Publications

In this paper we examine the stability properties of price dispersion equi1ibrium in a market where individuals and firms have to make efforts to collect information about the prices charged by firms…

Working Paper No. 31 is published as "Taxes and Market Instability" (author: Bengt-Christer Ysander), in Gunnar Eliasson and Jan Södersten (eds.), Business Taxation, Finance and Firm Behavior - Procee…

Paper presented at the OECD Symposium on Industrial Policies for the 80’s in Madrid, Spain, May 5–9, 1980.

The effects of taxation on the behavior of firms are examined in this paper. Earlier studies of this issue have concluded that, given certainty and true economic depreciation, corporate taxes have no…

An econometric model of the labor market for Swedish industrial workers has been developed and estimated. The model consists of ten stochastic equations. It focuses on the flows between the stocks of…

This is an empirical investigation of determinants of engineering trade specialization largely within a factor proportions theoretical framework. The factor proportions approach was the first that cam…

This is the complete set of papers on the Swedish micro-to-macro model presented at the conference on micro simulation models, arranged jointly by the IUI and IBM Sweden, September 19-22, 1977. To our…

The objectives and benefits of social research always have to be judged in relation to some current or perceived future decision problem of society. It is not always obvious what is important, and to…

This paper uses a simple model to explore the effects of "increasing demand risk" on business fixed investment. We show that within a putty-clay framework an increase in demand uncertainty can be expe…

In times of inflation, most existing systems of taxation introduce new distortions into the allocation of resources. In this paper, the effects of inflation via taxes on the firm's east of capital are…

International investment and the operations of multinational companies are phenomena which - because of their growing importance in the world economy - have attracted considerable interest in the last…

This paper is concerned with the measurement of productive efficiency. Farrell's measures of efficiency are generalized to nonhomogeneous production functions. Several new measures of efficiency have…

Financial conditions, investment behavior and growth of the firm have been a central area of inquiry at the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (IUI) for a long time. This publicatio…

This is the set of papers on the Swedish micro-to-macro model which were presented at the IUI-IBM Sweden conference on micro simulation models, September 19-22, 1977. To our knowledge this is the firs…

Industrial structure and technical change have long been a traditional field of research at the Institute. Professor Nadiri's visit to the Institute during the summer of 1977 afforded us an opportunit…

Technical change in general milk processing is estimated within a homothetic frontier production function allowing neutrally variable scale elasticity. The results show that technical progress is char…

The human capital model predicts that in equilibrium and in the absence of discrimination units of human capital possessed by individuals are paid the same rentals. This would hold also when comparing…

How important for success on the job is uninterrupted labor force participation? Data on labor force status for a 15 year period for individual salaried employees in Swedish Industry makes possible th…

In most applications of complete systems of demand functions to national accounts data it is implicitly assumed that the demand functions are identified. For post-war Sweden this is not an altogether…

What sort of equilibrium exists in markets where resources have to be used to acquire information? Specifically, the question has been raised as to whether the existence of information costs can lead…

In this study housing demand is analyzed using 1970 Census data for households in the county of Stockholm grouped by census tract. The statistical results indicate an elasticity of housing expenditure…