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Swedish economic growth and scholarly objectivity : an objective sociologist vs. subjective economists, or the way around?

Henrekson, Magnus (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Walter Korpi argues in a previous issue of Challenge (March/April 2000) that Swedish economists' claim that Sweden's growth performance has been inferior to that of other industrialized countries is at odds with the facts. Since Sweden has not grown slowly relative to other countries, there is...

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Do hedonic price indexes change history? : the case of electrification

Edquist, Harald (contributor) - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. April 29, 2005

Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during earlier technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...

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Technological breakthroughs and productivity growth

Edquist, Harald (contributor); Henrekson, Magnus (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. January 23, 2006

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...

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Trade liberalization and the geography of production : agglomeration, concentration and dispersal in Indonesia's manufacturing industry

Sjöberg, Örjan (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The effect of trade liberalization on the spatial concentration of economic activities is not straightforward. It has, on the one hand been widely argued that protectionism increase spatial concentration when firms locate close to the main domestic markets, but it has also been argued that trade...

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The Swedish ICT miracle : myth or reality

Edquist, Harald (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. March 29, 2004

This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for the period 1980-2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing industries for the period 1993-2000. The results show that...

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Romania : transition to underdevelopment?

Ronnås, Per - 1995

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William J. Baumol : an entrepreneurial economist on the economics of entrepreneurship

Eliasson, Gunnar (contributor); Baumol, William J. (honouree) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

William J. Baumol is the 2003 winner of the International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research …. Throughout his career Baumol has urged the profession to pay attention to the instrumental role of entrepreneurship in economic … analysis is extended to entrepreneurship. Hence, Baumol can be characterized as a revolutionary from within. In this article we …

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Resource curse or not : a question of appropriability

Boschini, Anne D. (contributor); Pettersson, Jan (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

have low quality institutions, while the curse is reversed if institutions are good enough. Using new data we find that … ; property rights ; institutions ; economic growth ; development …

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Cambodia: the callenge of productive employment creation

Chan Sophal (contributor) - 1998

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The soft budget constraint : the emergence, persistence and logic of an institution ; the case of Tanzania, 1967 - 1992

Eriksson Skoog, Gun - 1998

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