Publikationer

I regi av Svenska Dagbladet Executive Seminars hölls i april 1986 en konferens under rubriken "Finansiella marknadsfluktuationer och företagets affärer". Uppdraget att utforma programmet gavs åt dr La…

Franco Modigliano received the prize in economics in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1985. The award was given in recognition of Professor Modigliani’s innovative and influential analysis of savings and fin…

The measurement of industrial structure and productivity growth has a long history in economics. Its usefulness has been limited, however, by the rather simple methods that have been applied. This bo…

Oxelheim and Wihlborg tackle the complex system of corporate exposure to international economic risks and they succeed in presenting a unified framework for understanding and coping with international…

The economies of the Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden – are both similar and strikingly different. This medium term survey is a joint analytic project between the Nordic research…

In the experimentally organized economy introduced in this book the manufacturing firm is portrayed largely as an information processor. The implications for foreign trade, industrial policy and econo…

This paper presents a technique for qualitative comparative statics analysis in dynamic programming models. Let the value function v be the fixed point of a contraction mapping which depends different…

This paper introduces an experimental economy with boundedly rational agents that compete with local, and largely incommunicable industrial knowledge, in an international market environment with more…

Swedish Manufacturing Industry is said to be technologically and commercially in good shape. While Swedish wage levels were higher than in all industrial countries in the mid-70s, wages - expressed in…

Market competition is central to innovative activity, the diffusion process and macro-economic productivity growth. Productivity growth at all levels comes about through institutional reconfiguration…

The paper contains an analysis of a firm's optimal wage and recruitment policy, when the dynamic labor supply to the firm is specified as a Poisson distributed flow of job-applicants, whose reservatio…

In this article it is shown that when the effects of an increase in unemployment subsidies are studied in a general equilibrium framework, unemployment increases far less than in a "partial-partial" m…

Working Paper No. 166 is published as "Market and Nonmarket Service Production in Swedish Households" (author: Anders Klevmarken) in Gunnar Eliasson (ed.), The Economics of Institutions and Markets, I…

Working Paper No. 165 is published as "Företagens tillväxt i ett historiskt perspektiv". In Johan Örtengren, Thomas Lindberg, Lars Jagrén, Gunnar Eliasson, Per-Olof Bjuggren and Lotta Björklund (eds.)…

When studying incentives in different economic systems, traditional comparative economics focuses on comparing incentives within markets to incentives within hierarchies. Advantages of the former are…

The modern manufacturing firm competes with product quality improvements rather than cost efficient production of simpler products. R&D spending, marketing, availability of spare parts and service…

I Sverige, liksom i de flesta andra länder, har staten tagit det huvudsakliga finansiella ansvaret för olika former av arbetslöshetsunderstöd. Ett av flera skäl för detta är en önskan att utjämna inko…