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Academic freedom, institutions and productivity

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2021

academic freedom and both labor and total-factor productivity growth. However, this effect only appears as long as the quality … of the legal system is sufficiently high. We suggest that this is because such institutional quality offers protection … benefits productivity growth. …

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The French curse? : on the puzzling economic consequences of French colonization

Bergh, Andreas; Fink, Guenther - 2018

of economic growth. One of the most striking features of economic development on the sub-Saharan subcontinent is the … the post-2000 period. Neither measures of human capital, geography nor measures of institutional quality appear to explain … this gap, suggesting that colonialism affected deeper societal factors that are crucial for economic growth but that are …

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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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Taxation of goods and services from 1862 to 2010

Stenkula, Mikael - 2013

This paper presents annual Swedish time series data on consumption taxes, i.e. the indirect taxation of goods and services, between 1862 and 2010. As a share of total state tax revenues, consumption taxes were very high at the beginning of the period, though as a share of GDP it was rather low....

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Swedish taxation since 1862 : an overview

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2015

This paper examines the development of taxation in Sweden from 1862 to 2013. The examination covers six key aspects of the Swedish tax system: the taxation of labor income, capital income, consumption, inheritance and gift, wealth and real estate. The importance of these taxes varied greatly...

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Taxation of real estate in Sweden (1862-2013)

Stenkula, Mikael - 2014

This paper surveys the development and role of the real estate tax in Sweden between 1862 and 2010. The possibility to tax real estate has been used at both the local and state level throughout history. Its importance is difficult to assess directly due to limited data availability and the...

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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2012

. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Start-ups ; Ownership ; Breakthrough ; Quality …

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Verifying high quality : entry for sale

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2017

sell post-entry use entry to credibly reveal information on quality. Incumbents are then willing to pay high prices for … high-quality inventions to preempt rivals from obtaining them. Using Swedish data on patents granted to small firms and … individuals, we find evidence that high-quality inventions are sold under preemptive bidding competition, post entry. …

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Paying with personal data

Natvik, Gisle James; Tangerås, Thomas P. - 2023

power and in quality to stimulate content consumption. The profit-maximizing tariff is zero if productive data are highly …

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Entrepreneurship and second-best institutions : going beyond Baumol's typology

Douhan, Robin (contributor); Henrekson, Magnus (contributor) - 2008

circumstances characterized by suboptimal institutions. We present an alternative way of generalizing the notion of entrepreneurship … shown that changing the workings of institutions constitutes an important set of entrepreneurial profit opportunities. An … implication of this is that entrepreneurial efforts to reform or offset inefficient institutions can in many cases be welfare …

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