Sökning: "Thor Berger"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Thor Berger.

1. 1. What Determines the Location of Industry? Endowments, Market Potential, and Industry Location in Swedish Regions, 1900-1960

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Författare :Thor Berger; [2012]
   Nyckelord :Industry location; Sweden; Industrialization; Heckscher-Ohlin; New Economic Geography; Social Sciences; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : In this paper I examine the location of manufacturing industries across Swedish regions, between 1900 and 1960, using a novel dataset on manufacturing employment disaggregated into eight industries and 24 (NUTS-III) regions. By means of OLS estimations of a model where the regional share of employment in an industry is determined by interactions between region and industry characteristics I show that factor endowments and market potential jointly determined the regional distribution of industries. LÄS MER

3. 2. Agglomeration Externalities and Growth in Urban Industries - empirical evidence from Sweden, 1896-1910

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Författare :Thor Berger; [2011]
   Nyckelord :Industrialization; externalities; endogenous growth theory; MAR; Jacobs; OLS; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : What are the effects of regional specialization, industrial diversity, and local competition on industrial growth? Utilizing a novel dataset on the Swedish manufacturing industry, 1896-1910, an OLS model is estimated that captures the relationship between dynamic agglomeration externalities, i.e. LÄS MER