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The Rise, Fall and Revival of a Capitalist Welfare State: What are the Policy Lessons from Sweden

Bergh, Andreas - 2011

This paper discusses a number of questions with regard to Sweden's economic and political development: How did Sweden … become rich? What explains Sweden's high level of income equality? What were the causes of Sweden's problems from 1970 to … 1995? How is it possible that Sweden, since the crisis of the early 1990s, is growing faster than most EU countries despite …

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Nya villkor för ekonomi och politik : Ekonomikommissionens förslag

1993

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Political Power, Resistance to Technological Change and Economic Development : Evidence from the 19th Century Sweden

Tyrefors, Björn - 2017

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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Swedish Lessons : How Important are ICT and R&D to Economic Growth?

Edquist, Harald Olof - 2015

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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Economic Performance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s

Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2019

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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Characteristics and Performance of New Firms and Spinoffs in Sweden

Andersson, Martin - 2012

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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Does Hedonic Price Indexing Change Our Interpretation of Economic History? Evidence from Swedish Electrification

Edquist, Harald - 2008

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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Economic Perfomance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s

Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2007

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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Parallel Development? Productivity Growth Following Electrification and the ICT Revolution

Edquist, Harald - 2007

This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing during electrification and the ICT revolution. The paper distinguishes between technology-producing, intensive and less intensive technology-using industries during these...

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How Much does Sweden Invest in Intangible Assets?

Edquist, Harald - 2009

In this paper I attempt to replicate for Sweden the Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2006) and Marrano and Haskel (2006 … intangibles in Sweden in 2004 was 277 billion SEK or 10.6 percent of total GDP. Based on total spending it can be estimated that …

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