Publikationer

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…

Inom Sveriges offentliga sektor pågår stora förändringar. Privatiseringar, avregleringar och decentraliseringar har genomförts inom flera områden. Många fler planeras för de närmaste åren. Denna bok i…

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…

Hur påverkar tillgången på kompetens, arbetsmarknadens organisation, den sjunkande nyetableringen, den dominerande offentliga sektorn och svensk industris utlandsverksamhet Sveriges ekonomi? Åtta fors…

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…

This article presents an equilibrium model of a dual labor market. Firms are assumed to be identical ex ante, and dualism arises endogenously. The dual labor market outcome is supported by efficiency…

In this paper we describe how restricted vector autoregressions can be employed to examine the sources of macroeconomic fluctuations. We show how cointegration restrictions can be used to identify a V…

When trade is heavily restricted, a small country may show a "false" comparative disadvantage in differentiated products at an early stage in the life cycle, because firms are confined to a small dome…

A new criterion for self-enforcement is developed which requires that every player's strategy should be at least locally ptimal at each of his information sets under some probabilistic hypothesis abou…

This paper examines the problem of non-existence of a single-wage equilibrium in a simple search model with asymmetric information. A pure-strategy, symmetric Nash equilibrium fails to exist because a…

We specify a two-sector general equilibrium model with fair wages and involuntary unemployment. In determining the fair wage, workers care not only about relative wages but also about the functional d…

How to transform a failed socialist economy raises questions about the processes of structural and institutional changes, which standard economics is inadequately equipped to study. An economic theory…