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Product market reforms and incentives to innovate in Sweden

Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2013

The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...

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Wealth-income ratios in a small, developing economy: Sweden, 1810-2014

Waldenström, Daniel - 2016

. Overall, the findings suggest that initial conditions and economic and political institutions matter for the structure and …

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Market reform and school competition: The lesson from Sweden

Wennström, Johan - 2016

necessary to establish appropriate rules and institutions for school competition. Instead, ill-conceived grading and curriculum …-profit producers, must account for how institutions and incentive structures affect behavior. …

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Institutional reform for innovation and entrepreneurship: An agenda for Europe

Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2017

) informal institutions. Overall, the proposed institutional changes move in a liberalizing direction; however, one …

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Do equal rights for a minority affect general life satisfaction?

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2017

While previous research examines how institutions matter for general life satisfaction and how specific institutions … latter type of institutions relates to general life satisfaction. The question is how people in general are affected by laws …

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Taxation of Swedish firm owners: The great reversal from the 1970s to the 2010s

Henrekson, Magnus - 2017

By the late 1960s, real effective taxation of income from individual firm owner-ship in Sweden approached 100 percent. A series of tax reforms initiated in the late 1970s reversed this situation. This paper has a threefold purpose: (1) to elucidate the thinking behind the vision of creating a...

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Stock option taxation: A missing piece in European innovation policy?

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017

countries have rates of VC activity commensurable to their deep finan-cial markets, strong legal institutions and high R …

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Schumpeterian entrepreneurship in Europe compared to other industrialized regions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017

We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe...

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Do voters dislike liberalizing reforms? New evidence using data on satisfaction with democracy

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018

Since the early 1980s a wave of liberalizing reforms has swept over the world. While the stated motivation for these reforms has usually been to increase economic efficiency, some critics have instead inferred ulterior motives and a desire to enrich certain (already rich) people at the expense...

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Financial and institutional reforms for an entrepreneurial society

Economidou, Claire; Grilli, Luca; Henrekson, Magnus; … - 2018

ventures. That is followed by three papers that focus on the institutions that (fail to) channel financial resources to such … ventures and two papers that analyze the relevance of labor market institutions. The special issue concludes with two papers … investigating how the interplay of institutions and productive entrepreneurship results in economic growth. …

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