The economics of entrepreneurship and institutions
About this team
Team information
The research group emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurship, innovations and institutions (“the rules of the game”). The entrepreneur is regarded as the primus motor of the economy, because her/his ability to commercialize innovations. Institutions, in particular private property rights, are decisive because they determine the conditions for entrepreneurship. The research group, consequently, studies how the entrepreneurial function is defined in different economic traditions and which economic policy that creates favourable conditions for entrepreneurship, growing firms and structural transformation. The question whether some firms are more important than others for generating employment and economic growth, for instance young, small, fast growing or family owned, is of particular interest. The research is largely based on Swedish linked employer-employee data, which are of internationally high quality.
Researchers
Research projects
- Firm growth and institutional barriers to growth
- Growth barriers in small and medium sized enterprises
- High-grow firms and knowledge spillovers
- The evolution of the Swedish tax system, 1862 and onwards
- The importance of family business
- The network of the Online Users of The Swedish Employer Employee Data (OUTSEED)
- Which firms employs the unemployed?