Kunskapsöverföring för tillväxt

Sammanfattning

I en rapport författad åt Tillväxtanalys analyserar Magnus Lodefalk, forskare vid Örebro universitet och Ratio och Anton Gidehag, doktorand vid Örebro universitet sambandet mellan nyanställda nyckelpersoner och företagens efterföljande produktivitetsutveckling och hur sambandet varierar med både yrkesroll och tidigare erfarenheter.

Studien täcker små och medelstora företag i Sverige under tidsperioden 2001-2010 och resultaten tyder på att rekrytering av nyckelkompetens är viktigt för produktiviteten hos dessa företag. De små och medelstora företagen som lyckas rekrytera specialister från väletablerade företag förefaller ha en särskilt gynnsam produktivitetsutveckling. Detta innefattar bland annat rekrytering av personal från multinationella företag och företag som deltar i utrikeshandeln.

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Business angels and firm performance: First evidence from population data

Artikel (med peer review)Publikation

Lodefalk, M., & Andersson, F. W.

Publiceringsår

2023

Publicerat i

PLoS ONE, 18(3), e0283690.

Sammanfattning

Business angels dominate early-stage investment in firms, but research on their effects on firms is scarce and limited by sample selection. To address sample selection, we propose using population data and we develop an algorithm for identifying business angel investments in such data. We illustrate this novel approach by applying it to detailed and longitudinal total population data for individuals and firms in Sweden. In our application, we focus on a subset of business angels—active business angels who are themselves successful entrepreneurs with a profitable exit. We then study active business angels’ effects on firm performance, using population data. Employing a quasi-experimental estimator, we find that the business angels invest in firms that already perform above par. There is also a positive effect on subsequent growth compared with control firms. However, contrary to previous research on business angels, we cannot find any impact on firm survival. Overall, the paper underlines the need to address sample selection when studying business angels and suggests using population data for identification.

Ratio Working Paper No. 359: Stayin’ Alive: Export Credit Guarantees and Export Survival

Working paperPublikation

Lodefalk, M., Tang, A. & Yu, M.

Ladda ner

Publiceringsår

2022

Publicerat i

Ratio Working Paper.

Sammanfattning

We use survival analysis to analyse the impact of export credit guarantees on firms’ export duration using granular Swedish panel data at the firm-country and firm-country-product levels. The estimation results show that firms’ export survival substantially increases with guarantees, at both levels. The associations are particularly strong for smaller firms and contracts as well as in trade with riskier markets. The findings have implications for policies to promote long-run export growth.

International trade and labour market integration of immigrants

Artikel (med peer review)Publikation

Lodefalk, M., Sjöholm, F., & Tang, A.

Publiceringsår

2022

Publicerat i

The World Economy, 45, 1650– 1689.

Sammanfattning

Abstract

We examine whether international trade improves labour market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labour market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome information frictions in trade. Using granular longitudinal matched employer–employee data and an instrumental variable approach, we estimate the causal effects of a firm’s bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages.

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