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The interaction of entrepreneurship and institutions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2010

Previous research, notably Baumol (1990), has highlighted the role of insti-tutions in channeling entrepreneurial supply into productive, unproductive or destructive activities. However, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by institutions—entrepreneurs often help shape institutions...

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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden

Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017

We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...

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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...

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Software development and innovation - exploring the software shift in innovation in Swedish firms

Andersson, Martin; Kusetogullari, Anna; Wernberg, Joakim - 2020

Several scholars as well as industry professionals have claimed that there is a "software-biased shift" in the nature and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide array of industries. Empirical firm-level evidence of such...

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Making a market : infrastructure, integration, and the rise of innovation

Andersson, David; Berger, Thor; Prawitz, Erik - 2020

We exploit exogenous variation arising from the historical rollout of the Swedish railroad network across municipalities to identify the impacts of lowered interaction costs on innovative activity. A network connection led to a surge in local innovation due to an increased entry, productivity,...

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Do R&D and ICT affect total factor productivity growth differently?

Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2016

We analyze the effect of ICT and R&D on total factor productivity (TFP) growth across different industries in Sweden. R …&D alone is significantly associated with contemporaneous TFP growth, thus exhibiting spillover effects. Although there is no … significant short-run association between ICT and TFP, we find a positive association with a lag of seven to eight years. Thus …

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Long-run effects of technological change : the impact of automation and robots on intergenerational mobility

Heyman, Fredrik; Olsson, Martin - 2022

This paper examines whether recent advancements in automation and robotics have affected intergenerational income mobility. Using detailed data on all individuals and firms registered in Sweden, we study whether parental exposure to robots at the occupational level and heterogeneous adoption of...

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