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Intangible investment and the Swedish manufacturing and service sector paradox

Edquist, Harald - 2011

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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Private equity and employees

Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2012

Using linked employer-employee data from Sweden, a difference-in-difference approach, and 201 private equity buyouts …

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Cross-border mergers & acquisitions policy in service markets

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan (contributor); … - 2008

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Privatization of credence goods : theory and evidence from service contracting

Lindqvist, Erik (contributor) - 2008

This paper analyzes public sector contracting of credence goods, i.e., services for which the producer has private information whether a certain treatment is needed or not. I develop a model where a credence good is supplied by an agent who can invest in quality and exert effort to reduce costs....

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Management practices and the quality of primary care

Angelis, Jannis; Glenngård, Anna H.; Jordahl, Henrik - 2017

Using the World Management Survey method, we map and analyse management quality in Swedish primary care centres. On average, private providers have higher management quality than public ones. We also find that centres with a high overall social deprivation among enrolled patients tend to have...

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Independent-school competition and Sweden's performance in TIMSS

Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel - 2023

This paper analyses the effects of independent-school competition on Sweden's performance in TIMSS, an international … after 2003 and is driven by for-profit schools. The results suggest that competition both slowed down Sweden's performance … estimates indicates that Sweden's average score in TIMSS 2019 would have been 20 points, or 0.24 standard deviations, lower …

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Labor market effects of a youth summer employment program in Sweden

Knutsson, Daniel; Tyrefors, Björn - 2024

, Sweden, where public sector job offers were as good as randomly assigned. In contrast to previous studies evaluating SYEP …

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The socioeconomics of wind power expansion : evidence from Sweden

Lundin, Erik; Platten, Jenny von - 2024

We document the socioeconomics of wind power expansion in Sweden using two metrics. First, we compute the difference in …

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Subsidizing away exports? : a note on R&D-policy towards multinational firms

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 2010

In this paper, I investigate whether instead of strengthening home-based production, government R&D-subsidies can induce R&D-intensive firms to locate production abroad. Investigating firm-level data on Swedish MNEs, however, I find no evidence of such relocation. R&D subsidies rather tend to en...

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The effect of tax treaties on multinational firms : new evidence from microdata

Davies, Ronald B.; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Tekin-Koru, Ayça - 2010

This paper uses affiliate level data from Swedish multinationals to examine the impact of tax treaties on both overall affiliate sales and the composition of those sales. In line with previous results, we find little evidence for an effect of treaties on the level of total sales. We do, however,...

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