Essays about: "Thor Berger"
Found 2 essays containing the words Thor Berger.
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1. What Determines the Location of Industry? Endowments, Market Potential, and Industry Location in Swedish Regions, 1900-1960
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : 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. READ MORE
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2. Agglomeration Externalities and Growth in Urban Industries - empirical evidence from Sweden, 1896-1910
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : 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. READ MORE