Sökning: "Long-Run Growth"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 79 avhandlingar innehållade orden Long-Run Growth.

  1. 16. Studies on economic growth and inflation : theory and empirics

    Författare :George Adu; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four independent papers. Paper I examines the effect of environmental policy on economic growth in a small open economy in a neoclassical framework with pollution as an input. LÄS MER

  3. 17. The impact of competition and innovation on firm performance

    Författare :Andreas Poldahl; Lars Lundberg; Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall; Leo Grünfeld; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TFP growth; R D; R D spillovers; Competition; Absorptive capacity; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This PhD thesis consists of four papers analyzing the impact of competition and innovation on Swedish manufacturing firms’ performance. Paper [I] (co-authored with Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall) analyse determinants of firm R&D using matched Swedish employer-employee data spanning the period 1990-1999. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Aspiring to a higher rank: Swedish factor prices and productivity in international perspective, 1860-1950

    Författare :Svante Prado; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; convergence; comparative productivity; TFP; factor prices; real wages; employment; land prices; industrialisation; GPT; GDP; economic growth; Swedish historical national accounts; manufacturing; labour productivity;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of four chapters which expand on the Swedish economic development in an international perspective between 1860 and 1950. The overarching theme is how the Swedish rise, from backwardness to prosperity, is best understood. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Three Empirical Studies on Development : Democracy, the Resource Curse and Aid

    Författare :Jan Pettersson; Fabrizio Zilibotti; Ragnar Torvik; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Democracy; Economic Growth; Consolidation; Political Systems; Natural Resources; Appropriability; Property Rights; Institutions; Development; Foreign Aid; Fungibility; Poverty; Public Expenditure; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis presents three self-contained essays focusing on empirical questions in growth and development economics. Each article addresses specific questions on why countries perform differently. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Mining Booms in Africa and Local Welfare Effects: Labor Markets, Women’s Empowerment and Criminality

    Författare :Anja Tolonen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Development; Extractive Industries; Mining; Economic Growth; Women s Empowerment; Labor Markets; Africa; Criminality; Gender;

    Sammanfattning : The role that extractive industries can play in processes of economic development is frequently described as, at best non-existent, or at worst, persistently negative. Extractive industries, while focusing on unearthing large sub-soil wealth, are sometimes linked to adverse political and macroeconomic outcomes in developing countries. LÄS MER