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Piracy, music and movies : a natural experiment
Adermon, Adrian; Liang, Che-yuan - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of illegal file sharing (piracy) on music and movie sales. The Swedish … effects on music and movie sales in Sweden. We find that the reform decreased Internet traffic by 18 percent during the … subsequent six months. It also increased sales of physical music by 27 percent and digital music by 48 percent. Furthermore, it …
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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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Digitization-based automation and occupational dynamics
Gardberg, Malin; Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2019
We examine the relationship between occupational automation probabilities and employment dynamics over nearly two decades. We show that employment and wage shares of occupations with a higher automation risk have declined in Sweden over the period 1996-2013. This has occurred both in the...
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Exploring digital time measurement in the public sector : labor productivity and service quality in home care
Jordahl, Henrik; Persson, Lovisa - 2018
We measure labor productivity in home care using new data from the recent introduction of digital time measurement in Swedish municipalities. By measuring worker utilization (delivered hours as a share of worked hours) we avoid several problems that have plagued previous studies of public sector...
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Money for nothin' - digitalization and fluid tax bases
Blix, Mårten; Bustos, Emil - 2020
Technology and digitalization are transforming economic activity, but tax policies are lagging behind. The development also encompasses a broad shift in value-creation, with less emphasis on physical production and more on soft knowledge/intangibles, notably copyrights, firm-specific processes,...
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Coups, regime transition, and the dynamics of press freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian; Freytag, Andreas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2018
This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and autocracies may have similar incentives to protect the power...
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Global award for entrepreneurship research
Henrekson, Magnus (contributor);  … - 2008
The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
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Taxation and the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship
Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - 2009
We study the effect of taxation on entrepreneurship, taking into account both the amount of entry and the quality of new ventures. We show that even with risk neutral agents and no tax evasion progressive taxes can increase entrepreneurial entry, while reducing average firm quality. So called...
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Entrepreneurship and public policy
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2009
Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship without directing attention to quantitative goals and specific firms or employment groups. The institutional framework set by public policy affects the prevalence and performance...
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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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