paper addresses the competing views by studying on Sweden, a country with a dramatic growth in the number of MOCs since the …

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 … total investment in intangibles was 227 billion or approximately two-thirds of the total investment in fixed capital in 2004 …

’ substantial investment in intangible assets such as R&D, design, and advertising. These investments are not classified as … investment in the National Accounts, however, in which only tangible assets are defined as investment. This paper provides … estimates of investment in intangible assets and uses the growth accounting framework to analyze the Swedish productivity boom …

of inherited wealth in Sweden over the past two hundred years. The trends in Sweden are similar to those in France and … was similar to that in the U.S., but the savings and growth rates were much lower in Sweden than in the U.S. Rap-id income … several potential explanations related to the Swedish welfare state and pension system. Sweden was "un-European" during the …

Since the mid 1990s labor productivity growth in Sweden has been high compared to Japan, the US and the western EU … investment was 25 percent of value added in manufacturing, while the corresponding figure for the service sector was 11 percent … investment accounted for almost 30 percent of labor productivity growth in manufacturing. Thus, investments in intangibles that …

financial risk-taking. -- genetics ; risk-taking ; portfolio investment ; twins …