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The Effect of Tax Treaties on Multinational Firms : New Evidence from Microdata
Davies, Ronald B. - 2011
This paper uses affiliate level data from Swedish multinationals to examine the impact of tax treaties on both overall affiliate sales and the composition of those sales. In line with previous results, we find little evidence for an effect of treaties on the level of total sales. We do, however,...
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Domestic and Foreign Investment by Swedish Multinationals
Svensson, Roger - 2020
In the 1980s, there was a huge increase in the outflow of foreign direct investment from Sweden to the EC. The EC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830527
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Foreign Investors and Domestic Company Growth : Evidence from US Venture Capital Investments in Sweden
Hellmann, Thomas - 2019
Do foreign venture capitalists help the domestic economy, or hamper it by slowing down growth, potentially moving economic activity away? This paper addresses this long-standing policy question by examining the differential effects of US venture capital investments on the growth of Swedish...
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Is There Really a Foreign Ownership Wage Premium? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Heyman, Fredrik - 2011
Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically-owned firms. This, however, does not necessarily imply that the individual worker's wage increase with foreign ownership. Using detailed matched employer-employee data on the entire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131478
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Faces of Politicians : Babyfacedness Predicts Inferred Competence but Not Electoral Success
Poutvaara, Panu; Jordahl, Henrik; Berggren, Niclas - 2009
Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that babyfaced individuals are generally perceived to be less competent than maturefaced individuals. Taken together, this suggests that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less...
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Using Markets to Measure Pre-War Threat Assessments: The Nordic Countries Facing World War II
Waldenström, Daniel; Frey, Bruno S. - 2006
Nordic historians have asserted for a long time that in the Nordic countries only few people, if any, perceived increased threats of war prior to the World War II outbreak. This would explain, and possibly excuse, why their governments did not mobilize their armies until it was too late. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320043
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden's experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …
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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–-2006
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007
We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320172
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On the Role of Capital Gains in Swedish Income Inequality
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2011
Realized capital gains are typically disregarded in the study of income inequality. We show that in the case of Sweden … surge in capital gains-driven inequality in Sweden since the 1980s. While there are no evident changes in terms of who earns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320194
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Characteristics and Performance of New Firms and Spinoffs in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Klepper, Steven - 2012
We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320218