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Technological Breakthroughs and Productivity Growth
Henrekson, Magnus; Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
persuasive direct evidence that the steam engine producing industry and electric machinery had particularly high productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645283
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Human Capital, Rent Seeking, and a Transition from Stagnation to Growth
Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter; Tangerås, Thomas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005
working in a human capital sector, interpreted as trade or manufacturing. Rent seeking exerts negative externalities on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645328
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Entry, Industry Growth and the Micro Dynamics of Industry Supply
Hause, John C.; Du Rietz, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983
, with primary focus on the relationship between entry and industry growth. The main ingredients are adjustment coats to … firms already in the industry and the distribution of fixed entry costs to potential entrants. The theory suggests … sufficient conditions under which the entry rate is an increasing, convex function of industry growth rate. A regression model is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684471
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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
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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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Inherited Wealth over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1810–2010
Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Inherited wealth has attracted much attention recently, much due to the research by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2011; 2014). The discussion has mainly revolved around a long-run contrast between Europe and the U.S., even though data on explicit historical inheritance flows are only really available for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818436
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Public Policy Evaluation in Sweden
Ysander, Bengt-Christer - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684426
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Norway in a Scandinavian perspective: What Would Have Happened without Oil?
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684427
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Citation Success: Evidence from Economic History Journal Publications
Waldenström, Daniel; Di Vaio, Gianfranco; Weisdorf, Jacob - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
This study examines the determinants of citation success among authors who recently published their work in economic history journals. We find that full professors, authors from non-economic history departments, and authors working in Anglo-Saxon countries are all more likely to get cited than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476274
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645416