Publications

Discussions on the relationships between official development assistance (ODA) and the interests of the donor country, mainly in supporting its exports, have been at the heart of the international deb…

The deregulatory 1980s exhibits a dramatic increase in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from a number of small countries outside the EC. Few studies have analyzed home country effects of outwar…

The formerly planned economies generally lack the institutions needed to support an orderly transition to a growing market economy. This transition depends on the establishment of orderly commercial t…

To assess alternative forms of ownership of firms and allocation of capital, the standard incentive argument is complemented and qualified by an argument considering competence. Regarding capital as a…

This paper is a first empirical application of the 1988 Riordan and Staiger paper, which showed that in the presence of informational asymmetries between current and potential employees about workers…

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has become the prime engine to foster growth and to facilitate the restructuring and internationalization of formerly sheltered areas during the 1980s. This book deals…

Household Market and Nonmarket Activities (HUS) is a panel study of the economic behavior of households. Survey data have been collected for a random sample of Swedish households covering topics such…

Three themes are brought together in this volume, namely innovative activity, managerial performance in the organization of innovations, and markets for ownership and control. In consideration of thes…

Managing Trade Relations in the New World Economy analyses the implications of the new world economy for global trade. Thomas Andersson explores how manufactured exports have increased exponentially w…

Household Market and Nonmarket Activities (HUS) is a panel study of the economic behavior of households. Survey data have been collected for a random sample of Swedish households covering topics such…