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The Bright but Right View? A New Type of Evidence on Entrepreneurial Optimism
Bengtsson, Ola - 2014
Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
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Intangible Investment and the Swedish Manufacturing and Service Sector Paradox
Edquist, Harald Olof - 2012
Since the mid 1990s labor productivity growth in Sweden has been high compared to Japan, the US and the western EU …
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Firm Productivity and Carbon Leakage : A Study of Swedish Manufacturing Firms
Ferguson, Shon M. - 2015
This paper examines the intensive and extensive margins of carbon leakage. The analysis uses an increase in the Swedish electricity price to identify the impact on imports at the firm and product level. Our model of heterogenous firms predicts that higher domestic electricity prices lead firms...
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Network Neutrality and Network Management Regulation : Quality of Service, Price Discrimination, and Exclusive Contracts
Economides, Nicholas - 2012
We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no variations in Quality of Service and no price discrimination; (ii) variations in Quality of Service but no price discrimination; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price...
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Entry Regulations, Welfare and Determinants of Market Structure
Maican, Florin - 2018
affect profitability, market structure and welfare. Based on unique data for all retail food stores in Sweden, we estimate …
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Network Neutrality on the Internet : A Two-Sided Market Analysis
Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - 2012
We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell broadband Internet access services to residential consumers and may set fees to content and application providers on the Internet. When access is monopolized, cross-group...
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Paying to Remove Advertisements
Tåg, Joacim - 2011
Media firms sometimes allow consumers to pay to remove advertisements from an advertisement-based product. We formally examine an ad-based monopolist s incentives to introduce this option. When deciding whether to introduce the option to pay, the monopolist compares the potential direct revenues...
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Firm Growth, Institutions and Structural Transformation
Henrekson, Magnus - 2019
This essay argues that the economic contribution of certain firms – be they small, young or rapidly growing – has to be understood in a broader context of creative destruction. Growth of some firms requires contraction and exit of some other firms to free up resources that can be reallocated...
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden's experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …
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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–-2006
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007
We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …
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