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Institutions for the Selection of Entrepreneurs: Implications for Economic Growth and Financial Crises.
Pelikan, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
The search for growth-promoting policies is found to demand knowledge of how growth depends upon actions of entrepreneurs and how these actions depend upon the prevailing institutions. While institutions have extensively been examined for their influences upon the freedoms and the incentives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780392
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Institutions for the Selection of Entrepreneurs: Implications for Economic Growth and Financial Crises
Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
The search for growth-promoting policies is found to demand knowledge of how growth depends upon actions of entrepreneurs and how these actions depend upon the prevailing institutions. While institutions have extensively been examined for their influences upon the freedoms and the incentives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190640
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Uniqueness in Infinitely Repeated Decision Problems
Vieille, Nicolas; Weibull, Jörgen W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002
Dynamic decision-making without commitment is usually modelled as a game between the current and future selves of the … decision maker. It has been observed that if the time-horizon is infinite, then such games may have multiple subgame … decision problems with discounting. The condition is two-fold: the range of possible utility levels in the decision problem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645366
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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 from the crisis and the impact of information...
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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645432
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A Note: On Innovation and Capital Markets
Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685050
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Foreign Direct Investment, Capital Formation and Labour Costs: Theory and Evidence for Germany
Hatzius, Jan - 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. Using data from Germany, it then provides evidence that is consistent with this view. First, high unit labour costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600209