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Subsidizing Away Exports? A Note on R&D-policy towards Multinational Firms
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
In this paper, I investigate whether instead of strengthening home-based production, government R&D-subsidies can induce R&D-intensive firms to locate production abroad. Investigating firm-level data on Swedish MNEs, however, I find no evidence of such relocation. R&D subsidies rather tend to en...
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Multinational Firms, Technology and Location
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
This paper analyzes a three-stage optimization problem in which a firm chooses (i) its technology, by deciding on a level of R&D, (ii) whether this technology is to be used in a domestic or in a foreign plant and (iii) the quantity produced and sold on the market. If technology transfer costs...
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Productivity Analysis: A Micro-to-Macro Perspective
Carlsson, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987
This paper raises several issues concerning productivity analysis. An attempt is made to demonstrate the usefulness of … a micro-based approach to productivity analysis which challenges some basic assumptions of conventional analyses based … relationships between investment, productivity, and economic growth are much more complex and unpredictable than commonly assumed …
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Does FDI Work as a Channel for R&D Spillovers? Evidence Based on Swedish Data
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina; Knarvik, Midelfart; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
-level in Swedish manufacturing. The only variable that consistently affects total factor productivity is own investment in R&D. …
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Does Hedonic Price Indexing Change Our Interpretation of Economic History? Evidence from Swedish Electrification
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during other technological … Sweden 1900–35. The results show that during the productivity boom of the 1920s, the constant prices for electric motors … high productivity growth in the industry producing electric motors 1920–29. In contrast to Sweden, the US annual total …
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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and toward multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082494
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Does FDI Work as a Channel for R&D Spillovers? Evidence Based on Swedish Data.
Braconier, H.; Ekholm, K.; Knarvik, K.H.M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are important in transmitting technology across national borders. Not only do they allow for transfer of technology within the firm, but it is also believed that they are important channels for international R&D spillovers as well. This paper analyzes empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639332
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Technology Development and Job Creation in China
Lundin, Nannan; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Ping, He; Qian, Jinchang - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
This paper examines how Science and Technology (S&T) contribute to job creation in the Chinese manufacturing sector. The ambition of transforming China into an innovation-oriented nation and the emphasis on indigenous innovation capacity building have placed Science and Technology (S&T) high on...
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Parallel Development? Productivity Growth Following Electrification and the ICT Revolution
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish … productivity growth and the overall contribution to labor productivity growth was considerably higher in technology … adopters of electric motors and ICT, on average would have contributed more to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing. …
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The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Labor Demand and Skill-Biased Technical Change
Mellander, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645353