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This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...
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Since the mid-1990s value added has grown faster in the Swedish business sector than in most other OECD countries. We investigate the association between information and communications technology (ICT) and research and development (R&D) capital and value added in the Swedish non-farm business...
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explanation for Sweden's weak performance with respect to market work activity highlights the role of high tax rates on labor …
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We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …
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strong economic development in Sweden during the last two decades, namely product market reforms and incentives to innovate …
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Sweden is often described as a country where intergenerational social mobility is high, but research also shows that … mobility for an extreme elite group in society: the CEOs of Sweden's 30 largest public firms since 1945. To our knowledge … former and current CEOs who grew up in Sweden and born between the late1800s and 1970. We have information about paternal …
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By the late 1960s, real effective taxation of income from individual firm owner-ship in Sweden approached 100 percent …
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We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using …
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