Olof Ejermo
Professor
Innovation in Malmö after the Öresund Bridge
Author
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.
Department/s
- Department of Economic History
- CIRCLE
Publishing year
2022
Language
English
Pages
5-20
Publication/Series
Journal of Regional Science
Volume
62
Issue
1
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Halifax
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
- Economics
Keywords
- agglomeration effects
- bridge
- cross-border regions
- innovation
- inventors
- patents
- transportation infrastructure
- Öresund
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0022-4146