Completed Projects
According to theoretical models, the position of marginal groups in the labor market may be weakened by strict employment protection legislation. Empirical findings also suggest that marginal groups,…
The aim of the project is to increase the understanding of how employment protection affects firms, individuals, and the economy as a whole. Employment protection decreases the risk of dismissals and…
Competition in the domestic market has become more intense through globalization, and policymakers in many countries have become acutely aware of the increased importance of exports as a source of gro…
The purpose of this project is to theoretically and empirically study how the design and implementation of competition laws affect the efficiency and welfare in markets where established firms face co…
FIRES is a European multidisciplinary research project aiming at developing a reform strategy for increased entrepreneurship in order to create an including and sustainable growth in Europe. IFN is on…
This project studies the dramatic turn in Swedish ownership policy on ownership structure in the Swedish economy in the post-war period. After World War II, ownership policy was largely characterized…
In today’s society there is a social risk component in many decisions, ranging from overtaking in traffic to taking sick leave in case of a cold. It is well known, both theoretically and empirically,…
The growth in a modern economy depends on the ability to create innovative knowledge and to use this for commercial purposes. In this respect entrepreneurship in the form of new businesses plays an im…
n most countries, the proportion of men who are self-employed is higher than the proportion of women. This gender difference is important to study both from a gender perspective and from a perspective…
In the US, the option instrument has taken on a crucial role in the entrepreneurial sector. How can it be that options are used considerably less and seem to work worse in Sweden, a country with signi…
In this project we analyze the process of fast-growing enterprises creating employment and jobs, as well as the institutional framework affecting these companies.
To analyze how the institutional fra…
n recent years, the private equity industry has experienced a fast pace of growth and today it represents an important part of both Swedish, and World economy. According to the Swedish Private Equity…
The project takes its starting point in the large literature on ownership- and corporate governance which originally mainly focused on the separation between ownership and control. The limitations of…
This will be an explorative study of the development in the Finnish Corporate Sector during the last few decades. As in Sweden, the traditional form of governance in Finland has been controlled by blo…
To analyze entrepreneurship, the phenomenon must first be defined and measured. Previous research has relied on self-employment or closely related measures to quantify entrepreneurship. But the vast m…
The research project highlights the fact that innovation processes are inherently collaborative, with key collaborations taking place within systems of innovations that we label collaborative innovati…
In this project, we studied the relationship between people's upbringing relationships (family background, upbringing environment, education) and outcomes in adulthood. The researchers analyzed how ch…
Sweden is at the top of the world ranking of research and development, approved patents, and publications in research journals. But we do not have that many small, swiftly growing technology-based fir…
It has long been considered that mining establishments have little impact on the local economy and there has been talk of economic enclaving. However, this statement is based on aggregated data that a…