Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5-20 |
| Journal | Journal of Regional Science |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 2021 May |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 The Authors. Journal of Regional Science published by Wiley Periodicals LLC
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Other Social Sciences
- Economics
Free keywords
- agglomeration effects
- bridge
- cross-border regions
- innovation
- inventors
- patents
- transportation infrastructure
- Öresund