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The Exit of Pharmacia and Regional Growth

Fridh, Ann-Charlotte - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

In this paper we ask whether the withdrawal of a major employer (Pharmacia) from a region in Sweden (Uppsala) has had a negative effect on employment growth. We explore the possibility that the exit of Pharmacia may not have had a negative effect on the total employment in the region. It might...

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What determines entry? Evidence from Sweden

Elert, Niklas - Ratioinstitutet - 2012

influenced entry of Swedish limited liability firms during 2000-2008, using data that make it possible to trace entry …, were found to be of limited importance, whereas industry-specific conditions seem to have affected entry. Municipalities … likely to see new firm formation. Substantially more entry occurred in municipalities with high income and a well …

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Institutionerna, företagandet och tillväxten

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2002

Utgångspunkten i denna uppsats är att ekonomisk tillväxt och allmänt välstånd kan betraktas som ett resultat av att kunskap om hur nya och bättre varor och tjänster kan produceras allt effektivare byggs upp och tas i bruk. Detta sker inom ramen för kompetensblock, vilka definierar den...

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Tillväxt och nya och små företag

Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2002

Svensk och internationell forskning har visat att nya och små företag spelar en viktig roll för att skapa industriell utveckling och ekonomisk tillväxt. Det finns dock belägg för att Sverige i ett internationellt perspektiv kännetecknas av en låg nyetableringstakt och en brist på små...

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Does Gibrat’s Law Hold for Retailing? Evidence from Sweden

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas; Lang, Åsa - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

Gibrat’s Law predicts that firm growth is a purely random effect and therefore should be independent of firm size. The purpose of this paper is to test Gibrat’s law within the retail industry, using a novel data-set comprising all Swedish limited liability companies active at some point...

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When is Gibrat's Law a Law?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

The purpose of this paper is to investigate if the industry context matters for whether Gibrat's law is rejected or not using a dataset that consists of all limited firms in 5-digit NACE-industries in Sweden during 1998-2004. The results reject Gibrat's law on an aggregate level, since small...

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New Start-ups and Firm In-migration –Evidence from the Swedish Wholesale Trade Industry

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas; Rudholm, Niklas - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to distinguish between the determinants of new start-ups and in migration of firms using a data-set that covers 13,471 limited liability firms in the Swedish wholesale trade industries during the period 2000- 2004. Our results indicate that the presence of a...

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Legal Origin and Firm Size Effects Around the World

Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Högberg, Andreas - Ratioinstitutet - 2012

We propose that the legal origin explanation of differences in financial indicators lacks the ability to satisfyingly describe investment performance and firm size effects. In this paper we investigate the impact of legal origin and firm size on investment performance for 20 111 firms in 58...

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The Return to R&D and Seller-buyer Interactions: A Quantile Regression Approach

Westerberg, Hans Seerar - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

In this paper we analyze whether a firm’s return to its R&D stock is affected by seller-buyer interactions. We suggest that firms that are in close contact with their customers will be relatively more sensitive to their customers’ needs, and therefore adjust their R&D activities accordingly....

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