Innovation in Malmö after the Öresund Bridge

Olof Ejermo, Katrin Hussinger, Basheer Kalash and Torben Schubert

No 21-042, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

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 to 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.

Keywords: transportation infrastructure; innovation; Öresund Bridge; cross-border regions; patents; inventors; agglomeration effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L91 O31 O33 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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