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The turnaround of the Swedish economy: lessons from large business sector reforms
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2019
How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during the 1970–2010 period can serve as an example to help other countries understand how to efficiently reform a business sector. In the 1990s, Sweden implemented a reform package...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018318
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The turnaround of Swedish industry: Reforms, firm diversity and job and productivity dynamics
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2015
In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity and employment growth that followed the deep economic crisis in Sweden in the early 1990s. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden had one of the most regulated business sectors in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442470
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The turnaround of Swedish industry : reforms, firm diversity and job and productivity dynamics
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2015 - This version: August 2015
In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity and employment growth that followed the deep economic crisis in Sweden in the early 1990s. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden had one of the most regulated business sectors in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343029
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The Turnaround of the Swedish Economy : Lessons from Large Business Sector Reforms
Heyman, Fredrik - 2019
How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during the 1970–2010 period can serve as an example to help other countries understand how to efficiently reform a business sector. In the 1990s, Sweden implemented a reform package...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870646
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The turnaround of the Swedish economy : lessons from large business sector reforms
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2019
How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during the 1970–2010 period can serve as an example to help other countries understand how to efficiently reform a business sector. In the 1990s, Sweden implemented a reform package...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002862
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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2012
. We also show that commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. Using Swedish patent citation data, we find empirical support for predictions of the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009625140
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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Hjertstrand, Per; … - 2016
business stealing effect. Commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. We develop a regression framework to test empirical predictions of the model. Within our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549385
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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Hjertstrand, Per; … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 127 (2017) 605, pp. 164-199
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758252
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Has the Swedish business sector become more entrepreneurial than the US business sector?
Persson, Lars; Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151216
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Risky business : venture capital, pivoting and scaling
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2024
The creation and scaling of startups are inherently linked to risk-taking, with various types of owners handling these risks differently. This paper investigates the influence of an active venture capital (VC) market on startups’ decisions regarding research and scaling. It outlines conditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564131