Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Swedish manufacturing and service industries
Samsung Economics Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea.
Food and Resource Economics, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7902-4683
Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
2012 (English)In: Applied Economics, ISSN 0003-6846, E-ISSN 1466-4283, Vol. 44, no 18, p. 2373-2391Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article presents alternative specifications of the production functions of a large panel of Swedish firms for the period 1992 to 2000. The period can be characterized as a transition when long-run productivity growth in the Swedish economy improved from being among the weakest to one of the strongest within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In order to present a detailed exploration of this dramatic change, the time trend and general index models are applied to estimate Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth, rate of technical change and returns to scale. The models are extended to allow for firm specific as well as time-varying technical change. The parametric TFP measures are also compared with the nonparametric Solow residual, and several hypotheses are tested to explain the growth patterns in the Swedish economy. It is found that the improved growth rate, initially starting in large exporting manufacturing firms, after a deep economic crisis at the beginning of the 1990s, spilled over to the rest of the economy, both manufacturing and services.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2012. Vol. 44, no 18, p. 2373-2391
Keywords [en]
growth rate; industrial performance; manufacturing; OECD; service sector; spillover effect; technological change; total factor productivity, Sweden
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-24500DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.564147ISI: 000301539000009Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84857703490OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-24500DiVA, id: diva2:742487
Available from: 2014-09-01 Created: 2014-09-01 Last updated: 2017-12-05Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Heshmati, Almas

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Heshmati, Almas
In the same journal
Applied Economics
Economics

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 195 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf