| 1. |
- Kander, Astrid, et al.
(författare)
-
In Defense of Electricity as a General Purpose Technology
- 2007
-
Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Electricity has been regarded as a typical example of a general purpose technology and important for the surge both in energy productivity and overall productivity in the American economy in the 1920s. This view was challenged by Nicholas and Moser (2004) based on patent statistics. We argue that other methods are required for studying productivity effects and propose cointegration analyses. We demonstrate a clear impact from electrification on energy productivity in those broad Swedish industrial branches that used electricity for multiple uses. This effect goes beyond mere book-keeping effects and indicates the existence of dynamic effects.
|
|
| 2. |
|
|
| 3. |
- Schön, Lennart
(författare)
-
Technological Waves and Economic Growth - Sweden in an International Perspective 1850-2005
- 2009
-
Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents a model of long waves and an empirical analysis of Swedish growth since 1850. The model emphasises the creation of new complementarities around macro innovations. The growth process is periodised in two main parts. The first period is characterised by transformation when development is uneven and unbalanced. The second period is characterised by rationalisation when the economy is made more homogenous with growth accelerating in a wider context. With a Swedish Schumpeterian concept the complementarities around innovations form development blocks at the centre of the growth process. The process of innovation, diffusion and structural change is analysed. In periods of more rapid transformation, regions and nations react differently. Diffusion is more rapid to regions and nations favoured by new demands – due to their resource endowments, their institutional characteristics and their social capability. Over time however competencies, infrastructures and institutions will be more generally adapted to the new complementarities. Hence the development blocks will be more widely diffused. In that diffusion process, the favourable position of the leaders is undermined while laggards will improve their position. Diminishing returns will however shift profitability between established and emerging complementarities that pave the way for crisis and new structural transformation
|
|
| 4. |
|
|
| 5. |
|
|
| 6. |
- Schön, Lennart, et al.
(författare)
-
New Swedish Historical National Accounts since the 16th Century in Constant and Current Prices
- 2015
-
Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This Working Paper presents and discusses Swedish Historical National Accounts back to 1560 in both current and constant prices. With current prices, this paper provides a major extension of our prior WP 123. It also presents some revisions and additions to earlier data. The main result from the earlier paper of a long secular cycle with troughs around 1600 and 1800 and a peak around 1700 still holds, but there are new aspects on long term development and structural changes from the analysis of both current and constant prices. Thus, the position of agriculture in the late 17th century looks even bleaker in current than in constant prices. The link to the data set is http://www.ekh.lu.se/en/research/economic-history- data/shna1560-2010.
|
|
