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About

  • About us

    • About
    • Contact us

  • Media

    • News archive

  • Cooperations

    • Eli F. Heckscher Lectures

Research

  • Areas

    • Labour Market Research
    • Competitiveness Research
    • Climate and Environmental Research

  • Ongoing research

    • Working Paper Series
  • People

    • Publications

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      • Publications

    Is China different? A meta-analysis of China’s financial sector development

    PublicationArticle (with peer review)
    China, Christer Ljungwall, Economic Growth, Financial development, Företagandets villkor, Meta-analysis, Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall

    Abstract

    We examine whether China has benefited more from financial development than other countries. The results show that financial development has been less significant for growth in China than in other countries, even when China is compared with other transition economies.

    Ljungwall, C., & Gustavsson Tingvall, P. (2013). Is China different? A meta-analysis of China’s financial sector development. Applied Economics Letters, 20(7), 715-718. DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2012.734592

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    Ljungwall, C., & Gustavsson Tingvall, P.

    Publication year

    2013

    Published in

    Applied Economics Letters 20

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    Do Targeted R&D Grants toward SMEs Increase Employment and Demand for High Human Capital Workers?
    Book chapterPublication
    Daunfeldt, S. O., Halvarsson, D., Tingvall, P. G., & McKelvie, A.
    Publication year

    2022

    Published in

    Springer.

    Abstract

    Most previous studies on the employment effects of government R&D grants targeting SMEs are characterized by data-, measurement-, and selection problems, making it difficult to construct a relevant control group of firms that did not receive an R&D grant. We investigate the effects on employment and firm-level demand for high human capital workers of two Swedish programs targeted toward growth-oriented SMEs using Coarsened Exact Matching. Our most striking result is the absence of any statistically significant effects. We find no robust evidence that the targeted R&D grant programs had any positive and statistically significant effects on the number of employees recruited into these SMEs, or that the grants are associated with an increase in the demand for high human capital workers. The lack of statistically significant findings is troublesome considering that government support programs require a positive impact to cover the administrative costs associated with these programs.

    The book can be downloaded here for free.

    Less from More: China Built Wind Power, but Gained Little Electricity
    Book chapterPublication
    Grafström, J.
    Publication year

    2022

    Published in

    Questioning the Entrepreneurial State, 219.

    Abstract

    This chapter investigates Chinese wind power development and concludes that innovation cannot be pushed by the efforts of many, and that when the state clarifies directions and objectives, these can be achieved but with severe and unexpected side effects. Two topics are explored: wind curtailment and low technological development, both examples of unproductive entrepreneurship induced by government policies. The goal of wind power capacity expansion leads to construction (i.e., generation capacity) but little electricity. Examples of failures include low grid connectivity with, some years averaging 15% of generation capacity broken or unconnected to the grid. A key lesson for Europe is that forced innovation often amounts to little and that the old saying holds up: “no plan survives contact with reality.”

    The book can be downloaded here.

    An Anatomy of Failure – Wind Power Development in China
    Article (with peer review)Publication
    Grafström, J.
    Publication year

    2021

    Published in

    Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

    Abstract

    China is currently the world’s largest installer of wind power. However, with twice the installed wind capacity compared to the United States in 2015, the Chinese produce less power. The question is: Why is this the case? This article shows that Chinese grid connectivity is low, Chinese firms have few international patents, and that export is low even though production capacity far exceeds domestic production needs. Using the tools of Austrian economics, China’s wind power development from 1980 to 2016 is documented and analyzed from three angles: (a) planning and knowledge problems, (b) unproductive entrepreneurship, and (c) bureaucracy and government policy. From a theoretical standpoint, both a planning problem and an entrepreneurial problem are evident where governmental policies create misallocation of resources and a hampering of technological development.

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