are created in the non-traded sector. This multiplier effect is particularly large for jobs with high levels of human capital and for high tech...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542071
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Multinational Firms and Job Tasks
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
We use Swedish matched employer-employee data to analyze the impact of multinational activity and foreign acquisitions on the relative demand for different job tasks. We contribute to the literature by using a conceptualization from the recent literature in international economics and define the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645336
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Financing from Family and Friends
Lee, Samuel; Persson, Petra - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
friends unattractive, and undermines the entrepreneur’s willingness to take risks. Altruistic ties thus constrain growth even … generating entrepreneurial growth. Our theory underscores the value of impersonal transactions, and implies that even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010581013
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Sensitivity to Shocks and Implicit Employment Protection in Family Firms
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
In this study I present empirical evidence that employment in family firms is less sensitive to performance and product market fluctuations, both at the industry and at the firm level. This supports the idea that family firms are able to offer their employees implicit employment protection....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818408
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Mental Accounting in the Housing Market
Almenberg, Johan; Karapetyan, Artashes - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
We use a survey to identify a consumer bias with regard to different sources of debt-financing. Less salient debt may generate psychological benefits. This should be weighed against the possible economic costs of a sub-optimal capital structure; but low levels of financial literacy make it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025462
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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 venture capital market in the US to Sweden. Our literature survey underscores that the legal environment, financial market development, the tax system, labor market regulations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945002
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Inflation, Taxation and Capital Cost
Bergström, Villy; Södersten, Jan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1979
In times of inflation, most existing systems of taxation introduce new distortions into the allocation of resources. In this paper, the effects of inflation via taxes on the firm's east of capital are analyzed. The taxes considered are the corporate income tax and household taxes on dividends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019062
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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 … 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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Foreign Direct Investment, Capital Formation and Labour Costs: Theory and Evidence for Germany.
Hatzius, J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
This paper shows that the liberalisation of foreign direct investment (FDI) tends to make the effect of labour costs on domestic investment and labour demand more negative.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486502