Search for dissertations about: "innovation school of economics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the words innovation school of economics.

  2. 1. Going Public, Spillover Effects and Innovation

    Author : Mustafa Bulut; Per Strömberg; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : “Local Innovation Spillovers of IPOs” analyzes the innovation performance of the local areas hosting a firm that goes public through an initial public offering (IPO). “Going Public and the Boundaries of the Firm” studies the restructuring within firms and the shifts in their boundaries following an IPO. READ MORE

  4. 2. Creditor Rights and Innovation : Evidence from China

    Author : Qing Xia; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : In this paper I investigate if and how strengthening creditor rights enables firms to engage in more innovation activities, using the enactment of a new property law in China as a natural experiment. By using a newly constructed measure of land unavailability, I find that firms in cities where construction is more constrained by geography substitute short-term debt with long-term debt, hold less internal cash, invest more on intangible assets and eventually generate more patents after the enactment of the law. READ MORE

  5. 3. Competition and innovation in the Swedish pharmaceutical market

    Author : Mats Ekelund; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four essays in economics related to the pharmaceutical market. The first essay, Pharmaceutical Pricing in a Regulated Market, compares the pricing of new pharmaceuticals in the Swedish market where prices are regulated, with the results of Lu and Comanor who studied the pricing of new pharmaceuticals in the US market. READ MORE

  6. 4. The implications of trade and offshoring for growth and wages

    Author : Chazarreta Migueles; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : In their pursuit of profits, adventure and new markets, humans have traded since prehistoric times. The relations between trade, profits and technological change, how- ever, were not the main concern of early economists ranging from Aristotle to the mercantilists. READ MORE

  7. 5. Aid, drugs, and informality : essays in empirical economics

    Author : Ola Granström; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The first three papers of this Ph.D. thesis experimentally study the preferences of individuals making cross-border charitable donations. In Is Foreign Aid Paternalistic? (with Anna Breman and Felix Masiye) subjects choose whether to make a monetary or a tied transfer (mosquito nets) to an anonymous household in Zambia. READ MORE