Research at the Ratio Institute is interdisciplinary and focuses on: •The conditions for enterprise – laws, rules and values •Entrepreneurship, the market economy and growth •How political change can be achieved
Studying the conditions for enterprise - the laws, rules and values - most appropriate for entrepreneurs to create and develop their businesses, is the first part of Ratio's research profile.
Our research covers a wide range of rules and set of laws, as regulations of labor market, protection of property rights and moral aspects.
Research projects in this area:
Wage formation and business dynamics
Property rights, conditions for enterprise and economic growth
The economic impact of administrative regulation
Institutions, social attitudes and economic outcomes
Corruption, Institutions and Internationalization Strategies by Swedish Firms
The skills supply of Swedish firms
Economic development and growth is by nature a result of entrepreneurship and business development on different markets. Analyzing the process that create growth and development is the second part of Ratio's research profile.
In a well functioning economy this process is constantly ongoing, continuous, by itself - a so called creative destruction - old companies and businesses will defunct and be replaced by new, growing ideas and enterprises.
Explaining High-Growth Firms
High-growth firms and economic development
Taxation, entrepreneurship and business dynamics
Are state owned enterprises an obstacle to competitive markets? - the private enterprise perspective
Entrepreneurship and human flourishing
Change is often hard to accomplish, especially when it comes to politics regarding economical issues. There will always be strong defenders of status quo. Yet, change is achieved. The third part of Ratio's research profile is to investigate how political reforms are carried out.
Economic-political learning: deregulation and the Swedish Social Democratic Party 1982-1991
Economic policy reforms in welfare states
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