
Olof Ejermo
Professor

Innovation in Malmö after the Öresund Bridge
Författare
Summary, in English
We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the Öresund Bridge led to a significant increase in the number of patents per individual in the Malmö region as compared with the two other major regions in Sweden, Gothenburg, and Stockholm. We show that a key mechanism is the attraction of highly qualified workers to the Malmö region following the construction of the bridge.
Avdelning/ar
- Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen
- CIRCLE
Publiceringsår
2022
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
5-20
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Regional Science
Volym
62
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Other Social Sciences
- Economics
Nyckelord
- agglomeration effects
- bridge
- cross-border regions
- innovation
- inventors
- patents
- transportation infrastructure
- Öresund
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0022-4146