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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2006
We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced … the bidding competition for the innovation and by increasing the relative profitability of being the most efficient firm … in the industry. Moreover, it is shown that increased intensity of competition can increase the relative profitability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320042
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
product competition tends to increase the relative profitability of innovation for sale relative to entry. Increased … competition reduces entrants' and acquirers' profits in a similar fashion, but also reduces the profit of non-acquirers. Therefore …, incumbents' valuations of innovations are less negatively affected by increased competition than entrants' profits. This, in turn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497863
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced … the bidding competition for the innovation and by increasing the relative profitability of being the most efficient firm … in the industry. Moreover, it is shown that increased intensity of competition can increase the relative profitability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419538
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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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Talent, career choice and competition : the gender wage gap at the top
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2020
product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306601
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The Equilibrium Ownership of an International Oligopoly
Horn, Henrik; Persson, Lars - 1999
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the dominant form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), but has received but scarce attention in the theory literature on trade and investment. This paper highlights how the international pattern of ownership of productive assets may depend on features of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334645