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- Wennström, Johan, 1987-
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Interpreting Policy Convergence Between the Left and the Right
- 2019
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This dissertation is made up of four essays that address major problems in the policy areas of education and immigration in Sweden and an introductory essay that offers an overarching analysis of the results of the four individual studies. The first three essays analyze the significant decline in quality of elementary and secondary education since the late 1990s from three different angles: the decline in teachers’ working conditions and status (Essay I), the deficiencies in the regulatory framework of Sweden’s system of school competition between public and for-profit providers of education (Essay II), and the prescribed view of knowledge in Swedish schools (Essay III). The fourth essay examines the policy of refugee placement in recent years. It shows that peripheral and rural municipalities with declining populations and high unemployment have received greater numbers of refugees per capita than growing urban municipalities offering better employment opportunities. The introductory essay focuses on the common thread in the four essays, namely, policy convergence between the Left and the Right. In fact, the empirical evidence in the individual studies suggests that the Social Democrats and the Moderate Party have a propensity for policy convergence in the two areas analyzed, but that it is unintentional and hard to detect for the actors themselves. This observation runs counter to what is typically assumed in political science, namely, that the Left and the Right are polar opposites with widely divergent policy agendas.
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- Andersson, Martin, et al.
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Jobbskapande och produktivitet i små kontra nya företag : Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2020 till John Haltiwanger
- 2021
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In: Ekonomisk Debatt. - : Nationalekonomiska Föreningen. - 0345-2646. ; 7:49, s. 5-15
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Research review (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Denna artikel presenterar 2020 års pristagare av Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research – John Haltiwanger – och de bidrag han har gjort inom entreprenörskapsforskningen. Haltiwanger har bl a bidragit till att förbättra vår förståelse av hur jobb skapas och försvinner, kartlägga vilka faktorer som styr produktivitet samt analysera hur småföretag bidrar till den ekonomiska utvecklingen. Hans forskning har inspirerat såväl policydebatt som nationella statistikmyndigheter världen över.
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- Andersson, Malte, 1941, et al.
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”Minskande befolkning är inte problemet”
- 2020
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In: Dagens Nyheter. ; :1 augusti, DN-debatt
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Nätverket Population Matters Sweden: En uppmärksammad studie i The Lancet pekar mot en lägre befolkningsökning i världen än tidigare prognoser. Men en miljard människor till är fortfarande långt över vad jorden klarar. Befolkningstrenden måste snarare vända neråt, och det kräver åtgärder för att stärka kvinnors rättigheter världen över.
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- Bergh, Andreas, et al.
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Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence
- 2011
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In: Journal of Economic Surveys. - : Wiley. - 0950-0804. ; 25:5, s. 872-897
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is full of seemingly contradictory findings. This conflict is largely explained by variations in definitions and the countries studied. An alternative approach – of limiting the focus to studies of the relationship in rich countries, measuring government size as total taxes or total expenditure relative to GDP and relying on panel data estimations with variation over time – reveals a more consistent picture: The most recent studies find a significant negative correlation: An increase in government size by 10 percentage points is associated with a 0.5 to 1 percent lower annual growth rate. We discuss efforts to make sense of this correlation, and note several pitfalls involved in giving it a causal interpretation. Against this background, we discuss two explanations of why several countries with high taxes seem able to enjoy above average growth: One hypothesis is that countries with higher social trust levels are able to develop larger government sectors without harming the economy. Another explanation is that countries with large governments compensate for high taxes and spending by implementing market-friendly policies in other areas. Both explanations are supported by ongoing research.
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- Braunerhjelm, Pontus, 1953-, et al.
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An Innovation Policy Framework : Bridging the Gap Between Industrial Dynamics and Growth
- 2016
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In: International Studies in Entrepreneurship. - Cham : Springer Nature. ; , s. 95-130
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Innovation is increasingly considered the key to elevating prosperity and securing sustainable long-term growth. The few last decades have also witnessed a refinement of previous growth models to include investments in education by individuals and R&D by firms. Better educated individuals and increased expenditure on R&D are shown to result in increased innovation and accelerated growth in endogenous growth models. This finding has spurred policy makers, most recently the OECD, the EU commission, and other organizations, to design innovation strategies to meet future growth and welfare challenges. Such strategies have also trickled down to the country level.
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- Braunerhjelm, Pontus, et al.
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Awarding Entrepreneurship Research : A Presentation of the Global Award
- 2009
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In: Entrepreneurship. - : SAGE Publications. - 1042-2587 .- 1540-6520. ; 33:3, s. 809-814
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- On January 29, 2009, professor Scott A. Shane, Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio), became the first recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, an upgrade of the previous award given annually since 1996, and since then firmly established as the leading prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. The objective of this essay is to present the background to and the organizations behind the award; to describe how candidates are nominated, evaluated, and selected; and to give a clear account of the criteria that guide the Prize Committee in their selection of award winners.
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- Braunerhjelm, Pontus, 1953-, et al.
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En effektivare innovationspolitik
- 2013
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In: Ekonomisk Debatt. - : Nationalekonomiska föreningen. - 0345-2646.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Braunerhjelm, Pontus, et al.
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Entrepreneurship, institutions, and economic dynamism : lessons from a comparison of the United States and Sweden
- 2013
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In: Industrial and Corporate Change. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0960-6491 .- 1464-3650. ; 22:1, s. 107-130
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The purpose of the research endeavor published in this Special Section is to further our understanding of the extent, character, and orientation of entrepreneurial activity in today's wealthy countries. This is done by means of several detailed studies of institutions of particular importance for entrepreneurship and innovation-based firm growth, and its impact on the economy. All coauthors are renowned specialists in the area with deep knowledge of the pertinent institutions in Sweden and the United States, the two countries compared.
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- Braunerhjelm, Pontus, 1953-, et al.
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Ett ramverk för innovationspolitiken
- 2012
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In: Ekonomiska samfundets tidskrift. - : Economic Society of Finland. - 0013-3183 .- 2323-1378. ; 65:2, s. 72-85
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Alla i Sverige säger sig vilja stärka innovationspolitiken. Regeringen presenterar en nationell innovationsstrategi, Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (IVA) driver ett stort innovationsprojekt och Socialdemokraterna vill inrätta en ”nationell innovationsberedning”. Vi fruktar dock att innovationspolitiken blir alltför fragmentarisk med ett ensidigt fokus på stöd till FoU för högteknologiska produkter. Vi förespråkar, utifrån ett evolutionärt schumpeterianskt synsätt, istället en bredare ansats. Uppgiften är att skapa långsiktiga förutsättningar för att göra svensk ekonomi som helhet mer innovativ och kreativ. Då krävs ett skatte- och regelsystem som stimulerar kunskapsuppbyggnad och kunskapsspridning i alla sektorer. Vi föreslår tio åtgärder som tillsammans bildar ett ”ramverk” för en sådan innovationspolitik.
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- Braunerhjelm, Pontus, 1953-, et al.
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Rewarding Entrepreneurship Research
- 2009
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In: Entrepreneurship. - 1042-2587 .- 1540-6520. ; :33, s. 809-814
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- Coad, Alex, et al.
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John Haltiwanger : recipient of the 2020 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
- 2022
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In: Small Business Economics. - : Springer. - 0921-898X .- 1573-0913. ; 58:1, s. 15-25
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- The 2020 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research has been awarded to Professor John Haltiwanger. John Haltiwanger has made significant contributions to the field of entrepreneurship by improving our understanding of job creation and destruction, productivity growth, and the role of small- and medium-sized firms (SMEs) in economic development. He has played a major role in the careful development of large, longitudinal firm-level datasets, and introduced a novel and widely adopted measure of firm growth that addresses previous statistical biases. His work has influenced public policy and national statistical offices around the world. Plain English Summary The winner of the 2020 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, John Haltiwanger, has pioneered research showing that it is mainly firm age, not size, that matters for job creation. Through analyzing the relationship between employment, growth, and firms, he has advanced our understanding of how the economy works. He has done this by building new datasets and introducing a new measure of firm growth, solving problems encountered with earlier techniques. His work has also broadened the policy debate on entrepreneurship and inspired people all around the world. From a policy perspective, John Haltiwanger has shown that it is difficult to justify targeted industrial and commercial policies, and if job creation is to be supported, politicians need to target young firms rather than small firms. These important findings from John Haltiwanger's pioneering work have been published in world-class leading academic and scientific journals.
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- Davidsson, Per, et al.
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Determinants of the Prevalence of Start-Ups and High-Growth Firms
- 2002
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In: Small business economics. - : Kluwer Academic Publishers. - 1573-0913 .- 0921-898X. ; 19:2, s. 81-104
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to identify key institutional determinants of firm emergence and growth. We do this using various types of data from Sweden. A characterization of a number of institutions and policy measures shows that they are likely to have contributed to an environment that discourages entrepreneurial activity and firm growth. Aspects dealt with include: missing arenas for entrepreneurship in the care sectors and for household-related services, taxation of entrepreneurial income, incentives for wealth accumulation, wage-setting institutions and labor market regulations. Using original data, we provide evidence of a low prevalence of nascent entrepreneurs and a small net employment contribution by high-growth firms. We admit that indisputable evidence for the effects of institutional arrangements is almost impossible to establish. However, the consistency of our theoretical arguments and empirical data makes a strong case for the notion that the Swedish case illustrates the costs of giving too little weight to economic renewal in policy making.
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- Davis, Steven J., et al.
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Wage-setting institutions as industrial policy
- 2005
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In: Labour Economics. - : Elsevier B.V. - 1879-1034 .- 0927-5371. ; 12:3, s. 345-377
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Centralized wage-setting arrangements compress wage differentials along many dimensions, but how do they affect employment structure? To address this issue, we relate the evolution of US–Swedish differences in the industry distribution of employment to relative wages between and within industries. We find that centralized wage setting shifted Swedish employment away from industries with high wage dispersion among workers, a high mean wage and, especially, a low mean wage. The dissolution of Sweden's centralized wage-setting beginning in 1983 led to widening wage differentials and a reversal in the evolution of US–Swedish differences in industry structure.
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- Douhan, Robin, et al.
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Entrepreneurship and second-best institutions : going beyond Baumol’s typology
- 2010
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In: Journal of evolutionary economics. - : Springer. - 0936-9937 .- 1432-1386. ; 20:4, s. 629-643
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper reconsiders the predominant typology pioneered by Baumol (J Polit Econ 98(5):893-921, 1990) among productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. It is shown that the foundation of Baumol's classification scheme is the restrictive concept of first-best outcomes, and therefore it easily fails to appreciate the true impact of entrepreneurship in real-world circumstances characterized by suboptimal institutions. We present an alternative way of generalizing the notion of entrepreneurship and show how and why it encompasses the Baumol typology as a special case. Our main distinction is between business and institutional entrepreneurship. We draw on Schumpeter and introduce the entrepreneur in an additional function: as a potential disturber of an institutional equilibrium. Various subsets of institutional entrepreneurship are posited and discussed. It is 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-improving.
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- Douhan, Robin, et al.
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Israel M. Kirzner : An outstanding Austrian contributor to the economics of entrepreneurship
- 2007
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In: Small Business Economics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0921-898X .- 1573-0913. ; 29:1-2, s. 213-223
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. In this essay, we present and evaluate his main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship. The focus is on how Kirzner defines the entrepreneurial function. In order to better understand his theory, we posit Kirzner's notion of an entrepreneur in the Austrian tradition. In so doing we emphasize that this concept opens up different perspectives as compared to the neoclassical theoretical framework. The three areas of economic policy, justice and freedom, and economic growth are discussed. We also show why the Kirznerian entrepreneur makes these issues relevant. Perhaps most importantly, Kirzner has made the Austrian School intelligible for non-Austrians. By bridging the chasm between Austrian and mainstream thinking, the crucial role of entrepreneurship and the individual entrepreneur has become visible to a much broader audience.
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- Douhan, Robin, et al.
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Israel M. Kirzner: An Outstanding Contributor to the Economics of Entrepreneurship
- 2007
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In: Small Business Economics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0921-898X .- 1573-0913. ; 29:1-2, s. 213-223
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. In this essay, we present and evaluate his main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship. The focus is on how Kirzner defines the entrepreneurial function. In order to better understand his theory, we posit Kirzner's notion of an entrepreneur in the Austrian tradition. In so doing we emphasize that this concept opens up different perspectives as compared to the neoclassical theoretical framework. The three areas of economic policy, justice and freedom, and economic growth are discussed. We also show why the Kirznerian entrepreneur makes these issues relevant. Perhaps most importantly, Kirzner has made the Austrian School intelligible for non-Austrians. By bridging the chasm between Austrian and mainstream thinking, the crucial role of entrepreneurship and the individual entrepreneur has become visible to a much broader audience.
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- Du Rietz, Anita, et al.
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Testing the Female Underperformance Hypothesis
- 2000
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In: Small business economics. - : Kluwer Academic Publishers. - 1573-0913 .- 0921-898X. ; 14:1, s. 1-10
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Most previous studies have found evidence at the aggregate level that female entrepreneurs underperform relative to their male counterparts. This study conducts a comprehensive test of this finding. The test is conducted on a large Swedish sample of 4200 entrepreneurs (405 females) with 1 to 20 employees in all sectors of the economy. Our study confirms the results of several previous studies that female entrepreneurs tend to underperform relative to men when the data is examined at the most aggregate level. At the same time our data reveals sharp structural differences between male and female entrepreneurs. In an extensive multivariate regression with a large number of controls it turns out that female underperformance disappears for three out of four performance variables. The only exception is sales. No gender difference is found for profitability. A more detailed analysis reveals that the evidence of female underperformance is much weaker in larger firms and nonexistent in firms with only one employee. If it is true that female entrepreneurs on average have weaker preferences for sales growth, while we consistently find that they do not underperform in terms of profitability, our study provides no support for female underperformance given differences in preferences.
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- Du Rietz, Gunnar, et al.
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Swedish Inheritance and Gift Taxation, 1885–2004
- 2012
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper studies the evolution of the modern Swedish inheritance taxation from itsintroduction in 1885 to its abolishment in 2004. A thorough description is offered of the basicprinciples of the tax, including underlying ideas and ambitions, tax schedules, and rulesconcerning valuation of assets, liability matters and deduction opportunities. Using these rules, we calculate inheritance tax rates for the whole period for a number of differently endowed family firms and individuals. The overall trend in inheritance tax burden exhibits an inverse-U shape for all firms and individuals. Up until the end of World War I, inheritance tax rates were very low (never above four percent). Tax rates began to increase in the interwar period with tax hikes in 1918, 1920 and 1934. After World War II tax rates increased rapidly for both inherited firms and individual fortunes. Effective tax rates peaked in the mid-1970s. Valuation reliefs were introduced in the 1970s, which sharply reduced tax rates for inherited family businesses. Tax rates for deceased individuals having non-corporate wealth were first cut in 1987 and then significantly reduced in 1991–1992. Finally, inheritance and gift tax revenues were relatively small, typically 0.1 to 0.2 percent of GDP.
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- Durevall, Dick, 1954, et al.
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The Futile Quest for a Grand Explanation of Long-Run Government Expenditure
- 2010
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper carries out a critical reappraisal of the two contending theories purporting to explain long-run government spending: Wagner’s Law and different variants of the ratchet effect. We analyze data spanning from the early 19th century until the present day in Sweden and the United Kingdom. Hence, in contrast to previous studies, we evaluate the validity of Wagner’s Law and the ratchet effect hypothesis over a very long time period, starting at the beginning of industrialization. Cointegration analysis is used to investigate the long-run relationships between government expenditure and GDP, focusing on sub-periods and parameter stability. Moreover, we test the ratchet effect hypothesis by estimating models which allow for asymmetric adjustment. According to our main results, Wagner’s Law does not hold in the long run, although the data are consistent with Wagner’s Law between roughly 1860 and the late 1960s in Sweden, and the 1970s in the UK. This can be traced to the formation of the modern public sector, including the introduction of public education, health care, and so forth. Yet Wagner’s Law did not hold during the initial industrialization phase (before 1860), or during recent periods. Finally, we find some evidence of asymmetric adjustment, particularly in the post WWII period in the UK: Public expenditure grows more during bad times than it decreases during good times. However, the ratchet effect is only a short to mediumterm phenomenon.
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- Edquist, Harald, et al.
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Technological Breakthroughs and Productivity Growth
- 2006
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In: Research in Economic History. - : Jai Press Inc.. - 0363-3268. ; 24, s. 1-53
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study consists of an examination of productivity growth following three major technological breakthroughs: the steam power revolution, electrification and the ICT revolution. The distinction between sectors producing and sectors using the new technology is emphasized. A major finding for all breakthroughs is that there is a long lag from the time of the original invention until a substantial increase in the rate of productivity growth can be observed. There is also strong evidence of rapid price decreases for steam engines, electricity, electric motors and ICT products. However, there is no persuasive direct evidence that the steam engine producing industry and electric machinery had particularly high productivity growth rates. For the ICT revolution the highest productivity growth rates are found in the ICT-producing industries. We suggest that one explanation could be that hedonic price indexes are not used for the steam engine and the electric motor. Still, it is likely that the rate of technological development has been much more rapid during the ICT revolution compared to any of the previous breakthroughs.
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- Ek, Simon, et al.
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The Geography and Concentration of Authorship in the Top Five : Implications For European Economics
- 2019
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In: Scottish Journal of Political Economy. - : Wiley. - 0036-9292 .- 1467-9485. ; 66:2, s. 215-245
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We study to what degree authors who publish in the five most prestigious journals in economics have previously published there and in which world region they are based. Although still high, the concentration of United States-based and previously published top-five authors has decreased. This trend is driven by increased co-authorship between USA and non-USA scholars and between scholars with and without previous top-five articles. Only around 5% of all articles each year are written solely by first-time authors from outside the United States, and this share has not increased since the mid-1990s. Against this background, we argue that European institutions should be wary of putting too much emphasis on publishing in these five journals. Both the advancement and diversity of the economics discipline may otherwise suffer.
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- Ek, Simon, et al.
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Vem publicerar i topp fem och vad betyder det för europeisk nationalekonomi?
- 2019
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In: Ekonomisk Debatt. - 0345-2646. ; 47:5, s. 27-39
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Vi studerar i vilken utsträckning nationalekonomer som publicerar i de fem högst rankade tidskrifterna (topp fem) gör detta återkommande och var de är verksamma. Andelen författare från USA och som redan publicerat i topp fem är hög, men har sjunkit de senaste decennierna. Nedgången förklaras främst av ökat samarbete mellan amerikanska och icke-amerikanska samt mellan tidigare publicerade och icke publicerade författare. Andelen artiklar enbart av icke-amerikanska förstagångsförfattare är däremot låg och har inte ökat. Med detta som bakgrund menar vi att europeiska universitet bör akta sig för att lägga alltför stor vikt vid topp fem-publiceringar. Annars riskeras mångfalden och samhällsrelevansen inom europeisk nationalekonomi.
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- Elert, Niklas, et al.
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Two sides to the evasion : The Pirate Bay and the interdependencies of evasive entrepreneurship
- 2016
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In: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. - 2045-2101. ; 5:2, s. 176-200
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Purpose – Evasive entrepreneurs innovate by circumventing or disrupting existing formal institutional frameworks. Since such evasions rarely go unnoticed, they usually lead to responses from lawmakers and regulators. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach – The authors introduce a conceptual model to illustrate and map the interdependencey between evasive entrepreneurship and the regulatory response it provokes. The authors apply this framework to the case of the file sharing platform The Pirate Bay, a venture with a number of clearly innovative and evasive features. Findings – The platform was a radical, widely applied innovation that transformed the internet landscape, yet its founders became convicted criminals because of it. Originality/value – Applying the evasive entrepreneurship framework to this case improves the understanding of the relationship between policymaking and entrepreneurship in the digital age, and is a first step toward exploring best responses for regulators facing evasive entrepreneurship.
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- Enkvist, Inger, et al.
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Postmodernism och subjektivism i Läroplan för grundskolan, Lgr11
- 2017
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In: Kunskapssynen och pedagogiken : Varför skolan slutade leverera och hur det kan åtgärdas - Varför skolan slutade leverera och hur det kan åtgärdas. - 9789175043319 ; , s. 94-114
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- Foss, Nicolai J., et al.
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Saras Sarasvathy : recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
- 2023
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In: Small Business Economics. - : Springer. - 0921-898X .- 1573-0913. ; 61:1, s. 1-10
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Professor Saras Sarasvathy is the recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Her research contributions have fundamentally changed and invigorated the conversation in the domain of entrepreneurship research. Sarasvathy’s work on effectuation emphasizes how entrepreneurs operate based on available resources, think in terms of affordable loss rather than profit maximization, leverage trustworthy partnerships, and treat unforeseen contingencies as opportunities rather than problems. It has led and inspired a new generation of researchers in the quest for a better understanding of how entrepreneurs make their decisions and the unfolding of the entrepreneurial process. © 2023, The Author(s).
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- Foss, Nicolai J., et al.
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Saras Sarasvathy : recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
- 2023
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In: Small Business Economics. - : Springer. - 0921-898X .- 1573-0913. ; 61, s. 1-10
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Professor Saras Sarasvathy is the recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Her research contributions have fundamentally changed and invigorated the conversation in the domain of entrepreneurship research. Sarasvathy's work on effectuation emphasizes how entrepreneurs operate based on available resources, think in terms of affordable loss rather than profit maximization, leverage trustworthy partnerships, and treat unforeseen contingencies as opportunities rather than problems. It has led and inspired a new generation of researchers in the quest for a better understanding of how entrepreneurs make their decisions and the unfolding of the entrepreneurial process.
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- Fölster, Stefan, et al.
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Growth effects of government expenditure and taxation in rich countries : A reply
- 2006
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In: European Economic Review. - : Elsevier BV. - 0014-2921 .- 1873-572X. ; 50:1, s. 219-221
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- gell et al. (2005) criticise our earlier findings (Folster and Henrekson 2001) of a robust negative relationship between government size and economic growth for an extended sample of rich countries. In this short paper it is argued that their critique is unfounded. Most importantly, the critique does not deal with the main result of the original study, namely that the most complete specifications for assessing the relationship between government expenditure and growth in rich countries are robust even according to stringent extreme bounds criteria.
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- Götmark, Frank, 1955, et al.
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FN bör ha som mål att bromsa folkökningen
- 2018
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In: Svenska Dagbladet (SvD-Debatt, 22 juli).
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- I diskussionen om miljö och vår framtid bör också överbefolkning lyftas fram. Frågan undviks ofta i samhällsdebatten – trots att den är central. Vi uppmanar den svenska regeringen att ta upp frågan i FN, skriver flera debattörer.
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- Hallonsten, Olof, et al.
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Innovationism and the New Public Intellectuals
- 2024
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In: Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy: Questioning the Mission Economy. - 2197-5884 .- 1572-1922. ; 56
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- Public intellectuals were once honest and knowledgeable academics who engaged in critical debate and spoke truth to power, but seem today rather to be celebrities who make vast amounts of money from selling an oversimplified message to policymakers and the public. This chapter discusses the role of the new public intellectuals for the rise of oversimplified and misguided innovation policy, both in the wider context of the recent spread of the ideology of “innovationism” and with specific attention to the sociological mechanisms involved. With the help of a conceptual discussion and some key examples, the chapter issues some warnings of what might happen when public intellectuals give up essential virtues of academic work in favor of fame and fortune, and the role they can then come to play in the spread of “innovationism” and misdirected innovation policy agendas.
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- Hansson, Pär, 1957-, et al.
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A new framework for testing the effect of government spending on growth and productivity
- 1994
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In: Public Choice. - : Kluwer Academic Publishers. - 0048-5829 .- 1573-7101. ; 81:3-4, s. 381-401
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- Does government spending have a positive or negative effect on economic growth? The results of earlier empirical studies give mixed results. In this study we suggest a new method for testing the effect of different kinds of government expenditure on productivity growth in the private sector. The focus on productivity in the private sector and the use of disaggregated data makes it possible to avoid or mitigate a number of methodological problems.The major conclusions, which are quite robust, are that government transfers, consumption and total outlays have consistently negative effects, while educational expenditure has a positive effect, and government investment has no effect on private productivity growth.The impact is also found to work solely through total factor productivity and not via the marginal productivity of labor and capital.
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Catching up in industrialized countries : a disaggregated study
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In: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development. - : Routledge. - 0963-8199 .- 1469-9559. ; 3:2, s. 129-145
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- In this study we test whether catching up, the hypothesis that there is technological spillover from leaders to followers, is still important among industrialized countries. Since the USA is no longer the technological leader in many industries and since catching up, if it still exists, may not operate uniformly across different industries, a disaggregated study is more appropriate. A testable model is developed and a number of tests for the existence of catching up are performed. A major improvement on previous tests is that the level of technology is measured in terms of total factor productivity. The two major conclusions, which are quite robust, are that after 1970 there is no catching-up effect left in the tradables sector, while catching up is found for industries in the nontradables sector.
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