We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the...

Denna rapport beskriver materialet i en ny databas där uppfinnare med svensk adress i europeiska patent länkats samman med registerdata på individer. Material är unikt i sin omfattning: det omfattar 18 489 unika uppfinnare 1978-2009 med 64 procent matchade uppfinnare. Från 2004 har mer än...

We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the...